LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Making A Home In An Abandoned House. “After a year homeless and jobless, the squat is a transition. It’s also an experiment, a domestic adventure.”
This iconic photo from the early days of hope-and-change now seems prophetic.
HMM: Walker winning the concealed-carry primary in Wisconsin, so far.
Related: The Wisconsin Democratic Party chairman declines to update us on the number of Recall Walker signatures gathered. “Another issue might be the prevalence of bad signatures on the petitions. Let’s say they have more than the needed 540,208 signatures, but they know they’ve got a lot of questionable signatures in there. They don’t want signature gatherers to slack off, thinking they’ve got it made. And the proportion of bad signatures isn’t an issue they want to talk about.” All those “Adolf Hitlers against Walker” could be kind of embarrassing.
THE ROMNEY PEOPLE should’ve rolled out this Ron Paul video a bit earlier.
WHEN TAMPON ADS ARE “Trans-Phobic.”
NO, THIS ISN’T AN ECONOMIC METAPHOR: German Volcano Could Devastate Europe.
HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY: The Long, Long Depression: Better days are ahead — in the 2030s. I think things will improve long before then, unless something blocks the advances I expect in nanotechnology, AI, and biotechnology.
A WEARABLE LED TELEVISION. It’s not exactly HD.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: My Lesbian Friend With Benefits Wants To Marry Me.
WHEN LEAKS ARE GOOD: When they harm the war on terror even though they uncover nothing illegal.
WHEN LEAKS ARE BAD: When they expose wrongdoing by Democrats.
MATT DRUDGE IS RUNNING HIS OWN CAUCUS. At the moment, Ron Paul is narrowly in the lead. Drop by and vote if you like.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Arrays of artificial molecular machines could lead to atomically precise nanotechnology.
LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Should a Court Force the ABA to Accredit Duncan Law School?
LONGEVITY: Aging slowed in mice with supplement mix. Slowing aging is okay. Reversal would be better . . . .
UPDATE: Charlie Martin notes this: Stem cells reverse aging in mice. “The mice, which had been engineered to mimic a human disease called progeria, would normally have grown old when they were quite young. But that changed when researchers injected muscle stem cells from healthy young mice into the bellies of the quickly aging mice. Within days, the doddering and frail mice began to act like they were living the storyline of ‘The Strange Case of Benjamin Button’ as they started looking and acting younger.”
Faster, please.
SPEED LIMITS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Massachusetts Lt. Gov. cited for going 108 mph. Note that this only happened after the Herald forced the release of data showing that he was speeding.
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: The Perfect Score: Cheating On The SAT.
HOW HARD WOULD IT BE for avian flu to spread? “The virus that scientists made more contagious was the A(H5N1) avian flu. In its natural form, it is known to have infected only about 600 people since its discovery in 1997, but it killed more than half of them. Humans almost never transmit it to one another. But if that ever were to change, bird flu could become one of history’s worst pandemics.”
WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT POLITICIANS WHOSE LIPS ARE MOVING, RIGHT? Say what? Rep. Dingell claims Chevy Volt is “selling like hotcakes.” “Defend the Volt if you want – and it is worth defending on many fronts – but it’s hard to compare its sales numbers to piping hot flapjacks.”
DESCENDING THE OBESITY MOUNTAIN. Is it better to trudge than to sprint?
RICHARD EPSTEIN: How the “Living Wage” Kills Jobs.
IN THE MAIL: Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric, now on audiobook.
CHINA FEARS “Cultural Encirclement.” “Geopoliticians as well as students of culture and democracy should pay attention to Hu’s essay. It’s a window into the psychology of China’s leadership at a critical time. The sense of threat, encirclement and danger is real — along with the sense that America is trying to divide, crush and destroy China.”
IRA STOLL: The Curse of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. “At the next council meeting, Obama could invite employees who have been laid off by his own council members.”
77-YEAR MARRIAGE FACES divorce over wife’s cheating.
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