• Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
• How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 – with WiFi Classroom
• How to Pack Smart for a Trip
• Foreign Aid Establishment Runs Scared
• Netanyahu’s peace plan – “Iran has made clear that it wants Israel destroyed. The mullahs don’t care how big Israel is. Their missiles are pointing at Tel Aviv, not Beit El. As for the international community, the Russians and Chinese have not been assisting Iran’s nuclear and missile programs for the past 15 years because there is no Palestinian state. They have been assisting Iran because they think a strong Iran weakens the US. And they are right. … In portraying Jews who live in mobile homes on barren hilltops in Judea and Samaria – rather than Iranian mullahs who test ballistic missile while enriching uranium and inciting genocide – as the greatest obstacle to peace, the Obama administration not only seeks to deflect attention away from its refusal to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. It is also setting Israel up as the fall guy who it will blame after Iran emerges as a nuclear power.”
• Hitler’s European Holocaust Helpers – “The Germans are responsible for the industrial-scale mass murder of 6 million Jews. But the collusion of other European countries in the Holocaust has received surprisingly little attention until recently. The trial of John Demjanjuk is set to throw a spotlight on Hitler’s foreign helpers.” – ht ALD
• Reduce Hot Water Use for Energy Savings
• The Phoenix Housing Boom
• The $9,000 Man – “I want to reduce my carbon footprint and save the planet from environmental disaster, so I am trying to date locally. Maintaining a five-to-ten mile date radius will save on the consumption of fossil fuels and eliminate hazardous mood-killing road rage that stems from driving long distances on Los Angeles freeways”
• Do People with Type 2 Always Deteriorate?
• Even MORE Bad Science: Triglycerides Predict Neuropathy – “what this study actually found is not more proof of the dangers of eating a high fat diet. What we have is instead more proof that diabetic complications are a associated with the excess consumption of carbohydrates. Which makes total sense since when people with diabetes eat excess carbohydrates they not only get high triglycerides, they get high blood sugars. ”
• Disconnected
• After FEC Eviscerates Bundling Disclosure Law, Only One Bundler Discloses
• Detroit to close 29 schools in the fall
• The California Scare Campaign – “Use of the word ‘experts’ is one of the great tells in journalism. It usually means something close to “those people I cherry-picked to agree with my thesis.” It is an artificial and scientific-sounding reputation-enhancer, one used in stark contrasts to the way that critics of said thesis will be portrayed in the same article.”
• The Labelizers – Bonus Clip – “The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is 1) a vegan activist group, not a bunch of concerned doctors, and 2) comprised of annoying, self-appointed nutrition-nannies who think it’s their job to tell the rest of us how to eat. (Dr. Mike Eades wrote about them recently on his blog.)”
• The Revolt of the Masses
• Lifehacker – EeeRotate Orients Your Laptop Screen for Easy Reading – Screen
• Judge Apparently Thinks He Can Tell Newspaper Which Photos It Can Use
• Identity Politics And Sotomayor: The judge’s thinking is representative of the Democratic Party’s powerful identity-politics wing.
• Panasonic Launches New Vandal-Proof Network Dome Camera – WV-NW484S
• Autobiography Of BS Pt. 2: The World’s Most Elaborate Duck Trap
• Top 10 digital nomad writers (including Yours Truly!)
• Missing Liberaltarians
• “Marijuana legalized two days after its advocates put on neckties” – ht Gongol
• Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Get out of your cubicle, and get those cuticles dirty! – “But what distinguishes Crawford from his predecessors is how far blue-collar work, both in numbers and prestige, has fallen since even the ’70s. Shop Class surveys an economic landscape where everyone must go to college or else be viewed as suspect, stupid, and/or unemployable. The massification of higher education has also created a new vocational pitfall: I’ve got a degree; therefore, I should be doing smart, clean, fun, and well-paid work. Except for clean, these adjectives can be scarce in cubicle alley.”
• San Francisco Quickie Tour
• Lost Vegas
• Motorists’ Group: ‘Watch Your Wallet’ in These 10 States – “Jim Baxter, President of the National Motorists Association, said ‘It is not exactly a well kept secret that many traffic laws, enforcement practices, and traffic courts are more about generating revenue and political posturing, than they are about traffic safety. During holidays, like the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, we’re bombarded with messages about intensified enforcement, ‘click it or ticket,’ and horrendous fines when in fact most vacation-related traffic accidents are caused by inattention, distraction and fatigue. However, these are accident causes that don’t generate much in the way of government revenue, so instead our highways are overrun with unmarked police cars and ticket cameras.'”
• Find Speed Traps
• Microsoft arms half-wit developers with PHP handgun: PHP is legal. But it shouldn’t be
• Staedtler Antibacterial Ballpoint Pen, Two-Pack
• Peace with China, and Other Suprises: A dispatch from Beijing – from the comments: “I have lived in China for over 2 years now (yes, quite possibly the least compatible place with my libertarian beliefs, I know) and will say with 100% certainty that everything the Chinese government says is propaganda-based and intended to make the people feel good about themselves.”