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Morning Whip, Mar. 8, 2010

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SECTION ONE: The Word:
I'm sort of like a news feed, but slower, buggier, and much, much quirkier . . .
SECTION TWO: Things That Amuse Me:
Travel:
Cruise Experts Pick Their Top 10 Cruise Destinations

Sports:
Royals' Gordon out three to four weeks because of broken thumb
UMKC Defeats NDSU in Overtime
SDSU Tops IPFW in Quarterfinal Action
Jackrabbits roll into women's semifinals
Lady Vols wrap up SEC championship; Summitt follows with a song
IPFW Men Down South Dakota State
SDSU offense erupts at Air Force
Jacks fall in tournament opener to IPFW
ORU Survives in Overtime Against NDSU
Shooting woes doom SDSU men
Jackrabbit women win by 41
Monday Musings: Summit League edition

Science Fiction and Writing:
Is that supposed to happen? or How I fixed my first novel
Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Ignore Deadlines
Top 10 Theoretical Megastructures
"I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done"

Science, technology, and space:
Scientists find why "sunshine" vitamin D is crucial

Miscellany (amusing things not fitting above, or below):
Sandra Bullock Steals the Show
Modern Etiquette: Do the obese really deserve contempt? -- Or, do chronically normal-weight people deserve it, instead?
Sandra Bullock: Right-Wing Extremist?

SECTION THREE: Politics: The neverending battle against blithering idiocy:
People doing potentially good things (including sightings of politicians doing something less than totally idiotic):
Internet Lays Foundation for GOP Rebirth
Take the Town Halls to Washington-Time to go to DC -- "If members of Congress won't come to their constituents, their constituents will come to them."

The cure for blithering idiocy: freedom and individual liberty (yeah, I know--ooh, ick, philosophy!):
Would Reagan vote for Sarah Palin?


The reality of President Obama and his entire Administration as blithering idiots:
Obama to push White House vision for NASA in April -- The Shoot, Ready, Aim Presidency . . .

Other blithering idiots at large making life difficult for regular folks:
Entitled Students
Four in five believe Web access a fundamental right

Opposition Research: because blithering idiocy can be dangerous, especially when organized into idiotic groups with idiotic ideologies:
Big Government Is No Victim
Sample Dialogue to Refute “She’s a quitter!” nonsense from Lefty parrots
Answering the ‘Quitter’ Charge – 4 Sample Dialogues
Things About The Left That Mystify -- It's not easy for rational people to understand what motivates "Progressives." Because most rational people don't see the solution to all problems being the arrogation of power to themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Who are they? Part V

The Keith Olbermann Memorial "Special Comment" on blithering idiots in the Media:
Financial Incompetence at the New York Times -- "The errors, misrepresentations and apparent fundamental incomprehension found here and in general in the Times' coverage of the financial crisis are voluminous."
More Financial Incompetence at the New York Times
All the News That’s Fit to Steal
Unreal. AP Writes Lengthy Article About Noose & Racial Incidents at Cali Campuses… Forgets to Mention Minority Student Hung the Noose
Democrat-Media Complex Accuses Tea Partiers of Being On… the Other Side -- "The Tea Party is validated and emboldened when the MSM whines about their rallies and demands."
Keith Olbermann: As the Spittle Flies
NBC’s Chuck Todd Blasts “Drudge Driven Journalism” -- Lord forbid the people actually knowing something the information gatekeepers in Old Media don't want you to know . . . Who are they to decide what is and is not "news?"
Media Fraud – Just A Cup Of Coffee My Ass

SECTION FOUR: Case Studies in Blithering Idiocy
"Global warming" aka "Climate change" -- or should that be "Climate Reform?":
Methane, The Panic Du Jour
Emails from “attack ad” science group posted
On the “march of the thermometers”
The Logarithmic Effect of Carbon Dioxide

Health care "reform" aka health insurance "reform" -- or should that be health care "change?" Perhaps "Global healthing?:
Health Care Is Heavily Taxed Now

The Economy (Can the blithering idiots bring down the most productive economy the world has ever seen? Yes, They Can! Will they?):
Tell Us the Truth -- Recovery will hurt. Obama and the Congressional Democrats are making things worse.

Foreign affairs and National Security (Will blithering idiots get us all killed, or make us all speak Spanish--or Chinese--or Arabic--or all three?):
Informal networks


The Morning Whip is a (mostly) daily review of what's out there that caught my attention, sometimes but not always posted before 11 am Central time in the U. S. of A., unless I just don't feel like it that day, am out doing something more important or more fun, or I've been abducted, detained, arrested, or otherwise flummoxed by the agents of blithering idiotry.

I surf the Web, so you don't have to! (which would be a trademark, but come on, who am I kidding?)