Good morning.

1. Climate not cooperating. Is spin required?
2. Gun law growsing in Illinois.
3. I’m sorry that headline makes no sense. The president cannot sustain any “serious” blows to a thing which he has lost long ago. Oh, wait, perhaps they meant Mr Geithner’s credibility.
4. Various Physics grails, err, quests.
5. Yes, it was common in the past to view Islam as a Christian heresy … I’m thinking today’s Muslims would take a dim view of that approach.
6. Of course they’re going to go after the 401k’s … it’s where the only money is left.
7. That was somewhat unexpected I venture.
8. Ethics and hell.
9. Dr Strangelove and Obamacare.
10. Feel good about that yet?
11. The other Libyan question.
12. Jail? Seems a bit light.
13. New Orleans and the rebuilt levees.

Good morning. Well, yesterday I was driving to and from a job site … and then I got busy. Ah well.

1. Deceit, war and trust.
2. Homophobia recognized “officially” as a meaningless word.
3. The missing why? or not?
4. Oooh, liberal bigot finds a home. This certainly identifies as “you are that of which you speak” very well.
5. Of abortion, information access and trisonomy 21.
6. So, higher taxes on the rich will make barely a ripple of difference in the deficit, so why is it important?
7. Heh.
8. Here’s the dumbest post on the net in a long while. “Thanks?” Seriously … that’s your flowchart? Let’s see “Yah, honey … I got the flowchart and followed it … I’m getting Suzy a quart of Schnapps and a chainsaw, for Billy a carton of cigars and a bag of Vicodin, and a 12 gauge and a basket of shells for little Sammy. It’s all OK on your chart right?” Alas, that would be fine according to Mz Jender. I’m hazarding a guess that the author of that chart isn’t actually a parent.
9. Better than that aforementioned 12 gauge perhaps. In which better means better, not better suited.
10. Not exactly PEDs … (note googling indicates actual studies show small performance gains for endurance athletes above 12,000 feet … which includes basically no baseball, football or body sculptors on the planet …. on the other hand it does lead to lots of good bad football jokes).
11. Student loans and Duff beer.
12. An amazing “do not assume” sentence.
13. Star Wars “force”  … not a religion. Sorry.
14. OK then.
15. State department amateur hour continues.
16. Racism and Ms Rice.
17. Some prayers for ya to use (or try).
18. Actually most SCADA systems installed that I’ve seen depend on the intra-net security, i.e., VPN layer is the security. One of the best is a PPP via dial up modem with the modem turned off by the plant when they don’t need support. It’s really really hard to remotely hack through a modem that’s turned off.
19. Oh shush. Really. Shush.

Good morning. Brevity?

1. Wind.
2. Spies.
3. Why redistribute?
4. Debt.
5. Narcissism.
6. Extremophiles.
7. So … a B?
8. So … a bike?
9. Darwin award?
10. Preferred for durability yet banned.
11. Sexism.
12. A list?
13. Simming mideast nukes.
14. Syria.
15. State Dept amateur hour.
16. Questions questions.
17. A book.

Good morning. Hope y’all had a great Thanksgiving!

1. The 10 rules of mystery fiction … which apparently are not set in China, just don’t tell Master Li and #10 Ox.
2. Darwinish awards.
3. Society, progressivism and the brothel. What could go wrong?
4. Of fasting and prayer.
5. Mr Obama, Mr Morsi and the Coptic variant of the Arab Spring.
6. The other side of the spectrum from the .22 LR.
7. Dallas and communism’s fall.
8. Considering Skyfall.
9. Seriously?
10. MOOCs here and here. Higher education gets you two things, credentials and skills.
11. Drones.
12. Abuse of the little man sometimes has consequences.
13. A game.
14. The trailer piqued my (and my #2 daughter’s) interest. How about you?
15. East/West and some theological considerations.
16. A liberal attempts to understand the conservative point of view. Fails.

Good morning.

