Good morning, to y’all.

1. Antonin Scalia, uber liberal (see paragraph 3).
   
2. Atomic bomb tests aids pachyderm survival.
3. Gun control.
4. Mr Snowden’s recent remarks.
5. Oil forecasts revisited.
6. Huh?
7. A possibly crux of the marriage difficulties.
8. Animal talents.
9. Yes, and if we somehow returned to subsistence farming or being hunter/gatherer’s we’d have 100% employment too.
10. Expensive options for our “most open” administration.
11. Watching Egypt.
12. Dating advice.

OK. Back at home and at my desk at work.

1. Hospitals and stress (for the patient).
2. Law, war and the collapsing state … an introduction and first post.
3. That NRA shirt and the kid wearing it concluded.
4. Loneliness.
5. Why? Why so blinkered? My post from yesterday attempts to explain … it’s because the part of the progressive brain which houses “multiculturalism” has been severed from that part of the brain which houses “rights for women and so on”.
6. God is not ideology.
7. Woops.
8. Whoever said “there is no such thing as a stupid question” … was wrong, very wrong.
9. Alternating current and allergies to garlic, or Tesla meets the vampire.

So go out and do the right thing (and don’t be angry ’bout it).

Busy busy … sorry Ahm late.

1. Billions and billions.
2. Riding into the sunset (sunrise?)
3. A possible explanation for Mr Obama’s dislike of Catholic schools.
4. A little accelerator, not so little acceleration.
5. A tale of two (types of) Uzi.
6. Our changing language.
7. More word play.
8. Liberals play politics with armed forces, after all it’s just a game.
9. In just 10 minutes a day.
10. In the wake of the Heat NBA championship.

Yo. Links!

1. What do they do? Hmmm, read from the book of Nietzsche and then hear you confess you prayed when the mortar shells whined above you?
   
2. Aged pig (sheep?) skin is better.
3. OK. Follow link with empty mouth to avoid spitting on screen. Heh.
4. Fer the gun control debate.
5. The 11th century had the hair shirt, the 21st … has an alternative.
6. States rights and DOMA.
7. A bad idea noted.
8. The aesthetics of power are apparently very different to those in power than those not.
9. Anonymous protest illegal now in Canada.
10. Misplaced rhetorical terms.
11. When “blocking shot” doesn’t mean what you think it should.
12. Left leading spokespersons need the very sensitivity training they advocate.
13. Surrounding himself with teh stupid. What’s that say about the man doing the surrounding?
14. When the snow dependent industries realize “cutting emissions” means “not traveling to far away places … like skiing resorts” will they pipe the same tune?
15. So …. moving away from home?

Good morning.

1. NSA reform suggestions.
2. Time heals all … misconceptions?
3. Fiction not stranger than … newspaper reports.
4. An unbelievable public service advert.
5. Pocket-able.
6. Built by hand.
7. Lunar cycles and Afghan violence.
8. Yikes.
9. You mean “does he have a plan” … answer: probably not.
10. Some cool bike tech.

G’day

1. Part 2 on hiding in the networked world.
2. Pharma and research/development trends.
3. Engine hybridization and tech.
4. How not to make an argument, that is start with a analogy which doesn’t reflect historically very well.
5. Superman and a review.
6. Celebrating an addiction shared by many.
7. First comment says it all. Yikes.
8. Ms Clinton does algebraic number theory? Oh wait, some other relative unknown person  … I’d have thought only Grigory would be identified by last name alone. Although I suspect “shmooze” is not a word you’d use in the context of the latter.
9. On the blowing of the whistles.
10. On the high court and the fifth Amendment.
11. In the boys + toys department.
12. Speaking of toys.
13. Loneliness.
14. There has been some pushback on GOP criticizing Mr Obama for using a water pistol, but when stuff like this done by Mr Obama’s supporters, that’s what you get.
15. Video and violence.

Good morning.

1. Meta-links. (more here)
2. For the Palin fans.
3. Europe is confused.
4. DNA and Mr Scalia …
5. A movie reviewed.
6. Verse.
7. On hiding in plain sight.
8. For when the writing on the wall is on your desk.
9. Speaking of which.
10. Lady in space.
11. Obamacare in nutshell … or a thousand words.
12. Old tech … and quothing the raven.
13. Some thoughts on faith.
14. Well, “pathological altruism” has a kinder touch than my term for the same thing, to whit “stupid or evil” (that is, you don’t realize the obvious consequences (stupid) or you do and … continue because your actual motives are evil but you can continue under the cover of a pretense of altruism) .

