CLICK HERE TO OPPOSE THE FARM BILL. Click here to learn why! Link via Tepper. Read more

When I was three, I thought the blogs revolved around me, I was wrong And so I sing along And if you watch, watch blogs with me… First, A. Beam has created the contest entry to beat. I’ve received lots of great entries–keep ’em coming, folks; I’ll announce the winner next Wednesday–but so far, PoohPundit really puts the spring in Springfield. And the Blog of Eternal Vigilance, Overlawyered.com, has linked me. I dunno what I bring to the party, but... Read more

“Get off it! You’re in a hopped-up show-off stage. Don’t be Moses leading your lunatics to the Pulitzer Prize.” –Constance Towers to Peter Breck, “Shock Corridor” Read more

ONE PILL MAKES YOU LARGER…: So first of all, I missed the point of Murtaugh’s first bioethics-musing, and correct my mistake by telling you all to go read it. It’s about why “Blade Runner” is a better analogy for a dystopian biofuture than Brave New World is. Exec. summary: Government doesn’t just take away our rights by mandating that we be mistreated (as in Jim Crow laws). It also takes away our rights by refusing to recognize us as fully... Read more

EVERY DERB IS SACRED: Sorry, couldn’t resist…. In a generally good column on priestly celibacy and American culture, John Derbyshire manages to press two of my buttons: He prettifies the sexual revolution and he thinks “Every Sperm Is Sacred” is pro-Protestant. No way, Josemaria. First, while I can get behind all his criticisms of the Victorians (especially the fact that the burdens of sex fell disproportionately on women–and he doesn’t even mention the legality of marital rape, or restrictions on... Read more

Whoa, you like to think that you’re immune to the stuff, oh yeah It’s closer to the truth to say you can’t get enough You know you’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to blogs… Don’t Be A Shamed: More on baby-selling. Goliard Blog: A very interesting idea for fixing the American Catholic mess. Happy Fun Pundit: Best response to Fukuyama. Addresses the fact that not all “genetic engineering” is equal. Istanblog: A blogger reporting from Turkey. Link via... Read more

NEW CONTEST: OK, you get it early. The new contest is “One Day in the Blog…” Send me a few blog entries from someone who doesn’t have a blog–yet. Anybody: living, dead, living dead, or none of the above. Possibilities: Bill Clinton, Cornel West, Pope John Paul II, Stephen Hawking, the Pointy-Haired Boss, that Italian cloning doctor, Ben and/or Jerry, Elvis Costello, Ivan Denisovich, David Bowie, Winnie the Pooh. Inspired by Osama Bin Laden and A. Beam. Send all entries... Read more

WHO CAN? HAIKU CAN! Forthwith, Haiku Fun. Next contest will be announced tomorrow. Grand prize: Bupkes. And the winner is… Yasser Arafat!!!! He’s been called “the Susan Lucci of Japanese poetic forms,” but at last this dog will have his day. Yasser’s prizewinning composition derives its poignancy from the sophisticated use of an unreliable narrator. I’m sure you’ll all agree that although it lacks the proper haiku meter, the ordinary rules just don’t apply to Yasser “Geneva Convention for Thee,... Read more

Here she comes, you better watch your blogs, She’s going to break your heart in two, it’s true… Ted Barlow: Page pot party. Don’t Be A Shamed: Baby-selling in modern America. Shamed’s overlooking the reasons the adoption-agency payments exist, though. You may not like a free market in kids, but the government has been doing a terrible job with adoption, entangling children in red tape. The adoption agencies are paid to cut through that tape. Sursum Corda: A moving story... Read more

“What I like about you is you’re rock bottom. I wouldn’t expect you to understand this, but it’s a great comfort for a girl to know she could not possibly sink any lower.” –Jane Greer to Robert Mitchum, “The Big Steal” Read more