AND READ THIS EXCELLENT POST FROM THE RAT on men, women, marriage, and the $#@! that gets in the way. Read more

PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION?: The House of David and Telford Work are having a terrific running debate in the Stanley Hauerwas/Christian pacifism thread. Although I am not a pacifist, I must say that Work is making the better arguments here, though HOD is battling valiantly (so to speak). My problems with both parties’ positions are really problems with a certain style of Protestant exegesis. Zorak once noted that “What Would Jesus Do?” isn’t really the greatest slogan... Read more

A ROCK’N’ROLL CONSERVATIVE BOOK LIST: Not the book list, since I’m no Harold Bloom. Just a book list. I know it’s a bit weird to post a reading list, but I think if I were reading this site I might want one. (I loved it when Brink Lindsey would post on what he’s been reading, and it would be very cool if other bloggers would post lists of books that had influenced them, as Zorak did.) And hey, every movement,... Read more

MAKE ME READ BOOKS!: OK, I know I’ve been promising more posting a lot lately, and it hasn’t been happening, for various reasons. I hope to post quite a bit today though. One thing I’ll be posting soon is a book list–stuff I’ve read that I’d strongly recommend to anyone interested by rock’n’roll conservatism, i.e. the political/philosophical worldview of this site. What this list won’t include: foreign policy. You’ll notice that I very rarely write about that. You may have... Read more

“Why don’t you pass the time with a game of solitaire?” –Angela Lansbury, “The Manchurian Candidate” Read more

KESTON BULLETIN: BELARUS: REPRESSIVE RELIGION BILL SNEAKED THROUGH PARLIAMENT by Felix Corley, Keston News Service The campaign group For Freedom of Conscience has described as “a bolt from out of the blue” the sudden adoption by parliament yesterday (27 June) of a repressive religion bill that only a day earlier had been postponed until the autumn (see KNS 26 June 2002). “Yesterday, when I learnt that consideration of the draft law had been postponed until the autumn I thought that... Read more

ANACOSTIA, LAND OF OPPORTUNITY?: Does anyone know of good articles updating this 1999 City Paper piece? If so, please email me; thanks. The article is a great read, by the way, despite phrases like “planted a malignant seed” and “pot of pathology” (in the same paragraph!!!). Tangentially: To journalists: If you find yourself writing the words “ironically,” “in an ironic twist,” or variants thereof, you can be 98% sure you are wrong. Rain on your wedding day, for example, is... Read more

REAL POSTING will resume tomorrow. For now, here’s a sensible article about women’s sports that’s interesting even to “sports-negative” types like me. (In sixth grade, during the required “mile run” portion of Presidential Fitness Testing, I unleashed my inner adolescent jerk and walked the entire mile reading a copy of Keats’s “Hyperion.” Or maybe “Endymion.” Whichever, it’s not as if either one of them is a great masterpiece, but hey, I was in middle school.) Link via The Rat. And... Read more

THIS ARTICLE is really good. It’s on “environmental justice” and the race card in D.C. From 2001, but a keeper. Read more

Watch, watch, watch your blog Gently down the stream Throw your teacher overboard, Listen to her scream… So I can’t get het up about the Pledge of Allegiance thing. I never said the controversial phrase in school. (I can’t remember if I just refused to say “under God,” or if I kept silent for the whole thing–if the former, that would be silly since “under God” was hardly my only problem with the Pledge, but hey, I was silly when... Read more