Better (?) late than never.

1. Cat representing fonts.
2. Weight loss and the bike.
3. Speaking of the bike … is this a example of the effects of rapid temperature drop in the Eurozone harsh winter while riding?
4. And a final bike link, a cute folder/travel bike.
5. About that Detroit rebound.
6. Lunchbox inspectors … stimulus?
7. Speaking of stimulus, looking at the coordination of the stimulus programs and jobs.
8. A question for the drug warriors.
9. Grist for the redistributive government/size of government discussion.
10. Art.
11. The upside of dyslexia?
12. Abortion and Capital punishment, a modest suggestion.

Good morning.

1. Chicago, home of our President, on top?
2. Perceptions and realities, part one.
3. Another here.
4. Somebody somewhere very confused as to how an infusion of hundreds of billions of (free) taxpayer dollars might help your company.
5. Child abuse and cover-up.
6. Faith healing.
7. Not a socialist … so what is someone who thinks controlling for excess profits is part of normal ordinary market methods?
8. FOX for racist lowlifes (on the right)? We’ll be waiting for his “MSNBC for bigoted lowlifes” link.
9. Speaking of bigots … I found this quote interesting ” Tebow is a theocrat, so reasonable people – even including other believers – find him to be an odious, thick-skulled ass” … uhm, exactly how/why do you come to the conclusion that Mr Tebow is a theocrat? Point to one quote actually from him that lends any credence to that statement, or perhaps “odious thick-skulled” might apply better to the blogger not the football player.
10. Oil and recession.
11. Pattern and predator.

Good morning (and yes, I’m on the left coast, it’s still morning here)

1. Evil and theology.
2. For valentines day, belated I guess.
3. On the Obama = Socialist term.
4. A pre-Xi primer.
5. How soon will you walk/bike to work? At what cost/price of gas do you change your habits substantially?
6. Or its just a nod to their buddies installing cat-5 in walls.
7. No taxes raised on those making less than 250k? Oh, wait by 250k that’s not dollars, he means micro-dollars. Didn’t you read the text, when he said 250k he didn’t specify units. You just assumed he meant dollars.
8. Well, as Freddy Mercury said, get on your bike and ride! (or run up the mountain 7 miles a day).
9. MLK Jr and Zombies, they value you for your brains not the color of your skin, eh?
10. The snow tortoise.
11. For the cook.
12. Gold value.
13. National defense and the nearby star.

Good morning.

1. So … if you hear (or gasp, repeat) that 98% of Catholic women use birth control … just remember to support that statement you have to be a liar or just plain dumb.
2. Braaaaap.
3. Mr Lin basketball phenom?
4. Democrats … against democracy?
5. How Mr Obama approaches the budget deficit … make it as big as possible as fast as possible?
6. Inconvenient fact for the anti-piracy crowd.
7. I overheard this from an airport news TV … One fact struck me, apparently the Justice was robbed for $1k in cash at knifepoint. Who carries $1k in cash as walking around money? That seems just a bit excessive.
8. Credit ratings.
9. Of Mr Nixon and Mr Reagan.
10. eSchool.
11. A principled man.
12. Free market supporter he is not.
13. Mr Obama and South America?

Good morning.

1. Two books to note, one from here on a mix of faith and humor from Moscow.
2. And for fans of Sewer, Gas and Electric … Matt Ruff has a new book. So get it and read it.
3. About that “worst case” Iran  straw man scenario.
4. When you believe spending and income need not match … and people get too used to sucking on the government teat.
5. Either they (requiring viewing ultrasounds and requiring Catholic hospitals provide free contraception) are both totalitarian or neither are.
6. Speaking of which, an atheist libertarian is not impressed.
7. Speaking of that topic, Mr Obama’s so-called compromise. Frankly, calling that a compromise is an outright lie.
8. Also see this pdf, on this topic you’ll see the left whacking lots of straw men in this kerfuffle. That pdf links to some actual arguments, which alas you will not see mentioned by any Congressional or White House defense of their policy.
9. Al Qaeda merger.
10. Suicide and legality.
11. Of big “O” and calculus.
12. To avoid spoilage? Hmm. One recipe for great bacon is to take frozen bacon, fry it directly without thawing on a very low heat for a long time until crisp. It will melt in your mouth (hint: this is a good thing taste-wise).
13. Bike tricks (done by the bike not so much by the rider).
14. Waterboarding and Mr Washington.
15. Are the tea party and ows the nucleus of something that will emerge in decades?
16. Lots of links to this, Himalayan non-warming.
17. Our future in adventures in state medicine.
18. Not likely.
19. And it’s a bad thing.
20. What is tradition? (hint: not just a song in Fiddler).

