Contributed by: filbert Monday, March 08 2010 @ 11:00 AM CST
I’m sort of like a news feed, but slower, buggier, and much, much quirkier . . .
Travel:
Cruise Experts Pick Their Top 10 Cruise Destinations [*1]
Sports:
Royals’ Gordon out three to four weeks because of broken thumb [*2]
UMKC Defeats NDSU in Overtime [*3]
SDSU Tops IPFW in Quarterfinal Action [*4]
Jackrabbits roll into women’s semifinals [*5]
Lady Vols wrap up SEC championship; Summitt follows with a song [*6]
IPFW Men Down South Dakota State [*7]
SDSU offense erupts at Air Force [*8]
Jacks fall in tournament opener to IPFW [*9]
ORU Survives in Overtime Against NDSU [*10]
Shooting woes doom SDSU men [*11]
Jackrabbit women win by 41 [*12]
Monday Musings: Summit League edition [*13]
Science Fiction and Writing:
Is that supposed to happen? or How I fixed my first novel [*14]
Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Ignore Deadlines [*15]
Top 10 Theoretical Megastructures [*16]
“I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done” [*17]
Science, technology, and space:
Scientists find why “sunshine” vitamin D is crucial [*18]
Miscellany (amusing things not fitting above, or below):
Sandra Bullock Steals the Show [*19]
Modern Etiquette: Do the obese really deserve contempt? [*20] — Or, do chronically normal-weight people deserve it, instead?
Sandra Bullock: Right-Wing Extremist? [*21]
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 [*22]
Take the Town Halls to Washington-Time to go to DC [*23] — “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? [*24]
The reality of President Obama and his entire Administration as blithering idiots:
Obama to push White House vision for NASA in April [*25] — The Shoot, Ready, Aim Presidency . . .
Other blithering idiots at large making life difficult for regular folks:
Entitled Students [*26]
Four in five believe Web access a fundamental right [*27]
Opposition Research: because blithering idiocy can be dangerous, especially when organized into idiotic groups with idiotic ideologies:
Big Government Is No Victim [*28]
Sample Dialogue to Refute “She’s a quitter!” nonsense from Lefty parrots [*29]
Answering the ‘Quitter’ Charge – 4 Sample Dialogues [*30]
Things About The Left That Mystify [*31] — 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[*32]
The Keith Olbermann Memorial “Special Comment” on blithering idiots in the Media:
Financial Incompetence at the New York Times [*33] — “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 [*34]
All the News That’s Fit to Steal [*35]
Unreal. AP Writes Lengthy Article About Noose & Racial Incidents at Cali Campuses… Forgets to Mention Minority Student Hung the Noose [*36]
Democrat-Media Complex Accuses Tea Partiers of Being On… the Other Side [*37] — “The Tea Party is validated and emboldened when the MSM whines about their rallies and demands.”
Keith Olbermann: As the Spittle Flies [*38]
NBC’s Chuck Todd Blasts “Drudge Driven Journalism” [*39] — 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 [*40]
SECTION FOUR: Case Studies in Blithering Idiocy
“Global warming” aka “Climate change” — or should that be “Climate Reform?”:
Methane, The Panic Du Jour [*41]
Emails from “attack ad” science group posted [*42]
On the “march of the thermometers” [*43]
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[*44]
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 [*45] — 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 [*46]
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?)