Ooh, in the office today … for a while.

1. The debate as seen by/from France.
2. Garbage.
3. Porn of sorts, here and here.
4. Automation, why food, clothing and other goods are is cheap today while medical care remains expensive.
5. Irony and wit from Iran — really.
6. Why would an incumbent admit to burying and ignoring the majority of his listeners? Oh, who was it? Never mind.
7. Obamacare looking more and more like a cunning plan.
8. A report on the beginning of the debate from an academic sociopath.
9. He watched something else, I read books and worked out.
10. Libya.
11. Einsteins most famous equation (relation?) revisited.
12. Remember more detainment means you don’t have to kill them all. So why is less detainment seen by the left as more ethical?
13. A book noted.
14. Mr Obama and his Volt.

Well, … life intrudes.

1. Ah, some suggestions for Mr Romney for the first debate.
2. On those cricket races.
3. So, still no mention of the magical Obama roadmap to a nuclear (weapon) free world.
4. (One) Religious freedom returns to Germany.
5. Death of a bad man noted (HT: CB)
6. “Call me a Luddite” … no I’ll call myself confused as to why the person named as the architect of one of the reasons for the success of the 9/11 attacks still has a job in Washington (recall her “wall of separation” between agencies was one of signal factors blamed for our failure to detect the actors).
7. Let’s re-write history … or not.
8. Flower children.
9. A book noted.
10. Land of the free? Or incipient police state.
11. When speaking with others.
12. A question not answered well to my knowledge.
13. Administration lies and the liberal echo chamber hasn’t noticed.

Good morning. So, last weekend we toured (one) school in the process of getting my #1 daughter into college. She’s very much down on the Jr college->4 year college route.

1. Regarding the “open the window” kerfuffle.
2. Still a Deda fan.
3. Drone use.
4. Missing the point, it seems to me.
5. Bang … or … Snblorg!
6. Losing the committed left.
7. and those committed left polls.
8. Of charter and union.
9. Innovation in China.
10. Fer your continuing education, an introduction to three seminal papers by a really really smart fella.
11. Changing pedagogy.
12. Disproving the “there are no dumb questions” postulate.
13. Raising of the taxes in recession, Mr Obama did.
14. Will elicit a notable reaction from Ms Minerva, I suggest.
15. Demographics and history lessons.
16. Of Mr Obama and Iraq.
17. Ms Warren’s litigation history and unions.
18. Blogging in Vietnam, unsafe at any speed.

Good morning.

1. Ya throw like a gurl … with diagrams.
2. A feminist lesbian who didn’t get the memo that homosexuality is not a choice.
3. Slurp.
4. A little pro-google humor.
5. Pedagogy with a bang.
6. Elementary math.
7. For the conservative fence sitters.
8. A little conservation on the range.
9. At the end of the day (not the end of days).
10. For the teacher who perhaps unintentionally labels himself and his students as diseases.
11. Consider the drone, actually I think mass bombings of populations in WWII were later shown to have the wrong effect, i.e., they hardened not softened the will of the people. What is the psychological effect of drone attacks vs guided manned planes vs infantry?
12. OOh, Ms Warren tries the Dukakis tank picture opportunity, which worked so so well. I wonder if she can double clutch? Actually, I’m certain she can’t. What I really wonder is if she knows what that means.
13. Bad wrapping around to good.

Woo hoo! Another week.

1. Rehabilitating the term servant.
2. Is outrage?
3. An interesting line of thought,  which brought this notion to me. Performance enhancing drugs keep you awake, make you stronger, make you more alert. How about a drug that made you more ethical? What would that feel like? Be like? Would it be illegal?
4. Considering Cinderella (HT: Miss Minerva)
5. Swap in motion.
6. Tool time meets the wheelchair.
7. OK, we’ve seen everywhere that Mr Romney paid just over 14% in taxes … did you see just as widely that he gave just under 30% to charity? We have deductions for charity via itemization … how’d that figure in to the 14%? Why is that not mentioned? Could it be media bias?
8. Speaking of media bias …
9. Adaptation and learning.
10. The world’s best dad in pictures.
11. I’m struggling to make sense of this point of view. Let’s review, a Coptic Christian ex-pat disgruntled by intolerance in his homeland makes a home-made film, which is used as a proxy to spur more violence … and an ad putting forth the point of view that religious intolerance should not be tolerated. So, is the ad censuring both sides?
12. Because they’re stupid and/or misguided and/or evil? You pick.

