These are my links for October 7th through October 13th:

• 3quarksdaily - Great essay on the religious right, Pascal's wager, communism, bolshevism, etc.
  "Pascal had supposed that the persuasiveness of his argument to any rational thinker would result in submission to the long-standing authority of the Catholic church. But the problem is that the argument is no more, and no less, compelling coming from a 17th-century Catholic philosopher defending traditional faith than coming from a couple of rough and unwashed rednecks in Louisiana in defense of a strain of enthusiastic neo-Protestantism that Pascal himself would have deemed diabolical."
• Hullabaloo - When desperation starts hurting America: McCain's campaign
  "But even knowing that his candidacy was always very likely doomed is not stopping him from releasing this poison into the bloodstream of the body politic, a poison which will be with us for a long time to come. I guess that's what McCain means when he says that Americans should fight for a cause greater than themselves. That cause, evidently, is him."
• 17-85 Exposed - FM Forums - A lens, taken apart. The first step to something bigger, no?