1. Running downhill.
2. Left and jihad … common goals?
3. Sex and marriage.
4. Modern heroes.
5. Verse.
6. Stuck on stupid.
7. A Lenten podcast on a great prayer.
8. “All conservative variants of …”, hmm, I’m not sure I buy that.
9. A Lenten meditation (HT: Mark D Roberts)
10. Bank crises and policy.
11. A fisking.
12. 10 tips for life.
13. Seeking a wise materialist.
14. Anti-Semitism in London.
15. In the government must be all things to all people category.

Lent

1. Some Lenten prayers.
2. Lenten … offsets!?
3. Looking in at Lent from the outside.
4. Ashes.
5. And economics.

Not Lent.

1. One perspective on nationalizing banks.
2. Police in Afghanistan.
3. Stimulus … a chance of bringing Chicago (corruption) to a National scale.
4. Venn – Obama.
5. Confessions and a return?
6. Running man.
7. Zap.
8. A view from outside.
9. What is not pro-life.
10. Pro-choice and rape.
11. Negation.
12. Storm and … cheestastic?
13. A film.
14. Worm.

Lent.

1. Memories of Lent past.
2. As Sacramental memory.
3. Cinema.
4. Some suggestions.
5. Verse.

And elsewhere.

1. Fuel cells and the cell phone.
2. An empty room.
3. 10 statements on evolution by Kim Fabricus.
4. Paintball arms race … top of the food chain.
5. Some history of science, gauge theory.
6. Afghan and supply chains.
7. What does he mean when he said, “I don’t believe in big government?”
8. That recent speech, between the lines.
9. Incomprehension mapped.
10. UFO.
11. A libertarian looks at Jindal.
12. Science and politics … last century.
13. Evil and self.
14. Carnival.
15. Japan and anthropomorphic origin of climate change. I also saw, I didn’t keep the link (sorry), that another group was trumpeting polar ice retreat. Why, I wonder, is that significant when (record?) polar ice advance is not? If weather is not climate … sorry but that’s not significant.
16. A speechwriter defends Jindal’s response.
17. Swim.
18. Ducking debate.

Lent

1. Lent with the Dominicans.
2. Denial.
3. Fasting as feasting.

Other

1. The Christian and the pagan.
2. Approaching the end.
3. 900 days.
4. The mythical moderate.
5. Science and belief.
6. Against the stimulus.
7. Symbol and Trinity.
8. Construction and 2009, a prediction.
9. Accepting the Taliban?
10. Epistemic modesty.

1. Race advice which is transferable to other avenues of life.
2. Except, due to cholesterol, my dietitian informs me cheese is not a food … it’s a garnish.
3. Iran slumping?
4. Crime pays?
5. Water and Spirit.
6. Verse.
7. Violation of law.
8. In five short (long?) months … ta-daaa.
9. On that scientific authority thing.
10. Getting parenting very very wrong.
11. F-22. Stimulus?
12. A gigabyte now and then.
13. Sssspiiin.
14. We need some gridlock in the beltway faaast. Huh?
15. On theodicy.
16. Links … I thought the Krugman criticism cogent.
17. Mornings.
18. Loony ranting wackjobs haters. Whatever.
19. Very cool art.
20. Abduction.

1. Penicillin and Lent.
2. Induction and inference.
3. That nasty brutish and short thing.
4. Prayer request.
5. Power and efficiency.
6. Brand name and prestige.
7. Winter.
8. Offensive prayer.
9. Ms Pelosi is perhaps the tip of the non-catholic catholic iceberg.
10. 1st Corinthians in the modern world.
11. damned lied … and statistics.
12. That right to privacy.
13. Is that a thing which is needed?
14. Beowulfs.
15. And a pony for everyone too?
16. Putting his cards on the table.