G’day

1. A film noted … I will be curious how my ex-gymnast daughter perceives this … as a movie to be seen or meh?
2. Do as I say not as I did, I guess … which is  not exactly convincing.
3. Luck.
4. Immigration policy and the cui bono question.
5. Suckage.
6. Middle East protest demographic noted.
7. Girls and boys are different. Someday the progressive elite will cotton that.
8. Sayings.
9. Ms Lerner and a history of misuse of agency. (HT) If that quote is accurate she should be in jail.
10. Syria working on 900 days, at 300 and counting.
11. Misunderstanding.
12. Run Koofi run.
13. The vaster left wing conspiracy.
14. Pelosi and a failed hermeneutic … what exactly does that woman mean by “sacred?”
15. Actually … Bond chapel is used on Sunday’s for Orthodox worship (St. Makarios is a mission church holding services there), for which standing is preferred and pews should be removed. So you can relax your anti-Muslim rhetoric.
16. Continuing a long line of regrettable theology.

The week progresses. Thursday already, eh? Links!

1. Popular media gets a hold of the NSA kerfuffle. Heh.
2. Sales hype.
3. Apparently “global warming threatens coral” is a real meme.
4. Myths and insurgency.
5. Consider this … from the right.
6. Of DNA tests, rape and Pakistani jurisprudence.
7. Bigger … better?
8. Gorilla’s and cars.
9. Syria and diplomacy considered.
10. Kneejerked journalists.
11. Big collider.
12. Progressivism infection.
13. Meta-data used for network analysis and method. (HT)

Good morning.

1. Apparently there is a misconception that doing the thing you feel is ethical should indemnify you from a jail term. This is wrong.
2. Really. And seriously, let the guy speak, typically guys like that are better advocates for the point of view they oppose than the one they putatively support.
3. Guns and stars.
4. A fool-for-Christ noted.
5. The current not-warming trend may be more extensive than suspected.
6. In the cui bono category.
7. Well, one of them got caught.
8. This is not unrelated.
9. Google’s algorithmic ideology.
10. Yikes.
11. Fukashima an example of nuclear power safety.
12. An shining example of White House open-ness.
13. And … I’ll end with a note that should leave a bad taste in your mouth. Sorry.
14. Oh … I can’t do that.

Whazzup?

1. Natural for a library, I guess.
2. ‘Tis the month for scandals, apparently.
3. Employment and healthcare reforms. Twas a cunning plan I suspect. (Perhaps this should be noted as a preface before the introduction of any Legislature for consideration by our August bodies of state  “Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words ‘I have a cunning plan’ marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation”).
4. Ah, if these walls could, err, blog?
5. Why “or” and not “and”.
6. Young atheists and what they say.

Well, not much garnered … I took daughter #1 to a baseball game last night … 1 hour fog delay? What’s up with that? Seriously, fog?

Good morning.

1. Of turbulence and wake.
2. A topic for these guys to look at?
3. How nice that’s settled now.
4. Two points of view of the latest meta-data government capture update, here and here.
5. And here is a roundup of quotes from the Congressional knuckleheads.
6. An epic recalled.
7. Grist for the IRS “Somebody rid me of that troublesome priest” discussion (HT).
8. Careful carver.
9. The fruits of dishonesty.
10. Yah, we know what “meta-data” means … apparently it had to be explained to someone.
11. The cold war revisited.

Woo hoo, 5 days in a row.

1. Of sign and symptom.
2. Data mining has defenders … a question not asked (that I’ve seen)  is how the Feds convinced those numerous corporations to provide access … what sort of perks. IRS kid gloves or Justice Department patent war favors? Hmmm?
3. Talking legality (more here)… 51% is “reasonably sure” … Let’s see the politically neutral IRS isn’t … why are you so sure the politically neutral NSA is?
4. Putting that and drones in a larger context here.
5. Strange jewelry.
6. Exists. Hmm. Regrettable perhaps?
7. Of Scient(ology) and cinema.
8. “Government” here is not the feds … it’s your school board. If you don’t like it, gosh, you can actually do something about it (or if you do like it … you can support it).
9. The “science is settled” and some plots of those settled predictions. Sounds like settled doesn’t mean what they think it means.
10. Remember the atheist meme, “religion is the opiate of the masses” … well not so much, eh?
11. Of games and brains.
12. Of tech and terror.
13. Happiness fail.

G’day.

1. The super sekret plan revealed. (someone is slightly unimpressed)
2. A candidate.
3. A lung recipient selected. See, it is about who you know.
4. Immigration thoughts.
5. Of man and elephant.
6. Evil in our time.
7. A book noted.
8. Some IRS spending tidbits.
9. English history and HBO series ties.
10. A bike race.

Good morning. Yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah

1. More IRS tricks and missteps.
2. A 14 y/old photographer and some of his pictures.
3. Le Tour and changes in the last century.
4. Some of the  groups not audited by the IRS, ’cause they didn’t have “Constitution” in their tagline.
5. Testifying in regards to IRS investigation.
6. Zooom.
7. Game warden and his guns.
8. Modern healthcare … as we move into the “who you know” regime.
9. Hitler and language.
10. Teh race card, and an example of not getting it at all.
11. The surprise exam.
12. Mistaken notions on what constitutes war noted.