Links? Links.

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about:

• The 45 most powerful images of 2011
• Is the priest shortage a good reason to close parishes? I'll save you the suspense: no, it really isn't.
• Ric Hudgens on Thoreau, Emerson and radicalism
• Why doesn't the president use the pardon power to adopt the DREAM Act?
• What children's drawings would look like if they were painted realistically

Links are also posted throughout the day in the right-hand sidebar of my main blog page and in this RSS feed.