I need a blogwatch!

I’m holding out for a blogwatch ’til the morning light

He’s gotta be sure

And it’s gotta be soon

And he’s gotta be larger than life…

Amptoons: Lots and lots and lots of interesting links–a roundtable on Zimbabwe, sad and sickening news from Iran, lots more about Iran, sexual abuse at the UN, and much more.

Amygdala: War with Iraq? This Doug Bandow column is really good. At first it seems like Bandow is, in part, pulling the unpersuasive “Since we can’t overthrow every bad regime and replace it with a better one, we shouldn’t mess with any bad regimes” argument, but in fact he’s pointing out ways in which attempts to mess with Saddam Hussein will produce worse results than the (admittedly awful) status quo.

Tim Drake: Benefits of Natural Family Planning, plus mad links on same subject; and scroll down for his World Youth Day diary.

Unqualified Offerings: I don’t even like Bruce Springsteen (exception: “Atlantic City”), but I thought this post on the Boss, 9/11, loss, and rock’n’roll was fantastic. Wish Allan Bloom had read this.

The War on Drugs Clock. I don’t know anything about needle exchange, and the site definitely tends toward the sketch when it claims that “nearly 4,000 new HIV infections can be prevented before the year 2003 if the federal ban on needle exchange funding is lifted this year” (count the unspoken assumptions!); but the other stuff on this page is very useful. Link via E-Pression.

The Fathers of the Christian Church: A Weblog. Neat, neat, neat. Also via E-Pression.