One night in Blogwatch makes a hard man humble…

The Pope Blog: For all your Pope News needs. Seriously, I’m surprised this niche wasn’t already filled, but welcome to the Popeblogger.

Reason‘s “hopes and fears for the 2Bush2 term” piece. I’m most thoroughly in agreement with Tyler Cowen, Daniel Drezner, and to a lesser extent Bob Barr; but it’s all worth reading.

This Policy Review piece on the demographic crash is fascinating and you should read it. I’m already wondering how some of this stuff would work into speculative fiction.