Tuesday roundabout

Tim Worstall has the latest Britblog Roundup showcasing the best of the British blogosphere. It's packed full of linky goodness, including the Religious Policeman's priceless Memo to the House of Saud.

Peaktalk's Pieter Dorsman is the subject of this week's Normblog profile.

At Slate, Christopher Hitchen's makes the case for mocking religion: Ophelia Benson has commentary.

Natalie Solent is discussing what ended slavery. Suggestions so far include: the horse-collar, the Industrial Revolution and the Little Ice Age. Where I come from, it was none of the above: it was my great grandfather, his brother and a million others like them, all dressed in blue and carrying Springfield muskets. Or so we like to believe.

And Oliver Kamm has thoughts on the cartoons and the offence.