Good morning.

1. Another take on the Twain edits.
2. And yet another here.
3. Old Believers in Siberia (HT).
4. History, Bayes and the Resurrection.
5. Authority is not the problem, only if its implementation requires coercion. 
6. An interview noted.
7. Some curious remarks from an IPCC author.
8. Mr DeLong needs a saddle.
9. An interesting use of Obamacare, which practice with a future GOP President will bite the Democratic hand that birthed it.
10. Minorities and their status.
11. A principle key to the Christian life.
12. Behind the woodshed (HT).

Good morning. I’ll be brief today, two word taglines — max.

1. Creation/Evolution.
2. Hybrid.
3. Tiny.
4. Knot.
5. Character.
6. Tradition.
7. Epiphany/Theophany.
8. Chinese?
9. Housing.
10. Love/God.
11. Gigapixels.
12. Talent.
13. Discovery (HT).

Good morning.

1. Seeing as climatology depends crucially on computer aided story telling … alas the left these days seems firmly convinced the answer is theology.
2. A closet left.
3. An odd statement by Mr Obama noted.
4. A ban lifted in name only is still a ban.
5. Democracy and Israel.
6. Verse and the Coptic Queen.
7. Medicinal cabinetry spotted.
8. Questioning the use of the word “culmination.” 
9. US manufacturing trends.
10. “Greatest” art work? Really … but more to the point it is great and the comment may be apropos. I wonder how he feels about Muzak. 
11. In praise of allegory and mythopoetic fiction.
12. Praise for Ms Rand.
13. I think the poster is looking for outrage as a response to Mr Scalia’s words, but I find them quite reasonable.
14. Faint praise for Mr Obama.
15. A career to not seek.

Best laid plans and all. Anyhow, good morning all.

1. Yah think? Ditto.
2. In a Paul Harveyish voice, “The rest of the story, err, bailout.
3. Government and (a) movement.
4. Legal correspondence (HT: MM).
5. One definition of libertarian principles. 
6. Another smart guy comes out of the closet.
7. Financial crises and government.
8. Eastward.
9. What the left wants for the US, or more accurately … the unintended consequence of the other things the left wants for the US.
10. Place and distance.

More tonight.

Good day.

1. Recycling done right.
2. Some quotes as inspiration.
3. Gitmo as recruiting tool is a unexamined truth for the left, alas.
4. I’m not lawyer, but that doesn’t seem like a very parallel example to me.
5. Badging.
6. Keynesian economics and an example. This is a similar article, and the study noted should be important for upcoming budget/tax discussions (behind subscription wall alas). As a quick summary, a good number of studies of countries over the last 30 years and their strategies between taxation and cost cutting were examined in light of whether they were successful in controlling deficits and budgets. The upshot is cost cutting needs to be the primary tool and raising taxes doesn’t work well.
7. As to that study, it’s what we aren’t doing, alas.
8. Icon and the East.
9. Watch tech.
10. Poetry in motion.
11. A book noted.
12. A comparison of religion and harmful practices.
13. Libertarianism doesn’t need to be caricatured to be called Utopian. One just has to point out that the actual libertarian society in the US, namely the Western/backwoods folkway of the 18th and early 19th century as noted in Albion’s Seed is horrifying to most of those who claim to be Libertarian. And if you are repelled by the actual examples of a political philosophy you espouse, that seems problematic.
14. East vs West.

Good day. Just a few today.

1. Patterns found.
2. St. Stephen the protomartyr.
3. Narnia and Nativity.
4. Zooom.
5. Repurposed head tube.
6. Calculus?
7. Bank bailouts.
8. Cricket races of sorts.
9. It occurs to me that is a relationship for which I have little to no understanding, one in which a spouse turns to legal redress for such a thing is not a marriage which has any common ground with mine.
10. A trend.
11. Brandon provides some good links for winter reading.

Good day.

1. Israel and Islam.
2. Somebody still thinks that conservatives dominate the media. Whatta jamoke.
3. A gift suggestion. Another here.
4. Zoom juice.
5. Mr Obama and detention.
6. Cinema noted.
7. Music appreciated … and it got our puppy barking.
8. Christ is born … 100 short stanzas.
9. That’s right. It doesn’t have to be partisan. It needs to be personal. 
10. Shadowing the Nativity.
11. Breaking silence?
12. Verse. And more verse.
13. A SCOTUS brief.
14. Do like the challenge/response “Christ is Born/Glorify Him” better than Merry Christmas/Happy New Year.
15. On Prayer.

Good day and good holiday. And … next week I’m off all week … 

1. For which this seems very apropos.
2. Talking free will.
3. Obamacare and medical bankruptcy.
4. Vows taken.
5. Hmmm. 
6. Link this site (RSS) for news of Belorus and political oppression. Google translate usually kicks in, for me at any rate.
7. Needing a clue.
8. Talking about politics more generically.
9. Xmas in the Balkans … and just East of there as well.
10. Not-Quite Bike re-purposed.
11. Stepping around a problem with climate science.
12. Flee.
13. Mr Krugman and the “science” of economics.
14. Change of the inevitable sort.

Good morning.

