Update on extracurriculars . . .

The folks at America have invited me to contribute occasionally to their Election blog (which I mentioned here).  And, I posted some thoughts, here, at the First Things "On the Square" blog, about (what I believe to be) Doug Kmiec's recent mis-reading of Cardinal George's statement on abortion and the common good.

There is also going on, at the Commonweal blog, and post-and-comments thread -- initiated by our own Eduardo Penalver -- about (among other things) the responsibility of political actors to respect democracy by speaking honestly and fairly and the question whether those who some commenters call "pro-life activists" should, given their commitments, be willing to go to war, or tear down the constitutional order, to end abortion.  Plus ca change . . .