VOUCHERS: So I’m feeling really lousy, and plan to knock off work at five and spend the evening lying in bed moaning, instead of doing all the fun posting I had planned. When I a) recover and b) get enough work done, expect posts on celibacy and pacifism; surrogate motherhood; Shakespeare; contest results (really); a new contest; and fandom. I’m not promising anything in the way of timelines because, like I said, I feel lousy, and I have many phone calls to make tomorrow. Grunt.

For now, I will only note that if you’re arguing against vouchers, you might want to be careful not to argue against the legality of any private or religious schooling. Unless you’re actually going down that fun Blaine Amendment road, of course.

Here are some voucherrific posts from Eugene Volokh: balkanization; church ‘n’ state; pressure to secularize.

Oh, and this is a really interesting post on Israeli settlements; this post rightly criticizes my lack of nuance (in my defense, I didn’t intend to slam all historical-Jesus scholarship, though I can see that I didn’t make that clear; I just meant to point out the particular trap that I thought House of David was falling into); and the final word on the “Do the crime, do the time” thing from the Lord Mage of Good.