HARSHING OBAMA'S MELLOW: Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama.

Link from Instapundit.

BRIGHTNESS VS MERE COMPETENCE: Instapundit links to a series of posts on intellectual capacity versus mere competence to achieve great things as seen through the lens of the Obama administration's appalling incompetence to accomplish anything. Follow all the links.

As a PhD myself and an employee of an organization that boasts of a (very) high percentage of PhD's on staff, I have to agree with the conclusions: great accomplishments and great intellects are not well correlated.

OBAMA BEGINS "LIFESTYLE HEALTH MODIFICATION" PROGRAM, mandating behavioural changes within U.S. society. Makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn't it?

From the comments: "I have a lot of contact with Public Health people and they are the biggest fascists of all. They have powers the police would love to have. All they have to do is define something as a 'public health threat' and they can do anything they want to you."

Instapundit suggests it's time to modify the nannyist's lifestyle instead. I agree.

A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW.


Caldwell County courthouse, Lockhart, TX, 12 June 2010.

OBAMA NO LONGER trusting BP's word on offshore oil drilling. I suspect BP no longer trusts Obama's word on anything. I wouldn't either.