Good morning.

1. Contra finger pointing as policy.
2. A similar attack on Mr Krugman here.
3. Log-Log plots?
4. Mr Obama’s last few weeks, allegorized.
5. “CBO Scoring” … a valid point on the validity of that method, which begs the question … why even have such scoring at all?
6. Of exertion and repose. (HT)
7. Interesting language boundary problem.
8. Foreign policy gaps the GOP might exploit in the upcoming election season.
9. A different cycling Tour.
10. Celebrity. Not celebrity.
11. Birth control of a different, less celebrated sort. Heh.
12. The AGW reporting rachet, report on side only, ignore the other. (repeat)

Good morning. My youngest returned from her mission safely and happy last night. The puppy … she was ecstatic. Thanks for your prayers.

1. What’s in a name anyhow?
2. How not to make your point, really really emphatically.
3. I don’t see how Congressional Democrats get a free ride here.
4. Behavioral economics discussed.
5. Time or money and healthcare. I wonder if the model posed by professional athletes, where “get back on the field quickly” is a primary end has its similarities at other economic strata.
6. Bush and Obama, two similar situation, dis-similar quotes. Obama really really comes out bad in that comparison.
7. Yippee. Bulwer-Lytton and the worst firsts.
8. Zero sum … if we’re on the gold standard, which we are not. Most theories of value and currency don’t posit money as fixed quantity. 
9. Fast and furious continues to unfold.
10. Spot the flaws.
11. One reason Libya matters. Perhaps destroying US credibility and prestige was Mr Obama’s intent. After all he’s allegedly very smart. 
12. Corporate prayer … a bit off the beaten track.
13. Consequences of choice and abortion.

Good morning.

1. Talking ABB.
2. And here, and yes, ABB was right wing (but alas for the MSM theme, not a “fundamentalist Chrstian” in any sense of the word that I’ve ever heard).
3. More here. ‘Nuff of that, eh?
4. That errant “atheists are more intelligent and well educated” mistake. That works when you only count as atheists the intelligent and well educated ones.
5. Pseudo-science and regulations.
6. Our 2002 VW Golf TDI (diesel) too got about 50mpg in our recent family road trip vacation.
7. Sports are global.
8. Bulb talk. (HT)
9. Some pro-choicers might be about choice, some not so much.
10. “Debt talks have become a dangerous game” (what goes unsaid is that he’s leading that charge).
11. Talking about catechesis and steaming heaps of twisted metal.

Good morning. 

1. Question, how can the GOP be the “party of no” if they’re the only ones with offers on the table. To what are they saying no? This? Which begs the question, why isn’t no the right answer to that?
2. Comparisons to history already?
3. The other shoe to drop.
4. Racism and drug policy. Heh.
5. The American flag and how to do a really really bad study.
6. Remember Obamacare.
7. There’s a phrase for that, “A fool and his money … soon parted.”
8. Global warming? “The point I want to make is that these difficult and technical questions were studied rationally in the 1960s; but they are no longer studied rationally today.” Yah think!
9. There’s a word for that. Hypocrisy?
10. That strikes me as a particularly slanted view of Nationalism. But I suppose one could twist the notion that a nation has rights within its boundaries that exceed the rights of other nations (to exercise rights within those boundaries) to mean a nation has rights “superior” to other nations. It’s wouldn’t be a particularly honest twist however.
11. Of course it’s a setup … just like Democracy is the worst form of government, …. except for all the others.
12. So, have you forgotten Egypt?
13. A bet made. Two weeks?
14. Green absolutism = stupidity.
15. Flee.

Good morning.

1. Cheating and schools, all you union fans and detractors note the first comment as well.
2. Not noticing the government regulations which basically require plastic ware for public groups.
3. Some similar regulations noted.
4. Two parts of a conversation on neo-liberalism and what that means, here and here.
5. If you didn’t have enough to worry about … 
6. Higgsy news.
7. Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, the Baltics, Georgia … the list goes on.
8. Adulthood in a nutshell.
9. And don’t worry, be happy.
10. American as apple pie.
11. Art with a possible messages? You think?
12. A rant to enjoy.
13. Cricket races and the debt handling.
14. Words twisting in time.
15. If renovation could leave it looking just like that, now that would be cool.
16. Somebody who didn’t get the climate != weather memo.

Good morning.

1. Freedom of speech and the Interwebs.
2. A question regarding commerce and regulation.
3. A left-liberal teacher Democrat talks about Obama.
4. If you’re raising kids … priorities.
5. Yah, right … and if it’s raining or you turn on your A/C or if it’s under 20 degrees? Not so much, eh?
6. At least nobody is keeping to the pretense that the intevervention was for humanitarian reasons.
7. Data for the Palin film.
8. There is a kernel of truth to that. Most IT professionals don’t do home PC repair … but are pressed into it by friends and family. Basic knowledge of what a computer is and what programs do … plus a measure of persistence and google are what passes for that expertise.
9. Here’s a notion. Obama is trying to push the US to default for his own political gains.
10. There is no car, no driver. I think this is basically right. Government can’t help the economy. It can only choose to harm it a little or a lot.
11. “Somebody has our money” … the basic core of the liberal tax fallacy.
12. So … you’re outraged about Murdoch on principle?

