Digging out

I took at look at the starred items in my Google Reader today, and damn near fell out of my chair. No chance I get to all, if any, of it while still finding time to meet a few looming deadlines and continue to plug away at my mythical, handwritten dissertation. Here, then, is a special Tuesday edition of Some Things I Wanted to Blog About But Didn’t Find the Time:

• AOTP’s FreeDem asks what will happen to red state America.
• Lee links a piece in The Nation on Bill McKibben’s communitarianism.
• Nicola Karras on bow-ties and tweed (and yes, I still occasionally sport them both).
• Mark at Publius Endures explains why there is no political “center”.
• Michael Nystrom on the FISA nightmare.
• Matthew Yglesias gets served (again).
• Andrew Sullivan on Cameronism and the Douthat-Salam agenda. [UPDATE: Ross responds.] [ANOTHER UPDATE: Reihan, too, and this time in even stronger terms.]
• Nathan Origer on Norman Mailer’s conservatism.
• And Coates and McArdle and Sanchez and McArdle again take on racism.

Consider my business done.

[UPDATE: Sullivan on Thomas Merton and the "Social Gospel" is a must-read.]

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