Good morning.

1. Ooh, more cost estimates of Obamacare.
2. A clearly offensive mural,  Huh?
3. A radical(?) global economic strategy suggested for America, don’t change the game-plan.
4. Five meanings of judicial activism defined, two are touted as useful three as not. Which one do you think the President was referring to in his speech? #5?
5. An ugly side of the world we have made.
6. Hiring practices and Mr Obama.
7. An artist died … Another post on that event noted that Mr Kinkade worked with animator Ralph Bakshi on some projects. I found that tidbit interesting.
8. For your country … is that enough?
9. What does “trademarked” mean in this context, legally speaking?
10. A “new” Bubba? Who was the old one, Bubba Smith?
11. Is that for Pascha/Easter or Palm Sunday I wonder?
12. Duty, honor and disaster … some statistics.
13. A primary rhetorical (fallacy) utilized so often on the left, the omnipresent ad hominem.
14. On Obama’s use of the term “social darwinism.” Let’s see the left defend that one.

Good morning.

1. Magic decoder ring?
2. How we have not progressed in 140 years?
3. Cinema.
4. Apparently Mr Derbyshire ruffled some feathers, here’s one sympathetic take.
5. Gas prices.
6. National debt.
7. Middle of the road-sitter, on the Zimmerman/NBC tape edit.
8. Don’t sneeze.
9. So, can private clubs choose their own membership criteria.
10. Countering the prevailing notions on education and religion.
11. An unusual choice on a “sexual orientation” multiple guess, uhm, quiz?
12. Mr Holder is blind and deaf. Why? He thinks Congress acts with “deliberate judgement.” He apparently has never seen Congress in action.
13. Two twins to confound the race theorists and racists alike.

Have a holy Maundy Thursday for all you celebrating such (for the Eastern Christians next week is Holy week, we’re one week off this year).

1. A disappearing not-molested minority.
2. Easter egg! Grump.
3. So, this is the first account of events … are we all on the same page now? Or are other going off another account of events?
4. It’s not just the right being disgusted by fiction for ideology in the “news” media.
5. In which Mr Obama continues by pointing out that he is as often (perhaps more often) as the other side blowing smoke.
6. I wonder what part of the developer team she might be? Code design? Circuit board layout?
7. Let’s see, this is an interesting contrast. Mr Leiter thinks “conservatives are getting dumber” … why? Well, because they don’t trust the scientific academy as much as liberals. And at the same time, in another corner, a study of 53 landmark papers found 47 with falsified/non-reproducible results. So, perhaps the dumb is on the other side of the aisle.
8. Ms Palin in the Couric chair.
9. Girls playing games.
10. Tornado alley has tornadoes … as a sign of climate change. Odd that.

Good morning.

1. A parallel to the hypocrisy of Hunger Games (in which teen violence is denounced through glorification of same).
2. Antisemitism? Or just anti-Israel?
3. Speaking of Jews …
4. So, do you think the President was lying? Is the WH planning or not? Is it important that he’s so often so dishonest? Why/Why not?
5. Lawyers disagree, here’s a pallid defense (why the “economic regulations” why is the adjective economic required … hint: Roe/Wade or civil rights … it’s not there for any substantive Constitutional reasons, economic regulations are not in any way special, except for maintaining specious arguments). (“Popular” bill? It squeaked through and y’all know it … or perhaps everyone not the President knows it … see #10 below on “realism”).
6. Libya and consequences?
7. It was suggested recently that retreat/not-retreat laws and deadly force allow premeditated murder, here’s a discussion on the law in more depth.
8. Sticky wages and putative liquidity traps.
9. Unplanned pregnancy.
10. Obama trashes GOP (Ryan budget) for being unrealistic … oddly enough not a single Democrat voted for his “realistic” plan. Memo to Democrats, I’m beginning to suspect this word, “real” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
11. Rich wanting bad roads?
12. I’m unclear on the strategy here, when Mr Obama is raising gas prices faster and higher is politically popular.

Good morning.

1. Cats … or is a dig at the modern atheists?
2. Death and the road.
3. State visit, and suggestions.
4. Ordinary or extra-ordinary?
5. Unintended (or not?) consequences of affirmative action. It’s not sexism, is aff-action and consequence. If you lower standards for groups, people expect that standards were lowered. People are odd that way.
6. Replacing the meditative staring into fire at night.
7. A suggestion for marriage.
8. Our President (with a little Presidential hypocrisy noted) and the courts.
9. What I fail to understand is how/why the liberal/progressives manage to not get outraged by this sort of thing. Don’t they think a reliable media is important?
10. Our budget watchdogs.
11. Taking on the Volcker rule.
12. A little maths to go with your morning coffee.

Well, no April Fools jokes here, sorry, I’m too much the fool the other 365 days of the year to fall for that.

