COMMENT OF THE DAY: “Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store - NOT a government agency.”

FAILURE: the Age of Aquarius Obama.


He's been in office almost 30 months, and the second "recovery summer" doesn't appear to be going anywhere.

WEINERGATE: Given all the publicity Rep. Weiner has garnered, I won’t bother with a rehash, but I will laugh at the nacissistic, important-in-his-own-mind twit.

MORE: the Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus suggests that his staff install “parental control” software on their child’s Congressman’s devices. I note she did not recommend a ‘weiner filter’ but perhaps her ‘track a member’ functionality will suffice.

EVEN MORE RICHLY DESERVED MOCKERY: Is Weiner being frank?

“SILLY BOY: trucks are for girls.” Window sticker seen on the back of a Dodge Ram 4x4 today.

TRUTH and the New York Times. Read the comments.

WELL, OF COURSE: the hopeless Obama recovery. Despite the bad economic news, “analysts still predict a tick down in unemployment as more and more Americans” ... like me ... “lose hope and stop looking for work all together.”

SAY IT WITH ME, OBAMACARE FANS: Having insurance coverage does not mean that a doctor will treat you.

THE DOCTOR MIGHT SEE YOU NOW: “[T]he expansion of public health insurance programs will likely lead to a decrease in the quantity of medical services provided by physicians even [as] it increases physicians’ participation.”

Read the comments.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT: liberals vs. conservatives.

Conservatives tend to think McDonald’s fries are #1, while liberals favor “bistro fries,” mostly because they like saying the word “bistro.” For the same reason, while conservatives prefer pastas like spaghetti, liberals prefer pastas that hardly anyone can pronounce, mostly because they think they sound smart pronouncing them.... [L]iberals live up to the “fruity” label, since they’re more likely than conservatives to eat fresh fruit every day.

What can I say? Bacon cheesburgers rock.

THE AIRSHIP RENAISSANCE has always been just around the corner - and always will be.

I once worked on a heavy-lift airship project for a former employer. It was for a niche market; trans-ocean, where the cargo needed to be moved faster than a container ship could go, but whose value wasn’t enough to transport by conventional air. The investment money to develop and build the airship was easily available, but the economics, alas, couldn’t be made to work.