Just call me angel of the blogwatch, baby…

(Thanks to The Old Oligarch, I’ve had that freakin’ song stuck in my head since Thursday night. Speaking of, the O.O. has been blogging away at the world, although I wonder if he really thinks merchants don’t learn to practice just management of their employees and property, and if he thinks upbringing and social status have much of a one-to-one relationship. But that’s for another day.)

Andrew Sullivan, Mangler of Permalinks, says that celibate homosexuals are twisted and sick. Nice; I’m sure that’s what everyone struggling to live chastely needs to hear. Hey, isn’t that what they used to say about…? Oh, and since Sullivan apparently knows no priests “who can tell real, breathing gay men that this is a feasible way to live without going nuts or turning into the kind of twisted neurotic that turns out to be typical of some gay priests,” he’ll have to rely on a laywoman. A fulfilled and celibate life is possible. Devotion to Christ in the Eucharist helps, a lot. There is more than one kind of love. Don’t believe the hype.

Don’t Be A Shamed: Hysterical. Go read it.

Russo’s Republic: Evil vegans; Saudi lies, and maybe cable TV lies too.

Those who don’t already read The Corner might want to check out this Chronicle of Higher Education report on the Christopher Hitchens/Tariq Ali prizefight for the soul of the Left. It’s a good solid piece, by Michael Berube.

And a reader noted that an otherwise solid Register article I linked on the seminary reform effort included a psychologist’s claim that “up to one-third of all homosexuals have tendencies toward pederasty.” I have no idea where this is from, what it could possibly mean, or what, but it’s just weird, and given everything else I’ve seen and read I’d need hard, detailed evidence to even take it seriously. Until then, I’ll treat it as not just false, but obviously false. Grrr. Anyway, as I said, the article in general is well worth your time.