FATHER NEUHAUS ON BAD BISHOPS. Read more

i’ll take you for that blogwatch stroll way past properties so secure… Amptoons: Islamists win elections; When Mormons Attack; Mulan’s sisters suffer in Disney sweatshops. Maybe I’ll post about corporate oversight later; for the moment I’ll just say that transparency (=exposure by human rights orgs and journalists), not law, is the most useful means of protecting Third World workers’ rights, but law is often necessary to make transparency possible. So, go read Ampersand’s post, act on it, and contribute to... Read more

HALLOWE’EN PARTY was tons of fun. Russo, Shamed, Dave Tepper, Kelly Torrance, Megan McArdle a.k.a. Jane Galt, Leslie of Ted Barlow’s fiancee fame (and a brief telephonic interlude with Barlow Himself), and a blogless Erik. The Tepper Report is here. I was a member of the Black Bloc because it was the easiest possible costume–dress all in black, w/fun punker t-shirt (“Why Waltz? When You Can [picture of an M-16] Rock & Roll”), put black thing over face, write up... Read more

INTERNET ACCESS HAS BEEN AND WILL BE INTERMITTENT, but if you send me to Washington I will fight for all of America’s working families… sorry, brain is fried, election madness is getting to me… my point is that I will definitely be posting this weekend, and after that I will try to offer you all updates and quick posts and whatnot but it may be about a week before I can return to full-scale bloggery. Read more

“You’re moving like a deeply-offended Tibetan yak!” –Peter Finch to Kim Novak, “The Legend of Lylah Clare” Read more

YES SIR, YES SIR, SIX BAGS FULL… of mail. Which I will try to answer this weekend. Saturday, expect mail and (in some cases) replies about: Derrida; rock’n’roll conservatism; metaphysics and/or ethics; and other stuff that I’m forgetting. Read more

POETRY WEDNESDAY: In honor of Halloween (see below), a poem from an excellent, short, spooky old collection of stories and poems for kids–called, I think, The Haunted House and other tales. There were some pretty terrifying scraps in there–like “The Erl-King“–but also this, from Theodore Roethke: The Bat By day the bat is cousin to the mouse. [clipped] Read more

HALLOWING HALLOWEEN: Why Christians should embrace the “devilish” holiday. Via Oblique House. And here are some costume suggestions from Zorak. Read more

NOWARBLOG: Anti-Iraq-war site that spans the political spectrum. Looks like this will be one of the must-read sites for the foreseeable future. Contributors include Ampersand, Radley Balko, Gene Healy, Jim Henley, Julian Sanchez, and Tom Tomorrow. If they do requests, I strongly suggest they get Jeanne D’Arc on board–maybe that will spur her to come out of hibernation–but she also might want to change her handle if she’s going to spend a lot of time bagging on war. EDITED TO... Read more

“I hate your living guts! You’re ugly! You think you’re going to make a slave of the world! Go on. Try your intellect on me!” –Beverly Garland to the giant cucumber that is trying to take over the Earth, “It Conquered the World” Read more