“From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that 7 million New Yorkers are fed each day without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.”

John Holland, scientist, Santa Fe Institute (h/t Carpe's Quotations of the day on the miracle of the market)

Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the cojones?

Golden State's green jobs bust

Food-free food

Gender confusion hits nadir

Study suggests ‘snowball Earth’ was real and was reversed by ‘An ultra-high carbon dioxide atmosphere’

40% of NHS docs would not recommend their own hospitals

Starnes: Day of doom is here

Colorada Dems move to ban hunting firearms

The forgotten Barbara Jordan Commission on Immigration

Sharp Personal Income Drop Is Bottom-Up Economics Failure

The slow slide toward state run media

 Just a simple cover page layout

A Psalm of David when he was in
the wilderness of Judah. (Psalm 63)

h/t, Moonbattery

Photo: gym poster, NYC. She needs to gain a little weight. Too bony is not sexy, even in NYC. Cool shoes, though.

The Joylessness of Cooking

Tackling Asian Privilege;

McGill University is one of the most elite schools in North America, and to walk through their campus is to be transported into a pastoral Chinatown. This is true of all Ivy League schools. Asian Americans have the highest education level of any racial demographic and they’re also the wealthiest.

and

Asians are overrepresented in science, medicine, law, finance, education, and virtually everything that generates wealth. They are drastically overrepresented in Nobel Prizes. These arrogant Orientals flaunt the racist moniker “model minority.”

It's darn funny

Speaking of Asians, look what Ravi can do

Holy smoke. Show me a white guy who can do that

Gullible Nation - Those who fall for sequester scare-mongering need a lesson on government wastefulness.

Snyder Declares Detroit Fiscal Emergency

Cannot self-govern, require a dictator. That is not American.

Via Vanderleun, The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class

Dem Caddell: Obama is the closest thing to Nixon we've seen in 40 years

Brainless pundit: Harold Myerson Authors A Fireworks Display of Remarkable Unintelligence

Liar, or ignorant?

Walsh: The Battle of Bob Woodward

Bloomberg: Forget debt

Texan Schoolgirl Punished for Not Pledging Allegiance to Mexico

College Presidents’ Views on Racial Preferences

This week Europe blew up. The media haven't caught up yet, because they are what they are. But the markets are catching up fast

Euroland is a joke. It's Hitler's dream, without the guns but with his Moslem friends. Or The Holy Roman Empire. The quicker the Brits get out of there, the better.

The Press Officially Abdicates Its Role - And turn into de facto administration advisers.

Teachers outnumbered in schools by administrators, support staff in many states, study shows

The B-Movie Presidency With A-List Media Compliance

Andrew Understood What Republicans May Never Learn

Lowry: The unpopular party

Woodward’s Apostasy - The hero of Watergate becomes a Beltway villain.

He captions "Out of bounds, no avalanche control, 2500 vert in one shot (not for me, I had to
stop) telemark and hike out to next bowl..."

We have done out of bounds in the past. Always interesting.

Mark Steyn: Pink is now the colour of conformity:

In Thomas Arnold’s day, the object was to punish bullies, and teach their victims to stand up to them. Now a defensive and enfeebled educational establishment lets the bullies get on with it, and Dalton McGuinty’s ministry has decided everyone else should be taught how to be victims — or, at any rate, members of approved victimological identity groups. Gays? Sure. Muslims? You betcha. Gay Muslims? We’ll cross that Rainbow Bridge when we get to it. For the moment, let’s stay focused: Bullying is merely the sharp end of “heterosexism,” as the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission calls it. Chief Commissar Hall defines heterosexism as “the assumption that heterosexuality is superior and preferable,” which will come as news to anyone who’s had sex with me.

The Nanny Doctor: Smoothing the Frictions Between Parent and Nanny

For some, lessons of boyhood include learning to shoot and hunt

Golly gee. That's news

Canadian Supreme Court Kills Last Hope for Free Speech

Chicago public schools will start sex education in kindergarten

Why Bob Woodward's Fight With The White House Matters to You

The White House is, as always, confident of its strategy: Scare people
as much as possible and let the media take care of the rest

All Of This Whining About The Sequester Shows Why America Is Doomed

Bloomberg's America: Nanny Mayor Funnels Millions to Local Races Across Country

Republicans need to go negative

Sultan: Capitalism: A Hate Story

Who needs Switzerland?

My friend gives this caption: “Headwaters Chutes" at Moonlight Basin, some hiking/traversing along ridge, occasional ropes needed to hold onto. Altitude around 11500,' up above the clouds.

Damn! Gnarly skiing.

Just learned about it today. Ipe wood. Denser than mahogany or teak. Good for outdoor decking and furniture. It is not cheap - but neither is teak. Manufactured wood is cheaper, but not as pleasing.

I was told that you need plenty of spare drill bits to work with it, because it burns them out. Nails do not work with it at all. Nice to know that the rain forest is good for something besides parrots, tree sloths, monkeys, anacondas, and the nekked jungle indians with their blow-guns that the anthropologists need to study for their PhD theses.

One of the main reasons we care about the South American jungles is because that is where most of our songbirds live during our winter. Even just as south as Mexico, it is odd to see our summer bird friends clambering around palms in the winter.

Another one of my skiing pals sent me some pics from a trip to Big Sky last week. His iPhone pics are so cool that I think I'll post a few of them over the next few days. I've skiied around the west a little bit - Whistler-Blackcomb, Telluride. My kids have done more of that than I have. Big Sky has always been on Mrs. BD's list. She is no expert but she lacks timidity. We Yankee skiers are idiots with serious, deep powder - we love it but we can't really handle it. We're used to skiing on an ice-like material that we call "snow."

