We all feel blogwatch in the dark…

Dr. Weevil: Ten things (academia nuts).

St. Blog’s Parish, UK, is seeking British Catholic bloggers.

Awesome interview with Sandra Miesel about Catholicism and science fiction. I’d love to hear her comments on Kathe Koja.

“Rendition Realities,” a.k.a. as close as the Washington Post is going to get to endorsing outsourced torture. Um. I’m not persuaded by this argument. And I really want to know what the hell “family pressure” means. If it’s like, mom pleads with terrorist to renounce his terrortacular ways, then okay. If it’s (as it has been in the past, you know) more like, “We’ve captured your family members, so if you don’t talk I don’t think they’ll be very happy,” then that’s absolutely wrong. And I’m not reassured by the fact that this piece doesn’t make clear which of the two scenarios is under discussion.

Mark Shea on Catholicism and torture. If I needed persuasion that human nature has no history, that attempts to end history through genetic modification would merely reify the constant, recurring effects of original sin, I’m pretty sure the fact that torture is a contemporary political question would do it for me. Well–that and infant euthanasia, I suppose. Welcome to the working week.