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It has come to my attention that if you send an e-mail to flag@whitehouse.gov to report unwarranted criticism of President ∅ your IP address will go into a permanent file. Cuffy Meigs at the above link explains what to do: For the record, I’m not completely freaked out by the White House having my IP…

I’ve been getting quite a laugh out of the accusation that “conservatives” are using Nazi symbolology (“SS Nazi sign carried at town hall protest“) — especially considering that the “evidence” consists of a picture of a hand-lettered sign attempting to use the SS double lightning bolts in a mocking way: The sign uses the SS…

This morning I learned (much to my chagrin), that the Obama Joker image I was promoting has not only upset some very prominent people on the left, but it is considered racist in some circles. They’re also saying it is “dangerous.” It may sound a bit counterintuitive, but as I’ll explain later I think that…

I had to say that. Especially in light of the story headlined “Schwarzenegger Finally Learns: Freedom Is Profitable, Statism Starves” that Glenn Reynolds linked earlier detailing how the governor is “aggressively pursuing a way to open a portion of California waters to offshore drilling.” What’s up with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Can it be that he is…

Sixty German Scientists doubt the current “consensus” that human CO2emissions are driving the climate. More than 60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared their dissent from man-made global warming fears in an Open Letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists. Well well…

When success is defined as “we were able to give away WAY more taxpayer money than we thought we would” you should be worried. Very, very worried. And these people want to run 15% of the economy.

How do you complain about identifiable groups of people without sounding like a bigot? Yesterday when my patience was tried by a particularly awful driver, I found myself wondering, and I also found myself feeling a bit jealous of the bigots (if it isn’t a form of bigotry to refer to bigots that way), because…

Not long after my complaint about news creating a sense of blogligation, there was a story — BLOODBATH AT GYM ATTACK PLOT ONLINE (linked with huge Drudge headline). I guess that means I am supposed to say something about it, although I am not sure why. The shooter kept a diary, and I think it…

These have been floating around a while, and seem apropos. This first batch are regional/philosophical forms of capitalism. U.S./TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. FRENCH CAPITALISM You have two cows. You go on…

In general, I prefer blogging when I have something to say about something, as opposed to when I have to find something to say about something. * That’s because the former is more sincere, and less driven by a sense of “blogligation” than the latter, which in my case often takes the form of saying…

I live in a densely populated student neighborhood characterized by a lot of moving in and moving out, and when either thing happens, stuff gets discarded — typically on the area between the sidewalk and the street — and the rule is that it’s free for the taking. I’m not much of a green thumb…

Rep. Tim Bishop (D) from New York is getting a lot of heat from voters in his district about Global Warming. After a run up starting with the Health Care Bill the Global Warming stuff starts at 3:50 in. A really well informed citizen starts speaking at about 5:00 in. He talks about carbon taxes…

Malay Bansal has an interesting and not too complex article explaining the problems in the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market. Let me give you the short version. Valuations will fall by about half and the declines (already in the pipeline) will manifest between now and 2015 as the various loans become due or the current…

Socialized medicine can be painful. According to this news report from England, literally: Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued on the NHS,…

I can’t stop thinking about a statistic I read in a piece by Jennifer Rubin that Glenn Reynolds linked yesterday, that a full six percent of Americans believe Barack Obama is a conservative. Where are these people, and how come I never get to meet them? According to many statisticians, six percent is a higher…

As if any reminder was needed about the insane and cruel nature of Islamism, a Sudanese woman faces 40 lashes for wearing what millions of American women (and our Secretary of State) wear — trousers. Such chilling accounts are so routine that I can’t blog about them all, but what interested me about this one…

Pizza Ordering in the very near future. Perhaps you would like to contact some people after seeing this. Here is a list: House of Representatives The Senate The President Cross Posted at Power and Control

As this post by Tom Maguire (which Glenn Reynolds linked yesterday) reminded me, there are many gradations of Birthers, many types of Truthers, and many types of “believers.” Including Birthers, True Believers, True Believing Birthers and “honorary” truthers like Tom Maguire and (quite shockingly) even Andrew Sullivan. What is the Truth anyway? There are only…

As regular readers know, I love guerilla and underground art. So naturally, I was quite taken by the ObamaJoker image discussed here, that Glenn Reynolds characterized as speaking truth to power. I really don’t care who is “behind” it as it speaks for itself. (Let no one claim credit for it, and just allow it…

Eric F via e-mail alerted me to the fact that Microsoft has made the Feynman lectures on physics freely available. You can watch them here. And as a very helpful adjunct may I suggest the book version: The Feynman Lectures on Physics Cross Posted at Power and Control