Still busy, but trying to make time for y’all

1. Bzaaaap!
2. Hmmm, two ways to go on that … yes censuring both is in order, but only one was a family hour/children’s TV hostess/actress.
3. Here, however, is a third way you probably haven’t considered.
4. “I have not yet made a decision” and the subtext is that we all remember “I’m the guy who spent knew for 9 months where Bin Laden and it took all that time for me to make up my mind to go after him.” Somebody should remind him, not to draw a do not cross line if it is just a bluff. Like the bin Laden attack, we’ll have to wait for a wag-the-dog domestic prompt to get us to move.
5. Related to the above. So, prior to being elected President, Mr Obama was firmly against Presidential unilateral military action, now he’s for it (indeed done it). Stupid or evil (that is, was he so dumb he didn’t anticipate reasons for doing so, or was he lying when he said he was against it?) Liberals keep telling how smart they are, which alas, leaves the “evil” alternative.
6. I think this belief noted (that racism is the motive) is common on the left. It remains interesting (ironic?) that that assumption is itself  the essence of bigotry.
7. Guns and legal control. Back when I was in school, a very good cartoon was on a door in our dorm … “People don’t kill people, Toasters kill people.” with the image of a guy falling down dead with toast impaling his back and another holding a toaster like a mortar.
8. “Noble cause corruption” isn’t noble but it is indeed corruption.
9. Chemicals to leave for the professionals.
10. Academic potential.
11. Who done it?
12. A short way from surrealism is hyper-realism, both I will admit to liking.
13. A mistake I’ve made.

Good morning.

1. Foreign policy excuses.
2. Coming to the dance, and darn it all, but someone else has the same dress.
3. And then … have a cup.
4. Oddly enough, I have an LED bulb in my bathroom because it is brighter than the incandescent (the fixture limits because of heat to 60 watts, I put a liquid cooled LED 75+ watt equivalent which draws under 20 watts … and voila … more light than ever).
5. Them folx are serious about their drinking (and avoiding taxes).
6. Wow.
7. Syria and gas … and who dun it … so cui bono? Al Qaeda or an equivalent?
8. Sweets and athletes.
9. Anti-Semitism as proof of the devil.
10. Rape and vigilantism.
11. One explanation …
12. Luxury and academe.

G’day

1. Now there’s an amusing analogy.
2. The scandalanche.
3. Christianity.
4. And the same as above, just very early.
5. Stimulus not stimming.
6. OK, then, but even if statistically sound, it won’t change anyone’s positions today.
7. Where you go when you don’t have a sound argument.
8. Or one of these.
9. If one was racist, oddly enough … I’d think that the Democrat’s pet race/economic policies would be exactly what I’d support, e.g., aff action, pc speech suppression, and so on.
10. Ages of famous men in a remarkable time.

Busy busy.

1. A book is noted.
2. Public works art is often regrettable.  Or should that be normally?
3. “Marriage” !?? … child abuse by any other name is … still.
4. Doing the damning with faint praise to the max.
5. Education and Poverty.
6. Consequences of raising minimum productivity bounds.
7. 5 years of blogging … gets results.
8. Ah, memories of high school reading habits.
9. Well, to be honest a lot of the knowledge brought West reportedly from Islam came from sacking Constantinople.
10. Feeding the wrong wolf.

So … do you like puns?

Good morning.

1. Fiction and the White House.
2. Obamacare bungling continues apace.

And .. I deleted too many recent links so .. from earlier this week ..

1. About time, literally.
2. Drink, drank, drunk.
3. Brings to mind the first paragraph of Anna Karenina, eh?
4. Given not taken.
5. #1 daughter and my, ahem #1 (and only) wife, are seeing this tonight. I wish I could be there.
6. Spam as policy?

Good morning.

