Well, yesterday I walked in and wham! calls and stuff started piling on just as I walked in. Links?

1. Unintended consequences of our broken patent law, that is more and more we depend on trade secrets.
2. Making the rich “pay their fair share” … hmm. Another unintended consequence on the way. With Mr Romney as an example, apparently why his taxes are lower than what you might naively expect is because he invests in tax protected bonds and such. So … if the response is to get rid of that loophole, that will make such bonds more expense. What are those bonds? Hmm, education and public works make a large part of that market. So, the consequence of killing that loophole will make school improvement and government projects harder to fund. Is that what you really want?
3. How to do bad science, a primer for the statistically naive.
4. This is not unrelated, i.e., more scarcity scares examined. Oh, from that same site … that must have made an interesting (and somewhat loud) noise when it went bang.
5. Some of us are better at learning how to do that than others.
6. Austerity, oddly enough can work.
7. A top 10 list.
8. Secular penance and repentance? How does that work?
9. The White House principal, do not interfere in family matters, i.e., which to them means allow abortion. Yet … then why have they decided to terminate farm children working on the family farm? Hmmm? Seems to me that violates their stated principal.
10. The master is surprise, pleasantly.
11. A tool for the next oil spill?
12. Belongs to the 99% … in his  own (1%) mind perhaps.
13. Seems to me that’s $100 million better spent on R&D.
14. Value? What’s that mean. Price? Utility? Purpose? The statement “cannot tell the value of X from Y” means what?
15. Someone apparently would prefer to whack strawmen. Mr Mankiw is a “conservative” economist. Read his blog, his book, his course material and then you can argue about what actual real-life “conservative” economists argue. Here is a link to Mr Mankiw’s blog.
16. “Pain killing injections” a headline noted about Mr Urlacher is more than a few places. The Tribune article I read the other day had the same headline. Reading further however, we find “Teradol” doesn’t haze (reduce) pain at all, but is an anti-inflamatory agent. I guess “multiple anti-inflamatory injections” doesn’t have the same cachet … even if that is the accurate interpretation.
17. Seems to me the first step isn’t randomly attacking the problem by fixing the “five most common problems” but get a ODB scanner on on it and read the code. Any (most?) parts stores will do that for free. Then you have a hint as to what to fix.
18. Hosanna-Tabor and consequences for foreign policy. Hey, does anyone know of any left leaning defenses (blogs?) of the President’s position on that?

Good morning.

1. Mr Paterno as confused grandpa … and why be confused about Mr McQuery? Do you think that generations of teaching moral relativism to replace “do the right thing” has no consequences?
2. Lag times in production consequences and data to prep you for Mr Obama’s campaign upcoming lies regarding oil production in his tenure.
3. Apple and OWS.
4. Grist for the education debates.
5. Some post Sanctity of Life Sunday thoughts offered. More here.
6. More Democrats misbehaving.
7. Links for the philosophically minded.
8. Hashing out Antisemitism.
9. “Fast and Furious” one of 10 (?!) similar operations.
10. The Slavery Question and the early church.
11. When  is a default not a default?
12. Going green and the oops factor.

Good morning.

1. It’s all about focus … whaddya think of this art piece?
2. I haven’t read them all yet, but I agree, a disappointing set of answers. “Action as a principle” is the best one I saw in a quick scan of replies.
3. Build a better battery and the world will beat that path to your door. How about a better FFT?
4. Stimulus then … and now on account of decades of environmental activism and barriers to construction … that wouldn’t be possible so stimulus today amounted mostly to repaving roads that didn’t need it yet. Now there’s a legacy for which Mr Obama must be very proud.
5. In praise of really bad science, and perhaps praise is deserved.
6. A partial defense of SOPA/PIPA.
7. On those who think Mr Tebow prays for victory (haven’t apparently noticed he thanks God when he loses).
8. It’s unclear what they fear, that these two Democrat majority companies might be compared?
9. Not that’s educational, let’s have a debate … and then in the aftermath one side is termed “a bully” for merely participating.
10. Losing our edge, evidence here.
11. Drones in combat.
12. Zoom.
13. Apparently every statement made by the DNC is “officially doctrine” for every Democrat.
14. History and 4 bits.

Back home, whoo hoo. Links?

1. Medicare and FICA aren’t taxes? FICA is 15% and Medicare 5% … so that makes 20% to start.
2. Energy and a pipe.
3. Speaking of energy.
4. Sex and discrimination and a case of abuse ignored.
5. Speaking of sex roles, looking at advice from more than a century past.
6. If this was fiction, we wouldn’t find it credible. And … by the way … we’re all just softies and wimps.
7. Cost control failure.
8. Some advice from a noted Alexandrian ascetic.
9. More from a different one here.

Links?

1. So, a technique popularized in narratives but proven ineffective … and now encouraged in public schools. So is that “go figure” or “color me (us) unsurprised.” And “brainstorming” isn’t skunkworks. Skunkworks techniques do work.
2. The march of bad science, how it works edition.
3. Bang!
4. A question.
5. Hall of fame or shame?
6. So the Dems think that inequality is high on that list. Apparently Gallup doesn’t even find it in the top 5 (or 10?).
7. The rigors of yoga.
8. It’s not a mild winter everywhere it seems. When the cold masses don’t come south … that isn’t because they aren’t cooling someone off.
9. Disease and resistance.
10. NYT plays the straight man to great effect.
11. Faith, science and a liberal icon.
12. Should there be an agency for that?

Good morning.

1. So, from the government’s point of view, is there no important difference between a person without a child and couple with a child(ren)?
2. A book noted, which I guess touches on evolution quite a bit.
3. Song.
4. Civil war or not? Does it matter?
5. The nut for the GOP to crack.
6. No. It’s not a “war crime”, or OK, maybe it’s a “war crime” (with scare quotes) but doesn’t rise to the level of war crime.
7. So, do  you want to buy some? It’s real good shit, man. (literally)
8. So, defenders. Do you want to cite some actual Washington venture capital successes?
9. The innumerate candidate. It was a tie, move on, ever hear of error bars, eh?
10. Ms Jolie’s new film and the land it portrays.
11. You know, at the beginning of the concert when they announce “turn your cell phones off” that doesn’t mean “put it in airplane mode” and now you know why.
12. Global warming silliness. Which brought a consideration to mind, it occurs to me that the AGW alarmists really think that the issue isn’t just a demographic shift moving peoples about as areas of arable land shift about on the planet, but that they think that human life on the planet is in jeopardy. That’s just nonsense. I wonder if they realize that.
13. That high risk pool, bad numbers on both ends.

Good morning.

1. A slight change in the aerodynamic profile there.
2. Let’s see, a Democrat recipe for business success, the taxpayers will be loaning money to startups, but require they can’t advertise or market, can’t negotiate with vendors, and can’t hire people with prior expertise. That’s a bucketful of beltway stupid if there ever was one.
3. Those who think this man committed war crimes are picking up more of them buckets (of stupid). We gave him a Medal of Honor for a good reason.
4. So while considering crossing the Rubicon … in stealth. The only remaining trick is with term limits and elections, eh? One wonders how Mr Obama now feels about his participation in efforts to block appointments by passive aggression.
5. Sex and the Song of Songs in modern context.
6. If you can consider spending $45k on a wristwatch … money means something different to you than the rest of us. On the other hand, it is an interesting piece.
7. A common (but I think silly) modern neurological objection to free will noted.
8. A global economic indicator to consider.
9. Hah! Take him out back and beat the snot out of him. That’s the solution.
10. That’s English they’re speaking. Amazing. I wonder if I’m as incomprehensible to them as they are to me.

Good morning.

1. Taliban/Al-qaeda embassy?
2. It might be faith in the system, but do you really take civil breach of contract disputes to the police?
3. Hosana-Tabor … asking the question why Mr Obama’s White House didn’t think the 2nd Amendment figured in the picture.
4. Those anti-human activists.
5. Property rights and digital content.
6. One hard way to make a living, an example from the animal world.
7. Human’s in the zoo for fun and profit.
8. A supporter of the platitude man himself (Mr Obama) questions the soft content of GOP speechery. At least they (the GOP) haven’t picked up (to my knowledge) the Obama tactic of saying one thing to one group and the opposite the next day to another.
9. China girding its loins for what purpose?
10. Race that bike!
11. Our anti-business White House in action.
12. “No legal recourse” … oops, not true alas.
13. Law without morals, not so good, in fact completely ineffective.

Woohoo, normal schedule, today at least.

1. Why the notion that the choice is either not both?
2. Hand and mind.
3. Models and testing.
4. Unintended consequences on the way.
5. Joan of Arc.
6. Hitler as man not monster.
7. Somebody’s failing to notice that winning an election isn’t anything like the position which winning yields.

Hmm, well, here’s a few links.

1. AFA/Obamacare … and standards of regulations not up to snuff, surprised?
2. A good answer to “Is God answering the prayers of Mr Tebow?”
3. A Roman Catholic physics joke.
4. Corruption and the White House, dear me, hmmm, is that change we can believe in?
5. A name change and subsequent legal difficulties seem related.
6. Blood libel and academia.
7. Theophany/Epiphany in ice and water.
8. Private schools for the poor.
9. Very cute.
10. Sudoku and some maths results.

Good morning.

1. Stand your ground?
2. Bones bones bones. (HT)
3. Which is then followed by an extended late childhood.
4. Case in point.
5. Feel good vid for the day.
6. A peace a price too high?
7. Uhm, maybe, but COIN included a whole list of things which the armed forces were not the best provider but currently the only available resource.
8. Entrepreneurship.
9. Obama rolls out strategy for the future military. Some reactions from the Shadow folk, here, here and here.
10. Fast and Furiously covered up.
11. Social (?) mobility. How/why is earning in a dollar value equated with social status?
12. Killing fields.

Good morning.

1. Knee jerk misquote noted.
2. 1 Liter SUV?
3. Riffing on Talking Heads lyrics.
4. Fresh off of various blatherations about Iowa demographics, now we have New Hampshire demographics.
5. Not firing the little grey cells overmuch.
6. Back when newspapers didn’t assume people were morons they could have fun with infinity.
7. Considering the recess appointment. Although perhaps the lesson here is that the only people in the room being honest are those who don’t flip their point of view depending on who’s in power, which might explain the lack of defense for those move observed on the left, those who wish to criticize this sort of thing in the future remain silent?
8. What would Edison say? Uhm, how about AC power is dangerous! Everyone should use DC only.
9. So is IPAB Constitutional overreach?
10. Some unfortunate facts about patents and patent law.
11. What to do? Hmm, probably the same thing you’ll do going to your “Feminist Physics” or “Feminist Inorganic Chemistry” or “Feminist Number Theory” classes.
12. For your wall.

Good morning.

1. Well, church and state, or “how then shall I vote?”
2. New England greenery and the West coast transplant.
3. Skinny skinny gymnast.
4. Dicy ditching despicable over-regulation.
5. For that bullet proof party dress.
6. That thing called science.
7. So Obamacare expanded coverage and will also cut costs, and things like this will never ever happen. Riiight.
8. A book noted. Another one noted here.
9. Captioned for your edification.
10. Weight loss.
11. Iran and the gulf.
12. Freedom of press and speech, why the distinction?
13. Why vote for Mr Santorum, or at least one reason.

Well, holiday hiatus is over. Links?

1. Modern edukashun.
2. Economics and a clash of narratives.
3. Considering boots on ground.
4. Seeking to emulate the Norks.
5. Two sides of a question here and here.
6. Democrats moving to tea party sympathies?
7. The problem with the disillusionment is that it is accompanied by some notion that this outcome isn’t a design flaw.
8. No. Russia using drones isn’t the problem with “drones aren’t an act of war?” It’s Iran, or other non-state actors following that lead.
9. Damned lies.
10. OWS and a social psychology view. (tip of the hat).
11. Retail litmus test.
12. The meaning of a word: political.
13. “Selling like hotcakes” … have you seen any evidence of booming growth of, say, IHOP? Me neither. Perhaps he really meant what he said.
14. It means “return of Zune.”
15. A poster. Ride that bike dude!

Yikes. Travel and work.

1. Not optimistic about the NK situation.
2. So a few deaths of note, a tyrant, a public intellectual of the lesser sort, and and a public intellectual of the greater sort.
3. Perhaps a metaphor for government.
4. So do you recommend camouflage for the grade points or standing your ground?
5. Study the classics.
6. One more reason to despise the architects of Obamacare, they engineered the assumption of yet more federal power.
7. So, which do you prefer, “love of”, “lack of”, or “too much” … and the rest of the post is worth reading too.
8. Iconoclasts in our midst, and btw, the trivial defense is just that, trivial.
9. I think it’s just a market twitch.
10. Now there’s a surprise, Lada and “best in class” in the same sentence.
11. For those who prefer to mock Fox and its coverage. Ooops.
12. The world’s grandmaster at estimation in action.
13. OK, granting the, err, his premise, then the question might be why does he engage in it so frequently?