Maggie's Farm

I hope our News Junkie will be able to get back from the north country tomorrow, because we are tiring of covering the links for him. Will stagger on just one more day.

Vanderleun: What I learned from Avatar

Getting old and sick? 2010 is the right year to die in. Mankiw thinks we should keep it this way. So do I: Every prosperous family means one less poor family.

Solar Farm Held Up for Two Dozen Tortoises. I'm with the Desert Tortoises. Solar is a subsidized joke. Give me my nuke plants, and leave the ancient reptiles alone.

For Some in Japan, Home Is a Tiny Plastic Bunk. Their unemployment rate is at least half what ours has been this fall.

A new carry revolver: The Rhino

A Democrat right wing racist? Nobody can take a joke these days.

What every young man needs to know about fighting and violence. The ladies count on us guys to protect them and to apply force when needed.

What did Palin do as gov of Alaska? Lots of things.

There's no cure for stupid. Mortgages and the people who cannot pay them.

Coyote: Congress and Obama Enticing States Further into Bankruptcy

Is Environmentalism a Religion? h/t, Driscoll

Or is Obama a religion?  Joan Walsh of Salon Finds Criticism of Obama "Traitorous"

Fineman: Obama’s Health-Care Gamble, And why he may come to regret it.

Re Napolitano: her potential is almost unlimited. Really?

Reason: Upholding the Right Not To Be Offended - The First Amendment protects even the ugliest forms of speech.

At Yale, they are having to turn students away from the Great Books course. Smart kids still want to know the good hard stuff.

Goldberg: Capitalism Fingered as Fiend of the Past Decade - Reducing “capitalism” to its alleged sins.  One quote:

Every good thing capitalism helps produce — from singing careers to cures for diseases to staggering charity —  is credited to some other sphere of our lives. Every problem with capitalism, meanwhile, is laid at her feet. Except the problems with capitalism — greed, theft, etc. — aren’t capitalism’s fault, they’re humanity’s. Socialist countries have greedy thieves, too.

Free markets are in disrepute these days, particularly by the people running Washington. For them, government is the solution and capitalism is the problem. If they have their way over the next decade, they won’t cure what allegedly ails capitalism — people will still steal and lie — but they will impede everything that makes capitalism great. And that will be bad for everyone, even NPR.

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