Hello all.

1. How to reign in the Norks. China?
2. Polycarp.
3. Is this another response the “to bad I’m not Emperor” meme?
4. This seems to be a straw man argument … I mean, who is arguing otherwise?
5. This link was down earlier, but will hopefully be back … why women at the frontlines might not be wise.
6. 10 billion insuring 10 trillion … innumeracy at large in finance.
7. A better “it’s for the children” thing. OK OK. I don’t like the word “thing” there. What might be better?
8. Ice.
9. Cheese is a problem there … but there are two kinds of people out there, those who eat anchovies and those who don’t. Most people, unlike myself, are in the second category.
10. Liberals don’t want people with training. Apparently.
11. Mental exercise for today, recast that short essay as minimum productivity limits not as a wage limit.
12. What evidence? Seriously. Evidence? Where?
13. Obama’s personal view on guns.
14. Yikes.

Good morning ty’all.

1. Dating, faith, and global warming.
2. For you cuda users … (with spare cash).
3. Gun talk.
4. More here.
5. B&P talk about raising the minimum productivity floor here and here.
6. More here.
7. How many takes was that dya think?
8. Pining for ARexx without knowing it (wiki here).
9. Act now … before the gig is up.
10. What’s your explanation?
11. Raising taxes … leads to moving on out.
12. Evolution and EDAR.

Good morning.

1. Duh. It doesn’t matter, carbon taxes are an indulgence offering and a way to keep the poor down … the effect on climate is not relevant to its fans.
2. Looking at spin and Mr Holder.
3. For y’all who think that government isn’t good at anything, a counterexample.
4. Ct-thinking about Cthulhu.
5. From China, here and here.
6. Bayes theorem and sitting on the can vacillating for half a year.
7. Death and the blogger.
8. Yankee independence is apparently not the way to go reading the tea leaves from the state of the onion speech.
9. No. We don’t say that. We just tiredly remark that “not an Emperor” is a feature not a bug.
10. Stereotyping.
11. “Greater” … nope. Greater than one? Probably not.
12. Drones. Not unrelated.
13. After Mr Chu.
14. On guns. Grist for the mill.
15. Good idea or not?

Good morning.

1. So, selling to oligarchs I guess. Seems to me the small town gun store in the US is slightly, err, more prosaic.
2. Hayek and Obamacare.
3. This brings up a (slightly) more serious question. Saltpeter, as every pirate knows, was fed by Captain Treach to his sailors as a anti-viagra agent so they would just get drunk in port and he could get his ship back out. The question is … if you favor the background check thing for guns … why do you not also favor background checks before guys could have saltpeter-free food so prevent rapes (which are far far far more common than the occasional mass shooter).
4. Everybody’s seen videos of the near-to-Moscow meteor. If you haven’t, go here for 5.
5. More attempts to tamper with your freedom of association.
6. Yikes.
7. Advertising.
8. NYTimes and standards of reporting accuracy.

Have a good weekend!

Good morning.

1. The President’s 2nd Amendment remarks noted.
2. Education and results.
3. Rotten to the core.
4. So, what is liturgy?
5. And speaking of churchly things, how about why Lent?
6. Zeitgeist = angst?
7. Whatever your notion of abortion and birth control, uhm, any sane view of goverment as limited puts this as a thing government should not pay for or do.
8. Speaking of ethical dilemmas … here’s one for ya.
9. Let’s see we have a President who in school specifically notes that he sought out Communist and Socialist teachers … seems to me the speaker is wrong, Mr Obama called himself that first.
10. Some more discussion of raising the minimum productivity floor. When I asked for explanation how the President feels this is a “middle class” offering … I got nada. Gosh, that’s a surprise.

Good morning.

