Good morning. Moving towards Spring, eh?

1. International disaster relief and two Presidencies.
2. As the West struggled with the Reformation, the East received the theology of Palamas.
3. A mostly (likely) dismal list of films.
4. Stupid liberal rhetorical responses, use literalism to avoid confronting the real point, oh and don’t forget the most common (seen from my perch) liberal conversational tactic … the personal insult. The substantial point for the discussion in any rational environment would be the over-arching growth and intrusive reach of government regulation. Alas, it goes unnoticed.
5. In which the unfortunate Mr Carville is noted. Mr Carville, from my point of view, suffers from my minds insistence on every appearance of his to recall a remark during the Lewisnsky kerfuffle he made on a news program in which he noted something to the effect of, “Well, you see what you by trawling through a trailer park with $20 bills.” My immediate thought was to wonder why a Democratic supporter would be defending Mr Clinton trawling through trailer parks for sexual favors using cash as a lure … but apparently he intended it as a slur against the character (and discovery) of Ms Jones. It didn’t (for me) come off that way at all alas. 
6. For the “Stop Eating Cake” crowd.
7. Someone is forgetting that the size, prominence and military standing of the actor trumps this discussion. Russia, China, (and yes) the US, and other big powers can do whatever they damn well please and no intervention will occur.
8. Heh.
9. Political contributions and Libya.
10. Privatizing garbage collection.

So, Three-Mile Island was the worst nuclear accident on US soil. How many deaths are epidemologically attributed to the accident. Well, one study I was quoted in passing by a co-worker was that 50-100 deaths resulted from the accident. All these deaths alas, were due to the increased coal mining and pollutants from the increase in coal fired electrical production. 

Who wants to guess that the aftermath of the recent earthquake and reactor incedents have similar “fallout?”

Good morning.

1. Housing and price, or at least supply.
2. NPR and boobs.
3. Computers meet the grenade. 
4. Speaking of weapon-tech.
5. No. It wasn’t because she was dressed in any way shape or form, it was because the guys were not fit company for dogs.
6. Talking Lent.
7. And exactly what is not needed for the Lenten fast.
8. Constitution and sex offender treatment, for non-sex offenders.
9. This is not a defense of Catholic priests and sex offenses but a question about hypocrisy in those who point at only that. There’s an order of magnitude problem lurking in there to grapple with.
10. How to max out the use of faint praise.
11. Economically rational but morally reprehensible normally means don’t do it … unless your a beltway Congress-critter of course.
12. Dude! I, too, like the look.
13. Not why he forded that Rubicon I suspect.

Good morning.

1. So. If we knew how it would turn out, would we do it anyhow?
2. Facts about the earthquake. 
3. Some meta-links, or a set of interesting links posted here.
4. Is Outrage!
5. Incentives. And … where do their incentives lie?
6. Our spending woes or … the satirical version.
7. Motor Oil (googling around, I found Exxon/Mobil also has developed for testing a similar oil).
8. Not getting the whole broken windows thing. Yes. The window (appliance) dealer might do well, and yes people might dip into the college fund to rebuild … but that just means they can’t spend or invest that money elsewhere.
9. Obama. Man of action … or not. Consistent, yes.
10. Money and value?
11. The snake did it.
12. An interesting question on the Obama mandate-as-tax. What sort of tax, eh?

Good morning.

1. And meaningless jobs … don’t create happiness.
2. Where it’s all about the team … you’ll not find citations of liberals making errors in speeches there.
3. Weather and some predictions. Let’s see, you can’t make accurate very short term (seconds/minutes), short term (week) weather predictions, mid-term (three month) predictions. Yet the claim is that long term (decade) predictions are easy. Well, if “easy” means unverifiable you’re right. Otherwise, not so much.
4. Yah. And he stood there in picture pose for 5 hours while it filled.
5. Coming to a laptop/cell phone near you … in 5-10 years?
6. Prudence.
7. Cinema.
8. Public unions and teaching.
9. Speaking of unions.
10. Words for Japan from India.
11. Kill the fallacy.
12. Trust.
13. What does due processes mean, from an Constitutional perspective?
14. A plug for courting.

