That’s one day’s list of chores. Sort of explains why I’ve been a crappy blogger this week. OK, here’s some links to start off the evening:

I finally inserted the pictures from our train trip last weekend, which I hope will silence any rudeness from the peanut gallery. 🙂

Russell’s back to blogging and to academia!! I’m overjoyed that Russell has found a great new job, one that promises to be a place that he can plant himself and his family. I’m also tickled that he hasn’t left the blogosphere. The leftie communitarian seat has been empty for a few months. Welcome back to the blogroll, Russell!

There have been a ton of articles on the netroots in the past couple of weeks. There is a huge Kosfest backlash going on. I want to write a post on it, but just in case I don’t have time, let me give you all the links. This week’s New Republic is entirely about blogging. (Buy it, Toni.) There’s the print edition and online stuff. This link is from the Weekly Standard, but still interesting. Check out Andrew Sullivan. Also see Ezra and Kos himself. I’ll post more when I can.

I don’t really write much about abortion politics, because there are so many bloggers who know tons more than I do about it. But I thought I would mention the great New Yorker article on abortion politics in South Dakota. The article isn’t on line, but there’s an interview with the author.

Bitch, PhD writes that female bloggers tend to withhold their identities on line, because they have been conditioned to fear sexual harassment. There were a ton of comments, which I haven’t waded into yet. When I started my old blog, Apt. 11D, I immediately disclosed my whole name. I deleted it after a while, because I read an article about a blogger who was stalked by adoring fans. It didn’t help that my blog name was an actual location. I put my name back up right before I presented a paper about blogging at a conference, and the jig was up. Lots of people know where I live, but I really want to keep that information out of a google search. Not because I’m afraid of stalking, but because I don’t want my neighbors reading this stuff. They already think I’m weird.

Fascinating on-line between between Linda Hirshman and the Family Scholars. Some links: here, here, here, here, here, and here.