1. Sometimes its a matter of perspective.
2. The moral (bankrupt) imperative of “as much as we can get” (vs “how much growth can we engender”).
3. Affirmative action and unintended (or as I suspect, intended) consequences. This is not unrelated.
4. So, would you vote for HAL?
5. So, bloggers don’t write their own headlines? Hmmm.
6. Noting that the right has “always” supported the individual mandate.
7. The legal elites and the Obamacare case.
8. Arizona walking off the Constitutional reservation.

Having a good week? We’re doing OK. Well, I’ve missed a few days posting, let’s see what we’ve collected (I haven’t stopped reading, just haven’t had much access to a computer … I can read on a tablet … link posting can be done but is a little (so far) laborious).

1. I’m pretty sure that’s not how the lib/progs see it. Best I can tell, they figure this healthcare is so important, it’s more important than fussy questions of whether there are any limits to governmental power or the Constitutionality of the bill.  I’m not the only one who thinks that’s their point.
2. Or maybe the White House punted their defence, because they want it to fall.
3. Considering dueling.
4. Discarding pets and ambiguous phrasing. This afternoon our dog passed two dogs in the back of a car that looked a lot like that dog. It was hysterically funny, she (our dog) just pranced along minding her own business, pointedly ignoring the other dogs who were going berserk with barking. When the barking finally died down, Sophie looked up briefly and barked three or four times at which the other two resumed their furious onslaught and she went back to ignoring them … or perhaps you had to be there.
5. Sin and the church as that hospital, which is made of and made for sinners.
6. Envy? Seems like prose poetry to me.
7. Liberals, many of whom profess to be “reality/study” based … but aren’t in the slightest. I’m visiting Missouri for the kids spring break … Missouri has one of the lowest gun crime rates in the nation and the laxest gun laws … another interesting factoid … open carry in bars doesn’t increase gun violence in towns that allow it. But hey, maybe they don’t like concealed carry because they’re trying to keep women in their place.
8. Speaking of that Trayvon kerfuffle, it seems odd to me that the same guys who insisted we not parse particulars on deciding whether waterboarding was or wasn’t torture, decides that if you’re nose doesn’t have fractured cartilage you weren’t really punched in the schnoze. I’ve also been struck with the parallels between those who decided to continually enlarge the category “black” when that was bad with any smidge of non-white blood made ya’ colored and those who think, for those who think that white is “bad” that any bit of white in you means your Hispanic mother/White father makes ya’ whitey white. Odd that.
9. Is there a limit to the commerce clause? Seriously? I wonder when/if the left will imagine that there might be some behavior they will not want regulated that this unlimited commerce clause interpretation will come to bite them back.
10. At 4k mph … what could go wrong?
11. As car become more automatic … will I be the last knucklehead on the road with preferring and using manual tranny?
12. Another unhappy #1 for the US.
13. Where media bias puts us.
14. I thought you mostly use your nose to taste.
15. Ooh, another digression, workouts and kids. One of the family memories we have is with me doing interval training on a mtb bike … pulling the kids in the trailer singing (during the hard parts of the intervals) a “faster poppa faster” song (to 3-5 y/old kid melodies) and then me cooking the bike too fast on the limestone trail around a corner and laying it down. The kids that that was really really cool and wanted me to do it again. Me? My knee was bloodied enough that I decided we’d be better off turning for home. Still. A great time, great memory.
16. Longer than normal waiting period … so, was that reported on the media/left-wing blogs? Ya think?
17. An add for Corning gorilla glass? Or comedy?
18. The forces of Mordor and trademark stupidity.

Good morning.

1. Observation that the organic natural crunchy ex-hippy/love-love-love movement is also the the one of harsh chemical aborto-facients and the very non-organic act of abortion, which doesn’t make much sense.
2. A place for the off SCOTUS debate on healthcare.
3. Tension and the racket.
4. Recession.
5. Tacos (pizza next?) by quadra-copter drone delivery.
6. Democrats like to complain that the GOP has no ideas … odd that, especially when you look at a non-spun list of their notions.
7. The Zimmerman/Martin kerfuffle.
8. Patents and software.
9. Technology.
10. Inequality and housing.
11. UK continuing its trend toward … what?
12. Honor to the fallen, one way.

Good morning.

1. Interesting graphic, eh?
2. Another, this one of the info-sort.
3. An interesting what-if scenario.
4. Taking fasting seriously … and not so seriously.
5. Simple and evil.
6. Tactics tactics tactics.
7. A pro-homeless prank.
8. The UK has gone batty.
9. A variant of the Cretan paradox and solution.
10. US elections as viewed from, well, the Andes.
11. Narratives and peoples.

Good morning.

