Via Washington Reb (whence our morning artwork), at The Lost Art of Self-Preservation (for Women), the blogger begins:
I wrote only one post last week, and that was deliberate. I had begun to feel as though all of my posts were reactions to things I found frustrating in the culture, and negative reactions at that. I am, I realize, a natural pessimist, but I genuinely believe - no matter how crackpot-y it sounds - that we are headed toward some kind of real crisis in this country that will be long and messy and extremely unpleasant and in which most of our vulnerabilities will be exposed and tested and for which most of us are totally unprepared. I don't know what it will be exactly, it may be a number of events coalescing into a greater Crisis, but I've felt it coming for awhile now. The mood of the general population has turned sour and, the news seems full of articles questioning whether this or that is foreshadowing of the coming unspecified (though usually economic) apocalypse.
She needs to lighten up and to realize that there is nothing new under the sun.
Saying the wrong thing in Austria: Yet Another trial.
And more from speech defendant Elisabeth Wolff: The Time That is Given Us
Through the past, darkly: The '60s at 50, blurred
A Family Reunion during WW ll
Doctors beginning to avoid Medicare patients
Outpatient Medicare treatment has become charity care. We linked this solution last week.
Gateway: Job-Killer Obama Sets Aside 187,000 Miles For Overpopulated Polar Bears
I think the bears need sex education in grade school
Elderly white women from Iowa as terrorists
You can tell them by those fish stickers on their Tauruses
Boot: Journalism That Knows No Shame
Wikileaks – Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack
NY Post: CAIR's Jihad
TNR: To Mobilize the Indies, We Need Stronger Unions
Brilliant idea. Kill more jobs, make more people dependents.
Obama's boredom problem
Since when is boredom a sign of genius? Boredom is an attitude - and the sign of an inactive mind.
Ten Things You Need to Know About DREAM Act Amnesty
Karma: SEIU Kicks Members’ Kids to the Curb
American minorities have a GOP problem:
...the GOP has no racial challenge. The challenge belongs to America's minority communities and to the remnant in America who have an appreciation for the United States' historic greatness and a devotion to maintaining the freedom that allowed that greatness to emerge. The challenge for the latter is to expand their appreciation and devotion to all segments of the American populace; the challenge for the former is to shed the blinders that have kept them tethered to a statist, collectivist philosophy and to recognize that, while very far from perfect, the GOP has a much better chance than the Democrats of restoring the American commitment to personal freedom, free enterprise, traditional culture, and economic prosperity.
Bad news: Pa. guv: You cannot protect yourself
But he has a bodyguard and a cop on duty. I have only myself.
Jay Ambrose: Good motives can produce bad results
Duh. He's been slow to learn the Law of Unintended Consequences - and the Iron Law of Incentive
The Euro bailout plan is running down
