Good morning.

1. Economics as a guide to car purchase.
2. Parental notification?
3. Ideology and Obamacare, perhaps that should be “trumps” not “and”.
4. Not encouraging news.
5. Noting that the progressive “Whole Constitution” movement forgot that amendment processes is actually, you know, in the Constitution.
6. U of Chicago and football, when I was there I only know 2 people whom ever when to a game (to play in the kazoo band) … and never knew anyone who went to anything like “homecoming”.
7. Somali pirates and connections.
8. A massacre … streamed?
9. More on the “letting him die” theme. Why is assumed that the patient isn’t OK with his choice?
10. Solyndra as criminal fraud?
11. The forgotten elephant in the 9/11 memorial rooms, it’s not religion … but politics.
12. Working the “smart President” theme.

And why not, then, ask candidates about other personal preferences?
“If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions. Like, where does he get his information? Does he talk to the aliens? Do they have an economic plan?”

So, is religious belief now equivalent to belief in space aliens?

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Hurricane Irene – NOT
Well, you’ve got to wonder that if they can’t get the weather correct for the next few days right, then how precise are their AGW predictions?

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An Illegal Alien hero

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And one who is not

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So, now you shouldn’t use your fingertips at ATMs

“In a research paper titled “Heat of the Moment: Characterizing the Ef?cacy of Thermal Camera-Based Attacks,” the scientist outlined how small infrared cameras and computer software can “steal” someone’s PIN.

The cameras, which can be hidden on an ATM machine, are sensitive enough to pick up trace amounts of body heat left by someone using the machine’s keypad. Once recorded, hackers could then analyze the thermal signatures using special software to determine which number keys were used in a PIN.”

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“Unfortunately, campaigning is all the President knows how to do.”

Good morning.

1. Wow, after the crackdown in Belorus, an excellent blogger who was on top and noticing the injustice in the world acts and looks like she’s been “spoken to in an unkind manner” and has completely changed. Scary.
2. Some frank medical advice.
3. Well, duh! Zombies are monsters. And, come to think of it I’ve never ever seen a zombie praying, so zombies are atheists. Lo, here’s a hypothesis. While atheists aren’t monsters perhaps monsters, on the other hand, are atheists. 😀
4. Ms Palin and the left/right synergy.
5. Wow, he’s lost the far far left. I think the remark overheard was right, if the GOP nominated Hitler … he’d beat Obama in the general election. Nobody, but nobody, is going to vote for that guy.
6. This is not unrelated.
7. This is a weird post. It starts, “Ms Bachmann is an idiot” (and for what? It seems she offered the same quality of remark that came from the President in the healthcare debate … yet oddly enough he wasn’t called an “idiot” for making those remarks.) Then … it turns out, on the substance of the remarks for which she is an idiot, the author agrees with her. Odd that.
8. Chicago style in the White House.
9. 65 billion for 2k jobs? Gosh, and some people wonder at the negative response to the latest jobs proposal.
10. A wrap-up of the Gore climate parody show.
11. What about, well, rain?
12. A economic stimulus primer.
13. Something sweet and light.
14. Some consequences of casual critical remarks of Cornell’s guest.

Good morning.

1. They’re pressing charges? Grrr.
2. “Officially a scandal“, what does that mean? More here.
3. As the weekend approacheth, a film is noted.
4. As the world gets worse, Academia embraces the change.
5. Speaking of gay … the dog isn’t barking.
6. Well, that if it was real, that would settle the atheist/theist debate.
7. Predictions of unanticipated consequences of Mr Obama’s bribes-to-get-a-job-for-me bill.
8. I couldn’t put my finger on what bugged me about the Obama picture in that Perry/Obama at 22 comparison. But, now I get it. This is not unrelated.
9. Attack watch.
10. This is not unrelated. How/why can the admin be that tone deaf. Creepy doesn’t begin to describe it. And no, I don’t especially “love” ya.
11. The left wing blob unconciously apes what it terms the right-wing blob.
12. This has got to be the lamest “revelation” in the history of politics. “Newsflash, elite college athletes aren’t sexually inactive (while remaining !gasp! unmarried) !” News to whom I wonder?
13. Woops.
14. Apparently “for better or worse, in sickness and in health” doesn’t include Alzheimers in Mr Robertson’s view. (Hint: That would be the wrong answer)
15. Grist for the on-going discussion on bureaucracy and schools, esp the 2nd link.
16. Healing Chalecedon?

