JESUSLAND AND J.D.s: I am looking for Protestant resources on homosexuality that are not: a) false (…i.e. against the teaching of the Catholic faith), b) reliant on falsehood (for example, studies “proving” that all gay men die before age 15 from a combination of syphilis, AIDS, tuberculosis OF THE SOUL, and being featured in the obituaries of gay newspapers in the mid-1980s… and yes, if you’re thinking I’m intensely uninterested in anything featuring the surnames “Socarides” and “Nicolosi,” you’re two... Read more

MORE SERIOUSLY, I have now beat my forehead against Wallace Stevens for weeks and I still think he is what Alice’s cousin (? Alice herself?) was talking about when she dismissed books without pictures and conversations. Even his pictures and conversations aren’t pictures or conversations!!! It is so infuriating!!! If you all want to dispute, or tell me what I am missing, please do. I will note that I really loved the poem below, which has both pictures (inherently beautiful... Read more

OBSCURANTISM IS CALLOW, Wallace. Read more

Such a cold winterwith scenes as slow as PinterSynchronise blogwatches… (I totally thought that line was “…as slow as panto.” Sigh. I like mine better.) Claw of the Conciliator: More on The Man in the High Castle: “…This really reminded me of the stunning stained-glass-window summation at the end of The Glass Hammer, when the protagonist decides that the nature of the world precludes vast, sweeping action for good, and that even God must act with only the lightest of... Read more

MAIL-ORDER MAIL-ORDER NINJA: Friend of this blog Joshua Elder writes: “Mail Order Ninja” vol. 1, my first full-length book, is now available for pre-order! Please share this information with anyone you know who would be interested in purchasing the book as the more pre-orders I have, the better the book will look to the publisher and to the retailers. And the better it looks to them, the heavier they’ll promote it and the more copies they’ll order. So please, please... Read more

CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR: Swift blog name; plus post on The Man in the High Castle! Read more

I knew a man who raked them over;He’s still blogwatching… Asymmetrical Information: “We are finally starting to get a hazy idea about which poverty programmes solve more problems than they create. Given the huge questions about its effectiveness, and its obvious inferiority to programmes such as the EITC, it’s hard to understand why raising the minimum wage is even in the standard liberal policymaker’s toolbelt.” (more) Eavesdrop DC: Things you hear people say on the street…. Via the Club for... Read more

This is a blogwatch that is fasting from pop music… Andrew Sullivan: Kurds, torture, and stuff. Scroll down for more. Blogging Baghdad: NBC News correspondents in Baghdad, inc. local Iraqi journalists. Must-read. Via The Corner. Done With Mirrors: Archaic bawdy! Via Dappled Things. Family Scholars: US prisons shackling women in labor. MarriageDebate: Excellent, ongoing discussion of marriage, family, same-sex marriage, European and American demographic changes, and the “Second Demographic Transition,” sparked in part by Maggie Gallagher’s column this week: …Over... Read more

BOOKS TO NEW ORLEANS: Via my academic ninja network:Seeking Book Donations> The New Orleans Public Library> (New Orleans LA)>> The New Orleans Public Library is asking for any and all hardcover > and paperback books for people of all ages in an effort to restock > the shelves after Katrina. The staff will assess which titles will be > designated for its collections. The rest will be distributed to > destitute families or sold for library fundraising. Please send your... Read more

IF I WERE THE KING OF THE FOREST: 1. “Social conservatives” (ugh what a phrase–is that like a social disease?) would realize that ending the Drug War is a family issue. (One of the things I learned at the pregnancy center is that nobody says “in jail” or “in prison”–everyone says “incarcerated.”) (more) (more) (more) You can hate heroin and hate the Drug War too. 2. All the people who like Wendell Berry would get over him and his terrible... Read more