Maggie's Farm

Pic of Maggie's Farm office hours via Theo

The folks at Friends of Maine Mountains asked me to get this link right: Seems like lots of folks are getting out of the wind/solar scam market.

Some booze ads Capt. Tom liked

I like those real-time billboards.

More health care waivers

Tiger: Mortgage interest deduction may do more harm than good

Probably true. But getting rid of it, however slowly, would be like taking candy from a baby - and would lower home values since it is a de facto subsidy.

California's Parent Revolution - 'Triggering' school reform in Compton.

Great stuff.

Baby Aspirin Linked to Reduced Cancer Deaths

Some chance they reduce heart attacks too. Nothing to lose by taking one.

The Lightbulb Nazi has changed his mind

That's good. But it's a bit late. They already stopped making them in the USA.

EU Ref on Cancun:

... the really interesting issue is how scares so easily become exploited by regulators to pursue their specific interests – in what we came to call the doctrine of the "beneficial crisis" - and how slow people are to recognise the dynamic. This, with huge amusement we see in a WUWT post, where there is this observation:

What really strikes us is the fact that all this Copenhagen/Cancun stuff has nothing to do with the Climate, or saving the World. It's about political positioning, money, and plain old fascism cult promotion.

Well, you don't say! And if this is not a recognition of "Ursine subarboreal toilet activity" of the type identified by Dellers, I don't know what is.

The odd thing though is that so many of the clever little politics wonks you meet don't understand the scare dynamic either. They either ignore the scares or take the so-called scientific agenda at face value. They rarely appreciate that the "scare" or "beneficial crisis" is a means of institutional queue-jumping, a means of by-passing institutional inertia and democratic processes.

As always, look at a scare and you will find that science is only the dressing. At the heart, you will find it's the politics stoopid. It always is.

What's the next big thing? Blogging about blogging at the Other McCain's ‘A Communicational Schematic That Is Superior to Anything Else in Existence’

We are all traffic whores, cybersluts. We're disgusting.

Bill Gross on how to fix the economy

"Country Dumb":

Just finished watching the TV show Sarah Palin's Alaska. Stunned at the political brilliance of the concept.

I have lived in the South. Gotta watch out for those country dumb types.

Englishman: Thank goodness Climate Change is the number one priority for the Scottish Parliament. Related, in Scotland: Pupils banned from playing in the snow

HUD pushing low money down mortgages again

Worked out great last time. BTW, what's so great about home ownership?

Tim Blair tries to buy a used car

All the usual tricks of the trade.

Gaza growing rich on aid dollars

If they wanted to, the Palestinians could try to create a real economy like Israel did. They seem to prefer the victim role. Money for nuthin and the virgins for free.

Babalu:

Ever since travel restrictions to Cuba were relaxed by the Obama administration, more people from the U.S. are traveling to Cuba making the this country one of the regime's largest source of tourists and subsequently tourist dollars second only to Canada.

But...