Good morning.

1. The effect of the liberal publishing/media majority on conservative/liberal dialog.
2. It seems to me if you reject 1.1 the whole house of cards falls down. For humans happiness it might be argued requires pain … why is that not true in general?
3. For the eager conspiracy theorist.
4. HIV/AIDS and Russia.
5. An election related confession. And I confess that on Wednesday morning it was after 8:30 when I overheard someone talking about the election and it occurred to me … “Gee, I wonder how it turned out?” Seriously.
6. A bike on fire.
7. BSG science.
8. Fox and MSNBC compared regarding election coverage. CNN gets a mention.
9. Scientism and morals.
10. And to cheer everyone up, if needed.

Good morning.

1. A response to a liberal badly missing the point.
2. Someone who lives in a land without winter.
3. East and West and Halloween (or All Souls Day).
4. Fatwas and the Stewart/Colbert rally.
5. In case you haven’t seen this and need a laugh.
6. Poking GM.
7. I’m unclear on why the adjective “GOP” is needed. It’s a certainty that both parties ‘establishments’ have a close relationship with sleaze.
8. The plural of octopus.
9. Damage?
10. An interesting statistic.
11. Theodicy humor.
12. An post-election interpretation. I’d be willing to be that the percentage of Democrats who take that lesson will be less than 1 in 20.
13. Another post election prediction of sorts.

Good morning.

1. Seven guys living together. Like a rock.
2. Witches and hunters.
3. Gotta love those teachers unions. And that’s “love” as in despise.
4. Prose or prosody and … conservatism.
5. Another one of the very few economists that predicted the recession noted.
6. Biking in the storm.
7. Oh, and one more for the bikers.
8. The deficit and Mr Obama again.
9. Separation of treatment of religions.
10. Some election day humor.
11. Red and blue demographics.

Good morning.

1. On the eve of the election, it’s irrational to do research.
2. Divided government and 2012.
3. I was going to link this, and point out that I’ve never had nor seen such a conversation so I doubt the claims of universality are accurate. 
4. Going up. Really.
5. Orthodoxy and those virtues that appeal to men. I think dwelling on those points is problematic but I do like the comparison of nativity hymns, comparing ‘the little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay’ … with ‘the Eternal Logos entering inexorably, silently yet heroically, into the fabric of created reality.’ … although the former is more poetic (in English).
6. Music and education.
7. Continuing that thought … “need” is not relevant. Maths (like music) are important for the same reason, see prior link.
8. Mr Gore, climate hypocrite.
9. Politics elsewhere.
10. Dirt and politics (as above) not new.
11. Lock yer doors.

Good morning.

1. “Pragmatism” … in a politician it seems to me pragmatism is another way of saying one’s word is not one’s bond.
2. Going down the toilet (near you coming soon?).
3. Misplacing blame.
4. Four Tea party myths held by the left analyzed from the left (HT: MP).
5. Speaking of the Tea Party … a candidate and his bike.
6. There’s a reason why a really badly edited book was on my “book of the year” list a few years back. It has a lot of important and striking ideas in it.
7. Church architecture and Romania. Romanian churches feature hand painted iconography covering the exterior of the church in the style you can see in the image shown. 
8. Really bad use of statistics.
9. Of party and politics (HT: neo-neo).
10. Of Physics envy. So … is economics a 4 (or a 5)? Do economists think they are in a 2 regime?
11. In which Mr Krugman is shown to misuse statistics as badly as the people in #8.
12. A hunger strike of which I was completely unaware. How about you?
13. The Church in India.
14. Not stopping to pee.

Good morning.

1. Virtue and Obamacare.
2. Epic aftermath.
3. Bring out the guns, pitchforks, and torches.
4. What happened to repentance?
5. Coffee grounds put to interesting uses. 
6. Judith Curry and climate.
7. The new CIA.
8. If the purpose of a organization is defined by what it does … consider the UN.
9. Now that was funny.

Good morning.

1. Advice to prepare for Confession.
2. Some thoughts against Obamacare.
3. What passes for “disturbing” on the left.
4. “8 Things …”  fisked.
5. Uhm, duh.
6. Not exactly helpful diet advice.
7. Meta-linking economics.
8. A job posting in the Admin.
9. Tenthers. I suspect the intersection of tenthers and liberals is low.
10. Bandwidth.

Good morning.

1. The cling of sin.
2. Obama and those running in the mid-terms.
3. Econ meta-linking. Hmm, that didn’t come out right … I think I should have written “Meta-linking economics”.
4. I first misread that as Morgan Freeman, which really would be, uhm, not quite the best.
5. Philosophy and belief in God.
6. Advert preference.
7. When reading this, it occurred to me those progressives who fear the Tea Party is racist … do they also think of it is primarily a women’s movement? And if, for a moment, they did would that change their evaluation regarding racism?
8. Inflation predicted.
9. So, facing charges. Justified or not?
10. Two Bibles.

Good morning.

1. The anti-catholics around like to point to Pope Benedict’s Hitler youth membership, this will go unremarked, although I’d have to say it’s likely that both allegations are quite strained.
2. One problem with this post is that Mr Williams was trying to make the opposite point, i.e., that anti-Muslim (esp. American) bias is to be resisted.
3. More on that topic here.
4. Orthodoxy noted.
5. Woo hoo.
6. Liberals and their delusions.
7. Ouch.
8. A skill to learn?

More links this week since I didn’t get around to it last week.

