Good morning.

1. A book reviewed.
2. VAT considered. The bigger problem with VAT is that the Congress critters considering VAT aren’t thinking of it as a replacement but an addition.
3. A book list.
4. Clunkers. A bad idea then, worse in retrospect.
5. Oil in them thar hills.
6. What airline I wonder?
7. Beslan.
8. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
9. Weather is not climate. Climate is not climate. 
10. The Administration and yet-another-broken-promise.
11. Another look at unemployment numbers. 
12. Prayer as image.
13. The Discovery nut as right winger meme.
14. Statistics and schools. 

Good morning. Well, I’m a little rushed this morning … shorter list than usual … work intrudes on life.

1. Satan and cinema.
2. Another view of the POTUS speech. I think the right was not his intended audience. I’m not sure who was.
3. Thoughts on marriage, mostly from the left. I’d offer that if you’re considering marriage and want to pretend to live the self-examined life, this resource is indispensable (Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar).
4. Ahhhhh. 
5. Occupied territory.
6. Why is this even a question? 
7. Thought and sin.
8. Liberal caricature.
9. Comments of note.
10. Of rest and restlessness.
11. Noetic processes.

Good morning.

1. Son of a great man.
2. On the POTUS address.
3. Verse.
4. Huh, the average male has a GPS these days.
5. France and the Roma.
6. Hmm, in a search for a less substantial less vapid political post … this might be in the list. My wife lists here occupation on our 10-40 as “domestic goddess.” 
7. Male midlife crisis … a temporary one.
8. Mr Assange.
9. About those free riders.
10. I think that assessment is right, although I doubt my own ability to judge the motives of liberal/progressives.

Good morning.

1. Of Beck and Obama.
2. A man shot and consequence.
3. Two Gulf disasters, two Presidents, and a cricket race.
4. One post which clearly shows Mr Krugman and his ilk are non-serious about economy and politics.
5. And lo and behold, he shows the origins of his fantasy.
6. A big bubble?
7. The continuation of the lying to Congress charge … one wonders how actual real-live you-can-tell-they’re-lying-because-their-lips-are-moving Congress-critters make such charges with straight faces.
8. Appeasement.
9. A challenge.
10. Just get on your bike and ride, dude.
11. Shotgun tracts.
12. Contra smut.

Good morning.

1. Some with Nixie tubes. 
2. The VP and those pesky details.
3. Going up?
4. Setting aside the (excessive) sarcasm, I think the question of how to treat differently talented kids in school to optimize goals is a valid question. And “making things equal” is not necessarily the best answer.
5. Stupid liberal tricks … now bullets.
6. That’s what we need more, bigger deficits.
7. Extreme airport.
8. Friendship.
9. Mr Obama goes on the offensive against misinformation, with hyperbole and misinformation.
10. Great photo anyhow.
11. Reading on the Mosque. 
12. 2-d time.
13. Iraq.
14. A photo.
15. Norman and virtue.

Good morning.

1. Church and state and Turkey.
2. Market in Poland, a photo-essay.
3. Vindictiveness and the Admin.
4. On that hard pullout date and strategy.
5. More on Park51.
6. A conservative surprised at epistemic closure from the left.
7. I have yet to see mention of this from the left. Odd that. And this is spot on … the concept of hate crimes are an outrage.
8. Somebody somewhere didn’t like Wall-E.
9. Fun with banks.
10. 100 years, and some shared thoughts.
11. Bike tech lust.
12. Weight loss tips that beat licking raw eggs all hollow.

Good morning.

1. Divination.
2. For those that need a Bastiat clobbering.
3. An economically well modeled computer game played (HT: CT).
4. Talking beer.
5. More on the Koyzis essay I wrote about last night … for my reading it seems that what is presented as Koyzis ‘reading” of Mills is better than Mr Nivens. 
6. The jam ends, the cause … regulation?
7. H-Fit?
8. Our President in a nutshell.
9. Firestorm.
10. Criticism of the right from the right.
11. Sex and the single life.

Good morning.

1. Blogs and peer review.
2. Yes, a tax cut is not a payment.
3. Someday it will occur to someone on the left, that there are two ways to attack the deficit by cutting spending or raising taxes, alas not today however.
4. I can’t even imagine how to spend money like that, do they burn it?
5. Stony Ithaca, a place to set my head?
6. A repulsive thing.
7. From the “I can’t imagine any need for secrecy in wartime” department.
8. Housing.
9. 25%!!! Amazing. A cultural divide if there ever was one.
10. Hope and change transform.
11. Books read and micro-reviews supplied.
12. As life imitates Airplane.
13. On war, which theory of war posits that making public a “I’m quitting and going home” date as a having any strategic value?

