Good morning.

1. Car tech of interest.
2. So is the White House inconsistent or biased? Or is there another narrative?
3. What is this “poor in spirit” thing.
4. Slavery or taxation in a barter economy?
5. Progress of progressivism? Or consequences of Ms Delsol’s Unlearned Lessons.
6. Perhaps further context is required … after all Mr Biden might have continued by noting that “… and neither, of course, do we.” But I tend to doubt it.
7. Speaking of progressivism … future medical mandates?
8. A few interesting moments might be spend considering the nature of intelligent life on that planet, eh?
9. TARP and expense, or hide the cost.
10. Short answer … no.
11. No problem? Does this mean a new war/wag-the-dog is planned for the late summer?
12. Grist for the conversation going on right now in the comment trail on women and men and their power struggle.
13. Iran and demographics.
14. Speaking of demographics.
15. Some verse.
16. I don’t think the term “McCarthyism” makes a bit of sense in that context. McCarthy and the red scare was about painting with little evidence members of industry and government as “red” and banning them thereby from their position and place work. What parallel is pretended?
17. Of States and immigration.
18. Ten! Just ten and they’re “on track?” On track for what?
19. Training priests and/on abortion.
20. Liberal vs conservatives and one measure of tolerance.

Good morning.

1. Gosh, liberal aghast Romney using the Obama camp SOP. Watch and wait, pretty soon Romney will have a catchy meaningless slogan like Hope/Change.
2. Why is the government solution to everything “hand out bags of money” and wait for the bubble to bust and make everything worse?
3. When you get banned from a comment “for profanity” it works better if the banned content contains actual profanity.
4. The Buddhist banned from communion still in the news. Truth is stranger than fiction.
5. An attempt to help the poor.
6. Unintended consequences.
7. Naivete as argument, there (apparently) is not “a variety of facts.” “Fact” has only one “kind” … the fact that you love your wife, that the revolutionary war was about taxation, that you are conservative (or liberal), and that the mass of the electron is .5 Mev are exactly the same sort of facts. Riiiight.
8. Here’s the memo. Not getting the memo … for example here. What part of “dead relatives” do people not get? Or is she angry that she’s related to Mormons?
9. Mr Gore now encourages electoral fraud.
10. So, do you wish you were there?
11. Grist for the insurance and coverage debate (follow the two linked links).

Good morning.

1. A narrative of why the current President has continued so many policies of the former with which he allegedly strongly disagreed … this one claims he still disagrees but his hands are tied by the Constitution.
2. Uncertainty primer.
3. Methodist theology and the early Church Fathers.
4. The end of the status quo in the US, might not be gradual.
5. Which needs to confront this notion.
6. Freedom and the left.
7. Yah, they don’t watch FOX, they don’t actually listen to Mr Limbaugh … they just bang the echo chamber drum (whilst complaining about the right wing echo chamber and not noticing that they do the same thing).
8. Logic.
9. Arab Springly thinking.
10. So, is he right? Would ABC run the alternative?
11. A question for the Fluke/contraceptives-for-free supporters.
12. A question about options and Iran.
13. The kindness of strangers in flyover land.

Good morning.

1. Economically speaking.
2. Putin and the Russian Republic election.
3. A car, which appears to be designed to blow up when it hits a speed-bump. But, it looks kewl, eh?
4. Rockwell meets Lucas.
5. Interesting locution there, mocking the ivory tower distance on the one hand and at the same time figuring the term “medical zombies” is about creatures you have to run away or shoot (in real life).
6. A look behind a faux controversy.
7. I’ll bet dollars to donuts this wasn’t what you were taught in school about that little narrative. Heh.
8. I know it’s all traditional and everyone just loves that color, but I’ve never liked overmuch.
9. Becoming human?
10. Least worst … kind of like how we view democracy (vs the other forms of government) in a nutshell.

Good morning.

