1. Besides questions of liberty … Obamacare has other issues, in that it ain’t solving the problem it pretends to address. Lower the supply to lower costs. What economic principle is that?
2. The sort of tyranny that Obamacare is part (and soda size regulations).
3. That soda size thing … “based on research” … and what do those researchers actually say about the ban?
4. Some verse for fathers day.
5. The other part of the health care Constitutional challenge, i.e., the part people aren’t talking about.
6. An approach to confronting hackers and crackers.
7. This last Sunday ends the Lenten/Paschal cycle.
8. Solar heating on the cheap.
9. Well, I suppose you’ll have to contrast with Obama’s record of holding employment down and improving taxes.
10. Our public schools and their purpose.
11. Speaking of public schools, we have our public sector teachers union to thank for crap like this.
12. Democrats think we should keep the influence of the wealthy out of politics … so what is this then if not the influence of the wealthy in politics? Perhaps they just want to keep the “other guys” wealth out of politics … which alas sounds a lot less principled (because it is).
13. Heck the casualty rates of the Civil War should have been enough warning.
14. A bad day at work.
15. The real consequence of our marriage crises … and SSM has nuttin to do with it, except to serve as a distraction.

Good morning.

1. Progressive McCarthyism. Will they move to counter?
2. Science and religion.
3. Our government, creating jobs and markets.
4. Duh. Does this need to be even said?
5. Sickness or health? The question of what “healthy” means is often difficult. Of course, on the other hand, some bioethics people have rocks for brains.
6. Speaking of bio-ethics.
7. Of our regrettable (?) beauty industry.
8. Origenal homilies.
9. Stem cells, oddly enough … adult.
10. Seeing as the post office loses money on each transaction … is that wise?
11. I guess it was nice to grow up when GI Joe was fighting Gerries.
12. Looking back at hard times.

See this film this weekend. Salaam Dunk!

Really.

Good morning.

1. A summary of the second paragraph, the naive dreamers favor Mr Obama, realists favor Mr Romney.
2. Genesis and Sodom … the message (hint: not about sex).
3. Special you are not.
4. Unstealthy ninja.
5. In the strange world of the left, ability to pay is affirmative action.
6. Not Mr Zimmerman and a different court case.
7. Some more thoughts on the Zimmerman case.
8. Good news or not?
9. The black underbelly of the auto bailout, that it wasn’t an auto bailout.
10. Well, there is still a chance the Court will kill it.
11. Cinema.
12. Marching alongside Obamacare … more nanny state. Yankee self-reliance is dead apparently.

Over at the League of (not very) Ordinary Gentlemen there is a blog symposium going on. The “(not very)” was appended by myself, for those fellows by and large are, alas countering their “Ordinary” claim, seem ordinarily to be quite exceptional, at least at the task of writing blog posts. What follows are somewhat scattered thoughts in a defense economic inequality. (and my submission) Read the rest of this entry

Good morning.

1. A famous trial and a film.
2. A walk in the moldy green listening to the screaming of the trees. Err, well, not quite.
3. Improper Soviets? I thought the term soviet basically meant something akin to “town meeting”, which would make New Hampshire a more proper soviet, eh?
4. Sherlock Holmes, a museum, and med students.
5. A recipe.
6. More on the Zimmerman kerfuffle. One might see the wisdom of trying to hide the family wealth from the grasping arm of the law, but your cunning plan needs to be cunning.
7. Getting the hind end foremost.
8. Legal advice from the ethically challenged, i.e., you can have religious freedom (defined narrowly here as a tax exemption) if your religion agrees with mine on social issues. Gotcha. Actual freedom of religion treats all religions equally, even those which disagree with me.
9. Apparently “being a female” is a disease.
10. So, what are friends for?
11. “Lying to Congress” a crime. This is one of the more striking ironies in our time, that lying “to” Congress is a crime while lying while “in” Congress is done every day.
12. Autobiography as fiction. What then is the point?

‘Nuff said fer now.

Sorry, I’d forgotten a early appointment meeting a tech at a customer site (sans net) yesterday.

