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The general rule for comments like these is that if there is a choice between malice and stupidity, choose stupidity. But with the Left, especially the progressive Left, I'm beginning to believe malice is the correct option.

Or most correctly, both: malicious stupidity.

'SPACE HACKERS' prepare to reboot 35-year-old spacecraft. I wish them good luck.

ED DRISCOLL: Soft Pink Eloi on the Outside, Ravenous Morlocks in their Hearts.

Follow the Tim Russert link at the bottom if you have the courage to take a (Twitter) stroll through the putrid muck that constitutes the soul of the progressive Left.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up: trigger warning edition. My favorite:

A close second was the 'Tigger Warning', which should be a required warning on damned near every progressive web site.

FROM THE SCOREKEEPER (#15): "NC BBQ Restaurant With Prominent "NO GUNS" Sign Robbed at Gunpoint". Obviously the robber couldn't read....

EXCELLENT QUESTION: "Exactly which elite, liberal institution does have to live up to the Left's values?"

None that I can think of....

THE VETERANS SCANDAL: Socialized Medicine on Trial. It's more that socialized medicine; it's socalism itself that's on trial.

As Instapundit has noted, our 'best and brightest' are neither.

KEEPING UP WITH THE DRONESES: Walking Dogs, Watching Sea Life, And More. Here's a drone trip down memory lane for my wife and I, since we lived in that part of New Mexico for many years.



Also click on the link above to watch the drone walk a dog (or to be more accurate, watch the dog walk a drone).

DO THE MATH: How Opportunity Costs Multiply Tuition. In my case, the opportunity cost of my doctorate was about $180,000 -- and I worked at least half-time during my entire graduate school enrollment.

I did well during my subsequent career, but even now that I'm retired, I'm still not sure the additional education overcame the opportunity costs associated with it. That said, there are still good reasons for additional formal education -- the challenge is one, and the need to get a ticket punched another -- but earning higher wages is not one of them.

SCIENCE IS SCIENCE -- except when it isn't. I would only add that the cartoon applies equally with the change of two words: 'government' in place of 'corporate' and 'control' in place of 'profit'.

THOUGHTS ABOUT LIFE:

I'm not saying let's go kill all the stupid people. I'm just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out.

I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People move out of the way much faster now.

You can tell a lot about a woman's mood just by her hands. If they are holding a gun, she's probably angry.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers.

You know that tingly little feeling you get when you really like someone? That's common sense leaving your body.

I don't like making plans for the day because then the word "premeditated" gets thrown around in the courtroom.

I didn't make it to the gym again today. That makes five years in a row.

I decided to change calling the bathroom the 'John' and renamed it the 'Jim'. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.

Dear paranoid people who check behind shower curtains for murderers: If you find one, what's your plan?

From my email.

A SMALL STEP TOWARD ADULTHOOD: I Lived A Completely Gun-Free Life — Until Now.

I would feel much more comfortable about her small step if instead of denigrating the NRA, she wrote that she and her husband had taken NRA-sponsored classed in gun safety and that they regularly went to a gun range to train, train, train.

Otherwise I'd prefer they continued to live a gun-free life.

HMMM. Maybe we're not in the midst of an 'income-inequality crisis' after all.



Instapundit also notices.

Somewhere I read that science draws supported conclusions from observed data; 'liberal science' draws supportive data from observed conclusions.

This seems to be another example of conclusions driving the search for supportive data.