I’m on it this week, talking about the “War on Christmas” and throwing in my $0.02 on a few other topics as well.

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I’m on vacation this week, and I’ve got a backlog of posts I’ve been meaning to write for this blog, but the bulk of my blogging will probably be over at Andrew Sullivan’s blog, where Ross Douthat and I will be filling in while Andrew’s on a book-writing sabbatical from blogging.

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I’ve got a less-than-glowing review [PDF] of British philosopher Ted Honderich’s Conservatism: Burke, Nozick, Bush, Blair? in the current issue of Cato Journal.

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“Balls to the Wal” is my review of Robert Greenwald’s new anti-Wal-Mart documentary.

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I’ve got a new Web piece on torture and habeas corpus up at the Reason site.

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In a Web piece up today at Reason, I look at the DTV transition and our spectrum policy, which doesn’t seem to get much attention when you consider how insanely wasteful and inefficient it is. Among the most appalling ironies here: For the amount they’re proposing to spend to subsidize converter boxes for old TVs […]

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Below is one of the (not yet properly assembled) props for my Halloween costume. If you’d recognize the costume as a whole, then you can probably guess what it is based on this:

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The America’s Future Foundation has posted audio of the panel on cross-party dating I moderated earlier this month. Addendum: Damn, but a lot of “ums” have slipped back into my speech since I stopped debating regularly. Memo to self: Cut that out.

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I’ve got a new piece up at the Reason site today on the debate over who controls ICANN (or its successor): “The Root of the Problem.” Also, I think I forgot to link my lastWeb piece on the Harriet Miers meltdown, “The Revolt of the Elites.”

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A bit past its sell-by date now, but I’ve got a piece up at Hispanic Magazine about CAFTA and the parties’ odd attitudes toward trade and immigration.

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