Good morning.

1. Approaching the Nativity and the seasonal liturgical practices of the East.
2. An upcoming discussion.
3. Does that exhaust the choices?
4. So … it has to end? What? Now, do you figure we’ll see the liberal/progressive press and thinkers all figuring out how to revamp mental healthcare in America? Or will they stupidly and mindlessly go after things that won’t make a difference? Or how to organize fast (armed?) responses to violence in public places? Or will they use this as an opportunity to steal more liberties from the people?
5. Foot votes.
6. Very pretty.
7. Negative to vastly outweigh the positive. Which describes most of what Washington does these days. Which is why gridlock is the voters choice.
8. Metrics.
9. What the modern progressives seek … uniformity trumps all else?
10. One progressive argues for legalizing automatic guns and good body armor for civilians.
11. Small government conservatism begins here.
12. Minding Midgley … is it detecting mental health problems … or just locating actual evil in our midst?
13. Why?

Well, better late than never, eh?

1. How is the US like an autocracy?
2. Medical eRecords.
3. Hypocrisy.
4. Grass is not a “priority” … heh. Today its’ not … 30 years ago it was and now the priority is (perhaps) keeping the kids away from it.
5. Maya.
6. I guess while I was working and net-less … another shooting occurred. A question that will come up answered.
7. A reaction to that.
8. The fiscal cliff thang.
9. No true Scotsman comes to ESPN.
10. Bang tech.
11. What too much safety net looks like.

Gotta be quick … oh, hi! Good morning.

1. Six bullet points on Iraq/Afghanistan that the President’s supporters likely either wish would go away but should defend (and likely won’t/don’t).
2. Mr Mom’s beginner mistake is a classic.
3. History lessons … answering 3 questions.
4. I think the argument that the level of fine is not excessive is the harder, err … frankly impossible, one to make.
5. And more government overreach.
6. Speaking of government malfeasance and overreach … Democrat shenanigans that likely won’t make the (biased) mainstream news.
7. Opposite day.
8. Materials sciences.
9. Meta-ontology.
10. Two separate arguments that right-to-work is not a libertarian notion, here and here.
11. Drones and the law.

Belated … (because alas, I overslept a bit but then my controller failed so I’m dead in the water on this startup … so … I’m working today in a hotel)

1. How about dueling? And accountability and honor?
2. Wink to Wynk.
3. Single (and not whining).
4. Freedom of speech.
5. I see it’s “fees” on the middle class … that’s not raising taxes, no no no. What it really is lying by semantics.
6. Where a little research might have gone a long way.
7. Yet another legal challenge for Obamacare.
8. So, in asking whether parody is necessarily parasitical (that is can it stand on its own) … how about Sewer, Electric and Gas … does one have to have familiarity with Mr Rand to appreciate the parody?
9. How you can tell when you’re a government monopoly.
10. A predicted effect fails to show … but remember the science is unquestion(able?). I recall asking a commentor who accepts Anthro-origins of climate change … for successful predictions by climatologists made in the past … and got no response. That seems a crucial lapse.
11. Looking at the Philippines.

Good morning

1. Internal trauma and new tech.
2. Asia arms.
3. Internet faith/non-faith arguments and some issues seen from one side.
4. Realpolitikand the President.
5. Climate and re-distribution for whatever reason.
6. More ghastly nonsense from the UN.
7. I’d be guessing your average feminist is allergic to this kind of discussion.
8. Conversion.
9. Consistency.
10. New government intrusions into healthcare.
11. Well, to be honest … they are both acts of war and assassinations.
12. Freedom of speech in Europe.
13. Gosh … I guess that’s the same reason that no profession at all is reliably transmitted by film and TV or that the great majority of the founding/important men/women of any field are ignored, e.g., Emmy Noether. So, the question isn’t why Mr Douglass is ignored, but why should historical figures be an exception?

Gotta run. Have a good one.

Good morning.

1. Don’t call it “asking” please. That implies there is choice where there isn’t.
2. This is not unrelated.
3. Forgetting Martin Luther (apparently).
4. Feeling blue on Monday.
5. Nerd scorn.
6. Evil and its fruits.
7. Gun buyback store.
8. Progressives still seeking to install the right to kill for convenience.
9. Malthus and the slave.
10. A book noted.
11. Naturalism, religion, and straw men.