1. It almost sounds like someone has never heard of the charity vultures.
2. Oh me, oh my.
3. Somebody hasn’t understood Grand Torino.
4. Hysterical cycles. Very heavy fog on the ride in this morning by the way.
5. If you subsidize something you get more of it. Somebody somewhere will explain why making it easier to freeload on our healthcare industry will get less people to free load on the same. Kinda like the whole increasing demand without increasing supply will make it all cheaper.
6. Or that part time labor is better than full time. Gosh, it’s all good. 1984 here we come.
7. On liturgy.
8. I have no idea what the word “lastaviglie” means, but “honey … don’t worry it won’t hurt your dishes and we won’t have road grease on our plates” is probably not the right translation.
9. Or it’s because cricket races are crap on a stick.
10. Market confidence.
11. Some advice for Friday shoppers. Actually I heard at lunch a really good piece of advice, if you know what’s going to be on sale (and you think it will/might sell out) buy it today and go in to get the price correction only on Friday.
12. Actually I’d go further, ignoring professional incompetence on account of race is not moral cowardice, it’s racism pure and simple.
13. This makes no sense to me, Tyndale a religious book publisher gets the waiver … but others do not. It’s incomprehensible.
14. The Rubio earth/age kerfuffle … well I didn’t get any time to make my own estimates … a co-worker offered that Mr Rubio should have asked the reporter what he thought the decay time of the neutron was, and when he got a huh? in response, should have said, well I don’t know either, how about we both talk about policy and politics instead of appeal to exterior authorities about stuff neither of us really has a clue about.
15. Another guy who has no clue about what he’s talking about.
16. Democrats against freedom.
17. Syria.

Good morning. And I don’t know how old the earth is … I was taught (and believe) that every number stated in science needs units (unless it’s dimensionless) and error bars. But an interesting exercise for the  reader is to use make estimates based on things you know to estimate age and error … what do you get and how do you get it? If you can’t get the age, about about some bound like the Parker limit on monopoles? For example, the moon’s spin is synchronized with the earth’s spin. That’s a quadrupole coupling … that should give you a way to make a  lower bound estimate on how long the earth moon have been a system. Right?

1. Union wages and Hostess.
2. Of Mr Gailbraith and the twinkie.
3. Kindergarten humor hits the beltway pressroom.
4. Growsing justly about bad maths pedagogy.
5. High control democracy.
6. Yes, CPT is invariant. This is really nice, because nobody has the slightest idea how what a non-CPT invariant field theory would look like.
7. Our Arab spring notion.
8. Slack cutting and Benghazi.
9. More thoughts on Benghazi here.
10. Where the conflict lies.
11. My guess is … no.
12. Consequences of the victory of the possessors.
13. Note to poster … blood sausage tastes really really good.
14. Reverse the roles of the sexes in assault situations and do you get humor?
15. Stuffers of stockings.
16. Cross (angry?) stitching?

Good morning.

1. The war on terror and the crux of the problem.
2. Brandon has links for meta-thinking (or I’m meta linking his thinks for linking or ( …)). Oh, what the heck just pop over and read away.
3. First rule of bureaucracy, grow grow grow.
4. Some economic considerations of North East corridor and the location (above/under) of power lines.
5. Labor costs and Obamacare. Ooooh, higher labor costs … that will really do wonders for our global competitiveness in the the global labor marketplace.
6. Stewardship.
7. Not enough of the sackings.
8. The other 47%.
9. Two can play that game, no deal if entitlement spending isn’t cut either (and guess what? Only the spending cut will make any difference in budget shortfalls). It remains to be seen whether the GOP can actually play the game.
10. Citizens United is not about corporations = people.
11. Parenting done right.
12. Architectural beauty or not?
13. The Benghazi question (or is it “one of the B questions?).

Good morning.

1. Fighting nature.
2. A milestone.
3. Thick fueled.
4. Low altitude ultrasound in high pressure water.
5. Closet Marxism in the GOP ranks.
6. Drones and carriers. So, are you looking forward to armed drones monitoring your activities?
7. Another note on drones.
8. Wax muscles.
9. Talking budgets.
10. Well, it’s going to be on my Christmas list.
11. A quaint quote, except for the it being all wrong part. If you think Christianity (for example) is there to make you comfortable and sleep easy … you’re getting it backwards.
12. Where charity starts.
13. A book noted.
14. Sorry, I prefer old and unaccountably cheerful.
15. An honest player.
16. Missed in the whole stimulus circus.

Good morning.

1. Remember the Roman priest sex scandals and mentions (and dismissals) of the elephant in the room. Data to back that up (Hat Tip).
2. The real scandal.
3. Photography and the bike.
4. Of supersymmetry and hospitals. So, we’ll all have to knuckle down and become experts and super-Riemannian geometry after all.
5. Before Photoshop … there was actual construction.
6. Pictures to seal your assumptions.
7. For the runner in your life (in the winter).
8. This is stupid. Unsurprisingly the Democrat response was equally stupid.
9. Meandering around austerity.