1. Finance and government … another view.
2. Alcohol was involved.
3. Feet on the holocaust denial ladder … I wonder if my minor disgruntlement about how the 6 million Jews killed masks the 12 million total killed and causes us to forget the other groups.
4. Death, harm, and the musings of the philosphe.
5. All those birds.
6. Command and authority.
7. Video games intrude into stranger spaces.
8. Charity and a authority of government. (the link worked this morning, but not when I created this post … which in and of itself might be troubling).
9. Physics and theology.
10. Demon rodents?

Good morning.

1. Limits on government.
2. Some history of Advent.
3. Cinema.
4. A faretheewell
5. Cloud formation and climate.
6. Heh.
7. A US Map
8. A Christian novelist.
9. Education.
10. What isn’t tolerance, so why do they call it tolerance?
11. Maths as stem cell.

Well, that was a tactical goof. The net was really dog slow at the hotel here last night, and this morning I decided to use the faster internet at the job site … which unbeknownst to me, had effective net/blocks up against “web communications” sites, i.e., blog driven software. Anyhow, better late than never, I hope.

1. Props for propaganda (HT: Mike).
2. More books books books.
3. Here’s another one.
4. Atheist non-sequitur.
5. Talking about the word faith and should it be removed from the common lexicon of the believers (and why).
6. Talking pay/go. 
7. Obamacare and liberal weak arguments.
8. The first digital camera.
9. An old Jewish saying.
10. Keynesian flavors, of which “cherry” is apparently not an option.
11. One of the predictions of global warming is increased storms, alas.
12. The rich imitate … Madonna?
13. An rfid application missed?
14. Where is the outrage? 

Fiiinally. Sorry about that.

1. Talk about Gitmo.
2. An office pool to steer clear of.
3. Faith and children.
4. A blogiversary of note noted.
5. The Marxist/Leninist left not impressed by the man in the white house.
6. An odd moral.
7. 20 below? Wow. Oh, cold weather and cycling links here. Years ago I took a 50 minute ride to work when it was 2 (F). The coldest I’ve ever been on a bike was riding home from work, I thought it was 26 and was dressed for that. It was 12 with a 30+ mph headwind. That was cold.
8. Cartoonist of the Holy Mountain imagined.
9. Five suggestions for the right on immigration … from the right.
10. Nobody take it seriously as a legal argument from the left.
11. A book noted.
12. Lego does it right.
13. Bad for women? Probably bad for kids and men too. Geesh.
14. On the other hand … Incest + polygamy is the big unshakeable loophole around the inheritance tax. 
15. More on that here.
16. Wealth and not-wealth.
17. Wooohooo. Books books books.

OK then. Carry on.

1. Sound.

There is an saying, attributed commonly I believe (without resorting to Wiki or Google) to the Chinese, “May you live in interesting times.” Well … It was offered at work because of snow conditions in Northern Indiana perhaps I should postpone my drive a day or so. I Googled, and didn’t see much.

Well, Northern Indiana was OK. Central Indiana not so much. That part of the drive was “interesting” but while traffic slowed to 40 or so for about 20 minutes of the drive the three or four cars in the ditch were unoccupied, indicating that the occupants had already been eaten by bandicoots. Uhm, I mean that traffic safety personnel marked the cars and transported the affected individuals to warmth and safety. Eastern Ohio and Western Penn on the other hand with night falling and lots of blowing snow was a bit more ridiculous. Lots of cars off the road, many still with occupants. I have driven longish distances on snow covered roads (Green Bay to Chicago in a storm for example). This was some of the worst conditions I’ve experienced. In the blowing snow the roads were mostly OK in Pennsylvania on I-80 (in Ohio prior to Youngstown on there was significant buildup on the roads) but the visibility was quite bad. Most of the traffic on the roads were trucks. One thing I’ve never seen, the truckers all kept flashing their emergency lights when conditions got bad. Most of us car drivers followed suit. 

Anyhow, I’ve stopped a little West of where I’d planned to be … but will be in Jersey in the late morning. 

Good morning.

Education.

1. US and not-US.
2. Spending and results.
3. Economics. (HT: Mankiw).
4. Advice for parents.

Furren Affairs

1. Islam and fear in the US.
2. Next up for Mr Assange’s projects.
3. Killing.
4. Movement.

Theology and thoughts

1. I think “happy, friendly” are not very good adjectives in that sentence.
2. Three friends.
3. Numbers and proof.

Humor.

1. Heh.
2. Awwwww.

Good morning.

1. Examining big government in a “follow the money” sort of manner.
2. Maximally bad payroll tax cut.
3. A problem with many popular macro-economic models is they have no spatial dependence.
4. A long criticism of Keynesian stimulus. (Update: missing link added)
5. Our government stimulus in action. Or not.
6. A curious notion, that after the new class goes to Congress the GOP will have effective control … seemingly in a way that exceeds the control that that the Dems exercised they controlled both houses and the Presidency.
7. Wildlife highway.
8. A government break in … and a moral drawn. It seems to me one missing moral (not drawn) is that when you decide to own a gun and aren’t in wartime you never ever ever ever [repeat] fire at a target you can’t see and fully identify.
9. People doing stuff.
10. Liberals hoisted (yet again) by their petard. Hmm, I thought the more significant petard hoisting regarding the left is that after decades putting barriers to industrial expansion they suddenly find that there are no “shovel ready” projects for their vaunted stimulus.
11. A duel re-imagined.
12. Wikileaks and WMD.
13. Election tech.