1. Working on politics a noble profession. Hmm.
2. A looming disaster?
3. Living in the now.
4. Yet another example of Presidential duplicity.
5. In which money is important (in an election). To you know, annoy people so they vote for the other guy (or not at all).
6. Where that stimulus money went.
7. For believers in unicorns and faeries.
8. Fish kill and big guns.
9. Speaking of big guns, last week I linked an essay by Richard Fernandez in which he mentioned a book “Shattered Sword” (on the battle of Midway). I read it and recommend it highly.
10. I think that’s wrong … I no longer think that moral responsibility is not linked to free/not-free will. Moral responsibility is a social construct and social constructions are not dependent on freedom. Intelligence suffices for social construction.
11. In which religion drops off the page.
12. Of argument and temperment.
13. By the logic of ever more nationalized healthcare all exercise with risk of injury should be banned.
14. Is this is pro-choice/pro-life issue, a vegan/non-vegan one, or just taste?
15. Mr Obama’s gaffe.
16. Cards on table.
17. See! not for porn. Much more practical it was drugs!
18. Who has experience.

Good morning.

1. Economics of burger and nation.
2. More econ here.
3. “See me for dust” a phrase I’d never heard.
4. Sprawl.
5. The pro-choice “all life is sacred” conundrum noted.
6. The other marriage debate.
7. Our effing regulatory state, which is getting worse all the time. One side of the aisle thinks that’s a good thing.
8. Moving on up?
9. A birthday party notion. And the entertainment guest dresses like this (if they’re doing it right).
10. How to get Americans in the gym.
11. Some conservatives want to see Obama lose. I think the reason is hidden in the paragraph toward the bottom, i.e., Obama has been awesome at inspiring and recruiting conservatives.
12. Bad expense management has costs.
13. Mr Walker and the Wisconsin coerced unions.
14. Women against raising kids well.
15. That “popular” mandate, crickets say its not popular.

Good morning y’all!

1. Make sure your mouth is empty so to avoid spewing anything on your keyboard and monitor before viewing.
2. Seems to me if taxes aren’t the same GDP % as spending (and are higher) you’re cruising for a bruising … and 40+ % !!!! That should, by all rights, be shrinking all the time and not growing in an information/industrial age.
3. If the numbers were swapped (a) would there be calls for a recount and (b) does that mean a recount is warranted?
4. So which of these 5 scenarios are possible? Probable? I’d bet on wag the dog.
5. More numbers to distrust (not the graph, … the numbers to distrust would be grades).
6. Mali.
7. A good analogy, except for the unfortunate part that the Roman empire lasted for an additional 1000 more years.
8. An invitation to write.

Good morning.

1. Bubbles in liquid going down.
2. “On this date”,  remembered (more here).
3. Wisconsin noted, here and here.
4. Google and its decisions.
5. So, is that the central difference between right and left?
6. In a sane world, “connections to Penn State” would be a bad thing for Mr Sandusky, not a good one.
7. The media tries a strained analogy.
8. So was this move Consitutional? And was it a good/bad idea? Are those two related in any way?
9. How not to make an argument, that has to be the worlds worst argument against single sex schools ever. Point one is irrelevant, point two is a good argument for not against, and point three is quickly rebutted by the poster. Whoops.
10. A good monopoly, … mostly good? Good or not?
11. Misunderestimating the tendency of writers to invent words?
12. Secret is secret … unless some small political fallout might be in their favor.
13. Biden … taking stupid to new heights every day. Seriously, do you want a pony too?

Good morning.