What’s keeping this recession going for so long?  Ask James Madison. Yes, that James Madison.

The 6th Circuit judge that upheld the health care reform individual mandate to buy insurance has really redefined terms in order to make his ruling.

With that reasoning, Judge Steeh thoroughly unmoors the commerce clause from its concern with actual economic activity that Congress can regulate to a more amorphous realm of “economic decisions” which apparently include the decision to NOT enter into commerce at all.

A better example of an activist judge you’re not likely to find soon.

Roger Ebert, in reviewing “Waiting for Superman”, acknowledges that the private school highlighted does better than public school, proclaiming “Our schools do not work”.  His solution?  (Wait for it…)  More money for public schools, for the ones that don’t work instead of encouraging what does work and at typically a lower cost per student.  Liberal education policies are now just talking points rather than reasoned arguments.

Remembering a sociopathic mass murderer, who is extolled by liberal students T-shirts everywhere.  (No, not Charles Manson. I’m talking about Che Guevara.)

The Rise of the (Conservative, Christian) Woman in American politics.

Juan Williams responds to the NPR sacking.  Ah, the tolerant Left in action.

And to close it out, two cartoons to make up for missing a week.  I just love Chuck Asay.  (Click for larger versions.)

Good morning.

1. A word from the Holy mountain.
2. So, if you didn’t watch the VC youtube lecture on individual mandate, something of a summary.
3. On the Mr Williams firing, with lots of links.
4. More thoughts on that here.
5. 90 TB? At home no less.
6. On religion and higher ed.
7. Better than “going for dirt”, going for irony and comedy.
8. Here’s the thing, lots of people complain about Ms O’Donnell. But those fragments I see quoted are quite reasonable in context.
9. The first new coming out that approaches the efficiency of my 2000 model. Perhaps in five or six years they’ll manage to improve on that benchmark. 
10. Talking about classified information. I think the administration’s strategy is to lie so often that credibility is completely lost. That way real secrets are safe.
11. A book noted.
12. Blasphemy just changed its name.
13. I’ll huff and puff and … well, take a look.

Good morning.

1. Stimulus irony.
2. Gitmo in the news.
3. BP’s payment and consequence.
4. Transplants and an interesting development.
5. The future of skin art?
6. A different way to look at H/S cultures. A few months ago I was considering the thesis (I still am) that H/S cultures are happier, just not wealthier, than the Western individualistic one. Perhaps the “more natural” fit with human nature is the reason why.
7. A VC threesome, on the individual mandate and Constitutional considerations, the historical origins of the separation of Church and State in US jurisprudence, and why lawyers seem to prefer technicalities to ethics.
8. Scary tales.
9. Two links to Serbia and cinema.
10. Speaking of cinema, a film everybody should see noted.
11. Heh.
12. One of the consequences of progressives insistence on ‘good racism’, is that they need to constantly maintain their artificial hierarchal victimology.
13. Brain drain, democracy and the third world.

Good morning.

1. Repulsive? How about unsurprising.
2. One year back … 
3. A cool drawing.
4. Finding common ground … with Mr Gerson.
5. Selling tech.
6. Advice.
7. Hmm. But are on the verge of stealing on of our companies unofficial mottos, “Sucks Less.” 
8. A question for those who question the competence of Ms O’Donnell.
9. While its a little late for graduation addresses, this feels like one.
10. Mr Stevenson and some of his verse regarding the progressives of his day.
11. So dear, what did you do today?
12. Cinema and conservative/libertarian separation.
13. Mooooooo.

Good morning.

1. What? Was Monday “weird literary comparison day” and nobody informed me? Mr Greenwald starts the game off with a really weird allusion in his first sentence. Now is that the Mr Baum witch (Dorothy) or the Mr McGuire (Wicked) one? Does he really believe that there exist there that the set of decent serious people has 100% overlap with those who think Ms McDonnell is “the Wicked Witch.” Seriously? That’s just dumb.
2. The Vatican apparently is not to be outdone on WLC day. I say apparently because you can’t always take Protestants as accurate when the report on what Roman Catholics say.
3. The word canon and what it meant (and should mean?).
4. “Do-over” and mortgages. I think you’d be hard pressed to come up with a worse idea than that one, economically speaking. 
5. Uncertainty and regulation.
6. Follow up on the Constitutional discussion regarding compulsory insurance.
7. Russia, a call to “man up.” 
8. So, if your labor ain’t worth $14 an hour -> no job.
9. Recommended reading for the thoughtful.

Good morning.

1. Obama’s town hall meetings from the right.
2. Cell phones, women, and the third world.
3. Words from the Elder Seraphim.
4. A book noted.
5. Photo-tech: dancing water.
6. A different diet strategy.
7. Strength training advice for endurance athletes.
8. As Constitutional protections and amendments are discussed, I think penning this one into an Amendment might be a good idea (HT: Borepatch). For those naive enough to figure the Tea Party is “about racism” might pause to consider that probably such a notion would get almost unanimous support from the T-P supporters and would be one that protects minorities at that place where the rubber meets road (or truncheon meets flesh). 
9. Real or photoshop? Does it matter?
10. King David and guys in a deep hole.
11. Good advice for the right.
12. Support for my thesis concerning the left and the 10th Commandment. Specifically, “Most middle class Americans of my acquaintance would be much happier if they lived on a much less steeply-sloped income curve,” … and much of the middle class of my acquaintance would not … but I think that is because his acquaintance is almost certainly more left leaning than mine.