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Just because I’m a blogwatch…

Amy Welborn: “My latest cause …to get Scholastic Book Fairs to offer titles specifically chosen for Catholic schools. Correct me if I’m wrong, but in my experience at least–which entails about 20 years of looking over the wares of Scholastic Book Fairs in various Catholic schools–I’ve never seen a “Catholic” book offered–not once. No saints books, etc.”

Scalzi: Ten Things Teenage Writers Should Know About Writing. Many continue to apply in later life…. (Via Mumpsimus.)

Virginia Postrel: “Why (Legal or Illegal) Immigrants Are Better for Texas than California: …Texas has no income tax, which means public services are funded by sales and property taxes. Everyone, regardless of income or legal status, pays sales and property taxes, either directly or indirectly through rent. California, by contrast, relies heavily on a very progressive income tax that doesn’t fall on people who are paid off the books or who don’t earn much money in the first place.”

Wayward Catholic: “The passage I read today was from Genesis, when Adam and Eve eat the fruit and their action is discovered by God. I read a bit further than the selection prescribed, to where He expels them from the Garden never to return. What really struck me there is when God is throwing them out, but before he expels them, He makes clothing for them. It is such a heart-breaking moment, to clothe them and then say ‘Now go’. The love is still so intense even though they have so disappointed Him.”