I think we’re going to be doing evening links posts this week. I’m leaving early in the morning each day to beat traffic to get from South of Chicago to North of Chicago to a job site.

Links?

1. Hard to amend, a bug or a feature. I’m leaning toward feature.
2. Well, that counters conventional wisdom I think.
3. Gun ownership and demographic opinion movement noted. So were you once “anti-gun” (or are now) and why did you soften your views (or have youfelt any notion to soften your views)?
4. Of unions and markets.
5. Geometry and 19th century land reform.
6. Another way to “hide the decline” …
7. If you don’t think moral trumps legal, that’s just one more thing you’ve got wrong.
8. On decency and public standards. Should public standards have scare quotes?
9. Speaking of scare quotes.
10. On the return from the depths.
11. So … do you agree? Will Mr Obama blink?

Well, morning it ain’t. Hope y’all had a good day.

1. A shot across the bows?
2. I can’t imagine how anyone thinks that is a good policy.
3. The Sec Council vetoes and why.
4. A book noted.
5. Another, very different.
6. And speaking of books, I read these all when I was younger.
7. More unanticipated consequences, green this time. Probably in more ways than one.
8. Data sets and warming.
9. Interesting tech? This is also interesting.
10. Midgely and another book to read (and re-read).
11. A font?
12. Assisted suicide, the B/P pair here and here.
13. Violence, America and numbers.
14. Whoops, Coptic variant.

Recently jobs numbers came out … two data points are of interest and can be used, perhaps, to judge the bias of the sources. One set, points out that January job numbers are up and by one metric unemployment has dropped to 8.3%, getting firmly below 9. The other set, which is new as well, points out the divergence between two proxies which normally track but recently have diverged. Unemployment, as tracked by those applying for unemployment benefits and jobs, normally tracks well with the number of unemployed. Yet in the last 18 months this tracking has diverged. More and more people have (according to the second unemployment proxy) have given up seeking work. By that second metric, unemployment is above 10.5%.

Honest reporting would, I offer, report both points. There are many, who for political reasons, decide on or the other figure is more significant. Are there good reasons besides the nominally “bad” political partisanship ones for not noting both?

Oh, by the by, I’ve got to run early to get to a job site about an hours drive north. My links post will go out tonight.

Good morning.

1. A spanking good movie … but origins of the day are noted in detail.
2. Mr Romney’s inelegant phrase regarding the homeless and the liberal caricature of same noted. The strange thing about that is that basically Mr Romney is right. We’re in a recession. The primary problem/fix is not to centered on the addicted and mentally ill, … right.
3. The left atwitter for about, well, very little.
4. Three books on Orthodoxy, reviewed.
5. How to use that welfare gold-mine?
6. A better measure of unemployment?
7. Counter expectations on deadbeat spouse statistics.
8. Atheist journalist getting double facepalm, rightly.
9. Wishing the risk away, or Mr Obama promises “and a pony too.”
10. One crucial ingredient to good science, … unicorns!
11. New stuff for the boys in uniform.
12. Enemy lists.
13. Cool.

Good morning to all.

1. So, why blog? One reason.
2. Stating the obvious.
3. Boxing and the underside.
4. So, the term “food stamp Presidents” fits Mr Obama or Mr Bush better? Which do you think the media savants figure fits better? Guess then check.
5. Oooh, the horror of going through the tests in a pretty standard 40+ physical. Gosh that’s so not very mean. Oddly enough nobody (on the left) seems to take the obvious freedom tack, i.e., the government monopoly on prescription and medication availability is not so necessary in the information age.
6. Imitation and flattery?
7. Sea levels and the last century.
8. The “wants women to not be able to protect themselves” segment of the left, who remains apparently unaware that, for example, concealed carry has zero impact on the number of shooting incidents (or for that matter that range shooting is fun). I was surprised myself to learn that “open carry in bars” does not lead to more shooting. On the other side of the question, it’s not really that surprising a conclusion coming from the guy you can’t figure out whether allowing his own birth was a harm done to him or not.
9. A city car, how much do you want to bet it won’t be available here?
10. Tool builders on top.

Good morning.

