WASN'T THE TEA PARTY supposed to be dead?

THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF OBAMACARE EVER:

“We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has,” said Marcus Merz, the chief executive of PreferredOne, an insurer in Golden Valley, Minn., that is owned by two health systems and a physician group. “We’re all trying to break away from this fixation on open access and broad networks.”

"[I]t will probably end up being the best description of the Obama administration and progressivism in the end. If only government took away the 'choice habits' from Americans, then we could establish Utopia on Earth!"

HEH: "When it comes to Hillary and brain damage, what difference, at this point, would it make?"

OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY: Even our 'allies' are jumping ship to cut their own deals.

WHEN A CHOLESTEROL TEST becomes a vice instead of a virtue.

Moderation would be much easier without the health nannies' continual fear-mongering.

ANDREW KLAVAN on a culture of death.

MARK STEYN: Life in the expedited lane. The wheels of justice grind slowly. Michael Mann will get his comeuppance, though maybe not in my (or his) lifetime.

PowerLine has much more: "Michael Mann is a liar and a cheat".

For added emphasis, read Steve McIntyre's post as well.

RANDOM THOUGHTS: Liberals emote; conservatives produce.

MASTERS OF PROJECTION: Academics develop experiment to determine who is racist/sexist only to find themselves.

Or to find, as is all-to-common with academic research, the results are worthless (i.e., easily obtained with 5 minutes of actual, you know, thought).

IEEE INSTITUTE: Are Recent Grads Working on What Matters? No, but with age comes wisdom....

INMARSAT will offer free basic tracking services for all commercial passenger aircraft "equipped with an Inmarsat satellite connection -- most of the world's long-haul commercial fleet."

THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET IS MELTING. The bad news is that it cannot be stopped. The good news is also that it cannot be stopped; now the global warming climate change climate disruption alarmists can quit screaming "Armegeddon!" and get on with their lives.

'GAMIFICATION': gaming in the workplace.

Playing video games instead of doing your work might sound like a surefire way to get in trouble at the office. But some employers encourage game playing, and even use it as a path to promotion.

Gamification—a relatively new word that stands for applying game-design thinking to non-game applications—has been used in several industries and is now making its way into offices. Gartner, a research firm based in Stamford, Conn., predicts that nearly 2000 global organizations will be using gamification to train their employees and track their performance by the end of this year. And in February, IEEE announced that its experts predict that over the next six years, gaming will be integrated into more than 85 percent of daily activities, which include tasks in the workplace.

It's stuff like this that almost makes me grateful I 'retired' way back in 2009.

IT'S NOT MURDER if Ambassador Stevens died of smoke inhalation. Either the Democrat spin machine is desperate or Eleanor Clift is an idiot.

Or both.

RANDOM THOUGHTS: 'Pop' 'culture' is an oxymoron. Realized after having the misfortune to tune my car radio to a discussion of Jay-Z & Beyonce this morning.

GET A SUNTAN: Women who don't sunbathe are twice as likely to die early than women who do.

Vitamin D: Pills are quicker, but tans are nicer.

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS have enacted over $58B in tax increases since 2011. What would be interesting to find out is how much taxable income (i.e., the number of taxpayers) has fled the states in the same time period.

IT'S ONLY YOUR MONEY: Four failed ObamaCare exchanges cost taxpayers a half-billion (yes, with a 'B') dollars. So far.

At $250 each, that's only 2 million medical appointments wasted.

GUESS WHO? "When it comes to complete and utter BS, the man is an artist."

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Occam's Razor.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012: The Day Obama's Presidency Died.