DO TELL: Obama fails to show his vaunted ‘competence’.

NO, MOTHER JONES, Oklahoma isn't 'drying up' and its leaders aren't trying to block climate science education, they're trying to promote it. You blockheads just aren't paying attention.

FORTY-NINE IDIOTS -- excuse me, Democrat Senators -- sign letter urging NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to change the name of the Washington Redskins. This email has made the rounds before, but it's worth revisiting:

Here is an email sent to Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune after an article he published concerning a name change for the Washington Redskins.

Dear Mr. Page...

I always love your articles, and I generally agree with them. I would suggest, as in an email I received, they change the name to the "Foreskins" to better represent their community, paying tribute to the dick heads in Congress. And here is some other political correctness to consider:

I agree with our Native American population . I am highly insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay, nay. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward. Let's also ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians.

If your shorts are in a wad because the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns. The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60's alive. Gone. It's offensive to us white folk.The New York Yankees offend the Southern population . Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No! There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many young men's lives.

I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.

Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged . We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates!

Finally, let us address those teams that clearly send the wrong message to our children. The San Diego Chargers promote irresponsible fighting or even spending habits. Wrong message to our children . The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants promote obesity, a growing childhood epidemic. Wrong message to our children.The Cincinnati Reds promote downers/barbiturates. Wrong message to our children .The Milwaukee Brewers - well that goes without saying..... Wrong message to our children.

So, there you go. We need to support any legislation to rectify this travesty, because the government will likely become involved with this issue, as they should. Just the kind of thing the do-nothing congress loves....

As a die hard Oregon State fan, my wife and I, with all of this in mind, might also suggest changing the name of the Oregon State women's athletic teams to something other than the 'Beavers'.

And finally, I would suggest that in 2014 and 2016 the American voters change the names in the Senate and Presidency to something other than 'Democrat'.

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS: Europe Wants a Supercomputer Made From Smartphones.

[I]n the tablet and smartphone age, it was probably only a matter of time before someone decided to make supercomputers out of the engines of present-day digital life. The thinking goes that because ARM cores are designed to run on small smartphone and tablet batteries, a supercomputer built around them could yield more speed with less power. In an age when high-performance computing, or HPC, is often constrained by heat production and electricity consumption, that could mean a more scalable machine.

ARM is an acronym within an acronym; it stands for Acorn (the original manufacturer) RISC [Reduced Instruction Set Computing] Machine and is essentially an architectural standard for the computing hardware inside your smart phone.

The 'Wheels Within Wheels' title is just a recognition of the 'circularity' of computing architectures over my lifetime: from small, simple computers to big, centralized computers; to personal computers; to networks of personal computers (the 'cloud'); to smart phones; to networks of smart phones.

Round and round she goes, and where she stops nobody knows....

SEND IN THE CLOWNS DEMOCRATS....

YOU MUST BE KIDDING! Taxpayers (i.e., we) paid $5.6M for climate-change games.

Unfortunately, no. It's simply more proof that progressives live in an alternate reality.

THE TRUTH ABOUT GUNS: New Jersey law would ban many common hunting rifles. If I lived in New Jersey, I could soon become a felon, as my old (~60 years, as my Dad gave it to me on my 10th birthday) Remington semi-automatic .22 would now be an 'assault weapon' because it has a greater than 10-round tubular magazine.

Interestingly, my new Henry .22 lever-action rifle, also with a greater than 10-round capacity, would not be banned (and I can fire it nearly as fast as I could the semi-automatic). And I can easily make a 'speed loader' for it out of a piece of 3/8" I.D. plastic or metal tubing.

The anti-gun nuts are indeed 'nuts'.

UPDATE: PowerLine notes that it's a litmus test of sorts for NJ Gov. Chris Christie.

RESIGN. Just resign.

AMBASSADOR CHRIS STEVENS was unavailable for comment.

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.