A Tribute to The Mead of Skyrim

If you play Skyrim, you'll appreciate this.

UK tax dollars at work

The "Ponytail Shape Equation", when calculated using the Rapunzel Number and a measure of the curliness of hair can be used to predict the shape of any ponytail.

California's oppressed government employee community

Parking attendants at the DWP average $74,408 a year; nationally, the average salary for this position is $21,250.

Advice Goddess says, "I'll be working in a donut shop at 90 to pay the parking attendant's pension."

via @iowahawkblog.

WV - Three Coal Plants Closing Due to EPA Regs

Follows an announcement last month that six plants in OH, PA, and MD would also be retired.

Mark Steyn: The Church of Obama

Obama goes Henry VIII on the Church’s medieval ass.

"The Obamacare bill contained 700 references to the secretary “shall,” another 200 to the secretary “may,” and 139 to the secretary “determines.” So the secretary may and shall determine pretty much anything she wants, as the Obamaphile rubes among the Catholic hierarchy are belatedly discovering.  In my latest book, I cite my personal favorite among the epic sweep of Commissar Sebelius’s jurisdictional authority:

“The Secretary shall develop oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance.”

Before Obama’s Act of Supremacy did the English language ever have need for such a phrase? “Tooth-level surveillance”: from the Declaration of Independence to dentured servitude in a mere quarter-millennium"