Still catching up with Good Stuff du Jour after my long weekend away. It may be TMI, but I do feel the responsibility to put these good things out there anyway, and will give myself a break in the morning:
Photo: Evil imperialist American soldier at the opening of a swimming pool in Baghdad.
A bad economy? Coyote puts our American standard of living into some perspective.
Patriotism and American Exceptionalism. That's my view too. Related: Be a patriot and get a job and support your family: Driscoll
The latest Just Ask Me from Surber. It's a good schtick.
"For many years, I was a charcoal snob..." Prof Bainbridge
Like us, interested in the Scottish Enlightenment
Like us, interested in the illusion of time. By the way, what time is it?
Related to time: The affluent have less spare time. Duh. They do things.
It's not just the NYT. Arianna is upset with Obama too. Sounds just like conservatives' upset with McCain. But do I give a damn about what Arianna thinks? Not really. Related: How Obama really "put his career on the line" re Iraq. Sheesh. Related: Ripping off the Hillary band-aid. Related: Obama's flips don't matter.
Economists support McCain's economics. Related, from Kristol's Where's Murph?
McCain is frustrated. He thinks he can beat Obama (politicians are pretty confident in their own abilities). But he isn’t convinced his campaign can beat Obama’s campaign. He knows that his three-month general election head start was largely frittered away. He understands that his campaign has failed to develop an overarching message. Above all, McCain is painfully aware that he is being diminished by his own campaign.
This last point is galling. McCain has been a major figure in American public life for quite a while. And yet his campaign has made him seem somehow smaller. Obama is a first-term senator with no legislative achievements to speak of. His campaign has helped him seem bigger, more presidential.
UK Updates: Knife crime is Britain's shame. Also, Brown advises Eat all of your food. But how does that work with their war on obesity? Also, what do teachers do these days in England?
Despite the trashing and thrashing that Bush's minimalist Social Security reform plan received, many government employees are exempt from Social Security taxes. Most teachers, for example. How that happened I do not know, but it's a raw deal for us regular folks in the private sector.
The worst Economist article of all time.
Ask what the government can make you do for your country...? Related: A Nuremberg rally? I agree with whoever said that this is getting creepy.
Why the heck is California doing this, if there is no global warming? Is everybody crazy out there? What's the deal?
Jihadis with American police records.
Other ways that a bad credit rating hurts you.
New moves to ban race preferences. CSM
Insty: "EXPLAINING TO THE A.P. THAT Yahoo! is not the government."
Dr. Tim Ball further debunks the warmists. Why do I continue to expect reason to prevail?
