Good morning.

1. Logic and the greening of cars.
2. Medieval icons uncovered.
3. One of the unspoken unexamined axioms of the left.
4. Spending binge … do you think it will stop?
5. Climate not weather … heh.
6. Mr Wilson.
7. A quote regarding the UK PM exchange.
8. A discussion of church and same sex relations.
9. Paradigm shifts in thinking about the universe.
10. Chutzpah and an interesting recasting of what swiftboating means that perhaps aligns better with history (although perhaps “politically motivated” should be added as an adjective to the term opponents).
11. Examining Mr Gates.

Good morning.

1. One of the Gentlemen on Kagan.
2. More here from a Volokh conspirator.
3. Lithium dead? That has to be a translation glitch. Oh, wait … reading more carefully it is presented as such.
4. Jews as WASPS?
5. EU crises examined.
6. I failed to mention this yesterday. Actually the WSJ Monday had a hole section on energy which is worth a look.
7. Apropos of my “failure to communicate” essay last night … here’s another example.
8. A solution from the Soviet era?
9. Well, I don’t always take all my vacation days … but I wouldn’t ascribe the reason as guilt.
10. I suspect that “increase” is the first of many admissions of cost increases.
11. A novel.

Good morning (and a belated happy mothers day). Links?

1. VE day in Moscow through Ukrainian eyes.
2. Thoughts on banking.
3. Aging populations.
4. On a remark by a Mr Klein.
5. Candy in school.
6. Marriage … some thoughts.
7. Ya think?
8. Mannequin as cultural marker.
9. An excellent way to recast the “Obama: Socialist or not?” question.
10. Exactly.
11. Miranda.
12. Kagan and Meiers.
13. The next American rifle?

Good morning.

1. A word which for the pre-adolescent will trigger a snigger.
2. A suggestion for the progressives.
3. Beautiful curves.
4. On immigration.
5. How the “reality party” does business.
6. And then you hit a switch and the it switches to economy mode and gets 30 mpg … or as is more likely, uhm, not.
7. Some notes on that much linked Onion piece on the Constitution.
8. A man without a country? 
9. Hmm. 
10. Well, now that one of our elected official dunces has said so … it must be true.
11. A story about love.
12. For the cricket race fans.
13. A book noted.
14. Greece.
15. A parental dispute. Well, that’s the wrong decision. I’d think that either the judges should have ruled ala Solomon that the kid be cut in two and the parents can name their half as they please …. or the parents get five minutes to clear this up and come out in agreement on a name or the court would rule the kid will forever be named Farky McSnarky (or something similar).

Good morning.

1. On the NY bombing attempt, everything is just peachy … or not?
2. A look at the terrorists family life.
3. Now, I don’t know who Mr Miliband is, but I think the statement “part Polish, part Belgian, and part Jewish” doesn’t need modification. A person can reflect and represent his national origins and his ethnic background in “parts” without any difficulty.
4. Supply side.
5. Ethnic issues in the Russian Federation … and this is not unrelated.
6. Turks and Orthodoxy.
7. A book of interest.
8. The balloon is still inflated?
9. The state of economics.
10. Perhaps Mr Obama’s “Katrina Moment” is not in the place you’re looking.
11. Ride a bike. Race a bike. Did you know in 1920 in the US professional bike racing was a much bigger sport than baseball?
12. Why write (or blog).
13. Music for the morning.
14. Reflections on AZ.

Good morning.

1. A book on notice.
2. Amazon history meme. My first purchase was, oddly enough, a movie … Peking Opera Blues in 1999. My first book was A Deepness in the Sky.
3. Dealing with controversy.
4. Yes. Do go in, its stunningly beautiful inside.
5. Not exactly safe.
6. Background on Miranda rights.
7. $800 billion down the rat hole.
8. No silly, we can’t do that ’cause he hasn’t been tortured yet, duh.
9. Isn’t “not heeding your own advice” hypocrisy unless you are repentant?
10. Some politically incorrect notions.

Good morning.

1. Hopefully he did more than “confront” his daughter.
2. Willing ignorance by the left. One might wonder in the wake of CMU and the hocky stick lies how the notion that the willingness to sell off fact for partisan causes is not strictly on one side of the aisle. Perhaps agnotology is the word for that?
3. Having blamed Bush and global warming on any number of natural occurrences which were clearly not at fault, some on the left are curious why the right is not as dumb. 
4. I guess redefining the problem away hasn’t fixed things.
5. I for one, wish the “under the bus” phrase would just go away and die quietly.
6. Couture. 
7. Our small President.
8. Mr Gore’s example setting.
9. A gentleman’s questions on Arizona.
10. Another book reading/blogging project.
11. Physics links.
12. That shouldn’t have had to be stated.
13. Open immigration at odds with the welfare state.
14. For the Ms Palin fans.

