Saturday, July 23, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
TGIF links
Camelot scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail, in Lego.
Parasitic Wasp Employs Zombie Ladybug to Guard Cocoon.
Gallery of car hood ornaments.
How to Bake Cookies on Your Dashboard.
Eighty-year-old arrested for gardening naked.
Animated Gifs of Babies Tasting Lemons for the First Time.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Unexpectedly - initial jobless clains up to 418K
CNBC: New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, a government report showed on Thursday, pointing to a labor market that is struggling to regain momentum after job growth faltered in the last two months.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Federal employees more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired
Federal employees' job security is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Wynn: business community is scared to death of the weird political philosophy of Obama
HotAir's Green Room has comments and links: Wynn - "Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth. It is the truth. And that’s true of Democratic businessman and Republican businessman, and I am a Democratic businessman."
Meanwhile, in the South China Sea: “Forget the US”
J.E. Dyer: Senator James Webb (D-VA) told David Gregory on Meet the Press three weeks ago that he thinks the US is facing a “Munich moment” with China in Southeast Asia. While no exact analogy is on the horizon to the original Munich moment – Neville Chamberlain proclaiming “peace in our time” after agreeing with Hitler to the partition of Czechoslovakia – Webb’s larger point is that China’s career of aggression in the South China Sea needs checking.
The South China Sea dispute is about whether the US will enforce an international “rule of law” environment in which longstanding conventions are honored, smaller nations are not imposed upon, and threats to shipping are not allowed to gain the upper hand.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Monday links
Snails migrate by getting eaten by birds and pooped out elsewhere.
Stop monkeying around and pass me a leaf.
New Method for Making Human-Based Gelatin. I didn’t even realize there was an old method.
Teachers' unions vs. cyber revolution in American education
WSJ: the unions can weather the Republican attacks of 2011. But the real threats to their power are more subtle, slowly developing—and potent.
SCOTUS again rejects most decisions by 9th Circuit
19 of 26 decisions: the 9th Circuit was often out of step even with the high court's liberal justices.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Were the Mumbai terror attacks carried out by paid criminals?
Times of India: Has money begun playing a bigger role than ideology? And are the motivations and anger of fringe groups being translated into action executed by criminals, sometimes so lowly that they are conveniently anonymous?
Antidote to O'care: 24/7 Access to MD via Phone/Video
Carpe Diem: market-based, consumer-driven, convenient and affordable health care delivery as an alternative to government-managed Obamacare.
