Soy una mujer sincera De donde crecen las palmas Y antes de morir, yo quiero Cantar mi blogwatch del alma… Cacciaguida: A (probably unintentionally) pro-life GE commercial; and legal stuff about what the right to counsel does and doesn’t mean. The Cranky Professor: Quickie on millenarial/apocalyptic movements. James Lileks (I can’t figure out how to make links work!!!): Excellent summary of why some horror movies/bks are scarier than others: “Pinhead had rules; Pinhead lived by a code. In his own... Read more

“Your head says one thing, your whole life says another. Your head always loses.” –Humphrey Bogart, “Key Largo” Read more

I am the blogwatcher I stay under glass I look through my window so bright I see the stars come out tonight I see the bright and hollow sky… I haven’t forgotten about the Creepy Horror Children of the Enlightenment. That post will be headed your way all too soon, along with posts on excess, Einstein’s Dreams, and the HBO 9/11 documentary. For now, check out… E-Pression: A potential down side to that “Welfare Reform Reforms Teens” article I linked... Read more

YET MORE ON GIRLS’ VS. BOYS’ NAMES: For those who can’t get enough of that wonderful Duff. “Girls’ names phase in and out of popularity according to the age of the people holding the names. “In essence, nobody wants to give their baby daughter an old lady’s name.’ I am in my 30s, to my parents’ generation, names like Molly and Claire and Hannah were old lady names, so they turned away from them. To me, names like Barbara and... Read more

SON-IN-LAW OF D.C. BLOGFEST. Not “son,” you see, because it’s being organized by different people, but the idea is the same: Let’s hang out with bloggers. All are welcome. It’s being hosted by Gene Healy, Radley Balko, and Brink Lindsey. It’s June 6, at the Rendezvous Lounge (18th and Kalorama), and should kick off at 7 or so. The last one was much fun and I hope many of the same people will make it. Read more

CONTEST REMINDER. Enter my contest! Click here for details. Win no prizes. See your name in lights, sort of. Enjoy fifteen seconds of fame. Everybody’s doin’ it. Even Winnie-the-Pooh. Read more

HEY LOOK! It’s an excuse to plug one of my old Free Press articles! Nat’l Review Online has a quickie on the literary canon and its defenders, which makes a useful segue into my vast article on “Democracy and Poetry.” I know it’s too long and it has way too many semi-colons–but give it a chance, won’t you? Read more

“WELFARE REFORM REFORMS TEENS“: From the Washington Post. Excellent news. Read more

BERRY, THE FREE MARKET, AND WHAT I BELIEVE: Welcome to all who came here looking for my frustrated assault on two Wendell Berry essays. I suggest you start here and continue on to the next post, which is the big one. I decided to write a postscript, since it’s always easier to tear down someone else’s position than to state your own, and I may have given the impression that Berry and I disagree (even) more than we do. So... Read more

“Money isn’t dirty, just people.” –Kim Novak, “Pushover” Read more