Good morning.

1. Upcharge for extra mass.
2. Cinema.
3. Low church and liturgy.
4. A the Quantum people attack back.
5. We are more alike than different.
6. Traffic.
7. A good word for Mr Carter.
8. Not me.
9. Heh.
10. He knew that, but didn’t seem fit to mention that the failures were basically all on the government side (especially when you recall the safety equipment is by government mandate).
11. Suffering for art’s sake.
12. The state of Mr Obama’s buddies state.
13. The professional left.
14. Goin’ green … is clearly more fun if you’re a wealthy professional humorist.
15. The Cato purge apparently wasn’t.

I had this joke I was going to try to tell about how now that I’m back biking a lot more regularly but have a new puppy, we have this symbiotic relationship. She licks the sweat of me after a ride reaping salt … and I don’t have to take showers anymore. But I decided not to tell it, aren’t y’all grateful?

Good morning.

1. A word, Eurosclerosis … used … and stimulus measurement. Why oh why is there spending out to 2015?
2. A non-story begins … and ends. 
3. The despicable left.
4. More stupid liberal tricks here … and for measure more ways to curb your freedom.
5. On ethnicity and church.
6. Tanks for the memories.
7. Ten maxims of advice for prayer.
8. Jokes from the CBO.
9. The mosque kerfuffle and cognitive bias.
10. St. Nicholas … a before picture.
11. Testing QM.
12. Duh.

Good morning. So … my eldest daughter gets her drivers permit today. Tempus fugit, eh?

1. Iraq.
2. One man’s speculation on Mr Obama’s religious belief.
3. One might note that this “confusion” is self-inflicted. 
4. Diplomacy and US relations.
5. Have you given?
6. On freedom.
7. 19 years later.
8. Culture of corruption.
9. Stupid liberal tricks … noted.
10. Religious freedoms?
11. On the value of a woman.
12. Two visions.

Good morning.

1. We had some discussions of teachers … and pay. It doesn’t seem to me they not highly paid.
2. More on St. Nicholas in the context of the Cordoba mosque.
3. A car that says “I am a geek” in all caps. Or is it a nerd?
4. A defense of theology from an outsider.
5. A photo contest.
6. Cold war -> Hot War?
7. More Muslims against “the” mosque.
8. Hockey stick and climate … and you can follow links to the original paper, in which I thought one of the unfortunate (for climate scientists) is the remark that little to no contributions have been garnered from the statistical academic community w.r.t. this matter.
9. Have kids.
10. To get up to speed on Austrian economics.
11. Noting the ephemeral future of the gay population. 

Good morning.

1. Stupid union tricks.
2. On the Mosque kerfuffle, our President leads the way, and his leadership has an effect, commentary from an Arabic media figure,  and a representative of the left wing media response. 
3. I have a question for those who offer that zoning should be blind to particularities of faith? What then of St. Nicholas (the Greek Orthodox church) which was an pre-existing church prior to 9/11 but which was damaged. The Greek diocese offered plans to rebuild the church but was rebuffed with the note that the height of their church should not be higher than the buildings planned for the Trade Center memorial. Oddly enough the plans for the Mosque in question are also higher than the buildings planned. It seems to me the left in their responses has a definite religious bias in their stance.
4. Statistics and preschool(ers).
5. Rockets and your toilet, two things you wouldn’t normally associate.
6. In praise of Mr Ryan.
7. Mr Geithner, on housing. Oddly enough what he said is just about exactly the same thing I wrote on Fan/Fred and their effect on the recession.
8. The Fed and the failure of monetary policy.
9. How not to do conservation.
10. Obama and the M1 Garand.

Good morning.

1. Radical Islam and malaria and an argument from analogy.
2. I liked the 2nd poster.
3. Guns from the left.
4. And two from the right in response to Mr Obama’s twin statements on the Mosque near ground zero, here and here.
5. Beauty and the bike-shop.
6. Yes, that’s right “web polls” are less accurate than professional opinion polls, which for themselves are as valuable as a bucket of spit.
7. Work and the bike.
8. A little religious freedom comes to Turkey.
9. Vaccinations.
10. Talking about quantum gravity.
11. Higher education.
12. On Mr Hitchens.