I am the blogwatcher

I stay under glass

I look through my window so bright

I see the stars come out tonight

I see the bright and hollow sky…

I haven’t forgotten about the Creepy Horror Children of the Enlightenment. That post will be headed your way all too soon, along with posts on excess, Einstein’s Dreams, and the HBO 9/11 documentary. For now, check out…

E-Pression: A potential down side to that “Welfare Reform Reforms Teens” article I linked below: Did birth rates fall because abortion rates rose? I don’t know, though in general abortion rates have been dropping slowly for several years. But the Mantis has a point.

OxBlog: Good discussion of racial profiling. (Not linking individual posts because there are several of them.) I’m with Chafetz.

Pompous Ponderings: Ignore the name. This is a good, basic, helpful post on sacred silence at Mass, and how often contemporary liturgy ruins it.

Julian Sanchez: Interesting site of a guy who’s way too anarchist. You should check out his blog anyway. And I liked his rebuttal to a non-libertarian (although you can’t rely on the “harm principle” until you explain what constitutes a harm! Sheesh.) and his essay on why he’s not a utilitarian. Although I obviously don’t agree with everything he posts, his site looks very cool, and my more libertarian/anarchist readers will get an even bigger kick out of him.

Eugene Volokh wonders whether he’d still think Neal Horsley shouldn’t run his “abortioncam” website if he (Volokh) considered abortion “tantamount to murder.” Well, I think the abortioncam thing (take pictures of women entering abortion businesses and post them on the Internet) is a really bad idea for about fifty-two different reasons, and I’m (duh) firmly opposed to abortion. So no, I don’t think Volokh is only taking the anti-Horsley position because he supports legal abortion. (Volokh, like me, thinks what Horsley is doing is and should remain legal–we just think it’s wrong.)