Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal

Amanda at Witingshire has a cool post about Aragorn and about Tolkien’s prophecy poem about him that begins, “All that is gold does not glitter/Not all those who wander are lost.”

Michelle Malkin tells us about the “African American” youths whose deaths started the riots in France. This linguistic poverty would be funny, if it weren’t somewhat sad. Shall we call them “African French” or “French Africans”?

JavaMom really liked the new Pride and Prejudice movie with Keira Knightley. Really. The blogger at A Circle of Quiet has also seen and enjoyed it. My turn soon, I hope.

Patry Francis at The Marvelous Garden, formerly a waitress by day and a writer by night, is now just a writer. She has a book deal. Congratulations!

Joseph Bottum at First Things wonderS why there aren’t more pro-life songs and tries his hand at writing lyrics for an anti-abortion ballad. Maybe he’ll get a deal, too.

Karen Kovaka at Rhetorical Response writes about some ideas from Dr. Francis Schaeffer on evangelizing the non-intellectual. “Though an intellectual defense of Christianity is of incredible importance, people will not become Christians unless we can demonstrate love, humanity, and integrity in our lives.”

I got the link to this article about Advanced Placement (AP) testing from Joanne Jacobs. I’m interested in the AP world because of an AP American History class that I taught at our homeschool coop last year and because I may teach another AP class in the future. Passing the AP exam seems as if it is a good way for motivated students to get credit for doing college level work, however, as the article’s author indicates, there are some issues.

From Betsy Newmark, guestblogging at Michelle Malkin’s site: Matt, a soldier serving in Iraq, asks bloggers to help get a wheelchair for an Iraqi translator who was injured in a terrorist attack.