1. Well, I had PBJ today because it’s Wednesday (normal time Wed/Fri fast) .. Lent doesn’t start for me until Cheesefare on the evening of March 10.  So … why does the East begin Lent on a Monday and the West on a Wednesday and both count 40 days to Pascha/Easter. Well, because the West doesn’t count Sundays as part of Lent but the East does … but the East doesn’t count Holy week as part of Lent. Got it? What I forget is whether the East includes Lazarus Saturday (before Palm Sunday) as part of Lent or not … and one might note that the Lenten fast for the Orthodox continues (of course) through Holy Week.
2. Fer the Ms Palin fans.
3. Doctor or not … for myself I could not really care less if you call me Mr or Dr (and yes, I do have a PhD thing in Physics)
4. That Chicago way.
5. Awe noted. Hmm, anything like the Psalmist noted the fear of God as the beginning of wisdom? How much modern man has learned, eh?
6. Fear or the lack thereof.
7. Notes for future gang wars.
8. Shame and armor.
9. So, why on earth does our President think the “middle class” has any relevance to the minimum wage? And that’s an interesting take on min-wage, not as a wage limiter but a productivity minimum.
10. Debunking (most of) some silliness around the alleged dearth of geniuses.
11. What you don’t want to see in the morning when you go out to your car.
12. Demographic shifts that you don’t hear much about.
13. So much fun might be had coming up with geekish instead of macho handles, so Maverick  and Goose becomes pocket protector-ized and pencil-necked?
14. What will be needed for when revolution hits.
15. Duh. Truth to power becomes Stating the obvious to power.

Good morning.

1. So, Mr Obama has some magical mythical pathway to a nuclear weapon free world, … how’s this fit in?
2. Cantor ism?.
3. It is very likely, alas, that the criteria used by liberals which judge most of the GOP as racist, tar your hero such as well.
4. Epistemic closure and some symptoms.
5. A reminder for the POTUS state-of-the-onion speech.
6. When a thing which isn’t happening is discussed over whether that’s a problem.
7. Ya think?
8. A drone discussion.
9. Drones here too.
10. Why? What is simpler than cui bono?
11. Jackboots next?

Western and Eastern Easter/Pascha calendars are very far off this year (Eastern Lent begins at sunset on March 10) … I wish the best for everyone who begins their Lenten fast tomorrow, may your journey be fruitful.

Good morning

1. A conspiracy theory considered.
2. Yah, and what will we find out in the coming months and years. Betya waterboarding will come back … this time liberals will be defending it.
3. Of life and freedoms.
4. Another reason for the dismal label, a thing is and it isn’t.
5. I suspect the real reason for the contraception kerfuffle is to act as distraction from other follies.
6. Death, space, and an argument recalled.
7. SSM and an argument against it outside of religious reasonings.
8. Anti-drug adverts done right.
9. High capacity mags.
10. Microsoft suckage.
11. A plane (not plain) contest.
12. Border incursions.

Well, last weekend we saw “Parker” … and subsequently I’ve downloaded and read two (and am reading a third) Westlake/Stark/Parker books. Daughter #2 wants to see “Warm Bodies” which may be in the offing. On to links

1. Fancy words don’t make it right.
2. Need’n a little nuclear power, eh?
3. Back up a minute, I know you “can’t joke about” that there, but why? And if you figure it’s an infringement, how to stop it?
4. One of Mr Obama’s most effusive fans realizes he’s been mislead. For the one-liner retort.
5. Talking drones.
6. Although I’m more in agreement with this.
7. Yikes.
8. Now that’s dumb. Penises, not men, rape women (and criminal insanity, social rage and all that have nothing to bear on that). Cars, not drunk drives kill (social irresponsibility has no bearing). Geesh.
9. ‘Cause graft is the Chicago Way, duh.
10. Well, for anyone who doesn’t think there’s an education bubble … think again.
11. I for one, always hated riding a ITT in a crosswind.
12. Remember Ms Clinton’s 3am advert?
13. 3 for Obamacare, here, here, and here.

Well, we made it to Thursday without too too much of the embarrassing theatrics, eh?

1. Now that is quite striking.
2. Ooooh, let’s try to open old wounds.
3. Theology, anthropology and political science all rolled in together. Whaddya get out? The Constitution.
4. Obamacare estimates.
5. If that is not satire, then there’s another reason to call it the dismal science.
6. Never happen. As soon as the Democrats cotton that legalizing polygamy will end the inheritance tax … they’ll be dead set against it.
7. Not an AR. This.
8. Inconsistency.
9. Remembering Plato apparently fondly.
10. Gosh, remember just earlier this week … I linked charts indicating corporate “sitting on cash” is a myth, makes the title tag-line ironic, eh?

Good morning.

