Wednesday, November 19, 2014

PELOSI: Gruber wrote computer code, not Obamacare. And if you believe that, then surely you believe that then-Speaker Pelosi read the bill she voted for....
UPDATE: The higher education bubble.



As my wife has suggested, perhaps it's time to raise the voting age -- to 35.
IN CALIFORNIA: Berkeley, San Francisco consider plans to put climate-change warning labels on gas pumps. I have a better idea: ban gas stations within the city limits.

And then there's that ugly fossil-fuel produced electricity. They should also mandate that all electricity consumed within the city limits be produced by renewable wind and solar energy....
EBOLA NURSE Kaci Hickox would appreciate it if you stopped calling her that. Sorry, but my sympathy meter is pegged at zero. She earned the appellation and it is well-deserved.
BIONIC BIRD: A Christmas gift for your cats.
HOW ABOUT spending $10 million on a video game about escaping fat government? That, at least, might actually be worthwhile.
MYSTERY VIRUS NON-EPIDEMIC: It can't be an epidemic if the CDC won't comment.
MASSACHUSETTS TOWN pushes total ban on all tobacco, nicotine products. But will they ban marijuana?
THIS WILL BE INTERESTING: SpaceX to attempt Falcon 9 booster landing on floating platform.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

YES, LET'S PANIC ABOUT EBOLA. That way we won't have to panic about something far more dangerous in the long run.
OBAMA LOYALTY PAYS OFF: Keystone XL pipeline bill fails in Senate by single vote in blow to soon-to-be-former Sen. Mary Landrieu. Instapundit translates: she was underbussed.
INNOCENCE IS NOT A DEFENSE: Hang him now; we can try him later....
JON GRUBER: 'Seniors do a terrible job choosing' health care plans. Uh, Jon, did it ever occur to you that it might be you doing a terrible job of choosing health care plans?

Oh, wait ... never mind ... you went to Harvard so you're smart.
GLOBAL WARMING: soon with 50% more lightning. Um, first you have to have warming....
GOV. MOONBEAM to challenge Hillary in 2016? Bring on the popcorn.
THE [LIBERTARIAN] FORCE IS STRONG in these young millenials.
GLOBAL WARMING causes Lake Superior to freeze weeks earlier than normal.

The reason, of course, is that global warming is letting all the hot out and the world is getting colder as a result. It's like leaving a window open in the middle of winter.
AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE THROWN AWAY EVERY THREE YEARS: The Surprising Complexity of Old-School Calculators.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, everything was correct.
HUMANITIES: doomed to lose? Pretty much, yes.