Good morning. Running late.

1. GM.
2. VW.
3. Same topic little gain then, big gain now.
4. Rube Goldberg.
5. Apparently someone never drank moderately in good company.
6. Social justice (isn’t).
7. Someone doesn’t realize that private employers can (and should be able to) ask those questions.
8. Beltway physical anthropology.
9. Birth and death.
10. Axes and axis.
11. Oh, wonderful …

Goood morning.

1. For the carbon fans.
2. Bang! Art.
3. Let’s see, the Democrat plan is to “go over the cliff” and blame the GOP. Hard to do, honestly, in the face of this though.
4. Origin of terms as explanation.
5. The flawed argument against torture is that it doesn’t work. Here’s another failure of consequentialism. The reason it’s a bad idea is not because it doesn’t work.
6. Liking gridlock (stopping athwart progress saying stop) is a conservative thing I suspect.
7. Potato famine as laisseze faire … is just plain bad history.
8. Hmm, I’d say the description fits just about everybody of any party affiliation in the beltway.
9. On the other hand, here’s a strong bid by the  Democrats for both at the same time.
10. Libertarians, it seems, can’t muster strong arguments against bestiality.
11. The sad state of soft academia.
12. Glub glub.
13. Big red gets stupid too.
14. So … connected to the President’s departure or not?
15. My feeling is that there was no intention of keeping the promises, i.e., they were lies and deception. Do you agree or disagree?

Well, yesterday was a travel, on-site, travel day … sorry about not giving warning.

Anyhow, links? I’m running late, hence the brevity.

1. Noses.
2. Economics of genocide.
3. Human dignity lapsed.
4. A book to read.
5. Nonchalant taken to an extreme.
6. Of metrics and meaning.
7. Time and relationships.
8. Isolationism by another name.
9. Afghanistan.
10. BBQ and a reprise.
11. Threat or expression of same.
12. Hobby Lobby. Someone explain why H/L doesn’t get the exemption but Tyndale does in a consistent fashion.
13. Anthropology and Conan.
14. Mr Biden.
15. I think we value freedom because we think it fosters happiness, and some don’t think it does (foster) the same way others do.
16. If useless, why bother?
17. Guns and footballers.
18. Yikes.

Hokay, what’s out there for us today?

1. New light tech for one.
2. Canonizing a leper.
3. The left, it seems, can put their smug “we look at data, unlike you all, because we’re oh, oh, oh, so rational and you aren’t” and stuff it.
4. Trickle down tech comes to the long gun.
5. So … people who make arguments for campaign finance reform … are they all over this?
6. Is this the real fiscal cliff?
7. Some humor for your Monday morning.
8. That’s just wrong.
9. No, it would not “have been better to discuss the connections” because there aren’t any plausible connections to be made.
10. A lovely quote on love.
11. So, seriously (unlike TIME), who would you propose for person of the year?
12. The Mandarins are doing well.
13. And some advice for joining the Mandarin class.

Good morning.

1. Climate not cooperating. Is spin required?
2. Gun law growsing in Illinois.
3. I’m sorry that headline makes no sense. The president cannot sustain any “serious” blows to a thing which he has lost long ago. Oh, wait, perhaps they meant Mr Geithner’s credibility.
4. Various Physics grails, err, quests.
5. Yes, it was common in the past to view Islam as a Christian heresy … I’m thinking today’s Muslims would take a dim view of that approach.
6. Of course they’re going to go after the 401k’s … it’s where the only money is left.
7. That was somewhat unexpected I venture.
8. Ethics and hell.
9. Dr Strangelove and Obamacare.
10. Feel good about that yet?
11. The other Libyan question.
12. Jail? Seems a bit light.
13. New Orleans and the rebuilt levees.

Good morning. Well, yesterday I was driving to and from a job site … and then I got busy. Ah well.

