His blogwatch she had tamed…

Family Scholars: How many advocates of gay marriage actually buy the Jonathan Rauch “conservative case”? Yeah, about how many you thought.

Also, a terrible story from New Orleans:

…Teenagers in the city are living alone or with older siblings or relatives, separated by hundreds of miles from their displaced parents. Dozens of McDonogh students fend largely for themselves, school officials say. …

The principal, Donald Jackson, estimated that up to a fifth of the 775 students live without parents.

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Hit & Run: Cliff’s Notes to series on SF homelessness. Interesting.

And: Wily drunks circumvent cheap-booze ban, use what they learned in Econ 101:

…Outside the Dutch Shisler Sobering Center, which provides social services as well as a place for people drunk on the streets to dry out, a man who’d give only his street name — Caveman — said he’d been sober a month and a half. But, he said, “People are going to realize it’s cheaper to get whiskey at the state-run (liquor) store. People are going to be drinking harder, and they’re going to be getting drunker. It’s easier, too, because you can just put it in your soda can.”

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The Economist has launched two new blogs–one on economics, which I expect will become a must-read (although it isn’t yet), and one on US politics of which I’m more skeptical. The few times I’ve dipped into Economist US-politics coverage it’s tended toward a patronizing Toryish “LOL Americans” standpoint–whereas I want a hard-hitting “LOL Americans” standpoint that actually understands Americans!–to the extent that anyone does, I mean. Is that so much to ask? (Memo to the Economist: It helps to view God as something other than a bizarre political aberration akin to the electoral college.) …Anyway, both links via Jane Galt, who will also be blogging at the econ one; see above re must-read.

And a neat article on the Latin Mass, from the perspective of a Jew describing the effect of Hebrew in Jewish liturgy. (If liturgy is the word I want. You know what I mean.) Via Dappled Things.