If we follow the most enlightened and indulgent of deisms, prepared to believe at once in the Communion of Saints and the Great Wheel of the Tao, then we will reject, as fruit of error, the massacre of infidels and heretics.

Whether an amoebic blodge or a zebra, the struggle for existence has always been a bloodbath of death and displacement, without sentiment, without compassion.

Ms. Marcotte joined the Edwards campaign at the end of January in the new post of blogmaster.

(In her private life this year, three of her children have been married, in quick succession, leaving her weddinged out.)