1. Trends and criteria vis a vis Afghanistan.
2. Our mostly dysfunctional government.
3. Does anyone remember the kerfuffle over the refusal of communion to the lesbian in a Catholic church, turns out … there’s more to the story. I guess the story “Catholic refuses communion to a Buddhist” doesn’t have the same cachet.
4. Woops.
5. Consider this. (HT)
6. For the Orthodox smartphone set.
7. Zuh zuh zuh zooooooom. Or not.
8. A smooch.
9. A taxpayer feel (not so) good story.
10. Parasites.
11. Mr Holder and liberties.
12. So … if after all that you need a dose of really cute.

Good morning

1. Guantanamo stats.
2. A little more on the Fluke/Rush kerfuffle, here in which it is suggested that Mr Rush should have investigated prior to apologizing … and here where somewhat similarly some confusion over the faux outrage over the term slut is professed. I wonder if Ms Fluke has, for example, participated in the “slut walk” phenomena and if so  … why is this term problematic?
3. And one more … Ms Althouse wonders about the liberal double standard toward apologies.
4. Dressing dad.
5. Same sex marriage and Mr Sullivan.
6. Lovecraft and epistemology.
7. Trends in modern education and demographics.
8. Sierra Leone.
9. Supply and demand.
10. Our creepy Washington.
11. Mr Obama’s putative support for Israel.
12. Apparently liberal political leaders regularly review and disavow comments made by liberal entertainers. Who knew?

Good morning.

1. Care bear meta-ethics.
2. For the fast, advice.
3. So, is this the origin of the “slut/prostitute” claim? … condoms cost what? $.50 each? $3000 per year sure buys a lot of ’em … Speaking of which, the 98% of Catholic women use contraception claim … there are 22 million Catholics in this country and 12 million women use contraception … by which we can estimate that almost no non-Catholic women use contraception. Odd that.
4. Useful remarks on Mr Rush’s apology can be found here.
5. One more on that front.
6. The Lorax, not a tale of environmentalism, but one against stupid supply chain management.
7. Apparently we are to believe that teachers cannot figure out which teachers are good and bad. Sorry, that’s not tenable or even credible.
8. So, the left espouses separate but equal?
9. Speaking of inner city … a book recommended.
10. Get into the zone.
11. Let’s see a company mismanages funds, cuts back … however when it occurs is that the reaction? No, if not why not?
12. “Reduce costs by reducing births?” … uhm, hello? People produce stuff. Zero people -> zero production.
13. Trend our government wants to achieve? Hope, change and progress, eh? If we reduce the number of hospitals that will reduce money spent on healthcare (consider the limit).

Good morning.

1. One of those “your XYZ name” charts.
2. A (possibly? likely?) better indicator of future climate trends than CO₂.
3. Oh, and about that “big” Heartland AGW skepticism threat.
4. Two more posts, a little more reflective than reactive, on the med ethics journal article considering infanticide. Here and here.
5. Upcoming mindless fun entertainment.
6. Jeesh, 40+ posts mentioning Mr Breitbart’s death from the rabid/insane right before we get to one with suspicion and conspiracy. Hello, the guy must have had dozens if not hundreds of death threats from the loony left a week. Hey, back before blogging and the Internet, I spent a half year in the exercise of believing as true everything I read on alt.conspiracy … y’all are missing out on the fun.
7. Slosh = Schlitz?
8. Apology mania.
9. Insurance troubles?
10. Art leads to reflection.
11. That pipeline.
12. Statistics and genocide.

Good morning.

1. Myths of the Middle ages debunked.
2. An interesting home project and its results.
3. More blowback from the academic paper suggesting infanticide might be a good idea.
4. Icon and smash.
5. Is that because they envy the position and power that the entitled had during that age?
6. Boom (still, it’s not a 50 pound sausage, but we’re getting there).
7. A question for Mr Obama (from the left, I’m pretty sure).

Good morning.