My friend's comment: Big Couloir at Big Sky, sign in with ski patrol, required to ski w partner.

For scale, that's him skiing down the couloir. An ant. Ballsy skiing in dramatic settings, around 11,000 -12,000'. I'd take that couloir on, but not without significant trepidation. A little fear and challenge is fun, right? I can ski, but can I ski?

Apologies for our technical glitches lately - we seem to have a poltergeist in the works.

Image via Mitchell's A Warning from Ronald Reagan

Hong Kong: Apartments So Small They Can Only Be Photographed From Above

Want Cheaper Food? End the Ethanol Mandate

A Declaration of Financial Independence -  Emergency fund or investment? Do I need to diversify my retirement accounts? And how to save money on food?

"If schoolteachers were overwhelmingly male and girls were suffering as a result..."

Christians Are Now World’s Most Persecuted Religion

Subway founder: If I had tried to start Subway today, it would not exist

One Reason the Press is Always So Statist

If you don't like our politics, then leave

Obamacare supporter upset with her new rates

Global Warming to Endanger Breakfast by 2080!!!

BOB WOODWARD: Obama Is Showing 'A Kind Of Madness I Haven't Seen In A Long Time'

Bob Woodward: 'Very Senior' White House Official Told Me I'd 'Regret' Sequester Comments

Richard Nixon seems like a fluffy kitten compared to this crowd.

President Obama’s Legacy: Government Greed

Scalia Blasts Racial Entitlements

Why Do So Many People Think They Need Gluten-Free Foods?

Sultan:  Hollywood is Dead

7 Reasons Why Coffee Is Good For You

Bike helmet laws fail

The shale revolution is creating thousands of new millionaires from the billions being paid in royalties to private landowners

Lucky farmers and ranchers. It is like the Beverly Hillbillies

America's Red State Growth Corridors - Low-tax, energy-rich regions in the heartland charge ahead as economies on both coasts sing the blues.

To Fix Healthcare, Let 100 Solutions Bloom

Would they deport this family if they were from Mexico?

It's not easy to be a legal immigrant. They should have waded across the Rio Grande instead.

Trying to terrify the population with the sequester: TSA Doomsday, Detained immigrants released; officials cite sequester cuts

So why not let the German family go free?

Related: Apocalypse Fatigue

From Tom Sowell's Shepherds and Sheep:

What Cass Sunstein does not tell us is what sort of creatures, other than people, are going to override our mistaken decisions for us. That is the key flaw in the theory and agenda of the left.

Implicit in the wide range of efforts on the left to get government to take over more of our decisions for us is the assumption that there is some superior class of people who are either wiser or nobler than the rest of us.

Yes, we all make mistakes. But do governments not make bigger and more catastrophic mistakes?

Hey, Tom. I'd like to add the point that I am wiser and nobler than anybody in government.

Why you're feeling broke.

He blames his own generation, at least in part.

h/t, Vanderleun

Image via Eratosthenes on Blame

Mediterranean Diet Cuts Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds

Is it the wine or the olive oil? My theory, it's the garlic! My approach is to only believe "studies show" when I like what they say.

Yahoo CEO bans telecommuting

Anthropologists Gone Wild:

Anthropology used to be a science just like any other. Today it is a stomping ground for dogmatic lesbians and socialists with no balls. How did it get all the way over there?

Don't Be Afraid to Stereotype Strangers

“The minimum wage for the self-employed is $0.00″

Why Unions Want a Higher Minimum Wage - Labor contracts are often tied to the law—and it reduces the competition for lower-paying jobs.

Chuckie Schumer Pushes Universal Gun Registration After Promising Background Checks Won’t Create Gun Registry

What Scares Sequester Opponents the Most? That Spending Reductions Won’t Hurt At All

Earth to New York Times: Please Show Us these “Deep Spending Cuts” You Keep Writing About

Try building a house in California

MSNBC 'All But a Bona Fide Organ of State Propaganda'

Chris Matthews Offers To Help Hillary’s 2016 Campaign: ‘We’ll Get You In There’

My Mom loved the Cape. At the funeral, my cousin Dave recalled how Mom would hand us a bucket and a clam rake at low tide, and send us out into the mud flats for Quahogs. Later, a clam-packed New England Clam Chowda for supper.

It's not Tuna.

We go in and out of Sushi phases in the BD family (I like to call it "bait"), but for me, sushi is just an excuse to eat wasabi, ginger, and soy sauce, so I would never really know what the fish is. But the oily anal leakage? Happily, I have been spared that.

For all of the years that I have kept records, flocks of northbound blackbirds (generally Grackles and Redwings at first) have arrived here between Feb. 14 and Feb 16.

This year, they appeared yesterday - Feb 24. That's a record in my book.

I do not understand why more people are not worried about global cooling.

Also, re birds, seen today: a happy little Golden-Crowned Kinglet.

At APOD, car cams of the Russian meteor

How Hollywood De-Christianized Johnny Cash

PhD Problems: Wannabe Professors Need Not Apply

Most Miserable U.S. Cities Are Surprisingly All Liberal Cities

Why Detroit Still Matters

Bloomberg's ban prohibits 2-liter soda with your pizza and some nightclub mixers

The (low) wages of Obamacare

Douthat:  A World Without Work

Hillary to Pocket $200K Per Speech

Via Dino:

Prediction in 2000:

Winter with strong frosts and lots of snow like 20 years
ago will cease to exist at our latitudes,’ said scientist Mojib Latif of
the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg.

Explanation in 2013:

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research sees
the hard winters as being the result of global warming: Icy Arctic winds
will be triggered by it and reach all the way to Europe unhindered due
to climate change in the Arctic.