Good morning.

1. Truth in advertising and the Internet.
2. That’s odd. The employment people haven’t been citing that as a good thing.
3. A different sort of apologetics.
4. Turing test and its damage to personhood.
5. Engine tech.
6. So, the Dems and their government threat of shutdown … as wagging the dog?
7. For, to bring beauty to your Monday morning, Sarah Brightman.
8. A book recommended. Mr Schraub didn’t like it, but I think he suffers a bit from the Risky Business problem, for it “effs with his (future) livelihood.”
9. China making breakthroughs in safe Nuclear. Well, we certainly aren’t doing any research in that direction. Mostly, because our leaders are fools and idiots.
10. Politics and budget.
11. A school practicuum. 
12. Crossing boundaries.

Good morning.

1. Mostly, I think, fugly. However, just under 20 years ago … (true story) my mom volunteered to knit me a sweater and asked me to pick a design. I went with this, from a Sci-Am cover. It was much envied in the solid state physics dept (I was a grad student at the time albeit in a different group). She (my mom) said “never again.” Apparently aperiodic designs are not optimal for knitting. Hmmm.
2. Well, having had a long conversation over 8mpg cars … it seems the President doesn’t (either) learn or read my blog (surprise!). It also seems he can be something of a jerk. In that last conversation, … I had let the assertion that the Hummer H2 was a 8mpg car. According to Wiki … it isn’t. So, that means while the President repeats his rhetoric about 8mpg cars, you mostly likely won’t see a single one this month during your commute. It might be that you’ve never ever seen one. (Apparently there are 54 seater buses that get 8mpg … I (and the President) are talking about cars.
3. Someone thinks the “President can’t be that dumb.” We shall see, he’s just reached (and failed) his “let them eat cake moment.” (one more here).
4. Grace under pressure.
5. Learning and language.
6. No. You don’t learn science “by reading and memorization” you do it by apprenticeship, silly. Read your Polanyi, he’s got it right.
7. I’m not sure what the point is here. It’s economics. The reason for flares is that the price of methane is so low that it costs more to bring it to market than its worth. What are they advocating?
8. A summary of Constitutionality and the Libya kerfuffle.
9. Yah, but if you can’t make money, the town dies, duh.
10. The dishonestly of the recent abortion/budget kerfuffle. It might also be noted that the budget was due on Oct. 1, when the President and his party completly controlled Congress. Blaming the GOP House now is yet more Democrat dishonesty.
11. Wisconsin election news.
12. If this comes to pass … the justifications will be, uhm, interesting.
13. A book noted.

Good morning.

1. Surprising none, I expect.
2. Not, of couse, to be sold in the US.
3. Not the Higgs, something new and unexpected?
4. CBO simulation crash.
5. Hollywood as military contractor.
6. I suspect lots of jobs (besides teacher) have Sisyphus (in Hades) as their primary job myth/metaphor.
7. And if neurological condition is irrelevant to personhood both arguments fade.
8. Bang! Ouch!
9. I think they’re targeting the wrong person/persons. Three years for grandma is a bit much for that “crime.”
10. Is he even on the list?
11. That margin should trigger and automatic return for a new election, being closer than the margins of error. But … it won’t.
12. Talking 2012.

Good morning.

1. Well, yesterday I posted a link regarding the NYTimes and its editorial positions regarding trials and Gitmo. Here is a contest now that they have spoken.
2. Seeking the magick algebra dust. Similar discussion found here.
3. Liberals running cities and the result.
4. Moving mass (commercially) into low earth orbit.
5. Car insurance ‘splained.
6. 1099 requirements repealed. Two questions, 17 voted against the repeal? How does that work, why? 
7. Climate news that won’t see the mainstream, ’cause its off message.
8. However, intellectual malfeasance will be the mainstream soon.
9. Eschatological judgement.
10. Interesting … but I don’t think that claim is exactly right. When he says, “In advanced economies, however, most individuals don’t spend their productive energies in actually producing anything in a visceral or corporeal sense.” I think most of us do produce stuff. Or perhaps that’s a liberal/conservative dividing line, conservatives are the ones ‘producing stuff’, liberals don’t.
11. Cancer and gene.

Good morning.

1. We’ll start with a little of the old in-and-out (is that a “A Clockwork Orange” quote)?
2. On a lighter note, I know people for whom that flowchart would be helpful (as they add worry and dither between decision and action).
3. The GOP budget gambit.
4. More here.
5. Graphing autocracy.
6. The desire to purge.
7. Nine dead. I think Mr Taranto nailed the description for that pastor … putting him in the place of the women who eggs on the fight between her suitors. 
8. Rock and the map.
9. I don’t subscribe to the NYTimes, how did that play out then?
10. Three scandals, the third of course is the asymmetry in coverage.
11. A campaign begun … I think a 10-20% tax on campaign spending might be interesting, no? 
12. Concealed carry? After looking at this I googled for some statistics on crime and CC. I found what appeared to be a neutral academic study which found no effect on crime, which seems to me a strong reason to support it, if there is no effect why prohibit?
13. News from the Fed.

Good morning.

1. The jousting begins.
2. The Saint remembered next Sunday (the last Sunday of Lent).
3. And some words on fasting.
4. A part-time-blogger … does good.
5. Hope/Change or … 
6. A discussion on the Constitutionality of Obamacare, noted.
7. And politically motivated exemptions.
8. Vision and age.
9. Seems April Foolsy to me.
10. Motor tech.
11. Business and government, the text of a a speech.
12. Bang!

Good morning.

