Saturday, November 29

• "From The One comes the Change" So for Barry, when did it all become about Barry? @ The K. Ryan James blog

  Obama: "Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and foremost,€It comes from me. That's my job, is to provide a vision in terms of where we are going, and to make sure, then, that my team is implementing."

• Victor Davis Hanson: The Hysterical Style @ on National Review Online Baby Boomers — the ungrateful-est generation — can’t help swinging from panic to frenzy.

• No more Mr. Nice Jew: Seraphic Secret: Jew-Hunting in Mumbai "If they kill one Jew, Israel must retaliate and kill a hundred terrorists. If a Jew is murdered by Islamo Nazis, then every Islamo Nazi on planet earth must know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he or she is a big fat target."

• Spree Terrorism

• Best blog by an aviator:From the cockpit this is your captain thinking:

  "The wife of my youth is in the back and she is happy.... The sun is barely above the eastern horizon as the tower clears us for take-off. Everything that is important to me and 1,000 other people is in the back of this aluminum bird. I say a little prayer as I push the thrust levers forward... Oh, Lord, please do not let me screw this up. " - Flight Level 390: Thanksgiving Lift 2008

  [Every post a gem. Wander the archives and you'll see what I mean.]

• Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog brings you the Schmidt Pain Index (Which Sting Hurts the Worst?) "2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue." (It gets worse.)

• The Puppetmaster - Bill Roggio's penetrating analysis: Mumbai attack differs from past terror strikes @ The Long War Journal

• On the web since 1995. "Puzzled by Posh? Confounded by Cattycorner? Baffled by Balderdash?" The Word Detective

• O woe is us! A Dismal Retail Season. Only $10 Billion More Than Last Year @ Blue Crab Boulevard

• Belmont Club » Both ends and the middle

  If India doesn't hit back hard, the "teen gunmen" will be back. Ultimately fixing Pakistan will require more effort than anyone is willing to invest. Obama's strategic problem --€” not Petraeus'€™ --€” is that Obama has worked harder than anyone to discredit a sustained Global War on Terror when a multi-decade effort is the only thing that will work.

• Cool Tools: How to Build an Igloo

• Unqualified Reservations: Patchwork 3: what we have and what's so bad about it

  Populists voters are people who genuinely believe in democracy. They believe that the way Washington works is that the people elect a President, who "runs the country." .... The fact of the matter is that Washington as it exists today, 21st-century Washington, is designed to resist populist politics in roughly the same way that a lighthouse is designed to resist waves. The entire thrust of 20th-century American government has been to separate public policy from politics, ie, to eliminate the menace of democracy.

• George Orwell's Journal entry from this day in 1938: "One egg."

• "We were shocked to see a naked woman in her late 20's running along the street and screaming for help."American Thinker: A million stories in the naked city

• "We believe that conservative principles and policies need not be grounded in a specific set of supernatural claims. "Secular Right

• Thinking The Unthinkable | The Return Of Scipio

  "The victory would be as complete as that over the Nazis and the Japanese. Like them, those who incinerated Washington would themselves cease to exist, their every center of power annihilated. Many nations simply would vanish. No peace treaty ending the war would be necessary for there would be no remaining foe left to sign one. Islam’s last act of terror against America would result in its own annihilation."

• "Beer and Individuality Linked"@ House of Eratosthenes (And in my refrigerator, too.)

• Scrabble Slices @ space invaders