1. Standard liberal media treatment of the current (and likely next) violent attack.
2. Baptism.
3. Look at anything closely, you get confused (that is you realize how little you really know about how the universe works). Latest example, Mercury.
4. Obamacare mandate and Lochner.
5. Troll of the court meets his, err, or rather, a fate.
6. In recent discussion on contraception and Ms Fluke … I suggested the left might go after the prescription monopoly instead. It was suggested this was a chimerical notion, nobody was talking about that. Untrue.
7. Deferred payments not deferred so much.
8. Our nanny state, shutting down private charity.
9. Savings.
10. Progressives for federalism.

Good morning.

1. I think printing money in the basement is their business model.
2. First urban sprawl.
3. Urban sprawl many many many years later.
4. One of these things … not like the others.
5. A prize and for what explained.
6. While its unseasonably warm in Chicago, other areas not so much.
7. Panama.
8. Lawyers talk mandates … more here.
9. Looking at the soak the rich strategy and its effects. Perhaps now the tax the rich don’t cut spending knuckleheads will change their tune.
10. Coming to your computer … in a few years?
11. Math and blogging.

Good morning.

1. In the zone, with others in the same place.
2. One categorization of “two kinds of people” … I like the adage “there are two kinds of people, those who think there are two kinds of people and those who don’t.”
3. Them wimpy gymnasts. Or not.
4. So … off the radar or just hidden motivations. We have a President who is keen on not revealing his actual reasons.
5. On good faith in discussion and actions.
6. See. The compromise that wasn’t wasn’t even.
7. Pointing at self in Lent (by self I mean myself not the author).
8. Oh, heck, on the use of expletives which generally just demonstrate the lack of intelligence and education on the part of the speaker.
9. Oh, honey … he won’t call you … you’re a conservative so you’re not really a woman.
10. Why does this question even get asked? Isn’t the answer completely obvious.
11. Touching in part on the question (recently discussed) on the relationship between Christianity and Greek Philosophy, to whit “unless contemplated through philosophy …”
12. Statistics.
13. Whence liberty and Mr Santorum?
14. How close to that are we here?

Good morning.

1. Apparently the Wash Post is reviewing last summer’s debt negotiations.
2. Chesterton apparently didn’t anticipate Mr Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach and his the dialogs. I defy anyone to come up with a “truth” stranger than “subjunctive TV” set to “how would that (football play) have gone if … thirteen wasn’t prime?”
3. A challenge for the left wing spin monkeys.
4. Free market healthcare.
5. No silly, he won’t help pay for it because she doesn’t want him to, the primary criterion for her selection of law school was lack of coverage for contraception. A point which completely escapes people like this.
6. And, here’s a summary of the kerfuffle.
7. Oddly enough my wife didn’t find this as funny as my daughters and I.
8. Back in the day, our President speaking in Cairo talked about how much he enjoys and seeks to read history. Apparently very little of what he reads remains with him. I mean, geesh … is there anything historically correct that he asserts?
9. Speaking of getting history wrong, here’s some of that atheist religion-hates-science getting it wrong (repeatedly) in a continuing won’t die-meme, i.e., Hypatia.
10. This kid is very good.
11. Global warming skeptics and the typical straw men arguments hoisted in their vicinity.

Good morning.

1. Inequality and crises.
2. Shot “something” … likely piece of paper or clay pigeon. The horror! (gun tech vid here)
3. Iranian nukes, for big or little “satan”.
4. Of Uganda and Columbia.
5. Failure of imagination … gosh is there any difference in the family past between GOP candidates and Mr Obama? Hmm, one has a foreign parent, no reason to imagine that might make a difference, eh?
6. A primer for the arguments in the upcoming Obamacare SCOTUS discussion.
7. Feminists against porn.
8. Two for Lent, St. Basil on sin and
9. for this Sunday … the cross.
10. Marking inconsistencies … or consequences of ownership?
11. In short, no.
12. Ooooh, Obamacare not as insolvent as suspected, with a windfall of unanticipated fines and taxes. And that’s a good thing?
13. A local hero and her bike(s).
14. Student given life sentence for burning “To Kill a Mockingbird”  … oh, wait.
15. Tea party and Hunger Games.

Good morning.

1. A real long historical correlation=causation stretch.
2. Philosophical patterns … and I think I have to look up the word lacunae.
3. The DC Regulatory menace, killing fun and profit everywhere it stomps.
4. Google’s next search move.
5. Aside from the academic knee-jerk gratuitous insult, the left finally moves against Soros and company.
6. More on the slut/Fluke kerfuffle.
7. Liberal blind spots and health care reform.
8. 2%? Hmm. Of oil, ignoring oil shales, oil sands and other fossil fuels. Lie, damned lie or statistics?
9. Grist for the stupid party.