You can hold me all my life but paradise can take me twice

And when I go to my greater reward it’s a blog I’ll watch on my own…

(For some reason that song popped into my head recently, after years of neglect. I wonder if it’s the most obscure blogwatch song so far? Points to anyone who recognizes it.)

The Agitator: Vouchers galore–a great letter (and reply from Balko) on vouchers vs. tax credits and “how poor POOR really is”; vouchers, accountability, Texas, and McNuggets. But for some reason he hasn’t yet posted the FoxNews column about vouchers that prompted all this nifty reader mail. Maybe he can’t post it to his own site yet. Oh, and he links to this call for a monument to rebel slaves.

Ted Barlow: Links to this page–the workday diary of a woman who clerks at a video store with a big porno stock. Pretty fascinating read. (Caveat lector; there’s gross and explicit descriptions of porno and its customers, as you might expect.)

Amy Welborn: Provocative discussion of “why bother?”–why should Christians bother evangelizing, and why should non-Christians bother listening? Just start at the top of the page and scroll down, reading the comments; the thread might be especially interesting to non-Christians who want a sense of the basic Christian mental framework. Not that there’s only one.

Charles Murtaugh reminded me to blog about the discovery of a new giant squid!!!! This totally rocks. I love the giant squid. Click here for more–maybe you too will join the cult of Architeuthis. Giant squid are among the coolest beasties ever.

And I’m looking forward to reading this 1998 article by Christopher Hitchens, “Goodbye to all that: why Americans are not taught history.” Link via Natalie Solent. I was at Solent’s page because of this phenomenal quote, brought to me by Moira Breen: “Getting back to Hugo Young, he describes the European Human Rights Act as “driven forward by the inescapable demands of history.” Mistah Young he one foolish old Marxist. Don’t he know that is mighty bad juju! The personifications of concepts such as History and Society really prefer to sleep unmolested on the Albert Memorial. The last time incautious mortals awoke the personification of History, she demonstrated that she had room in her capacious dustbin for them.”