Good morning. Well, my youngest daughter arrived safely after a 32 hour train ride. We’ll see how the first day goes. 

1. A sober look at the current GOP field.
2. A must-read book noted.
3. What passes for medical ethics.
4. Government hiring/firing practices.
5. Fact, stranger than fiction. Or at least weirder.
6. Some on the Murdoch kerfuffle. I was on vacation, if anyone knows of a unempassioned rundown of the facts of the case, leave a comment with a link. Thanks.
7. Security taking their job (security) ahead of their humanity.
8. Borders and the “what would you have done?” question.
9. Talking about the borrowing limit.
10. There has always been a strong anti-space current amongst progressives.
11. Questioning the anti-Bachmann fervor. I had also posted a question regarding the anti-Bachmann fervor (on my blog) and got a lot of weak tea in response. 
12. China seas and ships of war.
13. Someone who buys into the targetted income fallacy.
14. Conservative “porn.”
15. One question might be why it takes 15 years for the AGW establishment to notice. 

Good morning.

1. The Stasi.
2. Textbooks to rent.
3. The cosmological argument for God (HT: Mr Carter).
4. Two climate related incidents, CERN decides good science practices are bad (for politics, I guess), and some past (and present) climate consensi. Today’s predictions, of course, are going to be so so much more accurate, in part because of the policies noted in the first post help make for good progress (in which good doesn’t mean accurate).
5. That number, I offer, packs a lot of garbage statistics. My Honda for example is, likely, 65-70% less costly to refuel than the average and it’s a gas burner (and energy taxes on gasoline are the same as for that average car). Add taxes into the mix, the somewhat suspect eMPG conversion, and voila you’re probably around 90%. 
6. Marriage and that ugly patriarchy stuff.
7. Russia and abortion, today.
8. One pro-choice person fears some pro-life groups steer toward perferred outcomes (apparently that steering isn’t a problem when pro-choice groups do the same). We call that hypocrisy.
9. Neanderthal!
10. Why? Because momentum is mass * velocity and energy is 1/2 * mass * velocity squared. Damage is related to energy, momementum is what affects recoil. 
11. Poverty is not relative.
12. Party on dude.
13. Out of the mouths of liberal spokespersons.

Good morning. My youngest daughter is leaving on a mission trip today, your prayers on her behalf would be appreciated.

1. In which a tax break = government assistance … kinda like not being mugged in the inner city is positive race relations. Seems to me one should offer less foolish comparisons when deriding others as fools.
2. A note on the debt discussions I haven’t seen repeated elsewhere.
3. Guidlines for Catholic Charity, which I suppose anti-Catholic bigots will find objectionable, but I can’t see why or how.
4. The danger posed by attractive women (to men).
5. Dodd-Frank with more “help” like that the recovery will just zoom along … or not.
6. Some words for freedom.
7. Returning to that Black parenting issue raised by opponents of Ms Bachmann.
8. Liberal spokespersons are just sooo genuinely friendly.
9. Unsolicited advice for Mr Clemmons in his defense … don’t try that tact.
10. So, the “compromise” the Dems have on the table? 2 billion in cuts 800 billion in new taxes. One what planet is that a compromise (hint: not Earth)?
11. B&P on the debt here and here.
12. Diversity watch-bunnies didn’t catch this one.

Good morning.

1. The evolution of a word through misunderstanding.
2. Grist for the Fan/Fred un-fans.
3. I don’t think that’s exactly right, it’s how buearocracy expands of which currently in the US the left is a ardent advocate.
4. Mr Krugman then and now.
5. Dry your air.
6. Not one of Mr Obama’s better moments, the “you’re all dumb” argument is not so endearing to the general public.
7. Ballistics and cover vs concealment.
8. Well, if Mr Rush is a leading intellectual of the right, here’s one of the left’s … and a recent remark.
9. Or let’s all start speaking Latin … in which the verb was at the end of the sentence.
10. A athletic hero … which falls in a long standing tradition (recall Tyler Hamilton finishing on the podium with a broken collarbone … and after the tour completed had to have all his molars capped because he was grinding them in his sleep because of the pain).
11. False story gets legs.
12. Choose your reality? 

Good morning. Well our road trip continues, now we are in the UP.

