CHILDREN in the White House: "[Y]ou could be Jim Messina," a status that allows you "to have a cool car and work for a cool president.” Messina is White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations; theoretically he is an adult.

NEW STUDY: Many highly educated people mistakenly believe they're left-wing.

From the comments: "No… it’s the reverse that’s true… Many left wing people mistakenly think they’re highly educated."

NOT THAT I HAD ANY CHOICE IN THE MATTER


The cartoon is Wiley's Non Sequitur. And from the comments:

#1: [You should] list the prices; Hot dog-$75.00, w/Mustard-$175, etc.

#2: I guess I have to arrange lunch insurance… First question on the form: Do you have any pre-existing hunger?

FORGET SOCIAL SECURITY; privatize education. Any (non-educator) parent could come up with a better curriculum than this.

The time has come to disestablish all Departments of Education – state, federal, and university – and return education to private hands.

TRY THE FOOD at U.S. government cafeterias.

More reason for requiring laws – especially nanny laws – be tested on government employees for a period not less than two years before becoming effective on the public writ large.

BOTH PARTIES mull raising retirement age.

(Shaking head in disbelief) With the unemployment rate still at near-record levels and businesses already encouraging older employees to “go Galt,” Congress wants to raise the retirement age?

Now don’t get me wrong. I think raising the retirement age is both necessary and desirable, but don’t you think that right now would be a good time for Congress to worry about the economy having enough jobs for older workers to not retire from?

NHTSA DISCOVERS CAUSE OF TOYOTA ‘SUDDEN ACCELERATION’ PROBLEM: loose nuts behind the wheel. The "I’m-an-Idiot-and-It’s-All-Your-Fault" club continues growing by leaps and bounds.

More here.

ONE NATION, disunited.

The Washington Post article is here.

UPDATE: Day by Day notices.

HOT DAMN! Fiorina 47, Boxer 45; Whitman 46, Brown 39.

SHOULDN’T THE Indiana state quarter be banned as encouraging prolifigate oil consumption in the face of an environmental crisis?

AMERICANS ARE PETRIFIED about their future.

And as Instapundit puts it: “With reason, given who’s in charge and what policies they’re pursuing....”

BIRD, ER, SQUIRREL, ER, DEER FEEDER.

When the squirrels broke the bird feeder, my wife put some birdseed and corn in the old water bowl, and along came Bambi ....


Picture taken through an upstairs window.

MICHELLE OBAMA: Take your vacation in the Gulf, America — We’ll be vacationing in Maine.

Do they practice being tone-deaf?

WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS said that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden must have misspoken when he told Al Jazeera last month that one of his top priorities is to reach out to Muslim countries: "That was not his task and that's not the task of NASA," Gibbs said.

Thump, thump! ... thump, thump! ... go the wheels of the Obama bus.

OUR YEAR 2 A.B. No hope, no change. But there is this: “[O]ur ‘overseas contingency operations’ are aimed at reminding Muslims that their own past contributions to science have led to breakthroughs like Hellfire missiles.”