Good morning.

1. Judas and a question.
2. On the bombings in Moscow.
3. Skilz.
4. A prediction.
5. Fun with numbers.
6. If you ever wonder how Mr Obama has been tied to sci-fi imagery … look no further.
7. Very light. Stupid light?
8. How? By selling them? No seriously, poor regions lacking any other financial means have nothing but their children for their retirement. Doesn’t that have to be fixed first?
9. The “Sandra Bullock” trade offered for consideration more abstractly.
10. A gay man considers Mr Phelps and a lawsuit.
11. Our congressmen … and this quote from Mr Obama “Mr. Obama with his characteristic empathy acknowledged there are ‘folks who have legitimate concerns … that the federal government may be taking on too much.’” Ya think? To bad he has no answer nor do his supporters.
12. I’m not sure that’s an April 1 post.

Good morning.

1. Arctic mineral rights.
2. Russia and Chechnya.
3. Contra self-esteem with no mention of Evagrius.
4. Progressives against poetry. Oddly enough however, he admits the term AD would be fine … which translates directly as “In the Year of Our Lord” to which he objects. What is it about progressives and their (selective?) dislike of poetry and metaphor?
5. And to pick on Mr Schraub a little more, yet again we find that self-named feminists can’t bring themselves around to criticising pornography qua pornography for its harmful role vis a vis women.
6. Being a young girl in the Afghan region.
7. Whining and kids these days. Back in my college days I remember being assigned to read War and Peace in its entirety over the one week Spring recess.
8. A Palm Sunday memorial you won’t see in the states.
9. Coming out.
10. The history of the student loan government takeover.
11. 3 new confessors.
12. Beam.
13. Washington’s inaccurate view of business. 
14. Economics and a video.
15. The loyal opposition and a call for a benefit of doubt.
16. John Polkinghorn.
17. Taxes and more on taxes. The second link is yet another big economic problem for raising taxes on “the rich” to pay for healthcare.

Good morning.

1. A discussion of the origin of a word.
2. Metal or paper? And no, in answer to a question a few days ago, (most of) my (retirement) investments are not in gold, but in index funds.
3. Considering federalism.
4. Calvin.
5. Abandon climate change.
6. Indifference and church.
7. How much luggage? How many passengers? Ice? Rain? 
8. Bush and Obama and their passover/holy week messages. What a weird exegesis of Exodus, btw. I wonder how that hermeneutic applies to Judges.
9. Employment. A map.
10. Why does any one read Yglesias? 
11. Mr Obama’s foreign policy.
12. On confession.
13. Tuesday of holy week, in the west. In the East, tonight the third and last bridegroom matins focuses on a comparison of the prostitute anointing Jesus feet and Judas betrayal.

Good morning.

1. Razor advice.
2. Capacity for aid.
3. Hmmm. I had thought one of the striking differences in cycling and other sports is that the fans celebrate a 12th place finish for their guy. I had thought that a good thing.
4. Pain.
5. More on pain.
6. Freedom, taxes and the welfare state.
7. Terror on the Moscow subway system.
8. HRW and the Nazi claim.
9. Mr Pullman’s latest book.
10. A discussion of a political cartoon.
11. Recess.
12. Masculine beauty and a study.
13. A film.

Good morning.

1. In the President’s words … apparently backtracking is a theme.
2. That’s what we need in a recession.
3. Tanning beds and the new bill.
4. 10 books meme noticed … at Volokh.
5. Ice.
6. Power napping.
7. Faith … and the stage.
8. Fixie at Wal-Mart?
9. A very cool biking video, dreams of the ordinary man or something like that.
10. Handouts continue … deficits are no concern I guess.
11. Those Healthcare lawsuits.
12. Kiss your (retirement) money good bye.
13. Talking race.
14. On the phase in … and avoiding the obvious point that the really onerous parts of the bill needed to be postponed until after certain election cycles were past.

Good … afternoon.

1. Independence day.
2. On being a foreigner.
3. A Gitmo grad.
4. From our Government motors.
5. Considering Sophocles.
6. While I too think I “know what you mean“, I think what you don’t mean is what is true, i.e., safety is not possible.
7. Salvadore Dali-bike.
8. How to shut up a professional ethicist … sort of.
9. The “GOP” is “deeply unserious” about addressing … hmm, I’d say that’s an unnecessary qualification. Politicians are unserious about most matters, healthcare being just one of them.
10. The “tea leaves” are not hard to understand. The missing piece is that cricket races (polls) are almost universally meaningless.
11. On the defence of detainee lawyers.
12. We need more of this.
13. But what we will get is this sort of thing … in healthcare … in spades, which has already happened in that Congress has exempted itself and their aides from the healthcare legislation.
14. 64 “teams” … who will win?
15. Just say no? For those who claim this HC bill will not affect healthcare innovation … how will a “medical device tax” spur innovation and improvements?

Good morning.

