DON'T TELL THE DEMOCRATS

Sarah Palin's uterus has a blog.

UNEMPLOYMENT TRENDS

This one is amazing – a county-by-county, month-by-month slide show of unemployment from January 2007, when the Democrats took control of Congress, through September 2009.

Via “It is no doubt rude of me to point out that this outbreak video represents two years’ worth of a Democratic-controlled Congress, and one year’s worth of a Democratic-controlled government” Moe Lane and Instapundit.

GLOBAL SOMETHING OR OTHER

Global warming appears to have stalled.

The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."

So here’s my question. Why is it inconceivable that the 30-year run-up in temperature is the outlier?

SMART BOOKS

Bay Area readers are too smart to bother reading Sarah Palin's Going Rogue:

“Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.”

So what do they read? Here’s a selection of some of the non-drively, thinky-type books Mr. Embretson carries at his store, per the Pendragon Books website:

Jim Marrs, Inside Job: Unmasking the 9-11 Conspiracies

Ward Churchill, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality

Van Jones, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

(a collaboration), Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies

William Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist

Mark Rudd, Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen

Lyndon H. Larouche, Cold Fusion: Challenge to U.S. Science Policy

Ah, yes, the reality-based community.

A THOUGHT ON OBAMACARE

Is there any ObamaCare supporter in his or her right mind (right mind? - Ed. I know, I know.) who believes that anyone in the Government or its hangers-on will ever be on the public option (or "consumer" option, as Nancy Pelosi has called it)?

Get real. They will all have "Cadillac plans" - paid for with your -and my - tax dollars.

MORE OBAMA PROTESTS

In St. Louis and Los Angeles.

HMM

So the guidelines for frequency of mammograms and pap smears have been revised.

I suspect the revisions are entirely reasonable, but the timing leaves me scratching my head. With the health care debate on the front burner - and boiling over - why on Earth would the Government risk bringing the rationing argument back to the fore?

One has to wonder about the Obama administration's competence. Are they completly clueless? Or simply arrogant?

[Update] It's been noticed.