Jeremy Wagstaff just isn’t the same without his software.

And what about that idea you had in the bath this morning, where you wondered aloud whether the plethora of news stories on global warming was evidence of a) a sudden increase in global warming, b) a sudden increase in journalists’ interest in global warming, c) a sudden increase in editorial commitment to educate the public about global warming d) a pathetic hope on the part of editors that global warming stories may sell more papers or e) a sort of new tacit agreement between media and public that now we all agree that climate change is happening, we need to be reminded of how clever we are? If you’re not sure, where are you going to put that in your database?

I’ve not tried PersonalBrain myself, although I mean to do it Real Soon Now, but it looks very interesting.

Item. Perhaps this is the key to handling Ted Kennedy. Well, it’s worth a shot. (Hahahahaha)

NYT. Perhaps the the beginning of the end of Democrat vote fraud? An unexpected turn for one of the most left-wing states in the nation.

NYT. It’s comforting to know that Greenpeace is determined to eradicate any lingering impression that it is a serious organization run by adults.

NYT. But that trick never works….

I have a question: Who got to Rick Perry and replaced him with a Democrat? He’s been doing strange stuff like this since the last election.

Item. And eventually some group is going to get tired of violence by people who value animals over human beings and just hunt them down. What goes around comes around.

Item. Chances of that actually happening, approaching zero.

Item. Not quite sure what that’s supposed to accomplish….

Steve Sailer has some interesting things to say about modern medicine.

Thomas Sowell.

Item. Yeah, I know, Inside Baseball — but read it anyway; he explains why it’s important.

Pogue deals with Steve’s Phone Company. It is not a pretty sight.

Arnold Kling takes a look at the latest expression of disintermediation.

Item. And about time, too.

Ross Douthat. Politicians exemplify the eternal truth that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Arnold Kling.

In a meadow economy, the human race is a grazing herd. The naturalists are the ones who eat the best. This was the economy up until about 1800 everywhere, and it still applies in the underdeveloped world today.

In the West since 1800, we’ve been moving to the food court economy, where we use complex recipes and convoluted trading mechanisms to translate basic ingredients into fancy consumption goods. Overall, most of the value nowadays is in the recipes, not in the ingredients.

Item. Steve appears to be losing his grip.

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Item. Let’s give them a real challenge: Try it on Democrats.

NYT. Well, cutting off The Important Part would work, too, but I suppose condoms are cheaper.

And I don’t suppose that a rule like “solitary confinement for anybody who shows HIV-positive” would occur to anyone, either.

NYT. By God, it certainly frightens me.

NYT. Of course! The way to solve New York’s problems is … imitate Paris!

I wonder if the string of unemployed-Muslim-slums around Paris are also in the plan.

NYT. How could they possibly resist the call for more money from New York officials?

WP. I love it the way a pile of self-selected anecdotes turns into something that allows a poseur to bloviate about “women”.

WP. It’s articles like this that make the Washington Post orders of magnitude superior to the New York Times.

WP. For “overhaul”, of course, read “increase”.

WP. Guess nobody at the Washington Post has read Mallory. Or heard of Roland.

WP. “With the Washington Post” needs to be added to the headline, of course.

WP. Presumably one of the new measures is making sure that the fargin’ guards get paid….

Ross Douthat is not afraid to ask the hard questions. (The difficulty arises, of course, from knowing where to start.)

Item. ParaPundit jumps in on the latest Murray crusade. His ideas parallel mine for the most part: We desperately need to get away from schools organized as if they were factories.

NYT. We could actually make up a template: “White House Politicized [insert political appointment here], Democrat Says”. As opposed to the rigidly non-partisan way Democrats treat the same appointments, one supposes.

Perhaps what we need is a new volunteer force to walk up to Democrats and say, “Hey, those positions that are appointed by the President with approval by the Senate? Those are POLITICAL.”

NYT. All of our illusions, shattered.

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Item. We adults call that “focus”. It’s pointless to worry about differences that are primarily whether to kill us quickly or slowly. They still want to kill us.

Item. Talk about a red herring — Note that in the first paragraph they admit that the concern is that “hereditary Democrats” will actually register as Republicans. It’s not about race, it’s about power — Democrat power.

Item. Well, that’s because it’s run by leftists, and leftists are all about power. DUH.

Item. Slow news day.

Item. Just for you, Robin.

NYT. I guess lawyers were just charging too much.

WP. Yet another of the many reasons why I don’t fly.

WP. I guess Virginia needs one of those recall provisions like California.

WP. Slow news day.

WP. Government lawyers generating business for non-government lawyers. No wonder everybody hates lawyers.

Item. There has always been a tension within the ranks of “libertarians” about foreign policy.

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The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget It wants to cut: an obscure Labor Department office that monitors the compliance of unions with federal law.

Item. Hey, if somebody will pay money for it, someone else will be there to sell it.

NYT. Well, they certainly seem successful at keeping the peace, don’t they?

NYT. And, of course, this is reported in the “Science” section.

NYT. Can an affirmative-action program be far behind?