THE EDITOR OF JEWISH WORLD REVIEW has been hospitalized. He is recovering, but I am sure prayers would not come amiss. If you enjoy his site (I have a column there), please consider sending a donation so that he can upgrade the technology, hire staff, and reduce his stress level so that he can stay out of his doctor’s hair! Thanks. Read more

JUDICA ME DEUS, PART 3a): Part three of my short story turned out to be a little longer and woollier than I expected, and I’m still untangling some things toward the end of the scene. So here’s the first (and longest) segment of it. read the whole story so far read part 3a) only Part 3b) will reach you by next Thursday at the latest. There are five parts in all. Not approved by the Comics Code Authority, so be... Read more

“We must find the orb of power or all mankind is DOOMED!” “Yes! But first–to the men’s room!” –Scott McCloud, Reinventing Comics. For no particular reason. Read more

AMPTOONS has an excellent series of posts on rape trials. Seriously, go read them. Read more

WHICH DOSTOYEVSKY PROTAGONIST ARE YOU? It got me completely wrong, but hey, neat idea for a quiz. Read more

POSSIBLE ACORN OF INSIGHT: I’m not really sure how to expand on this thought, but I really do think that many of the divisions in the debate over same-sex marriage come down to this: Do you think this debate is about heterosexuals and homosexuals, or do you think this debate is about men and women? Read more

SAME-SEX MISHEGOSS: I have more posts at MarriageDebate.com, and Jonathan Rauch (with whom I had an entirely pleasant prior interaction working on the “Christianity from the Outside” symposium for Crisis) replies to my previous posts. Gene Vilensky also replies to a swathe of my second MD.com post. I wrote, “Marriage is a political (legal) issue, not solely a cultural issue, precisely because when a man and a woman have sex they often produce a child, and that child needs to... Read more

Don’t know why we blogwatched We never did before; Now that I know how much it hurts I hope we never blogwatch anymore! Amy Welborn: Thoughts on renewing Catholic life in the US. Lots of interesting (and occasionally flip) points. Baghdad Burning: New blog from Dear_Raed correspondent Riverbend. Forager 23 and The Leibman Theory: Yet more helpful stuff re comics, opera, and musicals. InstaPundit: More on possible problems with John “More Guns, Less Crime” Lott’s research. And, in Lebanon’s Daily... Read more

PBS FRONTLINE 1983 “ABORTION CLINIC”: Video here. I haven’t watched it (my computer has a hard time with video) but can think of many reasons to check it out. Apparently it does contain pretty graphic images of abortion, so be forewarned. Via a comment at Hit & Run. Read more

DAPPLED THINGS WANTS TO KNOW the Meyers-Briggs scores of St. Blog’s parishioners. Apparently this is my type: Your personality type is INTP. Introverted (I) 64% Extraverted (E) 36% Intuitive (N) 77% Sensing (S) 23% Thinking (T) 55% Feeling (F) 45% Perceiving (P) 68% Judging (J) 32% I’m pretty sure when I took the quiz last night, though, I came out as INTJ rather than INTP, and tilted far more strongly toward thinking over feeling than I did today. So, not... Read more