A man should be the mister,
And be the master of his sisters;

A man should be the drake,
For his blogwatch sake…

Uh, hello again. Things have been strange here, and I’ve had little to say, but I think that your respite from all things Eve will soon be over. For now, here are some other people saying stuff.

Sheepcat: David “Way, Way Beyond Gay” Morrison’s Sed Contra archives are now available. There’s quite a bit of good stuff in there…. David’s approach is often different from mine, but he’s also written a lot of stuff I’ve found really illuminating–I didn’t even realize I’d latched on to the story of the rich young man (mentioned in my Commonweal piece) because he wrote about it.

And via Mark Shea, the jurisprudential theory of Cthulhu:

Supreme Court judges: Great Cthulhu is well accustomed to the adoration of priests wearing black robes and he is willing to accept the due homage of the Nine and raise them to his priesthood. Since there will no doubt be many vacancies on the court as their minds break one after another in the mad ecstacy of his fearful presence, Great Cthulhu pledges to appoint only strict Constitutional constructionists to the bench under the assumption that the basic sanity of their approach should allow them to serve at least a term year or two before they are reduced to gloriously gibbering cannibals. Because Great Cthulhu spent many years himself neither living nor breathing, he sees no reason that the Constitution must either.

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I also have a quick comment at MarriageDebate on that Newsweek “kids don’t make you happy” piece–really more about the difference between happiness and meaning, cf. the end of this post.

Also, if any of you all have read Alan Moore & Oscar Zarate’s A Small Killing, and have thoughts about it, I’d love to hear them–I’m writing a piece on it today, and good chewy comics criticism is hard to find.