1. Masoretic vs LXX … a discussion.
2. Fur and the fabulous.
3. That liquidity trap thing.
4. More on that healthcare and measurement problem. (more here).
5. Repentance … is not about guilt.
6. Bloody progressives.
7. The Saints and beauty.
8. Unemployment.
9. Of milk and man.
10. Of fasting and labels.
11. Austrian econ.
12. “pragmatism“
13. High Tech bug zapper.

Good morning.

1. Now that’s a snowblower.
2. Bailout and expectations.
3. The fall of Rome … took not 4 centuries but 14, btw.
4. Another cap/trade proposal.
5. Some dance.
6. The Metropolitan Ware talks in VA.
7. Health insurance and mortality and a follow-up.
8. Demographics and Lent in Russia.
9. Uh, I disagree. If Russia and US borders were 100 miles apart … we’d be trading partners and our economies would be so intermingled and intertwined that nuclear exchange would be unthinkable.
10. I don’t think I could disagree more.
11. Interesting … except that there is almost zero chance that much homework is getting done.
12. For Valentines day … the actual St. Valentine. A geek lover note.
13. More left leaning lies and distortions regarding Ms Palin.
14. The President has an official “twitterer?“

1. The economics of snow removal. 
2. The Empress Theodora … or more properly St. Theodora the Empress.
3. The personal and political … and for which the left wants more and more of it seems, e.g., healthcare and government.
4. Iran and conflict.
5. State taxes and movement.
6. The threats of which our administration was mindful.
7. Mr Chavez.
8. A problem suggested with populism … that it cannot lead to limited government.
9. Academic linkage as racism.
10. Pay scales and government.
11. Disencentivising incentives.
12. To think he was in the running.
13. CO₂ and climate … and one of the problems with the AGW proponents who will say “weather isn’t climate” when they don’t say it.
14. Yet another progressive unhappy with the President.

Good morning. Well, it didn’t snow last night. 😀

1. Looking at the Iliad.
2. Grumbling about Avatar and its message.
3. Afghanistan.
4. Small town and the city.
5. New wars … well I think I’m not reading (any!?) Balkan blogs, perhaps that’s something that needs correction.
6. Men in black.
7. Zoooom.
8. Dating … a scene upon which my young daughters will soon enter.
9. A tax plan.
10. Why Greek monetary problems are a problem outside of Greece. 
11. Thinking ahead.
12. Secession.
13. A new CBS program and Mr Hayek.
14. A word from the desert on fasting.

Well, I had more than a little difficulty getting my machine to boot last night. While embarrassingly enough I figured it out quickly this morning … the dual-boot Windows (7)/Ubuntu experiment on my laptop is a little rocky right now. Anyhow, enough about my excuses … links?

1. Comparing Democrat and Republican.
2. Toyota’s recall and state response … linked to GM ownership. A real journalist could likely do some digging there …
3. It’s interesting when democrats accuse the GOP of hypocrisy.
4. Those protective labor laws.
5. Wordplay and the sheatfish. Yikes.
6. IPCC problems.
7. Lessons for Iran?
8. Guppies in the wild.
9. An interesting reflection on economics.
10. The binding power of hatred.

Good morning.

1. A Lenten blog fer da younger set (HT: ByzTex)
2. Faith as hermeneutic.
3. Roman and Orthodox on Original sin compared.
4. 7 deadly sins … and a book. And the count was 8! Hmmph.
5. This and that recession … a graph.
6. State and size of same.
7. On inerrancy.
8. Love and fear.
9. Failure to govern … and why.
10. An important conservative book noted.
11. Reading On Being Human.
12. Some thoughts on the Super Bowl. My view of the Super Bowl is still partially transfixed with the vision of the scrum after the on-side kick. That many guys who are that strong all fighting that hard for one ball. It’s hard to imagine what that was like I think.

1. Of multiple “validities.”
2. For the liberals reading this, are these “two cherished axioms” accurate? And if so, what does it then mean to discuss matters with conservatives in good faith?
3. Not unrelated .. uhm, that’s not what any conservatives I know think of liberal ideas.
4. Alas, one of the best ways to “double exports” is kill the value of the dollar.
5. Fannie, Freddie and the bear.
6. On Ms Palin.
7. Life and regret.
8. Fasting and the Christian life.
9. Chicago elections.
10. One way to put it, the conflict is between rationing by the arrogant technocrats and ignorant consumers.
11. We’ll have to see if this one has legs.

1. Bouncing around on a mat.
2. Humility and transformation.
3. Outrage? Well, yes, because it wouldn’t be true.
4. A little word play.
5. On campaign finance, the regulations do the reverse of the intent, which is not an unusual situation I’d offer, e.g., affirmative action.
6. Key matchups for Sunday.
7. A questioned asked, namely “Is it true that the Inquisition was actually less likely to use torture than some secular courts of the time?” which if the answer is yes or “the same” would puncture a lot of preconceptions and stock arguments.
8. Well, I looked but didn’t see either (a) the “filthy and inappropriate” implied joke or to be hones (b) any joke/humor at all.
9. Huh? Again, I don’t get it.
10. Maybe this offers a hint as to why.
11. If Google were government owned …
12. Flowers at the feet of the Virgin.
13. Looking (back) at the Obama/Alito kerfuffle.