1. Dumb? Well, if “not remembering to exhaustively look up every term you use casually is dumb” (or using twitter at all), then yes.
2. Well, correlation is not causation … but on the other hand the Cemocrat impulse to note (or overlook) the correlation and infer the opposite as cause  is even more wrong.
3. A consequence of being Jewish on marriage, i.e., view essentially as a contract.
4. Onion-ish, except it’s not fiction.
5. Some suggestions for big Pharma. Of course, the policy take away is that one good way to remove the high level of caution would to remove some of the legal risks.
6. On secular celibacy (HT)
7. Open systems, of a sort, and why light security interfaces on your pacemaker remain a really horrible idea.

Good, well, day.

1. Help or harm?
   
2. The other third who are ag’in it are college administrators and Democratic politicians, and journalists. Recall yesterday’s equal protection quotes from Mr Jackson.
3. Perhaps confusing anesthesia with the agents blocking the formation of long term memory.
4. The carbon-is-bad crowd is surely very excited about developments like this. If they aren’t they are very confused (or hypocrites).
5. The important funding for healthcare is of course, the perks for the big wigs. Some things never change.
6. Given that the “Hebrew OT” used in many modern translations was collected in the 9th century AD and the Greek OT (Septuagint) was tranlated in the 3rd century BC by 70 (many?) rabbis … the calls of which was more “genuine” get somewhat confused.
7. Politicians lie. Constantly.
8. Yikes.
9. A really strong argument against the wisdom of ACA/Obamacare. (see #5 above and perks).

August continues, in a few weeks #1 daughter will give college the old college try.

1. Teleos and man.
2. Sodding Sod?
3. Obamacare consequences.
4. In a post on implicit bias … not noticing other implicit biases, like that women in philosophy (and in academia in general) are likely more common than conservatives.
5. Oh. Yech. Yech, yech, blech. Don’t even think of the word smell when you read that.
6. In the news.
7. Obama’s government, standing firm against equal protection, wasn’t always that way though.
8. Advice for the week.
9. An application of the above.
10. Of God and man.
11. It’s not working, so keep it up, eh?

Good day … in pairs.

1. Questioning premises, public education (here too). Here’s a hypothesis, public support for education should be weighted by measurable talents demonstrated by the child.
2. There’s a good idea and a reading suggestion.
3. A thought to gnaw upon … and some more to get grumpy ’bout.
4. Noble savage … not exactly … and a better microscope.
5. Various thoughts … and (nothing).
6. I don’t think that’s true … and sharing life with introverts.
7. More than meta-data … and (nothing).
8. The mid-East and … pipelines.
9. Well, yes, but we are also basically evil at heart (remember the “line between” quote) … and prosecution for what?
10. Memories of the past in these waning Weiner days (recall Ms L is in her 40s now) … and apparently order matters in the acquisition of dogs and kids.

OK then. Enjoy

Woops.

1. Feminism ala Rome.
2. Not a quiet ride.
3. How the Vickie’s live (differently).
4. On altruism.
5. Cinema. And … I wonder if it’s less a “strength” vs timescale thing here, that temptations work on a fast timescale, while the other two take  commensurate (slower) times to work.
6. Zuperman.
7. Scandal and the treasury.
8. Looks like that’s in the “doesn’t work yet” category.
9. Whence went shame?
10. I’m missing the reason why that’s awful.
11. Sort of binary sandpiles.
12. Detroit … although how many of the 25 apply just as well to other urban centers?
13. Advice for your booklist inbox.
14. One left wing radical unashamed of her bigotry.
15. So do you think he’s guilty or just a dupe?

