Tim Blair is dubious. But he has some suggestions nevertheless.

The Hog weighs in on climate change.

Read it. Apparently being poor isn’t what it used to be.

Dinesh d’Souza is fond of telling a story about a friend of his from India who wants to visit the United States because he wants to see a country where the poor people are fat.

Read it. Note that almost all of the “black holes” are either Muslim or Communist.

Jonah Goldberg has some disturbing things to say about this seemingly odd trend.

Read it. Of course. As Mark Steyn says, you get the behavior you reward.

Read it. Poow widdle babies. They can call the President a Nazi and compare him to Hitler, but God forbid that the very American citizens they characterize as baby-killers should exercise their free-speech rights.

Read it. A trend? Maybe so, maybe not. But not the sort of thing your local small business can indulge in.

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“That’s a big twist, isn’t it? You go from knowing you’ll inherit money from your parents to wondering how you’re going to support them. I don’t begrudge her, don’t misunderstand me.” He hesitates, smiles, then in a voice that mimics an Old West cowboy twang, “Ah’m just tellin’ you the facts, ma’am, just the facts.”

Read it. The hits just keep on comin’.

David Friedman points up something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen mentioned before. To what extent should your grade in high school or college reflect how much you participate in class? After all, it’s not finishing school — “socialization” may arguably have some relevance to the elementary grades, where you’re being trained to “play well with others” as well as learning facts & skills, but that’s just bullshit by the time you get to high school.

Read it. They have an RSS feed.

Read it. Oh, I have SO been waiting for this….

What does Murtha’s office have to say? Well, we don’t know. Bryan from Hot Air called them, but they hung up on him when he asked if they’d released a statement.

Read it. Of course, nobody is trying to blow her up, either.

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. A disturbing take on an underappreciated problem.

Mark Krikorian points out the absurdity of states having special programs so that serial lawbreakers won’t be terribly inconvenienced.

Read it. Funny how much better we’re doing now than we were back in AlGore’s Preferred Environment.

Read it. “Nanny, nanny, tell us a scary story….!”

Makes you wonder how all these poor people who are being oppressed and repressed by the Bush administration get so many lucrative book deals….

Read it. Is that an air conditioner near your sensor, or is it just Global Warming?

We use the AlGore system: If you don’t like the data you find, find some data you like.

Read it. The Meeks shall inherit good press.

Read it. And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Read it. And why? Because they keep getting away with it, that’s why. Let us not forget that Pakistan and Iran are Retarded Countries whose idea of freedom of expression is limited to choosing whether Christians are stoned or beheaded.

Read it. It’s good to see the legal system stumble into some sense every now and then.

Read it. You can lead a kid to knowledge, but you can’t make him think.

Read it. Fascinating stuff.

There is a controversy surrounding the work of the philologist of Syriac (that is, the Aramaic used in and around Edessa), Christoph Luxenberg. He suggests that the best way to clear up the approximately 20% of the Qur’an that does not make sense, or that contains a meaning that is only guessed at, is to posit an Ur-text, in Aramaic, or rather in Syriac, a text that begins as a Christian lectionary.

I wonder how long before they cut his head off?

Read it. More inconvenient truth.

With history departments overrun with critical race and gender theorists, the opinion of groups like “Historians Against the War” becomes no more relevant or informative than the opinions of a (hypothetical) competing group called “Mary Kay Beauty Consultants Against al Qaeda”.

Read it. The analogous mark on females is called the “tramp stamp” and consists of a triangular design near the coccyx.

Read it. And who could blame them? Who wants their kids turned in to illiterate communists?

The Hog has an idea. And it sounds tasty.

Read it. An excellent overview of the complex social situation in Iraq.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Inside the Ring.

Read it. I guess the Canadians aren’t the only ones with problems.

Read it. Sort of like being alive during the 16th century.

Read it. So I guess we’re not a democracy after all. Where do they find these people?

Read it. Hey, it’s Texas.

Read it. Straight from the horse’s mouth.

Read it. That’s what happens when politically-motivated prosecutions run up against a reasonable legal system. Eventually you have to have some proof.

Read it. Sometimes listening to the experts is a bad thing.

Read it. I’ve got this book on order and haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but this critique seems to be right on the money.

In How Doctors Think, doctors tell us how simply spending more time with patients, asking open-ended rather than close-ended questions, reading “body language,” including patients’ emotions in the picture, etc., improves their diagnostic ability. How much impact do these factors have on diagnostic ability? Do they actually have any impact at all? These questions place Groopman’s book on shaky ground, for his evidence consists primarily of unrepresentative and mostly irrelevant testimonials in which doctors describe various atypical diagnostic adventures they’ve had, and how they think they either emerged victorious or dropped the ball. The problem is, this does not tell us anything about how doctors think, only how they think they think.

Read it. And don’t let the jargon scare you off; it’s explained fairly well, and an interesting notion.

Mencius Moldbug. Need I say more? Budget some time for this one.

Mencius Moldbug is at it again.

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There is no real reward/incentive for a provider to cut their prices…except in those areas of medicine where people pay out of pocket…check out cosmetic surgery and lasik.

John Hood has some words of wisdom.

Liberals are fond of saying that conservatives fixate too much on tax policy, but the reality is that the political debate so often touches the tax issue because it is foundational. Taxation is the most widely experienced manifestation of government’s power to coerce, which is its defining characteristic.

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Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine is a big fan: “Maintaining a virtual office has its drawbacks but so does having to see the goddamned people you work with every goddamn day.” I would have to agree.

We have a new comic strip, Stone Soup, thanks to the guys at Language Log. See the sidebar.

Read it. My, how useful.

Read it. Everything bad is good for you.

I’m waiting for somebody to do a study about the anti-evolutionary effects of radical feminism.

Read it. I’ve cited the Dyson article before, making much the same points. I have to join David in being a “humanist” as opposed to “naturalist”.