1. Foreclosures … one solution.
2. TARP and the difficulty of bucking markets.
3. That cartoon two views allow and censure.
4. Le Tour of February, in pictures.
5. A suggestion for those “really smart fellows” in the Obama Admin.
6. An economic rant.
7. Of the default “evil men” of hollywood.
8. Increased productivity … sources of same.
9. Women and friction.
10. Uh … no.
11. The Administrations plans that will destroy the economy.
12. Two martyrs.
13. A for “effort” … or “accomplishment” and mastery?
14. On American greatness.
15. What goes into making/baking prosphora (the bread used in communion) for the Orthodox.
16. Thinking about love, but which of the four loves ala Lewis (or the Greek lexicon) is meant here?
17. Nailing down truth … or not.
18. From the desert.
19. On repentance.
20. Oops. Faked climate data.
21. And a interesting photo to wrap up.

1. Ms McArdle, a former(?) fan, on Geithner.
2. One idea for Lent, stop breathing?
3. The Pope to Vietnam?
4. Two approaches to economic stress compared.
5. As Mr Obama keeps stressing the “crises” we’re in … one wonders if Mr Emanuel’s remark of using a crises to seize power is part of this play.
6. Demons replaced in metaphor.
7. St. Polycarp? I think the significance of his martyrdom was he was the last alive at one degree.
8. A book list.
9. An oil deal.
10. If it’s really a Ponzi or bubble, buyout/buy-in is not the solution, I think.
11. The importance of being Earnest, err, stupid.
12. His purpose.
13. Fisking Krugman.
14. Our irresponsible AG?
15. Uncertainty.
16. Emulating Mr Soprano.
17. A quote.

1. N.D. offers a bill that will get discussed.
2. Death penalty for Downs?
3. Anti-semitism in Europe has been noted in various quarters. It’s odd how none of those making that observation connected that to either the fall of Christianity in Europe or the rise of Islam.
4. Denominations and brand loyalty.
5. Drood? I do like Simmons writing a lot.
6. Conspiracies and pitchforks.
7. How will the left react to the new surge?
8. I don’t get the lede.
9. Fairness with another name, still stinks. Noted here too.
10. A sign of foreign relations? or what?
11. Of reason and judgement.
12. Pascal being lyrical.
13. Some remarks on the meeting of secular and Orthodoxy in psychotherapy.
14. Schools being stupid.
15. Zooom.
16. Mr Obama contradicting himself, when the shoe is on the other foot.
17. A book on apologetics recommended.
18. The economic story of the Depression and world war … bottom line -> not simple.

1. Narrative shock and Ms Pevensie.
2. Mr Geithner’s sooper seekret plan.
3. On that “no true scotsman global warming dissenters” in science narratives thing.
4. On Vaclav Klaus.
5. Bus captions.
6. On Lent.
7. Geek chic.
8. Of names and some not so good.
9. It’s interesting how modern progressive ideas mesh with Mussolini’s list.
10. Ethics and guidance.
11. Unemployment figures.
12. Really laying the hammer down.
13. On the Twist narrative.
14. Well, I answered “no” to both questions.
15. Well, I bought the book … looks good.
16. Suggestions of consequences re Mr Obama’s inexperience (or naivete).
17. Mr Wilder’s and the UK continues.
18. And a book and a list.

1. Two symbols examined, one a very important lady with a torch.
2. A feast day, the presentation.
3. The press and Islam.
4. The tour of California, a graphical view of what have your day job be in a saddle.
5. Lamarckian descent/inheritance revisited.
6. Chant.
7. “Move over to the side of the road” alligator version.
8. Of Apple and Microsoft.
9. So … now Mr Obama has taken up the “religion of peace” slogan. What is it with these Presidents?
10. Also, how about the religion of desecration?
11. Mr Ping and the stimulus.
12. I’m willing to bet that few, especially of his detractors, think of the Pope as cheerful (but I’ll wager he actually is such).
13. UK and “Fairness”.
14. Christ and Christianity without his death.
15. Obama and the birth certificate weirdness.
16. A lecture on an early heresy.
17. Why is that the left cannot argue for the stimulus without resorting to logical fallacies (poisoning the well and ad hominem attacks in this case)?
18. So … dollhouse, whaddya think, here’s an interview.
19. Five films.

