• Two cheers for the prosperity gospel … or not?
• Both Obama and McCain to skip the bailout vote, having both (mainly) skipped any part in the actual building of the bill.
• One plug for Starbucks, the IBM/Microsoft of coffee (you can buy better, but you can’t pay more).
• Mr Obama as more out of date than Mr McCain.
• A Law blog looks at the “final solution bill.”
• Who are those people who might “change their mind” as a result of the debate?
• If Mr Obama things this sort of legal tactics are good, what will he do if he’s in charge of the Justice dept?

Congrats to Bert Grabsch of Germany on his great ride yesterday, 43.7 ks at over 50kph.

• Heh. National Punctuation Day?
• A modest proposal … on banks.
• I don’t get how anyone could do that, no investments at all? But I guess when you line up friends like this, that’s another sort of investment.
• An interesting take on the abortion debate, the zygote … what is it?
• I really didn’t know stuff like this happens in the modern world.
• What happened in the beltway … stays in the beltway?
• Aid and numbers.
• One man’s take on the McCain/Obama choice.

• Have a good idea? It might be worth $10 million dollars. What that will be worth of course …
• Nothing of interest here, move along.
• It is my understanding that you cannot give up the right to sue … even if you wanted to do so … alas. I personally would often like to have the choice to give up the right to sue my doctor(s) for malpractice in return for cutting the 50% of their fees which has to go to pay their insurance against the same.
• And people complain about Mr McCain’s choice of Mrs Palin, how about that knucklehead?
• Weinberg re-enters the science/religion “debate.”
• Liturgy summarized for comparison.
• Congressional Democrats against it in rhetoric … not so much in action.

• Backing failure … and American political tradition … apparently.
• Sex-Ed and lies (or not) of Mr McCain’s ads.
• 70s Sci-Fi, two films featured.
• Power to act.
• Strong dollar, weak dollar … does it really matter?
• That guy from Iran.
• That OPM addiction.
• Mr Obama and Mr Ayers not just “neighbors” it seems.

• Transnistria?
• Well, here’s why Mr Obama went on the offensive regarding the banking crisis, to deflect. Or is this the reason? Or is this it?
• Mr Clinton on Mrs Palin.
• When is clean energy not so clean?
• Mr Stiglitz on the banking crisis.
• 10 suggestions for the spouse.
• Mr Obama and a particular pledge of his.
• Iraq.

• Stupid bible tricks … coming to Letterman? or not.
• Chesterton’s prediction and the modern atheist.
• Private vice … a myth.
• Washington Post defends McCain against Obama … a first?
• Doubt on Mr Obama’s past as an “organizer.”
• What books would you suggest? Some Mark Twain? Horatio Alger? Dostoevsky?
• A little satire.

• Some shock-jock gets excoriated for “nappy haired” remarks, but gang rape of a candidate … no noise at all. Double standards anyone?
• Snore away.
• Trying to come to grips with the hatred on the left for Mrs Palin, I don’t get it either.
• I don’t know what to think of that.
• A problem with increasing the budgetary dependence “on the wealthy”, their income is more volatile … that is it is far more tightly coupled to the health of the economy.
• Mr Obama’s relationship with Freddie and Fannie.

• Bookshelf ideas.
• Medieval actuarial practice.
• One of the things the Dems can do that the GOP can’t.
• A book by a blogger.
• Who squashed that car? Oh. It was built that way.
• Musing on Jerusalem.
• Wallpaper links.
• Is the economy bad? Perhaps not so much. Oh, and my comment was still lost, but my reply to Mr Kuznicki’s question is to buy index funds and yes, buy them now too, dollar cost averaging works.

• That “gang” has a lot of funny praxis.
• Dumb Dem memes.
• Fiorina on Palin … what she didn’t add was that none of the four are “qualifed” to run a large corporation. The probably aren’t qualified to perform surgery either.
• Selfishness now a virtue. How long will it take before all of the 8 cardinal sins are touted as virtues?
• Suu Kyi on a IV now.
• Mr Obama calls the kettle black. The left notes Mr Obama’s latest sally, alas he doesn’t practice what he preaches as he there is a sizeable discrepency between female and male staffers in his campaign and in Mr McCain’s campaign, women on average make more. Oops.
• Mr Obama and the kindergarden sex program … the facts.

• Wordplay for your morning (or whatever time you read this).
• Left vs Right and the extremes.
• al-Qaeda … imploding?
• An add regarding Mr Obama and his pro-abortion stance. Also, comparing candidates openness.
• In the wake of the recent big bank kerfuffle … “high test hooey” from Mr Obama. On the banking thing again … why it’s really a good thing.
• Kill them? Why not just change the channel? Is that really too difficult?
• Very cute.

• Not a failure of free market, but of government intervention? Will the Fischer book, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History be discussed and read?
• On Media and Ms Greenburg … what about fallout I wonder? More thoughts on the same.
• A Byzantium book reviewed.
• Puppies and the farm life and spiders and autumn.
• The left and decency.
• Heh.
• Hitting the handicapped, or how not to take the political high road.
• Teeth.
• Biden and charity, well, he’s no Dick Cheney.

• Premises and Creationism and Science … the Nagel point is entirely reasonable.
• Orthodoxy, Turkey and persecution … and the EU membership carrot plus … the candidates and the WoT.
• How not to interview … example #1. Related … One fence-sitter and Mrs Palin.
• This sort of thing is exactly what we need more of to bring healthcare costs down … automation.
• Ms Althouse says no, I (and Christian doctrine) say yes … it is adultery.
• Imposition of values, from the left.
• A neat map.

• Memory, it’s been 7 years.
• Positive words for Mrs Palin, if you want some balance.
• The message I take from this is not what’s intended. Less college and more professional schooling is the answer not “better colleges”. Too many kids treat college as 4 years of partying away from home … market is reflecting that.
• The Christian Carnival is up.
• Facts about pigs, many of which I didn’t know before reading.
• One college, making a difference in some lives. Fireman too?
• Two campaigns and some kids.

• What the pig/lipstick kerfuffle misses.
• Answers to 20 questions apparently posed for Ms Palin.
• Ms Paglia and Mr Gingrich on the same page … how often does that happen?
• On Mr Wonmug.
• One moderate returns to the fence.
• Mr Obama and one of his bills.
• On Mr Rushdie’s new novel.

• How to … wrap a bottle (like the pro’s).
• Uhm, not a good comparison, d’ya think?
• Mr Biden and a response from the Bishop.
• Is war inevitable?
• Pre-Socratic philosophy.
• What’s happening in Afghanistan?