1. I’m seeing a lot of dog (not) barking with regards to the left’s defense (or more to the point their lack of same) of Mr Hagel.
2. A quiet retraction.
3. Kinda obvious, eh?
4. That worked out real well.
5. My first thought was taxes … not investors.
6. Maybe it’s this?
7. Interesting hermeneutical divination on the word imminent. More here.
8. Anthro-warming skeptics note warming.
9. Woops.
10. Obamacare and contracteption … following the money trail.
11. A smaller nation doesn’t shy from calling a spade a spade.
12. Now there’s a really dumb excuse. (do you think there would be applause if a Congress-critter said “I coudn’t print it … so I’m passing out pdfs on USB sticks).
13. Cinema.
14. Green and anti-warming hype is more about indulgences than actually changing the world.

Good morning to y’all!

1. Newsflash, some fired employees are disgruntled.
2. Duh.
3. Having taught two daughters to drive stick … it’s really not that hard. I suspect fictional exaggeration.
4. Same sex marriage.
5. Hmm. Not impressed with US foreign policy I suspect.
6. Pretty pistol … one slipped past quality checks however.
7. Chronology of drone strike procedures, aka how we changed in our ways of committing undeclared acts of war.
8. There’s a slang term for that, “short eyes” … the answer isn’t covering the girls … its jailing the pervs in a dark place.
9. So, now everyone knows about Richard III. Here’s an excellent book on his life by one of the best writers of English historical fiction in the stacks.
10. Hence …. dismal science.
11. Heh … and we have found the heel to fill it.
12. Uh. Riiiight. 😉
13. Don’t worry, the liberal elite think SSM is more important (even though the numbers affected are basically on par).

Good morning.

1. Blaster?
2. Well, in the Super-Bowl I liked two ads, this one and this one.
3. What is being taught here?
4. Meta links via Brandon.
5. “No doubt” indeed. There are two ways to tackle runaway deficits, cut spending or raise more in taxes. Alas, studies show only the former works to actually cut deficits.
6. How not to make an argument … present Stalin as a positive example for your side.
7. Someone is unaware that fiscal libertarians can be as reflective as the next guy.
8. A questionable vehicle.
9. I too was confused on why he pretends that’s hard (and btw java’s “jar” command has pretty much the same options).
10. Not for whittling.
11. Praise for Mr Boehner.
12. Trading and causality.

Good morning. It’s zero out here in the Chicago south suburbs … bracing is what that is.

1. The first sentence seems to be the hypothesis for what follows … do you think it’s true (in both respects … that is, it it true and does Mr Obama believe it to be true)?
2. A short film.
3. The patron saint of … what?
4. Gun run.
5. Doncha hate when that happens.
6. Better bike news.
7. So … when you consider that the left wants to put stiff restrictions on what is allowed in the Constitution … well, that doesn’t happen with other stuff like religion, the press, and speech (remember the Volokh series on speech on college campuses) Right? Oh, never mind.
   
8. More on the press here.
9. Profiling and the assault ban.
10. Apparently my notions of what is tactically suggested is outdated, but I’ll bet Mr Biden didn’t know that either. And I still contend a semi-auto shotgun in Sandy Hook wouldn’t have had a better outcome.
11. Corporate cash holding growth explained.
12. No. Duh. And the guy who ruled yes must be an idiot.
13. Remember the claims that Obama has reduced the deficit? … Not so you’d notice.
14. No names and why.
15. Why we don’t want Uncle Sam minding more of the store.
16. For the super bowl .. I really like Mr Arkush when he’s on the radio … he write pretty well too.
17. Snerk. (So … am I a terrible person ’cause I found that amusing)?
18. Chick-Fil-A and football.
19. From a communist on guns. And the left (TPM?) has been touting the “armed citizens” can’t stand up to modern trained soldiers. Right. That’s a straw man. But a politician has to go out in and face his public.

Good morning.

1. Redemption and a Tolstoy masterwork.
2. Ms Austen.
3. Unicorns and the left’s energy policies.
4. Gun control and those far right nuts in, uhm, Massachusetts?
5. You know, ’cause we’re at war with them too.
6. History made simpler.
7. Our Administration’s financial shenanigans … or put simpler … making sure of your landing pad for after your time in office.
8. A man and his witness.
9. Underreported!? or just plain ghastly.
10. Why not to leave Afghanistan too quickly.
11. 6 scenarios.
12. A North American bishop installed.
13. From the sun-never-sets-on … to lack of pride as a method.
14. Well, the first step in letting history repeat is to insist that those circumstance were insane, senseless, and incomprehensible. And interesting tactic for a person who is claimed has a special ability to understand others.