The album opens with what I might consider one of the best summer college songs for 2008, First Time, a song about infinite possibility and the loved ones at your side who empower you to go anywhere and do anything then, of course, the person is lost and no longer around (hello summer love story).

Along the way, they'll contend with relationship difficulties between Hellboy and his girlfriend, Liz (Selma Blair); a new love interest for egghead fish-man Abe Sapien (Doug Jones); and the introduction of a brilliantly-conceived, entirely gaseous team leader voiced by Family Guy Seth McFarlane.

Along the way, they'll contend with relationship difficulties between Hellboy and his girlfriend, Liz (Selma Blair); a new love interest for egghead fish-man Abe Sapien (Doug Jones); and the introduction of a brilliantly-conceived, entirely gaseous team leader voiced by "Family Guy"Seth McFarlane.

July is National Hot Dog Month, but here in North Carolina we eat them all year long, usually graced with a slide of chili and a mound of finely chopped cole slaw. That’s how we do.

Chuck Norris’ column on America’s founding creationists [“America’s founding creationists”; July 16, 2008] appears to have kind of neglected the flip side of our founding fathers’ thoughts. Our history as expressed by many of our founders was one of staunch secularism.