Good morning.

1. A film noted.
2. Better than CNN for news on Japan.
3. Lenten links. 
4. The Lenten prototype. Jesus, it might be noted, remarks on “when you fast” … not “if you fast” implying that the whether question regarding the fast is assumed.
5. Byzantine revival.
6. What happens when you can’t do High School Physics.
7. Fears for Nuclear Energies future? I’ve seen nuclear energy proponents talking about this as a big blow, however I’ve not seen any triumphial remarks from nuclear energy detractors pointing to this as a proof positive that nuclear energy is too dangerous to consider.
8. Gender pay gap and abortion.
9. Quake and the bike.
10. Quake and seapower.
11. Quake and the voice of God.
12. Ramblings on the US and our worldview.
13. Mr Bush’s new book a capsule summary/review.
14. Raising kids and atheism, a question asked.

Good morning.

1. A proxy for Presidential popularity measured.
2. Smash, with color.
3. Hmmm. China’s growth and cost.
4. Uhm, auto-stop features do not require hybrid cars, even though auto-stop is found on all hybrids.
5. Repurpose your bike pump?
6. The priest in the brothel.
7. The Canon of St. Andrew, Ukraine and I’d show you pictures from our parish … but our parish website has no perma-links for photos for the next few days you can see them here.
8. Gender imbalance and economic risk taking.
9. Unintended consequences of consumer protectionism, although I’d suggest those “unintended” consequences were in fact easily predictable.
10. ID and a Constitutional can of worms.
11. Three Lenten meal suggestions.
12. Words to fear.
13. Women in science.
14. Recent discussions on the ontological argument discussed.

Good morning.

1. Correction and an argument for union protection in the public (not private) sector.
2. The coming demographic crisis in China.
3. Uhm, I can’t imagine the Irish population in either city is a significant percentage.
4. A question for economics and income stratifcation.
5. Torture.
6. Iranian hardware in Afghanistan. Who paid for them?
7. An item in the news lately.
8. Performing for monsters?
9. Kinda like pacifists paying taxes in wartime. Hmm.
10. In the when in a hole, keep digging mode, or not? More seriously, I’m curious at the left, who largely was behind the objections to largely symbolic statues in courthouses because of relgious content now supports  not-just-symblic statutes in the books of the same sort in those same houses. Since when has the left been so supportive of involuntary clitorectomies and highly assymetric divorce laws anyhow? And why? 
11. Looking at warming predictions … 20 years predicted 2-4 degrees warming, the result basically none. 
12. The beautiful results of heresy, specifically the possessor vs non-possessor conflict. As you can see, the possessors won.
13. An Obamacare riddle.
14. Coptic Christians, canary or match?

Good morning.

1. Some fun to start, here (which reminds me of my own haircare practices) and the old non-sequitor.
2. On that non-sequitor thing… uhm.
3. Considering intervention.
4. The first four days of Lent liturgically in the East, pictures here and here.
5. What is that canon of St. Andrew?
6. The insenstive man.
7. Another strike against unions and regulatory barriers.
8. A college course?
9. Are those the only three possibilities?
10. Culture and schooling.
11. That ice is complicated is just the tip of the berg … which is why making predictions is premature.
12. Spring.
13. Bad news for the Obamacare supporters, yet another reason for its implementation is unwarranted.

Good morning. 

1. Lent begins, and a popular American company gets in the act in Greece.
2. A thought on the Lenten process.
3. Normally critical of Mr Krugman, one person gives him his due.
4. Of rights, place, and a film.
5. Talking union.
6. Way out on the Palin derangement limb or … how un-self-aware a blogger sounds when talking about the putative self-awareness (or lack) of those whom he basically has zero personal knowledge.
7. A good coda for the Krugman/Iowahawk exchange.
8. A odd way to praise a translation.
9. Dimension and scale.
10. Plumbing the depths of young male stupidity.
11. Fisticuffs and gender.
12. The genesis of modern science.

