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Hyperventilating on Venus -- "I bought off on the “runaway greenhouse” idea on Venus for several decades (without smoking pot) and only very recently have come to understand that the theory is beyond absurd."

New Nerve Cells, Even in Old Age -- In mice, anyway . . .

Politics and Economics: A Deadly Mixture -- Separation of church and state has worked fairly well . . . how about a separation of wallet and state?

Used Car Prices Rise as Administration Declares Victory on Cash for Clunkers -- As I recall, pretty much everybody who understood the first thing about economics predicted that this would be the exact result of "Cash for Clunkers:" higher car prices for the people who can least afford to pay higher prices for cars--those who can't afford new cars but must rely on the used-car market. Your all-knowing government bureaucrats at work as usual--chopping the little guy off at the knees while simultaneously promising him the ability to run faster. It's sweet for the bureaucrats and the power-lusters when the rubes fall for it. Dow Plunges 1,000 Points in 15 Minutes- Loses 347 On the Day …Update: Brian Williams Video Added -- And only partly because some Wall Street trader fat-fingered a trade deal . . . the market's overvalued, folks. It's due for a big correction. Strap yourselves in for the ride . . .

FCC chief promises light broadband touch -- In other news, shameless womanizing rake promises naive pretty young woman that he'll respect her in the morning . . .

Big 12, other conferences form consortium for refs

Video: Strangely enough, Gibbs doesn’t want to talk about Obama’s “teabagger” quote -- Because, you know, Presidents refer to between one quarter and one third of the American electorate with vulgar slang term for a homosexual sex act featuring oral stimulation of genitalia every day . . . don't they?

Midnight Express -- "The concern rippling through the financial markets is only incidentally to do with Greece. The Greek economy is very small relative to the global economy. A commenter called it “a rounding error”. The significance of the Greek debt crisis is the light it sheds on a bigger problem of European debt . . ."

And the problem isn't European debt, it's government debt. And then, consider that in the past year, the Federal Government in the U.S. incurred more debt than it had in the entire previous history of the United States of America--COMBINED. We have a big problem, and it's sitting in Washington, in State capital cities around the country, and in many City Halls across the land. That problem is utterly out-of-control government spending. It will stop. We can choose to stop it, and come to a "soft landing," or it will stop because of the laws of economics, in which case there will be unrest, anarchy, violence, bloodshed, and death. We still have a choice. For now.

Police Hold Driver's License Checkpoint to Catch Suspended Drivers -- "Your papers, please?" "Driving is not a right, it's a privilege." Where are the protesters of the Arizona immigration law on this one? Hmm? What's the difference between stopping people and having them prove citizenship, and stopping them to have them prove license and proof of insurance? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

PA-12: Democrats Panicking Over Impending Onslaught of AOSHQ Morons -- Just because Ace of Spades HQ is one of my favorite irreverent political Internet blog sites . . .

Engineers move chamber toward Gulf seabed oil leak

Waitress, could I have a side of humor with my science fiction romance, please?

DeVore Spokesman Attacks Palin as "Sheepdog" -- Oh, this could get fun!

Condescension -- Which is, of course, Doonsbury's REAL title . . .

Mystery Solved

As information about Faisal Shahzad accumulates, a number of misconceptions are being dispelled. It turns out that the Times Square would-be bomber was not, Mayor Bloomberg's speculation notwithstanding, someone who was unhappy about Obamacare. Nor was the bomber the random "white man" who was filmed by a security camera removing his shirt a block away from Shahzad's Pathfinder. Nor was he, to Contessa Brewer's deep regret, one of those dreaded Tea Partiers. Nor was his "motivation" a mystery, as suggested by the Associated Press. No, to the surprise of some--but not us--Faisal Shahzad was a jihadist.

Hoekstra: "We're just a couple of smart people away from having 300, 400, 500 Americans killed..." -- You know, it's kinda weird. We elected Obama, and they still want to kill us . . .

What is Mangling the Goats at a Lee's Summit Farm? -- "Is it a bobcat? Is it a coyote? Is it "El Chupacabra?"" Cue the spooky X-Files music . . .

"The current government debt bubble is the last of all possible bubbles." -- Germany's Der Spiegel: "Today, the world is no longer threatened by the debts of banks but by the debts of governments, including debts which were run up rescuing banks just a year ago." Yup. Quit Spending Money, You Government Morons!!!

Hotness is in the eye of the beholder -- Sadly, not an article about human physical attractiveness . . .