A ‘TWO-FER’: Obama’s stimulus created/saved 450,000 government jobs and destroyed/forestalled one million private sector jobs.

Nice work, Barack ....

HEH. a true member of the Kennedy clan.

INTERNET FORECAST: cloudy, with a high probability of getting hacked. And you thought you liked cloud computing ....

ANOTHER REASON to join the Tea Party. Or at least be a fellow traveler.

THE GREAT BATTERY EXCHANGE: “[A] Silicon Valley start-up ... just completed a seven-month trial in Tokyo during which electric vehicles with depleted batteries pulled into a station and pulled out a few minutes later with a fully charged battery pack.”

Uh, huh ... to make that work with my daily commute I’d have to pull in for a battery swap every day - and with no miles to spare.

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS: Obama’s war on fun.

On the whole, I prefer House Speaker John Boehner's attitude. When Fox News' Chris Wallace asked the Ohio Republican, "Why don't you stop smoking?" Boehner replied, "It's a legal product. I choose to smoke. Leave me alone."

Agreed.

PERHAPS WE SHOULD require simulator training as part of the presidential primaries ....

AND EVENTUALLY, I SUPPOSE, lock your doors and drive you to the nearest police station.

RETHINKING PARENT’S WORK SCHEDULES: “[M]ore business should consider changing the way they think about their human resources.” Agreed, and I’ll believe a start has been made when the phrase “human resources” has been buried deep within the dustbin of history.

PRIVACY ON THE SMART GRID: Are smart meters spies? They don't have to be, but given our political class’s need for control, they probably will.

BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS: A new Gallup poll shows American oppose raising the debt limit 47 percent to 19 percent. Among Republicans it’s 70 – 8. Among independents, 46 to 15. Only Democrats favor raising the limit and then by only a 33 to 26 margin. That’s a pretty sizeable bargaining chip for the Republicans - if they have the courage to use it.

TWO ITEMS:

The aging nuclear workforce: “One-third of the workers at the 104 nuclear power plants in the United States are eligible to take their accumulated knowledge with them into retirement within the next five years.” The bright side is that there will be plenty of jobs for new inexperienced engineers.

iPhone tracking isn't all that accurate: “Researchers ... reported that the location data can be off by kilometers and the time data by weeks.” You don’t have to be an NCIS fan to wonder if your iPhone will put you right smack in the middle of a crime scene.

Kind of makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn’t it?

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about climate change:

Official climate science, which is funded and directed entirely by government, promotes a theory that is based on a guess about moist air that is now a known falsehood. Governments gleefully accept their advice, because the only ways to curb emissions are to impose taxes and extend government control over all energy use. And to curb emissions on a world scale might even lead to world government — how exciting for the political class!

How exciting, indeed.

WELL, THIS IS ENCOURAGING: “So I think that ultimately retirees are going to end up consuming less than they currently expect to. And given the political economy of it all, I expect the burden to fall more heavily on those who have saved than on those who haven't (emphasis added).”