1. Just to be clear here, the Julian Calendar (of which the Gregorian was a reform) also has a leap day today. The difference is in what occurs not on years divisible by 4 but by 100 and 400.
2. The death of the “get other people to pay for my stuff” state.
3. The whole “why we should” misses out on mentioning the bad stuff that will happen if we don’t. More arable land higher crop yields, oooh, that’s all really really bad, eh?
4. Our oil based economy.
5. Oh please, there’s a long standing tradition for Presidents to see failure to be re-elected as a national emergency of the highest order.
6. Insanity in medicine?
7. Walking for exercise put to good use.
8. So, “not a campaign speech” is that a lie or not?
9. Economics and the election in a nutshell.

Good morning.

1. Self discipline and child rearing … self-discipline is indeed a learn-able trait … an interesting thing to note at the start of Lent.
2. Occupy Whatever (is) Suggested embarrasses itself again.
3. AA and Lent.
4. A road less traveled.
5. Our state department deportment.
6. Democrat election tactics of which I’m sure they’re proud … and the lack of self-criticism makes their disparagement of Mr Rove hypocritical.
7. Uhm, because its not actually illegal to lie to a reporter.
8. Taking a stand against indirect consumer use taxes.
9. Only 11 years?!
10. Praise for grad school in the context of reasons why not.
11. I think I not only haven’t considered those bullet points but don’t know anyone who has (not to speak of doing them). Hollywood has a strange (unreal) impression of Christian culture.

Good morning. Hopefully, we’ll be more consistent in posting this week, even though we have services at Church every evening this week as Lent kicks in with a running start.

1. And here’s how it starts (more background here)
2. The progressive past for the US.
3. Which is likely why suggesting its demise might be a little early. This too.
4. Although things like this suggest why its demise might be considered.
5. Our energy President.
6. Oddly enough, what the President said then, and says now, don’t quite jibe the way he’d probably prefer.
7. “It’s major weakness” is at home moms … although no support for that statement is given why that is a weakness. Perhaps those economists thing at home moms sit on their couches watching TV and snorting bon bons (and not working as hard or harder than the average working stiff).
8. This makes no sense at all.
9. Hard work behind the Lin “miracle.”
10. The blame/support network of education.
11. If we had a more balanced press corps.
12. Mr Krugman forgets he  is one of the rich.
13. Cinema recommended.

Good morning.

1. A new academic econ blog, for those interested in that sort of thing. (HT)
2. I downloaded the paper, haven’t read it yet.
3. Cybersecurity and the latest AGW embarrassment.
4. And here’s a possible big reason why the above actions are being taken.
5. Racial policy and the stupid vs evil question.
6. Mr Obama’s White House and the reverse Robin Hood effect.
7. Why should one learn to write well?
8. The Romney tax plan.

OK. I’m back in town for a bit.

1. Ockham’s axe.
2. The left figuring (slowly) out the big problem with Obamacare, the whole insertion of more politics into healthcare bodes well for nobody. But … I’m guess the moral to that story is lost on Mr Schraub.
3. And to follow on the above, the problem with inserting more politics into schools.
4. 5 (?!) figure debt? Not 6?
5. A film list. So, what’s missing?
6. A serious question for the liberal arts educated crowd. Why is that book important?
7. Uhm, “flatter” can mean a lot of things, a smaller (or zero) second derivative is a common meaning for the term. It doesn’t necessarily mean the first derivative is zero.
8. A “new” family of amphibians.
9. Party, Mr Krugman, and welfare receipt.
10. Medical (academic?) ethics.
11. It seems to me austerity/non-austerity of government and its impact on economy is a symptom of mistake of letting the government get way to big.
12. Good advice for Lent.
13. Seasons.
14. Book surgery.

I’m running late, busy busy. But … a few links?

1. OWS and lessons in free money and value of property ownership.
2. There are them rich folk who think rules don’t apply to them. Laws of nature … still do however.
3. The “stay in your car” survival tactic.
4. How can “shooting monks” be a good public relations move?
5. Much is made of the EU social networks compared to ours, yet do we note the “socially excluded” in that tally?
6. Did you know Isaac Newton wrote more theology than science & math? I didn’t.
7. A life lived.
8. Logic and personhood.
9. A beautiful photo from Afghanistan.