Good morning.

1. Guys with guns playing with dice.
2. Natural selection and braaaaiiiinzzzzz.
3. Some questions.
4. To go to school.
5. Collapse.
6. Childhood dreams.
7. Orthodoxy in America and its new hierarch.
8. Meta-linking works.
9. Those pretty miserables.
10. That mythical consensus method of doing science needs some work (on that same topic here)
11. Mr Kerry joins the fray.
12. Sorry, mankind includes women, deal with it.

Good morning.

1. Funky shapes in mind-space, but perhaps soon to air-space?
2. High politics becoming similar to autocracies. Will we notice? Will it matter? What will the consequences be? And “shocked”? Seriously?
3. Not thinking it through, specifically “another mystery” is not a mystery. He knew that it wasn’t secure. That’s gotta be a premise. Now follow that thought down the rabbit hole.
4. And finally on that topic … a timeline.
5. Emergency computing resources?
6. Silliness of even/odd rationing.
7. Mr West hasn’t realized that blogs are way cheaper than he thinks. “Serious discussion” don’t cost money and certainly not billions of dollars.
8. Economic growth and its coming scarcity.
9. More related to growth here.
10. Gouging.
11. Hmm, liberte, egalite, and large overflowing buckets of blood from the French revolution becomes …. a new slogan? Probably not the allusion they were going for, eh?
12. Cultural progressions.
13. Some Latin palindromes.
14. Wince.
15. Baggage handlers and thieves.
16. What my book “inbox” would look like too if I hadn’t gone mostly electronic.
17. Zaaap!
18. I’m confused. Isn’t everyone in favor of high skilled immigration?

Good morning.

1. Cooperation + weapons?
2. Talking turkey, err, Turkey.
3. For the soothing of the savage beasties.
4. A home project of interest.
5. An interesting math paper with some social history behind it.
6. A photo … and how the same can be very misleading.
7. Affirmative action and liberal heresy.
8. A film and some backstory.
9. A description of democracy … and I think I have no idea what people mean when they write the word “fascism”.
10. Egypt and the net.
11. A haven for the Tea Party?

Good morning

1. 25 years ago.
2. More damage … to be honest I plan to but have not yet listened to this … I’m thinking this might be grist for our ongoing drone discussion.
3. A big black wall.
4. Some more context for that.
5. Looking forward to another world war, perhaps?
6. Lakes and photography.
7. Seriously though, I think a more important factor would be the man’s wife and children.
8. Yikes.
9. Single payer.
10. You may josh at this ad campaign, but we bought one.
11. The end is (not so very) nigh.
12. Art and the infant.
13. Our system of government described. I said I wouldn’t link any election related material for the remainder of the week. I don’t think that counts, do you?

Good morning. I hope all slept long and well. I didn’t … someone put the thermostat on “hold” and the house stayed warm, which under the covers meant hot … and it never cooled off to comfortable, i.e., under 60.

1. Baby keeps self safe (from vicious ninja attacks?)
2. My two election day links for the rest of the week … and here’s the other.
3. On wealth, words from the 5th century.
4. Curiosity.
5. Solar UV.
6. Not the standard POW fare.
7. Wow. Just wow. …
8. this is not unrelated.
9. I think our discussions on these haven’t stopped. Hopefully. At least our prior conversation established that using a drone is an act of war on the country in which it is used.

Good morning. Have a happy election day, y’all. And no, your vote doesn’t matter, what you are doing is a liturgical communal act validating righteousness of the electoral process.

1. Here’s a prediction from the right what will happen if they lose. Has anyone seen similar predictions from the left?
2. Today we vote, our democratic ritual. About rituals and religion you ask? Here, try this.
3. 10 symmetries. 10 conserved quantities.
4. A house which says a lot about property values (and … not having kids?)
5. People who say “there are no stupid questions” … never attended lectures, but in the meantime …
6. Politicians and their lies.
7. A political scientist offers his two cents.
8. Health and a Fields Medal winner.
9. Speaking of health.
10. A book recommended. I bought a copy.
11. Today the WSJ opinion section has an article pointing out that Dodd-Frank encourages moving high finance overseas … which is interesting in conjunction with this. There’s lots of talk about “unintended consequences” … what is largely ignored are the easy-to-anticipate consequences like these.
12. The auto bailout.
13. Mr Krugman jousts with straw men, but not unnoticed by all.
14. I can’t anticipate any problems with using open unsecured unverifiable mechanisms for voting. Can you?