UNEXPECTEDLY: Global Warming Stopped Sixteen Years Ago.  RELATED, IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT: The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era?  And yeah, the ice age thing was in my books in middle school and it’s why I’ve never taken AGW seriously.  Opposing trends shouldn’t have exactly the same proposed remedy.  Unless the hot/cold stuff is an excuse to drag us into socialism and scarcity.

IN VAIN I HAVE STRUGGLED, IT WILL NOT DO: Curse you Michael Walsh for posting the Ryan girl video answer to Obama girl.  If my husband and kids get me committed for going around the house singing “Let’s get fiscal” it’s all your fault.

BY ALL MEANS, LET’S TALK RACISM: A Rant on Supposed Racism

FIDDLING WHILE THEIR ECONOMY DIES: A Grand Experiment to Rein In Climate Change — in California.

I THOUGHT THE HARRY POTTER SERIES WAS BOARDING SCHOOL STORIES WITH MAGIC: Because I grew up on British boarding school stories, I didn’t find HP wildly inventive.  I did however find it engaging.  I haven’t had the nerve to try her grown-up mystery yet.  Reviews like this aren’t helping: J. K. Rowling and the Deadly Tedium.  The reviewer reminds us of Flannery O’Connor’s observation that “the writer can choose what he writes about, but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.”   In my experience, not only is that true, but first efforts in any genre are best kept from public eyes or very thoroughly re-written after you get your bearings.  Each type of story has a language/rule set of its own. (Update: yes, even if you read a lot of the genre, the first time you write it you’ll still be clumsy.)

STOP DISTRACTING PEOPLE FROM BIG BIRD: Mark Steyn: ‘Politicized’ Benghazi distracts from Big Bird.

HOW MUCH SPACE IS THERE UNDER THAT BUS? No More Bonhomie for Bubba and Barry?

FUNDAMENTALLY UNSERIOUS:  Next Debate Topics Announced. Unfortunately for Obama, the Minaj/Carey Feud is Not on the List

AND THE CHALLENGE OF SELLING A SECOND TERM ON NO ACCOMPLISHMENTS:  New Obama ad: Few presidents have faced so many challenges. 9/11? Cold War?  WWII?  That’s nothing.  He had to face Republicans!

IT PROBABLY INVOLVES A TURNIP: The True History of the Black Adder by J F Roberts: extract  and in an hilarious twist, you might have some trouble reading the book, since it’s out of print a month before being released. (This happens, as I’ve found, when you enter the wrong date for publication but it’s such a Black Adder-worthy touch.  I’m sure they have plan around this.)

UM.  IN 08, IN DENVER, THIS WAS A FALSE FLAG OPERATION: Shot fired at Denver Obama campaign office. I’ll wait investigation of this one.

OF COURSE IT IS: US ambassador: Internet fee proposal gaining momentum. Socialist kleptocracies abroad are looking for more sources of Other People’s Money.

RELATED TO OUR EXPORTING CRUDE: Big Shocker: More Fraud Exposed in Green Carbon Trading Scheme.

OFFSHORING AMERICAN JOBS: US Prepares to Export Crude Oil

MAYBE THERE’S A REASON FOR CONCERN? Voter Registration Rolls in 2 States Are Called Vulnerable to Hackers

WELL, I’LL HAVE TO GO SEE IT: The critics hate Atlas Shrugged II. Meanwhile the audience rates it at 78.  Sounds like a winner to me!

A DIFFERENT STAR CLUSTER, NOT IN DC: Two Black Holes Inhabit Same Star Cluster  because DC is only ONE black hole…  (By which I mean a(n) time/space entity of a governmental nature that sucks anything of value from the surrounding areas.)

SETTING BIDEN STRAIGHT: Catholic Bishops to Biden: What You Called a Fact Is Not, In Fact, a Fact

PICKING A FIGHT WITH THE WRONG WOMAN: Democrats launch sexist attack against Warthog driver Martha McSally (R CAND, AZ-02).

RIGHT AGAIN:  Neo-Neocon asks “Is Clint  Eastwood Clairvoyant?”

CHICAGO ETHICS COULD BE A PROBLEM: FBI Now Probing Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s Finances

STILL NO MENTION OF UFOs:  Kristine Kathryn Rusch continues her series on why writers disappear.

HOW MANY SANDWICHES COULD YOU MAKE FROM A TUNA THAT SIZE:  Giant eyeball found on beach, posing mystery for marine biologists.

NONE OF THEM BY BIDEN:  30 Great One-Liners.

IT’S LIKE THEY’RE TRYING TO CONVINCE THEMSELVES: Did some blogger really call Obama the Democrats’ Reagan?  Because they’ve been doing that from day one.