Good morning.

1. Oooh, a book list, with remarks.
2. The methods of Mr Corzine.
3. Well, OK then … Silent Night indeed.
4. What free market was “never meant to be” … apparently “what the market will bear” has nothing to do with the free market.
5. America!
6. So … will/has the admin tendered a “what we were trying to do” explanation?
7. Publish or perish … perish the thought?
8. What the fans of porn ignore.
9. While one might consider the plans of mice and men, sometimes men’s plans are disturbing.
10. What is the reason for special protections for one profession in that regard? I’m not seeing it.
11. Empathy and the rodent?
12. A loophole to widen.

Busy busy.

1. SCOTUS recusal talk here.
2. Continuing with legal stuff, how about campaign law and Mr Bolton/Mr Gingrich.
3. The American response to insult that theme continues here.
4. Now that we’ve mentioned Pearl Harbor … look at this post. I hadn’t realized the technical hurdles required to attack Pearl Harbor. How about you?
5. OWS … day care for adults.
6. The friendly neighborhood utilitarianism defender not ready to acknowledge his criticism of virtue ethics is shared by his utilitarianism (his crit of v/e was that one needed to have a prior definitions of virtue, which holds for utilitarianism which needs a prior definition of “the good” or “happiness”, the latter oddly enough Aristotle defined in terms of virtue).
7. Salvation not about “keeping out of Hell.”
8. Art from the depths of depravity and deprivation.
9. Demographics.
10. I guess I’m not a “typical Republican” as described (and I’m not sure I have every met one). That of course doesn’t mean the typical tag isn’t right, but it casts (for me) some doubt on the assertion.
11. Labels and the left.
12. Stupid green tricks.
13. Hayek and macro more here.
14. Church and a boomer.
15. That must have been a blast to drive.

Good morning.

1. Are these ideas past their expiration?
2. The IPCC and a contributor.
3. Apparently to be on the left, you need to check your sense of humor at the door.
4. What to do about Burma.
5. Interesting video sequence.
6. A book recommended, I got it and started reading it.
7. Another book.
8. And one more book, which I haven’t read, but is now in my inbox.
9. Stupid school administration tricks.
10. A translation of “too big to fail.”
11. Innocent until proven guilty … so how do y’all feel about Mr Cain in that context?
12. The primary case against Mr Gingrich.
13. Unprepared for (the extend of the inroads of) moral relativism.
14. Cool tech.
15. Prison and imprisonment … here and here.
16. Searching for Diogenes … or the  candidate furthest from the amazingly dishonest norm (such as Mr Obama)?

Well, I was busy this morning … and have an early flight back to the windy city (from the temporarily windy SouthWest) and won’t have time then. So, here’s what I found out in the wide world today and yesterday.

1. A little grist for the Habermas/Ratzinger can secular society survive question.
2. Our happy regulatory state, who needs freedom when you can ban happy meals?
3. Education as signaling.
4. GOP speechwriters bread and butter for the summer campaign.
5. Hypercard? Heck, how about AREX? Now, that was completely cool.
6. Grunt! I’ll allow here that in college I began lifting and went from a completely skinny prototypical pencil necked geek to a bench press of 225 while at a weight of 155. I’m lifting again, and Wednesday before Thanksgiving managed a one rep max of 195. Woo hoo.
7. National debt by nation, how about consumer debt? Howzzat figure in?
8. To solve a problem, using the tools at hand.
9. Biz taxes.
10. Somebody hasn’t read much Solzhenitsyn on the subject of suffering. I’d recommend beginning with the First Circle. Or read this, which I read (most of) on the plane ride west.
11. Those emails don’t come of as from seekers but salesmen.
12. A book recommended.
13. Lawyers might defend it, but when you have to “go carefully through the rhetoric” to figure out if he really made the promises that the speech(es) seem to imply, the rest of the world calls that lying.
14. Kind like all them California individualists all dressing and speaking identically.
15. “Famous historian” … whom I’ll admit of whom I’ve never heard. But then again apparently his field, to judge from wiki, is contemporary American history … a topic on which I have read little if anything.
16. Getting closer to an actual viable commercial replacement that meets the “gets better mileage” than my current car.
17. Security and the world, part one and part two.
18. Obama and the sociopath connection.
19. Meritocracy and misunderstanding.
20. One serious can of RAID, wonder what the bug looks like now.
21. Modern science and the totalitarian state.
22. Our failings highlighted too.
23. And some advice for putting Church and life together.