Good morning.

1. TSA, coming where?
2. If it doesn’t do that, what’s the point?
3. Economics and nonsense.
4. Attacked? For what?
5. That’s the attraction of “pragmatism”, after all having principles is just soooo limiting.
6. Jailed in Germany.
7. The FDA strikes again.
8. What you know is wrong, examine for example the Puritan preacher.
9. Happiness and the US.
10. An interesting comparison made by the left.
11. Visiting a memorial.
12. Not the digital revolution we have come to expect.

Goooood morning.

1. Mr Krugman caught lying with statistics.
2. S;peaking of the skewering of NYTimes punditry.
3. Anti-Semitism and racism.
4. Showing its demographic weakness, so who is supposed to be buying these things, besides the rich wanting to badge as green?
5. Stupid academic folly, more here.
6. Continuing the folly of the non-exceptional status of man.
7. Climate and cycles.
8. Vice or virtue?
9. Mr Obama as neo-con?
10. Billionares and the left, a question.

Good morning.

1. Plutarch on the modern politician, while the quote is focused on Mr Obama I think the application is far wider.
2. Working in DC.
3. Female and pre-natal.
4. Stimulus and effect. That multiplier looks negative, eh?
5. “Afraid of the police?” Seriously? Perhaps that’s a key difference between conservative and not-conservative. 
6. Protesters in Wisconsin.
7. Guns and feminism … go hand in hand.
8. Fer the national Christie luv.
9. So, I’m going to be on a list?
10. Having fun in the scientific field.
11. At least one preson is confused about voluntary vs involuntary contributions.
12. Sex and men, …  and the gender academics.
13. A felony?!
14. Hanging with (very rich) scum.

Good morning.

1. A person who thinks the President is not such a Constitutional law expert after all.
2. Ohhh. rhetoric with guns. Speaking of which.
3. That pesky muliplier.
4. Pen and sword … is the pen mighter because it can sign checks … or does the checkbook fit in the sword category?
5. A really good piece on the Wisconsin thing, which unsurprisingly indicts the media for their astoundingly poor coverage.
6. More Wisconsin coverage here.
7. More rank stupidity in the government.
8. I think those are backronyms. 
9. Against the “diversity rational” for affirimative action.
10. Talking liberal/conservatives and academia.
11. The Pentacoltal Christian couple in-the-news regarding homosexuality and foster children in the UK (photo).
12. Mr Krugman, professional idiot? Hello? The country is larger than the Boston/New York/Philadelphia/DC metro area … use your economic “smarts” to consider the economic feasibility of rail and say … any given medium to small city in the MidWest, South or West. Pretend you realize that rail feasibility hinges on population density just a little bit. 
13. Looking at the choices of “experts” on CNN panels. And “they” say FOXNews is biased. Pot meet kettle.

Good morning.

1. Libya and the UN.
2. Symptomatic of our modern world?
3. A slippery slope path suggested.
4. A anthropology, in a literal sense (a logos of anthropos).
5. From pro-choice to pro-life, a journey recounted.
6. The plan all along? The backed-into-a-corner aspects of Obamacare. 
7. Where is the outrage?
8. The god gene.
9. When 1-hour charge is a pretense of workable. It seems to me a industry standard swappable battery is the way to go, that way you can get a re-fueling in minutes not hours.
10. Blogger=extremist.
11. Parkour.
12. Fantasy on Wall Street?
13. Hostile Op-Ed. 
14. 6-months to a year from now, when I note something like this, it will be assumed by my liberal interlocoturs that it never happened because I fail to google and re-locate it. 
15. A downside to no-fly.
16. Losing a foster child because of homosexuality.