Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Friday, March 18, 2005

Much Updating of the Sidebar

Added (fairly recently) to the blogroll:

Julie R. Neidlinger and her online gallery Lone Prarie Art Works. Ms. Neidlinger is an artist working in North Dakota. Among other things, she has a cat named Brutus. Which is silly: everyone knows Brutus is a plant's name.

Limyaael's Fantasy Rants, in which a disgruntled reader of fantasy literature goes off on lengthy tirades about the recurring problems of the professional works and fan-fiction of the genre. Good for people who like (or really don't like) fantasy literature. Also for fans of disgruntledness.

A couple of good blawgs: the Statutory Construction Blog (I may be citing this guy's work in my Substantial), the Red State Law Blog, the Contracts Professor Blog, and the Becker-Posner blog, which probably packs more raw brain-power than any blog in the (albeit brief) history of the medium, though it lacks a snazzy name like Mansfield Fox.

In re: matters conservative, I've added Vast. Right. Winged., the blog pf the Yale Free Press, Yale's conservative alt-periodical, and Inkwell, the Independent Women's Forum's blog.

I've also created a new category, "On Tiber's Far Shore", as a home for non-Catholic Christians. ('Cause all real Christians are just Catholics-in-training, even if they don't know it yet.) The category mostly includes people reclassed from elsewhere, though one new addition is With Issue, the blog of a nice Jewish woman who's preparring to enter the Catholic Church. (She'll be upgraded to "Era of the Laity" once she's actually baptized.)

Speaking of "Era of the Laity", the category keeps growing. (Those Catholics, breeding like rabbits.) There are some good lay apologists: Ad Limina Apostolorum, Against the Grain, Jimmy Akin and Catholic Light. For shrewd observations from the Blue coasts, there are Domenico Bettinelli's Bettnet and Mark C.N. Sullivan's Irish Elk (both Boston), Parick Sweeney's Extreme Catholic (NYC) and L.A. Catholic (which seems to be down right now, for some reason). Curt Jester may be the funniest man ever to wear a scapular. If you want to know what the kids are up to, check out Andrew Cusack (a NY-born student at St. Andrews, Scotland), and the Christendom College students of Basia Me, Catholica Sum and Fiddleback Fever. It probably won't give you an accurate portrait of the spirit of their generation, but you'll sleep better at night.

Among the law students: as for Yalies, I've added Suspended Conversation, which is run by a guy I used to do a capella with (don't ask). I've also created a separate category for non-Yale law students, for people at "The Other Law School" (that is, Harvard) and "Other Other Law Schools" (that is, other law schools). It features other members of the Crescat Sententia crew: Class Maledictorian, Waddling Thunder, and Letters of Marque, plus Ex Parte and Ex Post, the blogs of the Federalist Societies of Harvard and Columbia, respectively. There are also a bunch of other interesting law student types: Eye of Polyphemus, from Ninomania's own Regent University, an Inclination to Criticize, Listless Lawyer and Objective Justice.

Whew!