politics
So what’s the over/under on when I’m added to the Terror Watch List?
FBI adds ‘preppers’ to potential terrorists list
No word yet if they’re asking to track people (like me) who are bulking up their Earthquake (or Fire) Preparedness Kits in California yet. But I’m sure that’s coming soon.
If I disappear over Christmas, you know where to look. (Assuming I’m flying.)
Amazing …
I had always thought the line about “Bill Ayers wrote Dreams of My Father” was one of those things that conservative partisans said to belittle the President. Well, it turns out that Bill Ayers claims he did:
Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father
With video, at the link.
After a month …
Post-Christmas Linkpost
- How Superstars’ Pay Stifles Everyone Else. This is a fascinating article from the point of view of information presented. Its conclusions, however, fall flat. (This is a link to a NY Times article; they’ve gone behind a registration wall.)
- What makes the US health care system so expensive. A ten-part series (completed) that covers where the U.S. spends more than you’d expect on health care. If you pay attention, you can data that support my identification of the root causes: a demand for redundancy, and market distortions caused by government and insurance.
- Browns’ front office tells off a complaining fan in a 1974 letter.
- Newest supporter of marijuana legalization: Pat Robertson?
- Mars Movie: I’m Dreaming of a Blue Sunset. Spliced together from pictures taken by Opportunity.
- Counter-Terrorism: A Frustrating Shortage. Turns out that they’re short bomb builders, which is why intelligence agencies are so concerned about Mumbai II.
- British soldier took a shot to the head to save 10-year-old girl.
- What Do the ‘Holiday Terror Warning’ Targets Have in Common? “If you guessed that all of these are (a) places where large crowds gather, and (b) places where authorities have outlawed the otherwise legal carry of concealed weapons, you were right!”
- Census: Fast growth in states with no income tax.
- Public Education’s Silver Bullet. Terry Moe seems to think that the technology is available for a labor-reducing revolution in education.
Attack Ads, Circa 1800
h/t to Ace of Spades.
Linkpost, 10/19/2010
- Canada’s lax border.
- Bacteria ‘R’ Us. Very dense, but worth the effort. It makes the argument that we’re as much colonies of bacteria as anything else.
- Remember how I couldn’t believe that Martha Coakley was Massachusetts’ Attorney General? Well, the Republicans in that state didn’t nominate anyone to run against her. It turns out that there is a write-in candidate. This is not a full endorsement; just noting that this guy is not Alvin Greene, so should be better than Coakley.