[GOPJ]

So in post-Catholic Italy there is no miracle of a child this Christmas – unless you count the 70 percent of Italians between the ages of 20 and 30 who still live at home, the world's oldest teenagers still trudging up the stairs to the room they slept in as a child even as they approach their fourth decade. That's worth bearing in mind if you're an American gal heading to Rome on vacation: When that cool 29-year-old with the Mediterranean charm in the singles bar asks you back to his pad for a nightcap, it'll be his mom and dad's place.

Eternal teenagers - creepy. Really creepy.

[goldstategop]

A planet without any adults on it either. The adults are too busy tearing down our civilization to notice in most Western countries there are more children born named Mohammed than John. Ponder on that for a minute. If that doesn't scare the living daylights out of you, nothing will. For as Mark Steyn has written elsewhere, demography is destiny.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus