Good morning.

1. Considering loopholes, and a rejoinder to comments.
2. Mr Cain and the boys room.
3. Class and OWS.
4. On that topic …
5. Rare is the Democrat that will admit to that I figger.
6. Libraries and patrons.
7. Available for kindle SVS Press titles.
8. Cinema to watch out for (or if you’re in the NY area … to watch).
9. Socket maps.
10. Math (science?) publishing. One might consider voting and government in a similar framework (that is to pose the two enumerated questions on journals transposed to electoral processes).
11. Three posts on 7 billion humans … here, here and here.
12. Troops staffing levels and drawdown(s).
13. Heh.
14. Our welfare state.

Good morning.

1. Looking for that good war.
2. For the high court watchers.
3. Still chasing aggregate demand.
4. Elastic and inelastic collisions.
5. Economics, politics and Argentina.
6. Profiling.
7. Indian populism.
8. Dance and gravity.
9. Cold fusion and not-science, and … cold fusion is just about here. There’s just one leetle technical problem left, which is finding that plentiful cheap source of cold muons.
10. The purpose of the police … not protection.
11. Our toxic future … not so deadly?
12. A 1%/48%/99% note.
13. For those canonizing Mr Jobs.
14. Welcome to the information age.

Good morning.

1. Abortion wars continue.
2. Yah, virtue ethics presupposes a notion of virtue. So what? Consequentialism presupposes a notion of good consequences.  Oops.
3. Jock marries nerd.
4. Heh.
5. Halloween?
6. Questioning the Keynesian.
7. Personal gain and insider trading.
8. Search, seizure and the information age.
9. Celebrate inequality.
10. I got an itch, so road trip!
11. That’s ‘cause they’re racists (that is using race as criteria for reasons not warranted).
12. Some stupid human tricks.
13. Iraq and Libya.

Good morning.

1. Smash.
2. Improbable headline and for that matter there are several improbable comments in the quoted news article as well, “no damage to entertainment system” … huh?
3. Wanna be published? A call for contributions.
4. A WWI land/sea invasion noted.
5. Customs are surely strange all over.
6. Speaking of strange customs …
7. Washington whipsaw.
8. Learn a new language, real quick.
9. An abortion discussion.
10. Mr Walesa and the OWS movement.
11. That pavement looks perfect.
12. So, “special place in Hell” or “All’s well that end’s well”, which?
13. Aggregate demand and that multiplier (divisor) thing.

Good morning.

1. The LISPers mourn. Noted here too.
2. A tale of two desks (three if you count KDE).
3. Noting a quote from someone somwhere who apparently has never heard of (or read or been influenced by) Mr Burke. Actually, if you think a large group of people with the same culture, same background has a substantial different (and lower quality/amount) human feature like empathy, love or caring of others than does your group … that is tribalism not truth.
4. More seriously, on the subject of conservatism qua conservatism.
5. Once touched never the same.
6. An interesting question raised, how/why that dichotomy of impressions comes about. Is the suggested answer on the right track?
7. Noise abatement and the OWS. Drums?
8. Out on the steppes.
9. Graphic images and self-censure (on a parenthetical note, I have not seen any pictures of Gadafi’s capture or execution and I’m not looking. Why would you?)
10. Poking fun at the President (and his poor arithmetic skills).

Good morning.

1. Bad parenting … this is not a good name for your child and choosing such a name is beyond despicable.
2. Actually they’re not squirming and have no reason to … because if you read the actual transcript (about half way down the page) you’ll see what claimed as “birtherism” is just really poor yellow journalism. I’m sorry answering “I have no reason to think otherwise” to “Was Mr Obama born in the US” and responding to Mr Trump’s birtherism notions at dinner with “He’s the President of the United States. He’s elected. It’s a distractive issue” … if that’s birtherism Mr Schraub, you too are a birther for I daresay you couldn’t honestly answer any differently.
3. Not getting the point of the Declaration of Independence.
4. Occupy devolving? Devolution of sorts seems ineveitable as “occupying Wall Street” to protest injury done by the education establishment seems naive at best.
5. More here.
6. So the left (or at least broad swaths of it) is willing to put forth laws making “abortion for sex selection” illegal in several states now. A curious state for the pro-abortion crowd … to admit that some reasons for abortion might be beyond the pale. I wonder if they dream of slippery slopes?
7. OOoooh, financial predictions shown graphically out to 2080!
8. Yet another really bad historical revisionist movie.
9. Finding consistency.
10. Defense of the cubical.
11. A cornerstone of western philosophy noted.

Good morning.

1. Permission?
2. LRA and Mr Washington. Related thoughts here.
3. Uhm, what’s the problem? I don’t get it … that saying is very very old.
4. Romney and Cain.
5. Akin to a bank run? Oh, joy.
6. CLASS. I’d like to hear the rational justification for a long term program being “made solvent” by 5 years of payments prior to payouts.
7. Broken tenure.
8. 9 books every geek has read … so what’s missing?
9. Stimulus and the limits of policy.
10. Mr Obama following Mr Nixon?
11. Yikes.
12. I shouldn’t think so. I can’t imagine even Democrats would vote for him.
13. Skewering more ingrained notions? The Red Cardinal rehabilitated?
14. Clever.