Good morning.

1. That arctic ice elbow has passed.
2. Guess that unemployment is quasi voluntary. 50k a year ain’t nothing.
3. A question for the abortion supporters/advocates.
4. Well, it looks really fast and very slick.
5. How not to approach the Ms Bachmann/vaccination question. I think you could have an interesting conversation about the extent of coercion “for your own good” in a state and how such lines are drawn (between individual freedoms and when to cross them in your own interest). It seems right and left have very different notions about the setting of such lines.
6. Here’s a lesson in how to do reporting really really badly, i.e., tell big lies. Perhaps he’s just following the leader? One wonders how such a person blogs as one of the “Moderate Voice” … that wasn’t moderation by any stretch.
7. Shell tech. Coool.
8. The life you save …. do watch to the end. Heh.
9. The Obama-as-FDR meme.
10. A knife (knives?) way way way out of my price range.
11. The notion that Mr Obama’s jobs bill is about anythings but one job, his own, is ludicrous. Even the Keynesian stimulus fans should be aghast at the notion that spending paid for by tax increases is stimulus seeing as tax cuts are one of the most efficient means applying stimulus. It’s better described as a bribe for votes.
12. Today’s feast in the Church.
13. Mr Gore’s Parody day. I don’t even know what Mr Gore really calls it. Hmm. Meanwhile, if you see the Texas drought blamed on “climate change” you can now diss the speaker.
14. Libya, then.
15. Imagining the worst (straw) fears of the liberals, when theocracy comes to America.

Good morning.

1. Of parents and the high court.
2. Well, that was quite a bender!
3. Sounds like the three monkey’s strategy (hear no, see no, speak no … evil -> and it will go away?).
4. And speaking of standing up for legal protections.
5. Some more 9/11 links.
6. Soc Sec not a Ponzi scheme … it’s worse!
7. An early film.
8. Fraud in academic research.
9. Climatology … and pressures of politics.
10. Bike share and Madisonian politics.
11. When the “innocent explanation is not Good.” Oops.
12. Heresy (if you’re a Democrat), at least in practice if not declaration.
13. Dance lessons for the non-musically inclined.
14. Noting a better monastic practice.
15. Engine tech.
16. Media bias?

Good morning.

1. What morning is this? Why, it’s the Nativity of the Theotokos (or Happy birthday to the Virgin Mary for y’all Protestant sorts).
2. A liberal viewer finds the statement that Obama lies a lot worthy of comment (and the comment I think is not in the lines of “exactly!”).
3. The only problem with that … is it’s true. He does lie a lot, exhibit A here.
4. Publick Liberty and the blech factor.
5. Some lost arts to recall when the polity fails.
6. Politics in Iraq … no longer observed here very much … but bloggers can find it.
7. In which Mr Maplethorpe appears, oddly enough, not in a positive light.
8. I don’t even know what a golliwog might be, but apparently they are illegal in the UK.
9. Performance enhancing drugs and their effects on, you know, performance.
10. How not to note how Mr Bush is dumb and Mr Obama is not.
11. If Mr Obama is smart, why is he pushing this guy?
12. Possible consequences for the Libya hands-off approach.
13. Fiction as crystal ball.
14. Careful what you wish for Mr Obama.
15. What does extremism mean anyhow?
16. Well, if that “federal family” thing goes further, we’ll all be stitching in morse.

Good morning.

1. Problems with pantses.
2. I’m sure there some convoluted argument why stimulus didn’t work here.
3. The dying of the old press and consequences for liberty.
4. Lost in translation, just a bit.
5. The moral of the Nike/Pacquiao story (see yesterday’s link #16).
6. An abortion political move suggested.
7. Promises promises.
8. A lawsuit.
9. The cult of the GOP and an implicit Tea Party (as move to small government) plug.
10. Yikes! (HT)
11. Mental illness and abortion.

Good morning.