Good morning to all.

1. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but of course two wrights make an airplane.
2. Bang! (or bud-duh bud-duh &etc)
3. So, do you sue the algorithm or the teeming millions whose prior search made the algorithm decide that’s likely?
4. But where is the cunning plan?
5. Speaking of Black Adder and cunning plans … I’ll be this is also part of the cunning plan known as unaffectionately as Obamacare.
6. Glass houses, stones, throwing, and all that.
7. The generation of love, once removed is the generation of spite and hate?
8. If you don’t laugh at the last picture, either you missed the movie or you have no sense of humor.
9. Of brain and mind … a book.
10. Fallacy alert, you can leave your job, ergo it’s not coercion and don’t pretend it is.
11. Mr Sandefur is a Creedal libertarian, except there’s no actual creed … that part is just smoke and mirrors. From the same source, one might note that concealed carry becomes far easier for gals in full Islamic regalia.
12. Vote for the communists.
13. Of working teats and the work-place.

Good, mid-morning.

1. Black is the new black.
2. Economics and our regrettable President.
3. Cinema.
4. Red meat and wine … instead of chips, dogs, and beer.
5. Some Kipling for ya.
6. On the Satanic verses.
7. Not micro-brewery, but micro-foundry?
8. WW-II plan meets the SA-7.
9. Why global warming became climate change.
10. A new type of vehicle.
11. Silly man … raising the percentage makes it worse (for your side). But no, I don’t find it credible that 94% of the population gets more than it gives to the feds (especially when most of the middle is paying almost 30% to them).
12. So, was that the plan?
13. Color us unsurprised.
14. When in Rome.
15. Smells bad.

Wednesday already. Imagine that.

1. Situation or tribe?
2. Missing the threat part, i.e., “because if you don’t people might get hurt.”
3. Raising kids and threats to their safety.
4. Added Vitamin D?
5. To fixie or not fixie.
6. Almost vegan wine.
7. Ironic, eh?
8. Fortunately use has more than one meaning.
9. Moving on to the substance instead of the hand-wringing phase regarding Mr Romney’s remarks.
10. Now here’s something to work with, I’m going to try write a bit on that tonight and come up with a series of my questions.
11. Probability and number theory.
12. Mr Obama continues the “its unfair when you do it” ignoring the we do it to part.
13. Of free speech and speech codes and … actions.
14. Caption this, err, these.
15. Someone forgets in 1945 we were producing a major carrier every 6 weeks and a small one once per week. How long would it take to ramp up to that or could we even approach that again?

1. Left and right reactions to 47% compared. Quite the contrast.
2. Justice and our reactions to events in the Middle East.
3. More on the same.
4. And our administration’s reaction … so … do you think this will encourage or discourage further uprisings and atrocities?
5. Sealed!
6. I’d never heard of Fabianism. Had you?
7. So … will this ruffle Amsterdam?
8. Employment and personal habits.
9. As my youngest begins learning to drive … a drivers ed of a different sort.
10. The Ryan syndrome.
11. Who is to protect? Hmm, I thought history and Magdeburg was the answer. From this book (and oddly enough I didn’t verify it’s correctness) I learned that after the tragedy at Magdeburg modern diplomacy was born … in part because the conflict was so horrible and that it was realized if only people had talked a bit, they’d have learned they weren’t actually on different sides. Yet … do we even need diplomats to be physically on site any more in the information age?
12. As life imitates … Spirited Away?
13. Banks without seat belts.
14. Plagarism.

Good morning.

1. A linguistic shift noted … and some exercise advice.
2. Lying or just inconsistent … at the same time calling for a more open internet and clamping down harder.
3. Yes the violence was a pretext. But no, I don’t think it was a pretext to get the West to do anything, sorry. Apologies by the White House and calls to pull You Tube (see above) videos are feckless and stupid primarily because this wasn’t about insults or disrespect for religion. This was nothing but power consolidation internally by Islamist groups, anything else is pretext. Explain the rational for treating a pretext as the primary reason? When historically was treating with the pretext as cause the better play?
4. More on that here.
5. And silly notions on international norms.
6. While we all ignore stuff like this.
7. Heh.
8. Obvious or not?
9. Waking up lucky.
10. Data glut.
11. Flexibility.
12. Hours as barter.

