AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH. Blogger just ate a post I spent a lot of time on (about celibacy and pacifism). OK. Grunt. I will try very hard to reconstruct this dratted thing eventually–and post it on Monday.

But for the moment I am signing off, and I almost certainly will not be posting anything here until Monday. I’m gonna soak up some fireworks on the Mall with Russo and Shamed; then I’m off to Seattle for a friend’s wedding.

But fear not. All weekend I will be storing up posts in my hump, like a vast camel of blogging (although they tell me that blogging a camel is not kosher), and I will unload these posts on you Monday. Expect the worst!