1. A checklist for Thursday’s speech, for those with the fortitude (or tolerance to blather) to actually listen to it.
2. And one thing you do know, there will be these in abundance.
3. That stimulus multiplier … a divisor?
4. School and real life. What would a public school look like that wasn’t aping an institutionalized bureaucracy.
5. My reaction is nausea? How about y’all?
6. The F-35.
7. It’s a girl!?
8. My guess, only the teachers are unsurprised by the outcome.
9. Representation by mono-culture.
10. Mr Krueger and memory lane.
11. Manners and mealtime.
12. Libya and documents found.
13. When you thought California lawmakers couldn’t get dumber.
14. So, an editor was fired for allowing a non-AGW supporting document to be published. Some discussion of that paper here.
15. The greens making a stand against wind-power.
16. A fight night in the Philippines.
17. How the left echoes their cries for civility in political discourse after the AZ shooting incident. Or not.

Good morning.

1. American muslims and a cricket race.
2. Tawian and the F-16 sales.
3. Gut magic and the great panda.
4. Meeting with a Bishop.
5. ‘Tis for the kiddies remember?
6. Lesson number one, if you want to comment on a book, read it!
7. Let’s see, socialist is probably the wrong tag … help me here. What is someone who thinks regulation of salary by the state is necessary? Is that communism?
8. On the cloud formation and climate discussion, I got this from Mr Darrel and this is likely more useful (as is text not a video clip).
9. More on climate here.
10. History and the person with respect to time.
11. Affirmative action viewed by Mr Thomas and Mr Obama.
12. A reaction to Mr Groseclose’s book and liberal bias in the media.
13. Car doors and bike lanes.
14. A movie noted.
15. That’s not very charitable.
16. Flat pop psych as a term coined … the term coined by our office bunch … I’ll promote again here. “Hot” when refered to food is ambiguous, it can mean either spicy or temperature. To disambiguate we suggest using the term “thermy” to refer to food that is hot by temperature and use “hot” w.r.t to food to only means spicy. 

Good morning.

1. Well, that’s not very nice.
2. The upcoming genocide/murders in Libya may have a mass effect.
3. Collective malaise.
4. Twitter and an epicenter.
5. I’m unconvinced in policy argument, but geesh what people will do to themselves is incredible.
6. 2011, not a good crop year for jokes, eh?
7. Religion and education.
8. Standing faithful.
9. Some science questions for Rick Perry. Heh.
10. OOOkkay, if you make the claim that’s a hate issue then what about things like “Piss Christ?” Hmm?
11. A primary opponent for Mr Obama.
12. So, US sports have nominal drug testing, when will that move to the other highly paid entertainers? Question, what percentage of actors do you think would pass the drug test a pro cyclist has to pass to race? Do you think it’s more than 10%?
13. An obit. Raise your girls to be like that, eh?
14. Race and perception.

Good morning.

1. Unthinkable, means the opposite of what you expect. For example, borrowing from Hofstadter, it doesn’t typically mean for example, “How would that (scene/play/argument/event) have looked if 13 wasn’t a prime number?” Or “How would have been if instead of people in Nations on Earth, but instead we were tri-sexual liquid hydrogen breathing cephalopodoid creatures swiming in the seas of a gas giant?” That’s a little more unthinkable.
2. Jesus and the bomb.
3. Read. The. Book. More here. That media bias thing. Settled, with some surprises, like that the WSJ is more liberal (in the news sections) than the NYTimes.
4. Libya and a bounce? On paper the Libyan exercise was done for humanitarian reasons, to prevent Quaddafyi from retaliating and killiing hundreds or thousands. We shall see how the reprisals go in the upcoming months … and whether the rebels, once victorious are kinder and gentler. If not, what impact on the humanitarian argument might that have?
5. A question that makes little sense. The priest is the ikon/icon of Christ. Jesus was, you know, male. Would you complain about watching King Lear, where the King was a gal and not complain about having a woman doctor? Almost unthinkable, eh?
6. Poking at print journalism.
7. So, if you see the term “Dominionism” used, it’s basically used by liberals in the same way that “Sharia” is used in the context of US political dialog.
8. In which the term “Lost”, alas, doesn’t mean unable to find its way home because of unfamiliar landmarks.
9. Apparently Mr Biden is a consequentialist. That is, if it didn’t have unfortunate unintended consequences then coerced sterilization and abortions would just fine. What a fine set of gentlemen we have in the White House.
10. Grrr.
11. Good idea or not?
12. On dealing with slander.
13. Not proto-Krugman, pseudo-Krugman.
14. Two men, at age 22.
15. A serious scientific problem for AGW/climate models.