1. After all, it’s not his money. Why should he give a crap if it costs a lot more.
2. Newt bows out, all that remains is the zombie candidate. Braaaaaiiiins.
3. A book for the Orthodox in our midst.
4. A big blade, and one wonders if climate modelers have considered impact of wind power on climate. My suspicion would be that they haven’t.
5. eCars in real life.
6. Biking with Dante continues.
7. Ooooh, idiot jokes. I always liked, “It takes a village to raise and idiot.” 
8. Planned “Parenthood” silliness.
9. Snarfing the rich, the vid vid.
10. Accidental peroxide.
11. The tech smuggle.
12. Sometimes science really truly is boring. An y’all can now suggest my penance for that pun.
13. Contra-April the first. When I was eight or nine, the neighbor accross the street put a toilet out for the garbage collection at the street on the first. It took me 20 minutes to convince anyone to even look out the window to see that protestations that a toilet was on the neighbors yard wasn’t just some really dumb joke.
14. In which the penny dreadful returns to haunt the living.
15. The problem with trolleys.

Good morning.

1. Mr Wilders speaks.
2. And … is this the Sharia that the liberals defend in Tennessee?
3. Approving of a new word.
4. Tax exempt. Which brought a thought to my mind. Why tax exempt campaigns at all. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful tax income base?
5. Gigapixles are fun.
6. Our solipsistic President. I think he must be delusional to say that we’ve been open to new offshore drilling with a straight face.
7. Dante continues down (on a bike).
8. On Libya and Mr Obama’s narrative.
9. I’m confused by the use of the word “secret” in that headline. Seeing that it’s announced in a headline and all.
10. I’m guessing “Ivy-bound” is no longer an appropriate adjective.
11. Hate speech examined.

Good morning.

1. Cinema, two films noted, here and here. One old, one new.
2. Somebody forgot they live in a community.
3. Losing the libs.
4. Some links, I’d call attention to the the Drezner link.
5. The Obama doctrine, caring a little bit?
6. Just air … and success. “The sad fact is that NATO cannot hope to succeed in its mission — whatever that may be — without combined arms: land, sea and air. An unbalanced force will either be suboptimal for regime change and stability operations or wholly inadequate. Either NATO fights one hand tied behind its back or it fights with the full range of its capabilities.”
7. Dante and the bike.
8. Exceptionalism.
9. Sleazy (dressed) girls for charity.
10. Correlation is not causation, but … doesn’t it also mean if not correlated you should be able to suggest why they are not connected?
11. It ain’t over yet, dude.
12. Faith.
13. Corruption and maps.
14. Yet another book for the queue.

Good morning.

1. When you’ve lost the AP … hmm. (wokring AP link here)
2. Candles and the CO₂ crowd.
3. Eight points … likely the views on which separate left and right.
4. Libya and Iraq.
5. Some advice before the speech (on Libya involvement). I’d offer as well the general observation that limited military engagement for humantarian purposes isn’t humanitarian. By limiting the engagement you extend the conflict … increasing loss of life and suffering not deminishing it. 
6. The tsunami and its power.
7. Sunday of the Cross (last Sunday in the Orthodox Lenten cycle) viewed in a variety of ethnic churches.
8. Calling the would-be intellectual elite by their older name … Mandarin. That worked really really well in China didn’t it? Venality and corruption just vanished didn’t they? No? Oh, well.
9. Krugman pulls the victim card.
10. While the (left wing?) thugs win in Indiana.
11. A car you won’t find in the US, the Democrats, nominally green, are more in the pocket of protectionist auto unions than not.

Good morning.

1. The roiling Middle East and foreign policy.
2. The ever brilliant Mr Biden. More brilliant thoughts here, if by brilliiant we mean … aggressively ignorant.
3. Two public intellectuals on public sector unions, here and here.
4. Computer warrants.
5. Climate change and sea levels.
6. Two women in the news, or drawing moral lessons from contemporary events.
7. Mapping radiation.
8. Unimpressed by Mr Obama from across the pond.
9. A book examined.
10. What passes for progress.

Good morning.

1. Somebody apparently hasn’t noticed that the Democrats too haven’t offered any substantial cuts.
2. “Napalm in the morning” in the movie was a good thing. 
3. Vindication for Bush and Blair.
4. Well, quagmire seems to be the plan going in.
5. Biden on Libya.
6. Recovery and Japan.
7. The Democrats are allergic to that notion, you know being the party of the people and all … they want to make sure no sorts get in the halls of power. After all, it’s the basis for much of their Palin allergy.
8. Law and consequence.
9. For myself, I don’t get the anti-trust part of the complaint. There are many choices out there.
10. Dragons and markets.
11. A word for today.
12. For … openers.
13. A prediction for Libya.
14. An interesting folktale.

Good morning.

1. The irrationality of Peter Singer.
2. Earthquake “fallout”.
3. Libya half a century ago.
4. Medals of Freedom and two Presidents.
5. Heh.
6. A problem noted.
7. 4G warfare in a nutshell.
8. Considering the Theotokos.
9. Prejudices.
10. A question for the President’s backers. And a question about tactics.
11. A film.
12. Practical consequences of Christian eschatology.

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Good morning.

1. Remarks on things claimed by Mr Krugman.
2. Truth remains stranger than fiction.
3. Libya and lessons learned thus far.
4. Gay marriage?
5. War powers.
6. Well, it had to happen. Some nut thought the earthquake was caused by global warming.
7. A monastic library goes online. Probably more fun if you can read classical Greek.
8. A film noted.
9. IPCC authorship. What the … ?
10. A strategic analysis of Libya and NATO.
11. Our liberal friends will have to tell us why such things are a good idea.
12. Lawyers and the sort of “depends on what ‘is’ is responses.”
13. Freedom of expression and schools.
14. Mr Obama’s employment record.
15. Categorizing atheists (and a reminder that Mr Meyer is a dull sort of wit).