UO WATCH: Lots of interesting stuff at Unqualified Offerings–along with a lot of posts on the NYC anti-war parade permit deal (scroll around), he also has posts on: Afghanistan, Carter, Reagan, Gorbachev, and USSR liberalization; what does Virginia Postrel have to do with weight-lifting?; a very important post on the Ansar al-Islam camp in Iraqi Kurdistan; and two posts about that plagiarized (and likely outdated) British intelligence report. Read more

FIVE GUILTY PLEASURES: As with Zorak, “When I first considered doing this, I thought: ‘Maybe it would be easier to post five non-guilty pleasures.'” But like her, I will take the plunge–in no particular order: 1) Disturbing Search Requests 2) Polyester! The fabric of happiness!! 3) ’80s pop. Like, well beyond good music–we’re into Pat Benatar “Fire and Ice” territory here… 4) El Cheapo stuff. For example, I really like McDonalds coffee, and I can’t tell the difference between 99-cent... Read more

I’M TIRED AND A BIT SICK, so posting will be intermittent for a little while. Will try to shove some fun stuff your way though… Read more

MORE ON MOTHERHOOD/CITIZENSHIP: I posted this in the comments section at Asymmetrical Information, when a reader pointed out that my description of the Yale conference was tentative and vague: Jason–The description I linked is actually a description of two different panels, of which I only saw the second. Prof. Balkin doesn’t describe every speaker, nor does he describe every argument made by each speaker–his post is more, “Here’s some of the interesting stuff that happened at my conference.” And I... Read more

I SHOOT THE HIPPOPOTAMUS With bullets made of jussive Because if I used leaden ones His hide would go percussive. Sorry, Dylan. Read more

DISSENTERS vs. people who struggle with Church teachings. Good post. Read more

CATHOLIC PARODY OF “HOWL”: Fun partisan rant! Although I’m a little too weirded out by the whole Father Fessio as Ginsburgian visionary angel thing…. Read more

OK, THIS ONE’S PRETTY FUNNY. Even though I know jack about OS’s. Via E-Pression. Read more

RAISE ONE FOR ME. I have to work late tonight, blah, thus I can’t go to the Blogorama, double blah. It’s in an hour. Should be fun. Sigh. Read more

MOTHERHOOD VS. CITIZENSHIP? That was the dichotomy posed by a couple of speakers at the panel on what Roe v. Wade should have said. (Description of discussion here.) It was both the most interesting and the most troubling thing said by the panel. I’m not sure I fully understood it; as far as I could tell, the claim was that abortion restrictions violate the Constitution because motherhood makes it impossible for women to participate as citizens, thus unless women can... Read more