1. What passes for civilized in the wild (very liberal) corners of Western Europe.
2. The democrats, making excuses already. It’s odd that the regulatory burdens, largely pushed by the Democrats, are likely far more the blame than and limited GOP stonewalling … but that wouldn’t work to shift blame, now would it?
3. A collection of the best tour photos, although it seemed to me too many of them were taken “in doping control” and not on the bike.
4. Dr Who and some real history.
5. Simplification for pedagogic purposes is not lying. Duh. And btw, for me the problem is topic not headlines.
6. Misty memories of my first real job (documenting software for an industrial controls group) while in High School and the whole group taking the afternoon off to watch Tron.
7. $1.4k per person. So … what regulations and new legally binding proscriptions will come about if the public healthcare affects the national budget? (If you say … none you are a bald-faced liar or a fool)
8. I didn’t know that … or even imagine it.
9. While many think that the human influences on climate change are settled, science moves on.
10. Mr Obama’s contribution is noted for its absence in the collection of “useful” dialogue on the Gates kerfuffle. I thought James Taranto of WSJ had some trenchant remarks as well on his column.
11. Speaking of “that man”, consider Israel.
12. Some words concerning a former Democratic President.
13. A post on marriage noted.

1. Of big nuclei.
2. Obama as a gnostic … although the connection to actual gnosticism is perhaps tenuous … is solipsism a better term?
3. As the left pushes for universal health care … their arguments weaken their argumentation on abortion.
4. Things are looking up on the health care battlefront.
5. Africa gets high speed.
6. Paulson … lies?
7. A high tech disease discussed.
8. West and East on the Holy Mountain.
9. The Constitution vs empathy?
10. Biden remains as dumb as ever. Has this man ever done anything commendable?
11. A bargain at $33/gallon? You can get better but you can’t pay more?
12. On being human.

Well, in Le Tour it looks like third place on the podium is the only thing not wrapped up … Bradley Wiggins, Lance Armstrong, Andreas Kloden and Frank Schleck all have a shot. Two Alpine stages left. If I had to guess … I’d say Frank will take that spot.

On to the links.

1. Your group and my group.
2. On false false analogies.
3. With my blog’s name, I had to link this.
4. Libertarian legal bloggers on ACORN.
5. Advice on learning a language.
6. On Russia from Russia.
7. Why is the crises (rush) being invented?
8. This reminded me of that unfortunate incident in Once Upon A Time in America.
9. A prediction.
10. Settled …
11. Of Government and competing models.
12. The secret to 50 year old marriage … it seems “traditional gender models” are statistically quite significant.
13. The changing demographics of Christianity.

1. In vino veritas … for the fixie fan.
2. Two interpretations of Ms Clinton’s umbrella, here and here. Neither of course are on the charts for Mr Obama’s mythical path to a nuclear weapon free world.
3. A “read the bill” response.
4. Does Mr Obama has the wrong map to the Middle East (HT: Mr Lozowick)?
5. And, on the subject of maps … an odd one.
6. Ms Delsol in Unlearned Lessons would counter, I’d offer, that the large (failed) experiments of Fascism and Communism have similar roots, contrary to this suggestion.
7. Mr Obama’s foreign policy as a Bush third term.
8. Of violence and unions. I’d note that being “founded in violence” is not necessarily a bad thing … so were virtually all nation states.
9. Speaking of violence … art?
10. Did he really compare mandated car insurance to health coverage? Where’d the no-fault analogy come in?
11. How to really distance yourself from a the “buck stops here” Presidency … that is to say whining.
12. So … “doff your galoshes and into the breach one more time”, err, I think Shakespeare put it a little more fluently.
13. I do like that phrase, coining the present as “at the edge of Tradition.”
14. An endorsement … lost.

1. Well, that makes my day seem mundane (which might not be entirely a bad thing).
2. What’s going on in Afghanistan … doesn’t seem like a COIN operation, I wonder why not?
3. Well, my second favourite cyclist crashed.
4. One man’s reaction to Microsoft (and a far cry from yum or apt-get).
5. Obama and Up!
6. Indeed. “What happens if cost growth exceeds projections, the way it has in Massachussetts, and AFAIK, every Federal health care program ever?  Where do we get more money?”
7. I’d suggest the biggest reason is on the evening news scientifically predicting the weather every day and getting it wrong so often.
8. Catching Hillary being, well, not thinking exactly.
9. A Soviet scientist.
10. Russia’s schools.
11. It’s not for their good, it’s to ease the possibility of our pain.
12. Obamacare killed?
13. This is something everyone should read … and then ponder Obama’s notion of a moderate Iran and the need to open relations with them.
14. On the living Christian life.