Good morning.

1. Greece. One view. Another. And one more.
2. An old soldier.
3. Of children’s and politician’s fantasies.
4. The CIA.
5. Contra Mayday ‘workers’ celebrations. Here and here.
6. Regarding the Southpark Islam/Mohammed kerfuffle.
7. Mr Obama.
8. Arizona and immigration.
9. A reading group to note.
10. Freedom of the press.
11. Zap.
12. Mr Obama’s Katrina moment.
13. Saint Ahmed.

Good morning.

1. I concur, “change or die” is an error w.r.t. the church.
2. The Copts remark on the ECUSA.
3. On race and the US.
4. Real life and Hitchcock. Our families “Friday night movie night movie” tonight is Hitchcock’s Frenzy.
5. Hope and change.
6. A question on just war.
7. This is my one remaining (left) wingnut blog in my feed. He offers pointed criticism of Mr Obama.
8. Uhm, they’re effing frogs!?! I’d suggest reading Ms Chantal Delsol if Genesis 1 doesn’t make the argument well enough.
9. Two days in a row, mass movement to Orthodoxy in South America?
10. Social networks and following the crowd.
11. Science, oil, and the renewable resources problem.
12. For the fans of Ms Palin.
13. Illinois.
14. Advice for the beltway from Mr Easterly.

Good morning.

1. A new Lexus hybrid.
2. What the word is awaiting with baited breath.
3. Fables.
4. Democracy or freedom.
5. On that three axis political taxonomy.
6. I’d never even heard of the OSCE.
7. Excellence.
8. Who didn’t expect that?
9. Crime and punishment. 
10. Some music for your morning.
11. Another political taxonomy.
12. The OPM problem.
13. Poltics in the East.
14. On the Arizona immigration law … more here.

Good morning.

1. Holy man, scare quotes?
2. Power point and the military.
3. A use for those floppy drives.
4. What? Democrats overreacted?
5. Venn and the internets.
6. On the G&S circus.
7. No death panels? Or is it a syntactic distinction that makes no semantic difference?
8. On the deficit commission.
9. Mr Paulson.
10. Arizona.
11. The left and liberalism.
12. Three months ago, I noted that Greece’s finances were more of a problem than its economic heft indicated because of connectedness. Alas, I was perhaps correct.

Good morning.

1. Math and sport.
2. Gang warfare.
3. 5000 baptized.
4. Mikhailovich Bakhtin.
5. I wonder how many “sex-scandals” in the US are the result of planned actions by the opposition.
6. I think he means “start using something like a strategy” not “revamp.” 
7. How to shake the trees and let the rotten fruit fall.
8. No. No. No. Silly. It’s the climate deniers. 
9. A taxonomy, which doesn’t fit my view of self very well at all, seeing as the first and perhaps last axis don’t mesh well with my views.
10. On the unconstitutionality of the health care bill.
11. On Confession.
12. Our Government really really really needs to spend less.

Good morning.

1. Can they? They did in the former Soviet Union … and didn’t need given new roles to do it either.
2. This piece is no longer “obscure” news.
3. Network fail.
4. Knifely advice. And yes, I know ‘knifely’ is not a word.
5. G-S and the left.
6. Sin has color? 
7. I’m stuck on “less trendy more stylish,” doesn’t trendy=stylish (asks the very much not trendy nor stylish guy).
8. A meta-comment on the new $100 bill.
9. Two drunks in a warehouse of booze.
10. Lies and the administration. One of the bigger ones.
11. Real or fiction … a quiz.
12. Defending the late Senator McCarthy.
13. Freedom of association.

Good morning.

1. I normally don’t. Do you?
2. Election blues.
3. Robotic butlers with guns.
4. Earth day … and I had trouble making sense of the first sentence. What does it mean to be a “denlalist” of a new-fangled faux holiday.
5. Heavy presence in the room.
6. Not getting the cloning thing, here and here. I suppose this would make more sense if I had any notion of who Mr Caplan might be, but sorry I’ve never heard of him and therefore the import of some dude you’ve never heard of says something silly is just a tad weak.
7. Private association.
8. Free speech.
9. A question for the libertarians against the draft … if a lack of draft meant losing the Civil war and WWII would you still be against the draft?
10. Violence, tea party, and liberal stupidity.
11. A life not wasted, and one metric.