Good, well, evening

1. Well, students of politics (not theology), might point out that is obvious, central and government power has been steadily on the rise again since, well, Rome fell (further reading: Bertrand de Jouvenel “On Power“, which is a good book if you prefer the sort that encourages you to stop every page or so and ponder what you’ve just read).
2. It is, admittedly, easier to see other’s blind spots than your own.
3. Dead man walking perhaps not so dead.
4. Storage hints.
5. Interesting, but translate that to the beltway and BS …. yikes.
6. Talking virtue again.
7. Not a neo-nazi skinhead.
8. Lessons from the liberal press on how not to retract.
9. When putting a blog post “unclear on the concept” normally one should try to refer to something other than yourself. To whit “more likely” has very little to the running of one experiment. When I roll a die, I am more likely to roll a number of spots greater than 2 than I am a number less than or equal to two. That I did roll a die and get a one (and therefore have 100% chance I did roll a 1 is not relevant to the prior probability estimate). Mr Schilling, it is alas, you who are unclear on the concept.
10. Evil witches.

Good … well, whatever. Links?

1. A career suggested.
2. Or … addicts don’t stop being addicted after public exposure . Surprise, well, not exactly.
3. This brings to mind the science fiction-like novel I’be been plugging, in its consderation of hate. The novel Vita Nostra ultimately connects note hate but the conjunction of love and fear in the context of education.
4. Irony in recent Obamacare moves, in which Mr Obama’s very likely Constitutional unilateral decision to not enforce a law is ratified by the House and a veto is threatened.
5. Small mammal with impressive spine strength noted.
6. Arrest? That seems extreme if was an emergency thing or in a very rural area.
7. Pacifism and cinema.
8. Grist for the “if he was a black man shooting a white one (hispanic?)” things would have turned out differently mill.
9. He blinded me with science.
10. Things to appall JSM.
11. Ya think there’s some backstory/history going on behind there?
12. Headline stating the obvious.
13. Oh, he’s likely a racist, just not in the expected way.

Good morning

1. Ice down under.
2. Is this the “See I’m such a blatteroon that I should have been killed prior to birth” argument for abortion?
3. Whence the Zimmerman/Martin outrage?
4. One more on the above trial.
5. And Mr Zimmerman back in the news.
6. Keeping it classy in Ohio, or not.
7. Ditto.
8. Chicago politics norms.
9. It’s (h) a Lucy Nation (that’s supposed to be a pun).
10. And … its a blech response.
11. The Apostles’ Creed for the modern liberal.
12. Cinema.
13. Playing games with the high speed camera.
14. Advertising and the sublime.
15. Reviewing drone studies.

Good morning.

1. Well, there’s an (unintended) argument for drone use.
2. A maths trick in narrative form.
3. About that pope fella.
4. Cinema: Pacific Rim and a litmus test.
5. Detroit, one in 100? The first penguin to test the waters for whales and seals?
6. Scrubbed from Mr Obama’s past by a friendly press perhaps?
7. Climate, crises and costs. Compare/constrast with this (and don’t ask if the climate change is just the el Nino/Nina cycle).
8. Ah … a last line, I still think Mr Wilde’s was better (“on his deathbed reputedly he said, “Either that wallpaper goes or I go … and died.”)
9. Manners and (just as importantly) … some interesting words I didn’t know. So now your task for the week is to use “blatteroon” in a sentence.
10. Hmmm, I hit #1 and #4. Re #1 without the “droopy oversized” that’s regular summer wear for me and I no longer own any blue jeans having replaced them all with #4, which is all about the pockets (and not having to sit on my wallet).

OK.

1. Promises, promises … footnote clarified.
2. (more) Detroit chapter 9 notes here (soon to be followed by Illinois and California perhaps?).
3. The opposite of eutrapelia is …  (find out here).
4. My wife’s patron saint noted.
5. Sticking to the party line without thinking has consequences.
6. Yikes.
7. So …. the IRS scandal does reach the white house. Woops.
8. Of nekkid and the nood.
9. Some notes on free will from someone likely allergic to Polanyi (esp the book Personal Knowlege).
10. So that jet setting SUV driving green activists can use even more energy zipping about the world telling us all we are horrible wasters of resources.
11. Of feasting and fasting (although not using those words).
12. Mr Biden skewered by his own words … compare this and this.