Good morning.

1. Two from Mr Christie, here and here.
2. Exactly! A good resource book from a secular philosophical perspective is from Mary Midgely in Wickedness.
3. So, good idea or not?
4. I suspect the reason revelations of misconduct have not affected the true believers.
5. A huge roundup of alternative history fiction involving Mr Hitler.
6. So, is that what the OWS is about?
7. OK then.
8. Taxes and income disparity.
9. We kill them. The point is not the killing, I’d think, but killing them humanely.
10. Impromptu improv.
11. Even considering this requires such a radical readjustment to my notions of justice that I’m still not seeing how this might be a good idea.
12. A book considered.

Good morning.

1. Almost $8Trillion and … no oversight.
2. What is bought by economic overstretch and causing global catastrophe, yet still praised. Head in sand much?
3. Charting an industry’s journey into la la land.
4. A lesson in self-organization or professorial petulance? Whaddya think?
5. The part supposedly “for the working class” eschews the working class.   Surprising nobody.
6. A movie plug.
7. Iran targets EA.
8. Ryan and the OWS.
9. A talented short film.
10. So racism and a discussion, are the scare quotes warranted?
11. Climategate 2.0 … I missed it.
12. ID and evolution an atheist supporter in academia?

Well, I’m back on the West coast (Pacific time).

1. Robots in prison.
2. A Defense toy … which at the very least has a cool name.
3. A book recommended.
4. A movie recommended as well.
5. A plug for being race blind.
6. Heh.
7. Tech and translation.
8. Time and US vs not-US covers.
9. Oppose aff action. Perhaps the Admin wants to foster resentment for vets.
10. An assertion. Is it supportable?
11. Choosing who you will be, is important.
12. Ms Stein as feminist.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

1. Open book exams in the information age.
2. So, guilty today? It hadn’t occurred to me, so I guess I’m not.
3. So, was the left sold out?
4. And the best comic short on Thanksgiving ever.
5. Bumbling American grand strategy … or not.
6. The EU and the ECB.
7. Which is perhaps the advantage of the tradition of the Nativity fast instead of the Advent cycle.
8. Cold kills.

Good morning to y’all.

1. An idea … seems not so good to me. Whaddya all think?
2. American cryptography done right, a last survivor passes on.
3. So, what in the FDA is being done to cut this time to market down. If the answer is “nothing” as I suspect it is, then the FDA is failing its primary function.
4. Mr Obama on OWS, Chicago hasn’t to my knowledge had a big OWS presence compared to other cities, but the smell of human waste was quite noticeable last weekend.
5. While I’d agree that continued employment and bonus should be tied to performance, I’m not convinced “standardized tests” are a good metric.
6. Mr Wright noted approvingly.
7. Perhaps not the expected reaction given the litany of events?
8. A closeup of an unusual missile launch, and I have to say this is a (welcome) contrast to the Vietnam era drug abuse means of dealing with stress and boredom.

Good morning.

1. OWS and excellence.
2. Security FAIL.
3. Tick, tick tick … when will it go boom?
4. Man as industrious ant … and the speed of reclamation when we leave.
5. The real question was who thought sending the two women to that event was a good idea?
6. A question for the anti-gun nuts … how else is this going to be dealt with?
7. Big Tobacco, the most successful green movement out there.
8. Pithy summation of history.
9. I don’t think that’s the point. I’d imagine every campus has a constant flood of sexual scandals which it is dealing with. The trick which Penn failed to notice was this one in particular need action not coverup.

I’ve been on something of a sabbatical with regards to blogging and news-reading in general. I have, however, saved some links during that time, so here’s a bunch of them.

If even the Dutch have fallen out of love with windmills (by which I mean, they can’t afford to keep subsidizing them), you gotta’ wonder.

