Read it. Orthodox seminary in Israel decides to start ordaining women rabbis.

Naturally this is hailed in “feminist” circles.

Giving learned female teachers the title of rabbi is a big deal—it may grant them better pay and more respect at the schools they work in.

But, of course, just sticking a label on a duck doesn’t make it a drake.

 But as for whether this will herald the beginning of an era of Orthodox women rabbis, it’s not so clear that the title will be recognized within the Orthodox world.

This is a pervasive tendency within the human animal that Regressives just don’t seem able to wrap their minds around.

Read it. Your morning dose of speculative fiction.

Read it. Hopefully someone in D.C. is paying attention, although I wouldn’t be willing to bet actual money on it.

Read it. The bears can move to Canada. Problem solved.

Lileks deals with the British “Three Little Pigs” situation.

You really have to have multiple years in higher education to craft a statement so packed with radiant stupidity.

The rest of it is worth reading, too, as is The Bleat every day. Highly recommended.

Read it. The vital distinction between value and price has tripped up many otherwise intelligent people.

Value drives demand — but price is set by the intersection of demand and supply. If supply is abundant, it’s not going to matter how valuable your product is, price will get pushed towards zero.

Air is the most valuable thing you’ll see today, but when it’s free for the breathing it’s price is zero unless you do something like move it or compress it..

This is amazing. I’m not sure, but I think it’s a commercial. If it is, it deserves some kind of award.

Oh, PCR stands for Polymerase Chain Reaction, but you don’t need to know that, really.

Read it. Of course, this has always been the problem.

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Read it. This is actually a very interesting concept that makes a lot of sense.

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Read it. Why not just draft them into The Young Pioneers or the Hitler Youth and be done with it?

Read it. So, since I am getting a cold, I’m going to pig out.

The general rule seems to be: eat hearty to combat viral infections, cut back to fight bacterial infections.

Read it. More than you ever really wanted to know about the Present State of the Banana.

Today, European opposition to GMO is one factor discouraging progress in developing a substitute and more robust banana crop.

Bloody Europeans….

Read it. Well, that’s today’s Britain for you.

Read it. Ain’t that the truth.

Read it. Wouldn’t it be great if they killed each other off?

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Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Read it. Democrats, the party of institutionalized voter fraud.

Lileks is sick of it.

I’m not an economist, but I’ve noted something interesting. Since we decided that ethanol would be the cure to our “addiction to oil,” we managed to bump up the cost of corn, encourage a shift to corn production, and raise the price of foodstuffs. Which fueled inflation fears. Now that we have increased inflation, we have a fear of a recession, which drives the price of oil down, since demand is expected to slump. The price of gas has gone down a quarter in the last ten days, and it’s idling in the low $2.8x range. As others have noted, the cure for $100 barrel oil is $100 barrel oil. It all works out. There’s a boom and then there’s a bust. Having lived through a few, it’s annoying to hear the same fargin’ end-of-the-world hairshirt orations, especially from those who have spent their entire lives walking around with a bucket of black paint and a brush looking for good news to deface.

Of course the news is bad. The news is always bad. Even the good news is bad, eventually. If they cured cancer tomorrow it would take a day before analysts worried about the impact on Medicare, what with people living so damned long and all.

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Read it. Will no one help these poor souls?

Read it. I bet you didn’t know that you weren’t allowed to keep any of the seed you grew this year in order to plant it next year, did you? Neither did I.

Read it. Too bad it doesn’t work on government employees.

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I am reminded of something a scholar told me more than a year ago in Oxford. Try, he said, to find a course at a major, secular British university focusing on textual criticism of the Koran. Then compare this number with the same university’s course offerings applying these methods to the Bible. Then do the math.

Read it. The famous Torpedo Boat was developed with just this asymmetry in mind. And the Destroyer, an entire new class of ship, was developed to deal with that threat — not an indicator of small regard.

Read it. And consider the agenda of all these people who want to convince you that we’re in a recession.

Inside Politics.

At the worst of it, Wadsworth and other Obama supporters were yelling insults about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, while the heavily Latino Clinton caucus was trying to shout them down with chants of “Hillary!’ “

Inside the Beltway.

Read it. Our political system is now much more clear.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading. Heh.

The dweebs at tReason magazine are prime examples of “movement libertarianism” — sell the streets, but don’t drop the bomb. Feh.

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For example, mark on your calendar Jan. 25 for an outburst by Bill Clinton somewhere in South Carolina. He has launched a tirade the day before each of his wife’s victories in Nevada and New Hampshire, claiming the process was unfairly stacked against her. If this keeps up, he’s going to require a stretcher by the last primary in Oregon come May.

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Read it. Free markets work every time they’re tried. Economic democracy is like that.

Read it. Any science fiction novel in which the aliens are not at least as strange as the Japanese gets tossed on the discard pile.

George Will explains why John McCain is really a Democrat in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

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Read it. Pretty cool.

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Read it. And stay out of North Dakota — apparently Larry Craig isn’t the only wacko from Up North.

Mark Steyn explores new career options.

Read it. Can the ACLU be far behind?

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Read it. Bear in mind that Michael Gerson is an allegedly “conservative” columnist at the Washington Post — although he sure reads like a Beltway liberal from here.

Note the assumption that if you don’t spend your time handwringing about AIDS, you lack “moral seriousness”.

Hey, Michael: People who keep their pants zipped don’t get AIDS. You can look it up.

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Read it. Welcome back my friend to the show that never ends….