Good morning.

1. Don’t walk by, don’t ignore your neighbor.
2. Zombies and the CDC.
3. Abortion, death penalty and certainty.
4. A good essay on climate or pointing out straw man whackers.
5. An OWS problem.
6. Requesting funds.
7. (Outer) Space and narrative.
8. Alcohol and the search engine.
9. Defense and economics … consider the small state.
10. Amateur hour at the White House.
11. The bike named Shadowfax.
12. Duh. It was a bad idea before, during and after.

Good morning.

1. Is this the sort of corporation that the OWS fellows are up in arms about … why aren’t they, like the Tea Party, then primarily critical of the government. Speaking of which, it seems to me many of these OWSers are complaining that they have large college loans + no prospects for jobs given their particular educational qualifications. It seems to me the “corporation” to lay the blame at is the educational industry with its skyrocketing cost of product and willingness to send out students from its care with no particularly useful skills.
2. Top 1% … and the government teat.
3. Oh, and that growing income disparity? Hmmm.
4. And again, that middle class malaise?
5. Higher taxation and higher revenue.
6. A point missed here.
7. “Never at the same time of course” … and what besides your own conscience stopped you? Nothing, I suspect.
8. Recovery of energy from braking.
9. Cinema!
10. A rider? Hey! That “pushed the amendment to Obamacare that required CLASS to be actuarially sound to be implemented:” should be a Constitutional requirement for Congress.” Just CLASS? Why “Just?” Heck every law they publish should be actuarially sound.
11. Well, I’d vote yes if the drive was to put the above into an Amendment. Otherwise, no.
12. Stupid stupid stupid. Grandma is not the problem.
13. The OWS and anti-Semitism meme dismissed.
14. Pot calls kettle black.
15. Like I said, kettle is black.
16. Some words for the Romney skeptics.
17. Push “post” and go to jail.
18. This will be discussed at the water cooler today.

Good morning.

1. But he/she was a good father (or mother)!? How does one be a bad spouse but good father/mother … good question.
2. Hiding in plain sight.
3. Economics and warfare.
4. Different roads.
5. Dropping expensive regulations.
6. Sandwich.
7. Dueling environmentalists, or bats vs CO2.
8. She turned me into a frog! … well, it got better.
9. Art.

Good morning.

1. Non-transparency.
2. The Hayek/Keynes movies continue.
3. Yikes!
4. Yikes again!
5. Commute times worldwide.
6. Lawyers and markets.
7. Drones and detentions.
8. Occupy and moving red-ward.
9. And a positive spin on the occupy movement.
10. Another sort of red.
11. CLASS.
12. Racism.
13. 3rd Amendment.

Good morning.

1. A question for the Occupiers. (HT)
2. Finally the answers about the Jimmy Carter Rabbit incident.
3. Horses giving backrubs?
4. Presidential intervention noted.
5. For what reason? Strategic interest is out.
6. Becoming holy and fighting evil.
7. Heh.
8. Iran their latest move.
9. LOL.
10. Some notes on Mr Cain.
11. And life (or Mr Cain?) imitates … Sim City?
12. Is the recent spike all related to oil/energy?
13. So, agree or disagree with the headline?
14. Questioning a legal charge.
15. The other 1%.

On and off again I refer to the little book published that consists of the debate between Jurgen Habermas (eminent German philosopher) and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict). The title of this book is Dialectics of Secularization. Mr Habermas opens, sets the stage and gives a brief argument (streching 30 pages of a small format book) … and Cardinal Ratzinger replies in like length. This book is published by Ignatius Press (2006) and is quite inexpensive (and available on Amazon). It was, of course, originally published in German.

The Question:

Does the free, secularized state exist on the basis of normative presuppositions that it itself cannot guarantee? This question expresses a doubt about whetherthe democratic constitutional state can renew from its own resources the normative presuppositions of its existence; it also expresses the assumption that such a state is depenedent on the ethical traditions of a local nature.

Mr Habermas takes the affirmative, and of course Mr Ratzinger the negative. Read the rest of this entry

Good morning.

1. Oil and water separation, a prize given.
2. It’s the damn media “professionals”, or not.
3. Thaaat’s right, and consequentialism is for scoundrels.
4. A car and a test.
5. Jimmy Johnson for President?
6. Or not … and Mr Borepatch might be forgetting the high court appointments.
7. Heresy!
8. And the heretic responds.
9. Fantasy football put in context.
10. Faith and science or at least the scientist.
11. Going gonzo with infographics.

Good morning.

1. Well, Illinois is not the most regressive state. This is not unrelated.
2. Pride and the terrorist.
3. In the context of my (about to be much abused) noted about the rationale of liberals, this doesn’t to get that point.
4. Being a dissident, a family affair. (being human –> also a family affair)
5. A petition.
6. Blood money.
7. Egypt and violence.
8. How is this an “unintended” consequence when it was frequently and easily anticipated?
9. Up up and away.
10. In which “for nothing” means trillions of dollars of other peoples money.
11. The response to the 99%/1% rhetoric.
12. The NYTimes contorted(?) response to the targeting and killing of an American citizen.
13. Why pose that rhetorical question in a campaign speech?
14. A school session.