SEVEN STORYLINES TO AVOID. Too late.

ROGER THAT

Roger Kimball posts an ode to Chris Muir for his Day by Day cartoons.

CASH FOR APPLIANCES

[The] White House plans to pursue its similar [to Cash for Clunkers] $300 million stimulus program for home appliances.

Heh. Soon, I hope. I need to upgrade my failing kitchen appliances. While they're at it, how about “Cash for Air Conditioners"? And “Cash for Rain Gutters”? And “Cash for Dead Trees”?

WHAT TO BLAME ON GLOBAL WARMING

Here’s a complete list of things allegedly caused by global warming, thoughtfully compiled by Number Watch in the United Kingdom. Links are provided.

Here are a few of the better ones: acne, aggressive weeds, air pressure changes, Baghdad snow, beer shortage, circumcisions in decline, crocodile sex, evolution accelerating, the Earth speeding up (and slowing down), footpath erosion, icebergs, killer cornflakes, a kitten boom, UFO sightings, a violin decline, and rotton tomatos ....

Oh, my.

MORE WEIRD ROBOTS

Listen to the podcast first; then check out the videos.

The shape-shifting robot is fascinating, if only because there is so much good science-fiction based on shape-shifting themes.

BETTER STARVED THAN UNHEALTHY

“When a small church comes to the Bowery Mission bearing fried chicken with trans fat, unwittingly breaking the law, they’re told ‘thank you'. Then workers quietly chuck the food, mission director Tom Bastile said.... ‘It’s always hard for us to do,’ Basile said. e know we have to do it.’ “

“The city’s law banishing trans fat took effect in July 2008 and touched everyone with Health Department food licenses — including emergency food providers.”

From the comments: “Thanks for exposing this travesty. It is horrible that people should go hungry to feed the self-indulgence of government officials who think they know what's best for us.” - amphils

Via Instapundit.

NAUGHTY BOYS

Click on the image and then scroll around through the network.

Link via Instapundit.

PALIN GOES GRACIOUS

An interesting article in the New York Times. In the first two paragraphs,

I got a lesson in civility, grace under pressure and general human fellowship recently from, of all people, Sarah Palin. ... I’m not talking about lessons learned from her book, but rather from her televised interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Five paragraphs later,

We’ve been seeing and hearing the extreme edge of nastiness politically ever since the summer, when the boorishly boisterous “tea parties” began. ... Sarah Palin hasn’t helped matters much with her continued talk of “haters,” and there was plenty of hatred lurking not so very far beneath the surface in interviews with die-hard Palin book buyers

Notice the unconscious bias: the belief that disagreement the liberal position must be taken as “hate.” I’ve been to three Tea Parties, including the 100,000+ protest at the Washington DC mall, and while I’ve listened to strong opinions, none has been remotely “hateful.”

Read the whole article.

THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST

Makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn't it?

FORT HOOD NEVER HAPPENED

Ann Coulter is in fine fettle:

Is it still too soon to come to the conclusion that the Fort Hood shooting was an act of terrorism?

Alas, it is still too early ... at MSNBC. For Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews ... the shooting of George Tiller was an act of terrorism, no question. The death of a census taker in Kentucky was also an act of terrorism. But as to Maj. Hasan, the jury is still out -- and will be out for many, many years.

At MSNBC, ignorance isn't bliss, it's a requirement.