LOOSE BUCHANANS: Last night I went to an America’s Future Foundation get-together, supposedly a panel discussion on the topic, “What the heck is a neocon?” It ended up being more about, What the heck is a paleocon? Thus it was less than maximally interesting to me. Here are my impressions…. The speakers were Scott McConnell of The American Conservative Magazine (also known as The Smiths Weren’t Gay! Dot-Com), Eli Lehrer (the only one willing to identify himself as a “neo-conservative”),... Read more

“Kornblum explained to the building superintendent, giving a pair of false names and brandishing credentials and bona fides whose source Joseph was never able to determine, that they had been sent by the Jewish Council (a public organization unrelated to, though in some cases co-constituent with, the secret Golem circle) to survey the building, as part of a program to keep track of the movements of Jews into and within Prague. There was, in fact, such a program, undertaken semi-voluntarily... Read more

MY NEW ADDICTION. Ummm… I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, you say, but this is a comic book review column. About comics you don’t read–because you don’t read any comics (yet) except ‘Love and Rockets.’ It’s not even a current comic book review column. You’re just reading the archives. So these are comic books you’ve never read, which are almost certainly not even on comic-book-store shelves anymore. I reply: I think you’re missing something, which is that this guy... Read more

REPORT FROM THE NYC IRANIAN SOLIDARITY PROTEST at the Yale Free Press blog, which has been quite active lately after a much-needed termtime dormancy. (Dormancy? Like when you predict the future using dormice? Whatever.) Read more

MORE ON MARRIAGE FROM CAMASSIA. Read more

IRAN: Due to oversleeping, forgetting stuff, and general lameness, I am missing the Iran solidarity demonstration in DC. You can keep up with Iran protest coverage here, here, here. All links via InstaPundit. Read more

OVERSEAS BOOT CAMPS: TROUBLE AT TRANQUILITY BAY. My Jewish World Review column, on a topic familiar to regular readers of this site. Read more

“He who understands and forgives–where would he find a motive to act? “Where would he not?” —Darkness at Noon Read more

“He had often looked at the colour-print of No. 1 hanging over his bed and tried to hate it. They had, between themselves, given him many names, but in the end it was No. 1 that stuck. The horror which No. 1 emanated, above all consisted in the possibility that he was in the right, and that all those whom he killed had to admit, even with the bullet in the backs of their necks, that he conceivably might be... Read more

TOTALLY AWESOME PICTURES OF MONKS. Franciscan Friars (of the Renewal?) in London, living with the poor, playing basketball, worshiping the Lord. Great, inspiring pix. Via Amy Welborn. Read more