1. Advice for prayer.
2. The seen and unseen.
3. Fiscal policy in a nutshell.
4. I hadn’t parsed this quote … but prompted to take a second look, why didn’t his head explode (or at least the audience break into laughter).
5. Labor relations nominee.
6. Well, at least somebody still has a fine sense of humor. I wonder what search terms find stuff like that.
7. Cap and trade … one of those broken campaign promises (that would be not raising taxes on the middle and lower classes)?
8. Speaking of taxes “fighting for jobs” by forcing companies out? Don’t worry, “blame corporate greed” will resurface soon.
9. The elder and the pornographer.
10. The left wing points to democrat intransigence on the healthcare matter.
11. AIG bailout broke laws?
12. A question on economic policy.

Well, I didn’t get up early enough to write (or post links) and slept in a bit. So … links with comments this morning.

1. Mr Greenwald asks a question of the left. This might be were one would put a hope/change sort of dig … but I won’t go there (oops). This item will be referred to below, btw.
2. The left takes on “corporatism” here and here, and ignores the elephant in the room. That’s right when you compare the power and ability of corporations to do ill with that of government clearly corporations are the greater evil … if of course you are severely brain damaged. How one can escape the 20th century and not realize that Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and the Khmer Rouge were not all leaders of mega-corps unleashing their corporate stooges but … wait for it … government leaders using government forces. The answer to counter corporate malfeasance is not increased government power and oversight (see item #1 above). It takes something more like, well, this. Tea parties (the original more than the latter) come to mind.
3. A chart, which in turn demonstrates the gullibility of Democrats (and political junkies) who believe the results of about any damn poll. More seriously instead of reading tea leaves for your opinion of the other side, try getting to know some.
4. An interesting painting.
5. Two useful criteria when defining religion.
6. Mr Obama does something which makes the right applaud.  Now we will have to wait for the left to figure out that means that its those evil corporations are pushing into space. Of course the right isn’t universally happy about everything Mr Obama does. But that goes without saying. Here’s something else to applaud (on the right), and it doesn’t hurt that in doing so he breaks a campaign promise.
7. TARP and incentives. Oops. And other ways in which the administration sneaks government growth under the radar.
8. Mr O’Keefe (consider the Ukraine link above in #2 above).
9. On that film Avatar. Heh.
10. 1984 and Mr Obama.
11. A DADT compromise suggested. Comments?
12. An Orthodox hymn.
13. Watching economists dicker.

1. The President and the e-Church phenomena.
2. Nepal and the Maoists.
3. Memory and narrative.
4. That deficit.
5. Democracy and Islam.
6. Big ring.
7. Our dying democracy.
8. Discussing the “political hit” and healthcare.
9. Looking at strategic elements.
10. A dam … in danger.
11. Global warming death.
12. Metal foam, coming to a car near you … when?
13. Demographics and India.
14. Hacking.

1. An old heresy.
2. An icon made of … wooden eggs.
3. Boundaries and life … and a wedding.
4. Violating the principle of separation of state and church, err, sport.
5. Regarding that show trial and Mr Holder’s due diligence.
6. Of Obama and message (a problem in the same).
7. Fox News derangement syndrome.
8. I have to say I found an underlying assumption here repugnant, i.e., that every human activity should and can be taxed.
9. Two pictures.
10. Violence by Islamic adherents in Germany against … Polish blondes.
11. Obama on nuclear power … words don’t match deeds. The times notes “has more support among Republicans than Democrats.” Ya think?
12. Pro-life and pro-choice in San Francisco … as reported by a pro-choice left-leaning photo-journalist.
13. Two questions.
14. Polikinghorne on theodicy.
15. Opposition to Obama … now unpatriotic.
16. It’s cold in China.

1. As Lent approaches … a fast practised by the Chaldean/Assyrian, Ethiopian, and Coptic churches that I’d not known about … the Ninevite fast.
2. After all that … Russia is indifferent.
3. An economics paper noted.
4. A econ question.
5. A book noted … another here.
6. How to teach and study ethics.
7. The hard left and militant Islam … a match not made in heaven.
8. The SOTU address discussed. A valid point on that here.
9. Foolish zeal and St. Ephrem.
10. All that spending … did what? A fat lot of nothing.
11. Well, all the kerfuffle about Obama/Alito tells me only that people need thicker skins. Heck guns have been discharged in the halls before. Now, people apparently care about “mouthing ‘no'”. Geesh. And alas, Mr Obama had it wrong factually … not that it matters. Some more remarks from the center, which oddly enough is being ignored by the left. One more from Ms McArdle.
12. A list which the left wants us to slip further down.

1. Of Kazahkstan and Belorus … and Russia.
2. Weirdness in the courts.
3. Pro-life.
4. This has been linked all over. Econ rap.
5. Remarks on the “freeze.” Links here.
6. Mr Easterly pumping what I saw as a primary thesis of Mr Collier’s Bottom Billion book, i.e., it’s complicated and there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
7. A pun.
8. Rhetorical gap and policy gap.
9. Dostoevsky.
10. Rock the voters … should applaud the recent SCOTUS reversing (?) finally McCain/Feingold.
11. A prediction (last sentence) … fulfilled (on blogs at least).
12. The man with the big ego … is afraid of kids?
13. Predictions for the SOTU.
14. Spending and the beltway.
15. Our economy at work.
16. Maths thinking (use an auto translater).
17. Is outrage.

1. Considering Vampires, an interview.
2. Pretty.
3. Reflections on marriage.
4. A return to Canae.
5. A resource for Lent.
6. On the Conan/Leno thing.
7. The crescent in the EU.
8. Ice biking.
9. Hmm.
10. My first thought on that was that why just freeze (or cut) such a small portion of the budget. Doesn’t he realize that won’t really have much effect? This piece says that more fluently than I. It also occurred to me they could halt (and terminate) any further “stimulus” expenditures that remain to be allocated.
11. More divisive than that other guy.
12. A question.
13. A beating, racially motivated?