1. Deceit, war and trust.
2. Homophobia recognized “officially” as a meaningless word.
3. The missing why? or not?
4. Oooh, liberal bigot finds a home. This certainly identifies as “you are that of which you speak” very well.
5. Of abortion, information access and trisonomy 21.
6. So, higher taxes on the rich will make barely a ripple of difference in the deficit, so why is it important?
7. Heh.
8. Here’s the dumbest post on the net in a long while. “Thanks?” Seriously … that’s your flowchart? Let’s see “Yah, honey … I got the flowchart and followed it … I’m getting Suzy a quart of Schnapps and a chainsaw, for Billy a carton of cigars and a bag of Vicodin, and a 12 gauge and a basket of shells for little Sammy. It’s all OK on your chart right?” Alas, that would be fine according to Mz Jender. I’m hazarding a guess that the author of that chart isn’t actually a parent.
9. Better than that aforementioned 12 gauge perhaps. In which better means better, not better suited.
10. Not exactly PEDs … (note googling indicates actual studies show small performance gains for endurance athletes above 12,000 feet … which includes basically no baseball, football or body sculptors on the planet …. on the other hand it does lead to lots of good bad football jokes).
11. Student loans and Duff beer.
12. An amazing “do not assume” sentence.
13. Star Wars “force”  … not a religion. Sorry.
14. OK then.
15. State department amateur hour continues.
16. Racism and Ms Rice.
17. Some prayers for ya to use (or try).
18. Actually most SCADA systems installed that I’ve seen depend on the intra-net security, i.e., VPN layer is the security. One of the best is a PPP via dial up modem with the modem turned off by the plant when they don’t need support. It’s really really hard to remotely hack through a modem that’s turned off.
19. Oh shush. Really. Shush.

Good morning. Brevity?

1. Wind.
2. Spies.
3. Why redistribute?
4. Debt.
5. Narcissism.
6. Extremophiles.
7. So … a B?
8. So … a bike?
9. Darwin award?
10. Preferred for durability yet banned.
11. Sexism.
12. A list?
13. Simming mideast nukes.
14. Syria.
15. State Dept amateur hour.
16. Questions questions.
17. A book.

Good morning. Hope y’all had a great Thanksgiving!

1. The 10 rules of mystery fiction … which apparently are not set in China, just don’t tell Master Li and #10 Ox.
2. Darwinish awards.
3. Society, progressivism and the brothel. What could go wrong?
4. Of fasting and prayer.
5. Mr Obama, Mr Morsi and the Coptic variant of the Arab Spring.
6. The other side of the spectrum from the .22 LR.
7. Dallas and communism’s fall.
8. Considering Skyfall.
9. Seriously?
10. MOOCs here and here. Higher education gets you two things, credentials and skills.
11. Drones.
12. Abuse of the little man sometimes has consequences.
13. A game.
14. The trailer piqued my (and my #2 daughter’s) interest. How about you?
15. East/West and some theological considerations.
16. A liberal attempts to understand the conservative point of view. Fails.

Good morning.

1. It almost sounds like someone has never heard of the charity vultures.
2. Oh me, oh my.
3. Somebody hasn’t understood Grand Torino.
4. Hysterical cycles. Very heavy fog on the ride in this morning by the way.
5. If you subsidize something you get more of it. Somebody somewhere will explain why making it easier to freeload on our healthcare industry will get less people to free load on the same. Kinda like the whole increasing demand without increasing supply will make it all cheaper.
6. Or that part time labor is better than full time. Gosh, it’s all good. 1984 here we come.
7. On liturgy.
8. I have no idea what the word “lastaviglie” means, but “honey … don’t worry it won’t hurt your dishes and we won’t have road grease on our plates” is probably not the right translation.
9. Or it’s because cricket races are crap on a stick.
10. Market confidence.
11. Some advice for Friday shoppers. Actually I heard at lunch a really good piece of advice, if you know what’s going to be on sale (and you think it will/might sell out) buy it today and go in to get the price correction only on Friday.
12. Actually I’d go further, ignoring professional incompetence on account of race is not moral cowardice, it’s racism pure and simple.
13. This makes no sense to me, Tyndale a religious book publisher gets the waiver … but others do not. It’s incomprehensible.
14. The Rubio earth/age kerfuffle … well I didn’t get any time to make my own estimates … a co-worker offered that Mr Rubio should have asked the reporter what he thought the decay time of the neutron was, and when he got a huh? in response, should have said, well I don’t know either, how about we both talk about policy and politics instead of appeal to exterior authorities about stuff neither of us really has a clue about.
15. Another guy who has no clue about what he’s talking about.
16. Democrats against freedom.
17. Syria.