1. I think you might need to be a subscriber to read this … but it is quite good.
2. Following my predilection for sidestepping the main point of a piece … the phrase “deeply patronizing” jumped out at me. I think the adjective “deeply” here is meaningless and inaccurate. Besides that, the attitude is more than likely “shallowly” patronizing at best, i.e., just based on surface assumptions and casual expectations.
3. Huh? So … who is the guy on the left? Lenin? Freud?
4. Inflation and a debate, a missing piece possibly in this list.
5. This is not unrelated to the above.
6. Remarks on the CBO estimates of the healthcare bill. 
7. Economics and legislation.
8. New? A “New” nuclear option? Huh!? This is what nuclear proponents (mostly oddly enough on the right) have been advocating for two decades.
9. Speaking of healthcare.
10. From pro-choice to pro-life in a pro-choice community.
11. Bill of attainder?
12. Obama keeping his word … not.
13. It will be interesting to see if those who support the stimulus object to this … which is due to the stimulus bill.
14. A motor.

Good morning.

1. Pessimism (here and here) and Optimism (here) in the wake of the healthcare passing.
2. Loneliness and humility.
3. Climate or weather news.
4. Testable predictions … what are your predictions (testable).
5. One here.
6. On planet liberal … apparently selling crap to the government is free markets. Geesh.
7. This would be a story to dig into … in my copious free time.
8. Shame, a quality entirely lacking in the beltway set.
9. On abortion and the healthcare bill.
10. An abhorrent trend.
11. And the big lie in the healthcare mix.
12. Why the legislative victory will likely be Pyrrhic.

Good morning.

1. Civility and trade.
2. Friday’s prediction. “worst aspects of market and socialism” Words … we will apparently now be living by.
3. Adultery.
4. Clinton in Russia regarding Iran.
5. The coming healthcare battles … will only get worse.
6. On hell.
7. Of milk and meat and Christian education.
8. Considering the Prayer of St. Ephrem.
9. A forest and a highway.
10. Yet another scientific study noted which discovers the obvious.
11. Sarcasm in the wake of the healthcare passage. Or is it irony, I can never figure out what the difference between those two.
12. Maybe that healthcare bill will lose its teeth.
13. And it has to stand up in court as well.
14. Imagine that, dishonesty from the President. 
15. Darwin and teleology.

Good morning.

1. That FOIA thing, with some numbers.
2. Change … or not.
3. St. Cyril on the Lord’s prayer.
4. Climate.
5. Flight.
6. Art.
7. Healthcare and the Jedi younglings.
8. Budget and the latest version of the bill … and a big lie.
9. Abandoned churches in Russia, a photo-montage. (HT: Paul Gregory Alms)
10. Campaign finance.
11. Attitudes in academia? Counter-intuitive?
12. An Aussie judge strikes out.

Good morning.

1. Career choices in the UK.
2. Genocides.
3. No. Charity does not imply a power hierarchy.
4. Enforced charity however, does incur disgruntlement.
5. Three more for St. Patrick’s day, here (a defence) and here (some history) and here (Irish jokes).
6. Eucharist and confession.
7. Some economic indicators … including “attractive wait staff.”
8. When you start off by misreading … going from there means straw men are afoot.
9. HUD for the rest of us.
10. Russian elections.
11. Hitler and Pakistan.a
12. Gooder English.
13. Fer the kiddies … or not.
14. Next comes Evagrius, then Cassian … then swim in the Bosphorus? 😉

Good morning.

1. For a site that depends on logical arguments … failing to think logically is a big problem. The statement “slavery was/is not evil because of cruelty” does not depend or imply the statement “cruelty is not evil.” The statement means slavery is evil without cruelty (more accurately does not depend on the evil of cruelty to be evil), but does not imply that cruelty is not also evil.
2. Oh … Hell. 
3. Comparisons of comfort.
4. Truth to power.
5. Weather implies climate change? Only when it fits the rhetoric I guess.
6. What if? Hmmph. That shouldn’t be a question. It isn’t.
7. Ride a bike.
8. Heh. Snort.
9. Yes they do. I don’t think there should be any question about that, although I don’t think “during a recession” is a necessary qualifier.
10. I hate those “compelling life story” rhetorical techniques … so when they backfire … people should notice.
11. For St. Patrick’s day.
12. More transparent administration, is measurably much less transparent. Color me unsurprised.

Good morning.

1. A fact vs myth for the healthcare debate.
2. A word from the desert.
3. Wind farming and climate.
4. Gay bashing and standards.
5. Conservative.
6. Watching the Druze.
7. Lance Armstrong.
8. Prayer.
9. Geting it backwards.
10. The courts.
11. Multipliers.
12. CS Lewis and St. Silouan.
13. An interview on Eric Rohmer and his films.
14. Talking about liberty.

Good morning.

1. Selection of a sort.
2. If those stats on age refer to the “brake/accel” issue, the problem is not mechanical.
3. A view of Mr Obama which makes some sense … but see this in that context.
4. Chesterton.
5. Repentance.
6. The rehabilitation of US Grant … is that it? To keep Mr Reagan off the $50 bill?
7. Very sweet.
8. On war.
9. Hmm.
10. Smile, your feel good story for the day.
11. Image, archetype and propaganda … 
12. Girls.
13. And some old advice that remains good.

Good morning.

1. Bonhoeffer on technology.
2. The Democrats getting press, more here.
3. Undermining public education by the Admin, a feature not a bug?
4. Candidates and boxes.
5. Wind bottles and power.
6. Of metric, model, and stimulus.
7. Church and culture.
8. Trust and reputation.
9. The medieval warm period … and a correlation (which is not causation … but that doesn’t mean it isn’t either).
10. A long conversation on morals and war.
11. Freedom of speech and the word ‘nigger’.