I don’t want another drink or fight, I want a blogwatch…

(…Yeah, no.)

Dappled Things: “Many of us bloggers and comment box denizens have already written more about sex in the last two months than Ratzinger has in his entire career.

“Because the human body matters in Catholicism, the Church does talk about the body and what we do with it. And because sexuality — in all its glorious, irksome, life-giving, broken, purposeful, and unpredictable jumble — is a fundamental part of our bodiliness, the Church teaches that that matters, too, and she talks about it. It’s not the most important thing she has to say, nor is it anywhere near the thing she talks about the most, and it’s not likely to make complete sense if taken out of the context of everything else that she teaches about the human person and each person’s invitation to immortality.” (mas)

Don’t Bomb Us: Al-Jazeera has a blog. Via Dappled Things.

Hit & Run: But do they stock a Barbie Dream Detainee Center Playset?

Jane Galt: A column on John McCain’s economics, and Jane’s reaction. I’m interested in McCain, these days. I don’t trust him further than I could spit him, but he’s apparently pro-life, and he opposes torture, so hey, what more can you ask for? (…Don’t answer that.)

Libertas: Fascinating review of the original King Kong.

MarriageDebate: Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands: Maggie Gallagher unwinds the spin.

Matt Welch: What really happened in New Orleans’s Superdome?

Quoth the Maven: Interesting GOF review from a screenwriter and Potter fan.

And The Continuing Crisis:

IT WAS the surprise hit of the autumn season, selling out for its entire run and inspiring rave reviews. But now the producers of Tamburlaine the Great have come under fire for censoring Christopher Marlowe’s 1580s masterpiece to avoid upsetting Muslims.

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And Nun of the Above:
Growing numbers of educated Italian women are throwing away their high heels and lipstick and opting for the austere life of nuns in closed convents.
(more–via Dappled Things)