1. The new openness in the Administration, “cannot comment on specific instances” … or not. More on the census as well.
2. Mr Reid notes a problem with the SBC.
3. Which was basically the same as the problem that St. John Chrysostom had 1500 years earlier.
4. Taking the WSJ to task.
5. If I was on the left, observations like this, “During the 2008 election, Obama co-opted huge portions of the Left and its infrastructure so that their allegiance became devoted to him and not to any ideas” would be quite troubling.
6. Ecclesia.
7. Endurance sports and camaraderie … perhaps a Romans 5:3 thing?
8. Banach-alia.
9. One model reviewed … the sort of thing detail and discussion lacking in the beltway to support their policies.
10. Whether or not there is a right to privacy … the government certainly has reserved the right to extreme stupidity.
11. Aha! (from the left).
12. Supply, Afghanistan and the necessity for relations with Pakistan.
13. Coptic resource for the coffee table.
14. Yikes.
15. CBO and stimulus.
16. Big number found.
17. The state, morality and legislation.
18. Pippin and Obama.
19. Considering the Cylons.
20. It was remarked in a comment here that “no debate has been stifled” regarding the stimulus bill … evidence to the contrary is here.
21. A suggestion regarding the housing market problem I’ve mentioned (in conversation if not on the blog) made elsewhere.
22. So … if you think carbon offsets are an issue … how much do you use a bike for daily travel? If not, perhaps you’re just a hypocrite like Mr Gore.

1. A book recommended.
2. Transparency or not, perhaps Mr Twain’s little saying might be amended to “lies, damned lies, statistics, and anything said by a politician”.
3. Just a trip to the UK.
4. Some kids living where winter doesn’t come.
5. Well, you’ll have to pay for that … and the other.
6. The Pope on the ladder.
7. A heroic lady noted, Stanislawa Leszczynksa.
8. A hill … and a bike … and another rider noted here.
9. The difference between Mr Obama and the Dems stimulus bill and Tenaha … the size of their theft.
10. They are.
11. Who. Are. You.
12. A question.
13. Another.
14. Mr Obama standing firm against the economy and recover and its effects. Ah. It’s all part of a super duper secret plan.
15. Why Wednesday and Friday (and Monday for the monastics I think) for fasting?
16. Salary caps and a comparison.
17. Religion and nation.
18. Some economic hypothesis tested.
19. Yet another Democratic tax cheat close to the President.

1. A question of politics, “should the liberal state permit the existence of non-liberal communities?” I think so, but my argument will not fit in the margin of this page.
2. Well, those Keynesians in government voted themselves more power and got their panacea. Some more remarks here.
3. One more thing for schools to waste money on.
4. Time and church.
5. Napoleon, err, the Anglicans in Egypt.
6. Mr Wilders and “freedom” in the UK.
7. Verse.
8. Healthcare rationing and the stimulus bill is a cowardly way to avoid debate.
9. The Hindu Melkite.
10. An odd film noted and reviewed.
11. So Mr tax-fraud Geithner offers bank bailout version 2, or the fix for bad debt for the credit industry is to accumulate as much more bad debt as possible. Hair of the dog as very very expensive policy?
12. What if I am weak?
13. That “economic consensus” for the stimulus, alas exists only amongst politicians.
14. Two recent films compared.
15. In which yet another lefty discovers the bigotry is hers.
16. No, I have not.
17. A discussion of guilt, innocence and punishments and another (from the left) who just bought the argument hook line and sinker.
18. Epistemology and climate “science.”
19. The cross survives.
20. On fasting.
21. A cool video.
22. So, its been what, two weeks? After four years … one wonders how disillusioned the left will be?
23. If I had more money than I knew what do do with.

1. Zap.
2. COIN and Afghanistan.
3. Snuck in the pork bill. Anti-stimulus stuff in there too.
4. Just a little permutation?
5. Philosophy boners.
6. Mr Polamalu and Orthodoxy, and she didn’t remark that it looks like he’s intoning “Lord have mercy” when he’s crossing himself.
7. The pork bill again, a serious question unanswered alas it seems thus far.
8. Heh.
9. In which I concur completely with the NYTimes.
10. Rugged individualism … or not.
11. Yah, nope. It is misleading, duh. I’d be getting over 110 mpg if I drove 40 mph with minimal stopping in my Insight.
12. For yer office or home.
13. Art and bike … and a ultra low carbon emissions SUV.
14. Shakespeare as crypto-catholic, a review.