A COMMENT on the education bubble. Linked from Instapundit.

BECK AUDIENCE - Shoeless & Toothless. “Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Namby Pamby Land) shared his thoughts, and fuzzy math, about the Beck audience. To him we’re all extras from Deliverance.”

Watch the video - if you can. I lasted almost a minute.

STAKEHOLDER GROUP: That [phrase] pretty well sums up the Democratic Party, the party of reaction and defense of the status quo against all logic, and heedless of all consequences. The Obama administration has been a golden age for lobbyists, which is a big part of the reason why Washington D.C. and its suburbs are now the nation's richest province. The fat cats will do whatever it takes to defend their privileges.

NOT YOU, MR. OBAMA. Happy Birthday, Mr. President.

WHAT ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ TEACHES: People in authority are often idiots. Um, often?

CARTOON OF THE DAY.

ONCE ALL THE JOBS ARE GONE ... layoffs will reach zero & our recovery will be complete.

Obama’s economic strategy is one short tweet.

“I’M STARTING TO THINK that not occupying schoolyards with pitchforks and burning tires is a failed parent-teacher night.”

STEVE FORBES: What Reagan Taught Us and Obama Needs to Learn.

GET A JOB AFTER 50? Keep dreaming.

Try keeping a job after 65. Luckily I can afford retirement, but it’s not my preferred outcome.

[Update] More here: "That kind of puts a damper on the whole raise the retirement age plan of action."

SARAH PALIN: we’re on “a bullet train to bankruptcy.”

More here. And you can also watch the video of her address here.

WTF, ER, WIN THE FUTURE: Could John Kerry hand both Massachusetts senate seats to the GOP? We should be so lucky.

HEH. LOW SODIUM COOKING is labor intensive.

TIME FOR another absurdly tasteless environmentalist PSA.

A public safety announcement (PSA) generally means that you, dear taxpayer, are footing the bill.

CONTINGENCY PLANNING. John Hinderaker at PowerLine wonders why the Obama administration appears to be caught flat-footed with respect to the Egyptian crisis:

The U.S. military does not wait for a crisis to appear before it starts to develop contingency plans. On the contrary, such plans are continuously evaluated and updated: if we had to invade Iran, how would we do it? What response options would we have if North Korea started firing missiles toward Alaska? And so on.

It is hard to believe that the State Department doesn't prepare similar contingency plans for diplomatic crises.

The simple reason is that the State Department has a deep-seated and long-held antipathy toward all things military. The fact that the military does anything - like contingency planning - is prima facie evidence of wrongheadedness. So if the military does it, it must be bad, and therefore we the State Department must do the exact opposite.

All the more reason to give diplomatic duties back to the Navy, where it resided before air travel, transatlantic cable, satellite communication, and the internet.

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON: State Multiculturalism Has Failed. Do tell.