1. Much ado about nothing.
2. How to deflect and evade, liberal style. Marriage and out-of-wedlock childbirth is at a historical high and it seems quite plausible that it is higher than prior to 1860. But apparently even suggesting that might be the case is out of bounds. Why? If it is true, acknowleding the same isn’t racism … evading the question, however, is.
3. Lo and behold, another highly popular liberal rhetorical technique, the kindergarden insult (and that’s just the title). What I don’t get is the longer lifetimes touted for CFLs in places in which they are turned off an on a lot (like a bathroom in a house with teenagers) … it seems to me they don’t outlast incandescents by much if at all. 
4. Ironic use of the term “might be photoshop” … but yes, I’d likely want one.
5. In which “not vice versa” might be better coined in terms of sets and subsets.
6. Sneaky Pete, meet sneaky Ivan.
7. Theological speculation should not lead to violence.
8. Goes without saying.
9. Just like conceal carry bans, … another practice supported without reason.
10. Ms Bachman, and I wonder … if find myself being drawn to a more and more sympathetic stance regarding Ms Bachman the more I see silly and spurious charges and claims made against her. However, I suspect the turned table situation (my linking many charges against the regrettable Democrat in the White House), has not in fact been influential in leading, for example, my two frequent liberal commenters (at my own blog) to support him. As my suspicion is that they would in the absence of such claims still (alas) support him. But I wonder about the less committed readers. 

Good morning.

1. Is there a word for this? Starting an argument on a faulty premise and running from there. “If we don’t raise the debt limit” spending will have to be cut. It doesn’t follow however that interest payments are the first spending items to be cut. Unless apparently, you are a Democrat.
2. Statistics and the Law.
3. Marriage as lilfestyle.
4. Well, to be honest I’m mostly linking this so I don’t lose it and can go back to it.
5. Democrats are for voter fraud because they think there should be 0 barriers to vote … as if that some how leads to a more informed electorate.
6. Here’s a conversation starter for the Casey Anderson kerfuffle. I don’t know right now how I’d react regarding my children. 
7. Why we (developers) despise Microsoft and Apple.
8. Tree of Life, anti-Semetic (and is that Jewish=Semitic or Middle East = Semitic) and another review here.
9. Mr Libby and Fast/Furious.
10. Why? Because “smart” doesn’t mean what it used to.
11. Speaking of the whole assumptions going into Medicaid and its expansion. Examine the premises.
12. Narrative is fundamentally conservative?
13. eMPG, I think the fundamental problem with eMPG ratings is it ignores the 30% efficiency loss in generating electricity.

Good morning.

1. Parallels between US and Church doctrine.
2. Which apparently confuses some people about what the term theocracy might mean.
3. IMF considerations.
4. Kids games.
5. The news isn’t the 2:3 ratio its the small numbers.
6. 60W equiv LED?
7. $1T for what?
8. TSA’s next hurdle.
9. That Obama/PDF examination … the error? Attributing to malfeasance that which can be explained by incompetence. 
10. Bulgaria and WWII genocide.
11. I wonder if the picture requirements on tobacco products is Constitutional. If so, would this too be?
12. Blowing whistles in the Obama mileu.
13. Hmmm. No mention of the effects of extraordinary low interest rates on retirement.
14. So that’s what school administrators are for.
15. Return of the Soviets.

Vacation starts tonight. Off on a road trip … which is a thing we’ve never done as a family. My eldest daughter planned it (and hopes to drive to collect hours for the permit).

1. He’s against corporate jets because, you know, the only private jets will be in the government, i.e. his. 
2. Except there was a well functioning quasi-anarchic ideal-libertarian society … read about the Western folkway in Albion’s Seed. The only problem with that society vis-a-vis libertarianism, is that it typically horrifies modern libertarians.
3. One Mr Savage touting the benefits of virtue ethics via a good bad example.
4. Having left the AGW fold.
5. A non-birther looks again … and remind me, why have the liberals not learned the Rathergate lesson? Digital forgery isn’t the best option … it will be found.
6. Temperment as divider.
7. From the “Moderate Voice” (in quotes because while putatively moderate and having the goal of collecting diverse viewpoints … oddly enough he has no conservatives writing for him … but I digress) … this is the theme of the day. GOP intransigence in the face of Democrat compromise. Except the Emporer has no clothes. There is no actual Democrat compromise on the table. It’s a myth.
8. Notice how they’re careful to point to Sulphur as the pollutant not CO2 (which would also be present in abundance of course).
9. Likely an unintended consequence?
10. CAFE.
11. Toward a pro-killer society?
12. So, would we be better with an intelligent President like this one (was)?
13. Macedonian reactions to police violence in context.
14. Omnipresence demythied.
15. Lying to Congress a jailable offence? Shouldn’t the President and most of Congress be with him in jail? 
16. Riffing on Krugman errors.
17. And some political advice for our times.

Good morning.

1. So, the PDO, important for you or not?
2. Talking taxes.
3. Well, there you go!
4. Noting the liberal movement to co-opt language via re-definition. Sometimes I also have wondered how people who suffer from actual phobias think about calling policy disagreements phobias. 
5. That’s right, I still don’t think cops are dangerous to people (in any special way). People are dangerous to people. 
6. Mr Jagger.
7. On Mr Strass-Kahn.
8. So … still want to rush post haste out of Iraq and Afghanistan?
9. On that topic … 
10. Takeover bid quantities.
11. Heh.
12. A Tea Party sign. If you have a problem with that sentiment you haven’t been watching anything in the beltway for two decades or more.
13. My car has been banned 🙁