I don’t go out much at night.

I don’t go out much at all.

Did you think you were the only one

who was watching for a blog…

Stuart Buck: So those Volokhs think they’re so smart, with their three kinds of judicial activism? I’ll show them! I’ve got SEVEN!!! (A useful post.)

E-Pression: Suggest a book for someone considering entering the Catholic Church. C’mon, help a mantis out.

Charles Murtaugh: Yeah, yeah, lots of people write about sin and “The Sopranos.” But Murtaugh actually makes me want to see the show! (despite spoilers)

Tenebrae: Mostly-true words of wisdom (esp. #s 7, 8, 9 and 18, not so much #17); and some thoughts on an intra-Catholic-blogging controversy that I haven’t followed at all, but that led Dylan to post some stuff that really resonates with me. Especially, “And there is the feeling, quite often, that it is sheer effrontery to consider myself a Christian at all!” Reading that line, I realized that it’s one reason I feel more comfortable saying “I’m a Catholic” than “I’m a Christian.” “Christian” seems like such an amazing thing to claim to be. “Catholic”–okay, we all know that total screw-ups can be Catholic, the Church is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in, etc. So I don’t feel quite as shy about that. But “Christian”–wow.

I can’t remember where I found this good, clear, pithy back-and-forth between Junius (on the left) and Natalie Solent (on the right). But now you’ve found it. And now I need to go freshen up the blogroll, I think. (Junius also adds an anarchist postscript to the political-theory reading lists we’ve been seeing around the blogosphere.)

USA Today did the much-needed service of combing the records of abuser-priest cases and allegations. Read it. The database compiled by Survivors First divides the priests into those with: criminal convictions; civil settlements or judgments; pending criminal action; pending civil litigation; public allegations; and private allegations. The last category is not shown at all, and the “public allegations” are shown without the names, just the place and accusation. That seems like a good way of handling things for a database that has to have a general rule rather than case-by-case decisionmaking.