1. SWFs.
2. Shame? Shame!? Few politicians have much, as for Mr Obama, well you decide.
3. According the the cricket race watchers … there is hope.
4. Raindrops.
5. Remind me how this would have gone over in the press (and the rest of the left) if it was Mr Bush doing this.
6. I was going to offer that this post was spot on, but then remembered this is Star Trek … which is not science fiction.
7. Replace “independence of the central bank” with “independence of the actuarial industry” and the reasoning still holds. Congress remains “weakly accountable.”
8. Considering icons of the Theotokos.
9. On global warming.
10. For anyone interested in theology and science, a essay featuring John Polkinghorne.
11. More on that topic here.
12. A quote.
13. Very very (as in Apollo) cool.
14. Liberal bigotry against Christians or just ignorance on the part of a reporter?

1. This might spur some discussion. One wonders if Mr Sunstein would apply this law/logic to the left as well? For example the various unfounded and inaccurate Palin rumors.
2. More links. For myself I still have failed to see any credible remarks much less a defense of the Cap/Trade bill in the light of the current economy.
3. Le Tour and the lantern rouge.
4. Jobs and the stimulus.
5. More problems with Mr Obama’s “Russia reset.”
6. Conservatism and marriage.
7. Yet more data for the pro-choice crowd to dismiss as irrelevant.
8. And yet there are those who contended that racism and bigotry does not exist on the left.
9. A passing noted. I think it might be a good idea to read some of his books.
10. Jesus is not safe.
11. Le Tour and the universality of politics.
12. Mr Obama … trying to color the US orange.
13. Considering the popular history market.
14. Posner and Becker on the academic bubbl

1. Humor and the healthcare discussion.
2. For the google reader/firefox audience.
3. Yes, law and society are entangled in a complicated dance.
4. Abortion and public healthcare.
5. Middle east and missile defense.
6. A monk of the Sketis remembered.
7. Pre-soviet Russia … some history.
8. Advice for conservatives regarding public healthcare.
9. Hmm, I’d counter that racism is a conservative thing inasmuch as it is a human and conservatives are human.
10. Yet another liberal that needs to read the Petraeus COIN manual.
11. Mr Obama says he wants to lower the abortion rate.
12. Reflecting on Mr Obama’s Africa sojourn.
13. Mr Obama and corn.
14. But … does it have a name? How about Bob?
15. Left/Right and a cultural comparison.
16. At life’s end … the upside.
17. Cricket races.
18. Afghanistan.

1. A death in Chechnya … and for myself I don’t know Medvedev well enough to know if the scare quotes are an insult or warranted (but my guess would be that the writer of the article doesn’t either).
2. Double standards and the Middle East.
3. Judges and theologians … and progressivism.
4. Criticism for the GOP and Ms Sotomayor.
5. Analysis of sprinting on a bike … in the context of the world’s best.
6. As a road cyclist I find the notion that a bike can ride over a curb without noticing it … out of the bounds of my experience.
7. Inflation can’t save the debt burden if it is locked into entitlements like healthcare, which burden will increase apace.
8. More on healthcare, in which we discover that for the Dems small business means “hot dog stand.”
9. Two takes on a Carroll essay on science and religion, here and here.
10. Online Feynman lectures recommended.
11. It seems those models on climate on which global warming is based … might not be so good after all.
12. More on science and religion.
13. Assisted suicide POV.
14. Tipping points are not fixed … apparently.

1. The other fine line, between funny and stupid.
2. On healthcare, dissing both sides and even providing a suggested alternative. I’d go futher and suggest all our entitlements should be strictly means tested.
3. The reprise of the cursed with a child meme.
4. Bland understatement of the day, “perverse incentives” indeed.
5. The result of hope and change … and waking up.
6. Girls and books.
7. The brewery that brought us quantum mechanics not seen in a good light (and yes, the Carlsberg brewery contributed to funding the Copenhagen institute where Niels Bohr and many others did a lot of the seminal work to develop quantum mechanics).
8. Big bank profits noted.
9. On porn.
10. You’d think Ms Sotomayor would have her facts straight on matters involving the recent high court.
11. Praise for Ms Palin.
12. Another elephant.
13. A debate which reveals as so often is the case more about the debaters than the topic under discussion.
14. This observation is not unrelated.
15. Was that song right?
16. On community.

