TOP FIVE THINGS OBAMA HAS DONE to raise gasoline prices.
Archive for 2011
January 4, 2011
MEGAN MCARDLE: Abortion, Adoption, Supply and Demand. “At the point where international adoptions have increased to a quarter of all adoptions, and kids with special health needs make up a substantial fraction of the children adopted (ranging from 30 percent of international adoptions, to 55 percent of adoptions from foster care), I think we can say that the demand side has been taken care of.”
January 3, 2011
DRUDGE IS LINKING TO INFOWARS, AGAIN, with a piece asking Is Mass Bird and Fish Die Off Connected to Government Testing? As usual, the InfoWars people are clueless idiots. Government testing? That’s what they’d like you to believe. Actually, the signature makes clear that these deaths were caused by the Susumi radiation from a stealthed alien spaceship, which is lethal to anything with a circulatory system or a spinal cord. Usually they avoid this kind of incident by keeping their flight paths clear of bird flocks and not swooping too low over rivers and lakes, but, you know, science being science regardless of species most of the actual gruntwork of studying us naturally gets farmed down to grad students, and sometimes they slip up. . . .
UPDATE: An apology from the University: “The Blackbird Incident was the result of a mistake made by a trainee pilot who fat-tentacled the controls, allowing the Su’suumi field to relax briefly. Z’ir has been disciplined and the ship has returned to free space, where they will review the requirements for atmospheric operation using Mars as a practice ground. The University regrets the incident, and offers assurances that all possible precautions will be taken to avoid any more such.”
THE HILL: Poll: Nearly half of voters don’t believe key healthcare promise by Obama. And the rest are idiots . . . .
UPDATE: A reader sends this suggestion: “The Republicans will not have the numbers to get Obamacare repealed outright. They can attack it piecemeal, but one alternative would be to push legislation to allow any person/organization to receive a waiver upon request. It is an issue of fairness that not all people can get the same consideration that the current group of waiver recipients has received.”
PUBLIC PENSIONS AND DEBT in Hawaii.
WEIGHT-LOSS ADVICE from author Gary Taubes.
SNOWPLOWGATE: “If the allegations are true, supervisors should do jail time; people died because ambulances couldn’t get through the snow. But we still don’t know that they are true. It seems as if investigations are going to happen, however, so hopefully eventually we’ll find out one way or another.”
DOES MORE DRINKING MEAN MORE MONOGAMY? Obviously, we need to lower the drinking age then. To save marriage!
UPDATE: On the other hand, reader David Skurnick offers a plausible counterhypothesis: “The study found a correlation between alcohol consumption and monogamy, so the authors conclude that more drinking causes more monogamy. However, maybe cause and effect go the other way. That is, maybe more monogamy leads to more drinking.”
MESSAGING PROBLEMS: Goolsbee’s debt limit comments conflict with Obama’s 2006 vote.
IS OBAMA INTENTIONALLY DAMAGING OUR ECONOMY? I don’t think so, but I’m scratching my head trying to figure out what he’d do differently if he were. . . .
SOMEBODY TELL NICK KRISTOF: How Japan Reduces Income Inequality.
Related thoughts from Mickey Kaus. Plus, Brad DeLong as “den mother of the ‘Journolist’ juicebox mafia.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Blood Test To Spot Cancer Gets A Big Boost.
DAN MITCHELL ON INCANDESCENT BULBS: The Politicians Are Taking Away Our Light So We Should Make Them Feel The Heat.
WITH A HELL OF A POST-NEW-YEAR’S HANGOVER ON THE WAY: National Debt Ends 2010 By Topping $14 Trillion.
TALKING CARS with the Car Lust guys.
REASON TV interviews David Stockman.
MEH: I’m happy for Pomplamoose, and the Hyundai ad didn’t become especially annoying over time. Pomplamoose deserved the money and the exposure. This seems like an article in search of a thesis.
AROUND THE WORLD: Street Food Photos.
HAS SHANGHAI PEAKED? Has China?
DOG BITES MAN: Another Losing Republican Scolds the Nation For Firing Him. “Outgoing Republican Representative from South Carolina Bob Inglis is not going off into forced retirement quietly. No, Ol’ Bobby wants us all to know that the nation has failed him.” I’m pretty sure he’s got that backwards.
AT AMAZON, a one-day sale on treadmills. But here’s the part I like: “Comes fully assembled and is ready to use right out of the box.”
HMM: Body of Murdered Ex-GOP Official, a Yale Law Grad, is Found in Del. Landfill. “This is just not the kind of guy who gets murdered.”
THE FEDERAL RESERVE’S wish list for 2011.