1. Under what pretense is enforcement of belief in the same room as good science? Remember, you’re allowed to question proton stability or the dimensions of the universe, but y’know that’s not on the same footing however as the anthropological influences on climate.
2. Them horrible costs of contraception. People have been known to open a second mortgage to afford their condom habit.
3. A tale of two Sherlocks.
4. Pay and the federal worker, here and here. The second, alas, includes the laughable notion that if government pay was less then we’d see a lower quality in government workers. As if pay was related to quality of work and quality relating firings were common in government.
5. Toys that go boom in the night.
6. More here.
7. Mr Obama as VC entrepeneur … those on the left will of now jump to his defense listing his many successes in this field. Yes? or not?

Good morning. Well, I mean to get an essay out last night, but the family watched the 1967 movie “Bedazzled” instead. Links?

1. Having fun at the Summer palace (I think that’s where they are) in winter.
2. And while we’re considering the East … how about a life remembered.
3. If not child labor at least they needs some actual responsibilities.
4. There was at least one person who rose to the occasion in that tragedy.
5. Climate change of a different sort.
6. Tax the wealthy, a discussion here and here.
7. History re-enacted and/or rebuilt.
8. So … do you think the President traces his family values to the military? More here. Kinda reminds me of the Habermas/Ratzinger debate.
9. Neurons not in your head.
10. When?

Good morning.

1. A global warming statement posted, will this mean that liberals will no longer to be fans of Mr Rutan and his wonderful toys?
2. And, my commenters strenuously object when I point out that in my youth, global cooling was the fear. See, some proof? I remain confused on why increases in the quantity and quality of arable land isn’t a good thing.
3. Well, Mr Obama will be able to lock up the “please sir, may I have another … (whack)” crowd.
4. Computational complexity and popular games.
5. Well, that’s half right. Mormons are not a Protestant sect. Mormons are properly termed a “Christ cult”. Nicene Christian sects are also Christ Cults. Fair or not, Nicene Christians, especially within the context of discussions with Nicene Christians group all Nicene affirming Christ cults as Christian. Got it? It’s really not that hard. Oh, and Protestant sects is the label for those Christ cults that broke from the Roman Catholic church during the reformation.
6. Hope, change and Libya.
7. Well, there’s the cutest thing you’ll see all day.
8. Mr Obama, misleading from the front.
9. The Serbs and Ms Jolie’s movie. The Serbian members of our church are very nice people, and I wish we’d sing their music more because it’s beautiful. The point is, my contact with Serbs and Serbians has been quite positive.
10. The third term loophole.

Apparently in Florida Democrat PACS and large contributors are posting their own pro-Gingrich anti-Romney ads. Two questions. First, do you think that is because the feel Mr Gingrich is a weaker opponent against Mr Obama or is it because they actually prefer him as a possible President. If you thought it was the former, and not the latter, why do you think that supporting a person who you think is less fit for office is your patriotic duty? If you think that it is likely that the answer was the former how do you then explain the lack of objections to this tactics on left leaning blogs?

Good morning.

• Of the generations of men and the passage of tim
  e.

• The “history”
  channel, why scare quotes? Check the link.

• So, what is Mr Rove noted for, especially by the Democrats? It seems the biggest difference
  between what they complain about regarding Mr Rove and the activities of Mr Obama is for which side on which they strive.

• More unusual campaign
  tactics.

• The SOTU speech, highlighting contradictions
  and a flowchart
  and a little highlighting of characteristic Obama dishonesty

• One more on the speech. So look at the first two quoted pieces here
  . How can a person say those things in one speech and not be termed a deceitful liar? How can Democrats defend this man regarding this sort of dishonest? I really don’t understand it.
  
     
• So, how did Mr Romney manage to pay 13% in taxes while making 20 millions? By donating 16% of his income
  to charity. Odd that both Mr Romney and Mr Buffet share the same opinion on the efficacy of government spending vs their own charitable contributions. Can we not pretend those of us who don’t make millions also
  share that same opinion about government efficiency vs our own charity?

• So many crocodile tears
  . It strikes me as very false when lots of people suddenly “like” you, praise you, and talk about how wonderful you are when you’ve been affected by tragedy … and the never even noticed you prior to the event. Seems very fake to me.

• 100% to 1000% yield
  ? Who thinks that’s a good idea? Seriously.

• This quiz has been going around
  . I scored 12-15. How about y’all?

• Geek zoooom

• Monster
  ? I’d have thought coward the better term.