1. Criticism of Mr Obama from Israel.
2. Inconsistency on Mr Obama’s part regarding democracy.
3. Mainstream press marginalizes itself, and the case of Ms Palin is demonstrative.
4. The monastic tradition.
5. Redefining the renewable car.
6. Who’s “betting” against him? Now working against him, that’s another story.
7. And here’s a reason why it’s important to work against him.
8. Ethics of empathy as will to power.
9. Learning from literature, duh. If you learn nothing from, say, A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch or Brave New World or The Brothers Karamazov or …. (the list goes on) you can’t learn anything.
10. The latest news from David Wayne and his cancer.
11. The left, still trying to keep life hard for the poor.
12. Well, now that the employment is completely recovered it can be kicked around again.
13. The risings costs of veterinary costs matching (human) healthcare is a meme being kicked around. Both sides try to swing this in their favor, when really it’s just a sign of the fact that both are skilled labor intensive endeavours.
14. GI Joe.
15. Memory Eternal.
16. Of shop class.
17. Probably.

1. If you look past irrelevant political polemics … the puzzle is interesting.
2. Russia and China.
3. A satirical tale.
4. Your government and its expenditures.
5. Black or not was likely less relevant than the common shared Semitic heritage.
6. Of science and message.
7. Why Biden is (still) a bad choice for Iraq oversight. Although it becomes more and more clear that Biden is just plain a bad choice for basically everything.
8. Obama’s NIH choice and ID.
9. Watching Obmacare’s hope/change morph into same-old/same-old but just bigger and more repellent.
10. Drones are interesting because they are less expensive … and some consequences.
11. Veils.
12. The motive behind capitalism.
13. A map of death and despair.
14. Russalka … a short film (and I might note also a Dvorak opera).
15. A likely subtext of why the left is so enamoured of public healthcare options (but not one they want on the front burner).
16. Left and right … blogging and linking.
17. A libertarian fisks the President.
18. On miracles and creation … for myself I think an awful lot of real miracles are very prosaic.

1. Le tour, stage 6.
2. Manners are important, perhaps however that overstates the case.
3. Of private virtue and libertarian ideas of government.
4. Someone with a little more than casual information about Ms Palin talks.
5. Ms Pelsoi gets one right … like a stopped clock?
6. Being Christian in Iran. Or the UK?
7. In which I agree (with statement #1).
8. Of whom I am first, not hyperbole.
9. Well, the left in its heated overstatements on healthcare now finds breast cancer one of the %.001 extreme medical emergencies.
10. Praising Obama for getting something right.
11. More notes on Mr Obama getting the past wrong in Moscow.
12. Remembering a famous Serbian who came to America and changed the world.

1. On progressives and civil liberties … (blogger was down when I linked this but that should be temporary).
2. And the Keynsians are plugging for more and bigger stimuli. Reconsidering their hypothesis, is not an option apparently.
3. One bike in Le Tour … and a 40s style gal.
4. A judge and jury and healthcare.
5. I think he’s wrong too. You tell how much “more religious” a person is by how much of their time and self they devote to the same.
6. Obama, walking circles in Moscow … where Mr Obama rings the Quayle-o-meter … and not the usual  reception?
7. A call for “clear alternative visions”, something oddly enough the left never did during the Bush tenure.
8. Gay culture and Ms Palin.
9. Some history of usury.
10. Unfortunate slip of Mr Krugman’s.
11. What passes for standards in the beltway.
12. The fantastic in film for the remainder of 2009.
13. We can hope.

1. Biden and Israel.
2. A roundup from yesterday’s stage at le Tour.
3. This is not completely unrelated.
4. A post-theistic moral framework … which I plan to read carefully, but offer for discussion anyhow.
5. Some grist for the “smart” as a primary qualification for leadership roles mill.
6. Is our “stimulus” locally tailored?
7. Public healthcare and the UK.
8. What Obama plans to give up. But why?
9. A dissident passes.
10. First thoughts is going nuts on Charity in Truth (Benedict’s encyclical). That link is the first of many. How many secular or progressives will give it a serious reading and discuss online?
11. Beauty (and a foolish tree).
12. Wages, Wal-mart and choices Obama wants to take from us.
13. “There’s one piece of persistent dishonesty in the debate over health care that I would like to see vanish once and for all. It concerns the word…” and “hilzoy” didn’t get it. She has hers. I have mine … which is that private insurance isn’t the insurance I’ve paid for. I’d offer mine complaint is more common on her side than hers is on mine.
14. More skewed history from that man in the white house.
15. On Mr Obama’s South American mistake.