I need hyperlinks in meatspace

My day started off terribly, since I had forgotten the NYT had collapsed the Metro Section into section A, and spent quite a while looking for it.

Therefore, I'm especially appreciative of online media and hyperlinks today and will now proceed to furnish a number of them. David, Kate, Ferny, and I are guest blogging at HuffPo today. HuffPo has set up a symposium here on the recent YPU debate R: Blogs are good for democracy.

My post is here, so enjoy! (But please keep the number of comments mocking my previous HuffPo post on Harry Potter to a minimum)

Thursday House and Home: New Neighbors

Two new Yale blogs have joined the Mafia.

Adrian Ryan is blogging as the Conservative Hipster. He terms it his

personal blog of musings on music, culture, philosophy, and politics. It stems from an idea I had while posting here, when I realized that making others know that conservatives come in all shapes and colours, even in a hipster variety that cares about the shape and colour of the typeface on ones shirts, is an important endeavor.

The other newcomers are Bryce Taylor, George Singer, and Mathew Gerkin, united as the Quixotic Cavers who are attempting to follow Don Quixote's

valiant quest for romance, beauty, and truth in its highest form... To be sure, we do not aspire to see castles where there are only inns. We suspect, however, that some of the things ordinarily taken these days to be but ramshackle inns will turn out to be majestic castles in the end.

No word yet on a rival "Sancho's Insula" blog, presumably run by the Progs and composed of many transliterated Spanish proverbs strung together into a single, glorious post.

Welcome to the family guys. Don't be strangers.

(Yes, I am shoehorning this plug under 'House and Home' on the grounds that plugs are appropriate house/blogwarming gifts).