Right after Alabama’s illegal immigration law kicked in, unemployment dropped in a big way. Yeah, those jobs you keep saying Americans won’t do? Turns out they just might.

Spain has apparently had enough with the failed policies of socialists. They voted them in to appease terrorists back in 2004 following the Madrid bombings. But since then, Spain has been tanking economically along with the rest of Europe, and what seemed like a good idea at the time has now been revealed to be a huge mistake. This past weekend, conservatives won a landslide victory.

Iranian Christian pastor update: "Yousef (also spelled Youcef) Nadarkhani, sentenced to death a year ago after a court of appeals in Rasht, Iran, found him guilty of leaving Islam in September 2010, is in deteriorating health, according to a member of Nadarkhani’s denomination, the Church of Iran, who requested anonymity. "

"Who would Jesus protest?" According to Jimmie Bise, working from the New Testament, He wouldn’t be protesting government. He’d be changing hearts, one individual at a time.

Iran with nuclear weapons capability. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but I’m certain many on the Left will be shocked, unfortunately.

And finally, the oldest social network is new again. (Click for a larger version.)

Good morning.

1. Hate speech and assault.
2. Iran/nuke apologetics begin.
3. Pinoy catholics in Israel.
4. Imaginarium? Why not just say fantasy driven politics.
5. Mixing sport methods.
6. Black markets avoiding the regulatory state(s).
7. The ontological argument for God’s non-existence.
8. Hopefully the end to that travesty, but I fear it’s premature for that pronouncement.
9. The missing middle connection.

Good, err, day.

1. Noodle tech, in my household from my grad school days when they were a staple at 7 for one dollar, they are known as “papa noodles.”
2. Regulation pretending to spur employment just raising costs and killing actual productivity.
3. A correction to the “spending” problem … if spending to fix the recession means real investment then temporary stimulus ain’t gonna help.
4. Atheists attempting to be clever, not successfully.
5. On atheists and their hermeneutic, this has been my experience as well the people I’ve actually interacted with who stick to a “literal” reading hermeneutic have been atheists.
6. A likely suggestion.
7. The gravity of the situation.
8. Wealth is never “created” by theft and fraud. It might be collected, not created.
9. Obamacare glitch?
10. Transcarpathia.
11. Just going for a jog.
12. Bias in academia, an example. Oh, and how not to argue in favor or public schooling over homeschooling.
13. Fall and invasion … symptom or cause.
14. For your Christmas tree a little math for the occasion.
15. An OWS sympathizer talks about the now that it’s over status.

Link posting scheduling will be spotty. I’m in Pacific TZ + hotel connection is not the best … and doing this during down time at the job site will be catch as catch can.

1. Who cracks first?
2. Faces, here and here.
3. A book recommended. I was reading it on the flight (and finished the City and the City).
4. Water water everywhere.
5. An exterior criticism of top down policy design.
6. Retail and tomorrow’s hack/theft opportunities.
7. Impartiality for the judiciary?
8. American Orthodoxy and gay rights … I haven’t listened to this yet, but in part this will serve as a reminder. What do you think?
9. Yes. Government can create “real jobs” … the problem is incentives are hard to keep lined up with providing a good service inexpensively as well as its hard for competition to drive innovation, which is why government creating jobs like that is horrible idea.
10. OWS as unhappy Deadheads.
11. Build a better battery and … the world will beat a path to your door.
12. Two books noted.

Good morning. Traveling West tonight, for the first of (hopefully) a two week startup straddling the Thanksgiving week.

1. A suggested blog title found here which is sure to amuse Ms Minerva.
2. Vroooom.
3. Oddly, religion not specified. Was it or was it not relevant?
4. Zippo in the persons per mile per gallon metric.
5. Two rules for the pack attack.
6. Just 10? Huh, that’s the tip of the iceberg.
7. Da Vinci meets … American marketing genius.
8. Normally that’s 2nd term stupidity … does Mr Obama feel like a one termer?
9. So, immersed in the west should it be called the Advent fast? or not?
10. I like batch.
11. Likability?
12. Some OWS supporters push the meme that the gatherings are very law abiding. Really?