YOUR AMAZINGLY AWESOME THING OF THE DAY. Via Mark Shea among many others. Read more

UH… OOPS. Reader Dr. Weevil pointed out that I really made no sense in my earlier call for DC-area Catholic school alumni. Who I am actually looking for: DC-area alumni of DC-area Catholic schools. In other words: You live nearish here now, and you went to school nearish here. The other criteria in that post still apply (LGBT/same-sex-attracted alumni especially encouraged; I don’t care what you think about gay stuff; if your Catholic education was elementary, middle, or high school,... Read more

I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT THIS WILL GO DOWN ON YOUR PERMANENT RECORD: Hey, are any of you guys alumni of DC-area Catholic schools (esp. elementary and HS, but I think college might also work) and living in the DC metro area? If so, can you email me? LGBT/same-sex-attracted alumni are especially encouraged (regardless of your current religious/moral beliefs), but believe me, you can definitely still help me even if you’re straighter than Anna Karenina. Also, if people in the... Read more

TODAY ON MARRIAGEDEBATE: More discussion of possible compromises on gay marriage; the most convincing take I’ve seen so far on how Proposition 8 passed; arguments that “gay marriage put an end to gay sex” and that “the right’s baby love is undermining conservatism”… and more. I’m going to stop doing these, really, but I want you guys to see that I’m getting new, provocative content up there every day. Read more

THERE GOES MY WEEKEND! Audio recordings of Allan Bloom lecturing on Nietzsche, and (now with cool pix!) Plato. Awesome, all-too-awesome. Read more

PROFILE OF NEW PRESIDENT OF THE NAACP INCLUDES THESE BITS: …Only a few years out of college, Jealous quickly climbed the ranks of the nonprofit world. In 2005, he was named president of the Los Angeles–based Rosenberg Foundation, which grants money to groups working in low-income communities. Jealous whipped the foundation into fiscal and managerial shape and directed its money toward an emerging method of dealing with mass incarceration: re-entry programs that help former inmates readjust to society and find... Read more

DAY JOB: There is just a cornucopia of links up at MarriageDebate today, people. First up we have the NY Times piece co-penned by David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch, “A Reconciliation on Gay Marriage.” Then I have trawled the vast reaches of the interwebs to bring you this round-up of reactions to the piece. If you have seen others you think I should include, please email me at [email protected]! If you scroll past all that, you’ll find scads of other... Read more

“WHAT IS HOLY SEX? WHO NEEDS CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP?”: Check out this Dreadnought discussion, & help him shape his upcoming talk at the University of Sydney…. Read more

VICTOR MORTON VS. THE OSCARS. Read more

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.–St. Augustine, via Read more