An Out of Whack Culture

I don't know how it is where you live, but you pretty much can't get around the Los Angeles area these days without seeing a billboard advertising a new movie called The 40 Year Old Virgin. As you can probably guess from the "clever" title, the premise of the movie is about a socially awkward 40 year old single guy who has never had sex. The movie is supposed to be a comedy, of course, because in our post-modern culture where men like Hugh Hefner are revered as heroes for making it ok for us to treat each other as self-gratifying objects, guys who haven't "done it" by the time they're out of high school are just, you know, freaky.

Sigh.

On a somwhat related note, Terry Mattingly speculates that the New York Times reporters who made inappropriate inquiries into the sealed adoption records of John Roberts' kids were trying to dig for more than just possible shady dealings. Anti-Catholic stereotypes, anybody?