1. Green for Spring (and/or Pentecost).
2. Or what is a flash mob.
3. We will likely all remain confused about the creationist atheists. Or perhaps go back to calling all polls cricket races, and lots of noise signifying nothing.
4. Of Conservatism and Orthodoxy.
5. The sky is falling, oh wait, never mind.
6. Interesting. I don’t however get the “two databases” reference at the end.
7. American, debt worse than you imagined. (Keep in mind, the only successful strategy to attack a deficit in recent history is to cut spending)
8. Jewish = White … or highlighting just some the problems that confront racial reward/racial categorization requirements held sacred by the progressive left.
9. Banned. Right or wrong?
10. You can keep your insurance … remember that promise made by the Obamacare supporters. Alas, it continues to be untrue. I guess it wouldn’t be a lie if they didn’t realize things like this would happen. But if they didn’t realize it, they also cannot lay claim be “smart” as they so often prefer. So, stupid or dishonest? Pick.
11. I begin to suspect that photoshop was involved.

Good morning.

1. “Most gracious Sovereign Lady” … at first reading I thought that meant the Theotokos … but it’s not. The caps I think are what threw me.
2. It was this lady in question, who at times is certainly one to be reckoned with.
3. Sounds of battle in the information age.
4. Giving the state more power, rarely a good idea.
5. Talking economics, the gist of which is, I think, that economists are at long last recalling that these really low interest rates is not a good thing.
6. Yikes. Oh, and from the same source … this is a really really [repeat for a  while] good idea.
7. Queue the evil laughter.
8. The same argument holds it seems.
9. (Rich — or expense account equipped) Boys with toys.
10. More toys here.
11. Synthetics and the drug war.
12. Speaking of which, the “medical marijuana” industry/movement just died. It just doesn’t know it yet.
13. The first part of social charity, shut up and sit still.
14. You can just feel the excitement … or not.

Good morning. Woo hoo … links!

1. Letter of the law.
2. Ethnic spoils and reparations.
3. Memorial day photo choice by the White House, or ego stroking for the head honcho.
4. Two statements by the White House on energy, one of them is a lie. Logic offers no alternative.
5. Our President is fluent in Hebrew. Wow. Who knew?
6. As nationalization of health care proceeds … freedom suffers.
7. So, have the Philippines turned the corner?
8. A book touted.
9. So what are the child safety so-called experts going to say about this? Hmm?

Good morning.

1. Ms Warren continues to dig. She should, perhaps, stick to unverifiable claims.
2. So … is obesogenic a real word?
3. The good rabbi says the Bible is entirely fiction (and he’s right).
4. In which principles based means paradox based. Wrong “P” word, eh?
5. Highlighting some problems with climate science.
6. Non-statist left … a null set.
7. There’s a theme there, but I think you have to watch it a few times to catch it.
8. Bread.
9. Fast. So, voluntary dangerous games? Good, bad, indifferent?
10. I’m missing something here, how does creating a pro-Romney political ad “damage” the reputation of FOX in a way that the same thing done by the NYTimes creating pro-Obama ads does not damage theirs?
11. An opportunity for magnanimity and grace on the part of the President … we’re watching.
12. OK then. Or just put that in this barrel.

Good morning.

1. I think the recent “downtick” on his graph is the predicted recovery/rise? ’cause it looks like to me his prediction is just all washed up, If the up/down swings are noise, then there has been no appreciable change since summer of ’11. If it is noise the “rise” predicted is the dive downward.
2. Death camps in Poland does not equal Polish Death camps. So, is our President grammar challenged or just trying to offer the worst insults he can imagine to the Polish people?
3. “Limiting principles”, which on examination aren’t limiting, alas.
4. God thinks batman is gay.
5. More calls for Mr Romney to disavow the birthers. What’s missing of course are calls to disavow any number of wacko notions on the left by Mr Obama. Newsflash people, politicians are loath to turn away any votes.
6. For example, Mr Frank thinks having a hoodie was the reason Mr Martin was shot, not because Mr Martin chose to attack a guy sit on him, break his nose, and slam his head repeatedly into the ground … and this a guy who was armed. But … it was the hoodie thing that was the problem. When will Mr Obama disavow that sort of talk?
7. I didn’t make it past point 1, which is so categorically backwards and upside down that … well, why bother going further. If you’ve got the basics backwards you’re not going to get much else right either.
8. On Bain, somebody doesn’t get the point of the Obama/Bain line of attack. To be honest, I don’t either.
9. Discrimination.