OK, been busy. Links?

1. What does it mean to be American. The conceit that this is unique is, well, probably not unique. Recall the book I mentioned a few weeks ago … Mr Snyder’s Reconstruction of Nations? This has relevance, recall one of the puzzles is how Poland and Lithuania arrived at their national identity … recall a founding “poem which all Polish students learn in school” has in its opening stanza “Lithuania my fatherland” and … when Lithuania became a nation few people spoke Lithuanian … in the cities they spoke Polish, Yiddish, Russian and Belorussian was spoken in the country and they had similar religious divisions. Nations based on an idea is not unique as we pretend. Our notions of its uniqueness relies on our ignorance of history.
2. Credentials and skillz.
3. The reality based side of the aisle strikes again.
4. Moving right.
5. On responses to killings. I’d note that in a prior admin, Mr Bush was always slow to respond … and the later responses by the adminstration might be better. But the poster is right, we don’t as a nation “deplore any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others” in point of fact we defend the freedom of speech … with sharp pointy sticks.
6. Oooh, one for the Palin fans.
7. For the Darwinist ethics conversation. A social Darwinist it seemed to me might run with this.
8. Woo hoo.
9. Grist for the abortion debate.
10. Of logic and boxes.
11. Female protagonists and Disney.
12. Ivy league.
13. News that will be buried by the left wing press.
14. Which Jack?

Good morning.

1. Four riders?
2. And seven strawmen.
3. Here’s the “play the race card by claiming the other guy is playing the race card” card.
4. Fear the ‘stache.
5. A book noted.
6. An election and doom if either party wins as the prediction.
7. This is not unrelated.
8. Best? Best!?
9. An academic economic result and a media bias experiment in progress.
10. Fiction and the Dems convention.
11. The sopranos and Iraq.
12. A question for the recall Walker crowd.
13. So … how do you make that argument?

These three day weekends … really shorten the week, I mean it’s Wednesday already.

1. I don’t feel the belonging thing they talk about.
2. Fisking Ms Obama.
3. Feeling the pain.
4. Just zipping along.
5. He “duped” me? Huh? Seriously?
6. Persuasion.
7. Learning to learn is the main point … the content is less important.
8. A question for the Keynesians.
9. Photo ID and the Democrats.
10. Who’s important.
11. Climate change and hurricane strength and frequency. Wow, that trend is so very clear.
12. The problem with complaining about a fictional Obama is that Obama did it first.

So, d’ya have a good laborious day yesterday? Munch munch munch.

1. Yikes.
2. Sneeze. (yes I’m very very allergic to those)
3. Liberal global energy policies and unintended consequences.
4. A park to confuse the urban liberal.
5. Some reading enjoyment in the pipeline.
6. Well, by one name it sounds like megalomania.
7. Some advice for the college bound.
8. On being responsive to your constituents.
9. I have a sneaking suspicion that the 2nd problem is not specific enough to answer … but I’ve not thought it through well enough. The problem as stated doesn’t state that the machines are identical. If for example the machines pipeline their production (machine 1’s output goes into machine 2 and so on … first off, if you start it up, machines 2-5 have idle time at the onset (unless they are pre-filled with production … which also isn’t stated). Additinonally there is no indication that the added 95 machines have the optimal “type” distribution for efficiency, as a worst case all additional machines are of type #1 and adding 95 more of them improves your rate not at all).
10. This complaint works just as well for the open immigration crowd.
11. Not a Democrat talking point in the wake of the GOP convention.
12. Isaac and priority.
13. Our national disease.
14. Swivel plane.
15. I’d weight the likely men to the earlier eras, TR is late … but was out and about a lot. How about not during their tenure but at their respective prime-of-life? Who then and if/how would that change your answer?

Good morning.

1. All those freshman starting school away from home … parents? The same everywhere.
2. A book recommended.
3. Harvard in the news, noted here and here.
4. Charity, culture, economics and more.
5. Not charity?
6. Obama and measuring success.
7. Sometimes the “A” for effort is all that matters. The winsome Ms Olson long ago accepted my proposal at a horrible failure of home cooked dinner. Only the soup was edible (actually the soup was amazing … everything else completely failed).
8. Journalism and disaster.
9. More on the GM plant closing that you haven’t seen elsewhere.
10. Comments?
11. How not to accuse Mr Ryan of being “Randian”.