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So the lawyer said to St. Peter,

Posted on August 28, 2010
So the lawyer said to St. Peter, "But I died so young"..... ...and St. Peter replied, "Well, according to your billing records you are 102 years old." Lawyer suspended for billing more than 24 hours in a day. An Ohio lawyer has been suspended for overbilling local courts for her representation of poor clients, submitting bills for more than 24 hours a day on three different occasions...

Amazing. Detecting Earth-sized

Posted on August 28, 2010
Amazing. Detecting Earth-sized planets 2,000 light years away by telescope. It's the Kepler telescope, but I thought that it was impossible to see something so small, so far away, against the glare of a star. Perhaps one of my "Central Valley Astronomy Club" friends can explain how this is possible.

The Economics of the Ponzi Scheme. Apparently,

Posted on August 27, 2010
The Economics of the Ponzi Scheme. Apparently, the financial sector of the economy was engaged in a big Ponzie scheme for two years before the meldtown.  According to the Central Valley Business Times: Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history...

Another reasons to trust government

Posted on August 20, 2010
Another reasons to trust government - graft and corruption edition. Being a CalPers director is like being a Rock Star, complete with groupies: California's public pension fund allowed its fund managers to take mega-jet-set kickbacks from financial companies looking to win big state investments...

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It is good to be King. Obama's

Posted on August 20, 2010
It is good to be King. Obama's sixth vacation of 2010. We can't begrudge him these vacations.  He's worked hard to get where he is.  In fact, one time he had to hold the same job for all of four years.

Hope and Change.

Posted on August 20, 2010
Hope and Change.

Jury Instructions. A lesson from

Posted on August 20, 2010
Jury Instructions. A lesson from the Blogojevich trial: As the jurors in the corruption case against Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor, entered a 25th-floor conference room here, one problem was instantly clear: They were overwhelmed...

From the "Hope and Change" File... ...allowing

Posted on August 20, 2010
From the "Hope and Change" File... ...allowing the public sector to grow too large means that we can't stop spending ourselves into bankruptcy without causing a recession or depression. According to NRO's Kevin D. Williamson: Two things to keep in mind in light of today?s news: One is that the CBO keeps ringing the alarm bells ? even today, in the course of trimming, a little bit, its deficit

Live the Dream! Because sometimes

Posted on August 20, 2010
Live the Dream! Because sometimes wallowing in an ignorant idolatry is "la dolce vita." From Carl Olsen's post on "Reasons not to become Catholic."

Must be the traffic jams caused

Posted on August 18, 2010
Must be the traffic jams caused by Obama's LA fund raiser. A surprisingly critical look at Obama's fund raising efforts by the LA times.

Obama and his declining base. Obama

Posted on August 17, 2010
Obama and his declining base. Obama fundraiser ties up LA traffic for hours. I remember Clinton tying up air traffic to get a haircut, and now this, but I don't remember anything like this with George Bush. 

Malinvestment. Check out this

Posted on August 17, 2010
Malinvestment. Check out this post on how a bank in Southern California is tearing down newly built homes rather than spending the money it would take to complete the projects. Here's the video.

The Song of Ice and Fire... ...as

Posted on August 16, 2010
The Song of Ice and Fire... ...as literature.

Out of Touch. Another Guardian

Posted on August 14, 2010
Out of Touch. Another Guardian article likening the Obamas to a "modern ancien regime." The timing of this lavish European vacation could not have come at a worse moment, when unemployment in America stands at 10 percent, and large numbers of Americans are fighting to survive financially in the wake of the global economic downturn...

Jeepers, who could have known that

Posted on August 14, 2010
Jeepers, who could have known that a person whose longest job experience was 4 years as Senator might not be up to being President? The Telegraph explains "The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown."

If only swimming coaches.... ...could

Posted on August 13, 2010
If only swimming coaches.... ...could marry.

More geopolitical news about the

Posted on August 12, 2010
More geopolitical news about the instability of the world system. A totalitarian dictatorship with 30 million excess men and a propensity for treating its population like herd animals is about to deploy long range, incredibly accurate missiles with the ability to kill American aircraft carriers...

Marriage, Men and Making Babies. Law

Posted on August 12, 2010
Marriage, Men and Making Babies. Law Professor Nelson Lund makes the following observation: Without marriage, men often would be uncertain about paternity or indifferent to it. If left unchecked, many men would have little incentive to invest in the rearing of their offspring, and the ensuing irresponsibility would have made the development of civilization impossible...

The Dishonest Prop 8 Decision. I

Posted on August 12, 2010
The Dishonest Prop 8 Decision. I suspect that a lot of people bought into the officially approved media narrative that the defenders of Prop 8 were incompetent in their defense of the institution of marriage. A point in the narrative was the judge's claim that the defenders of Prop 8 didn't have to offer any defense of their claims that marriage is associated with, you know, making babies...

The nice thing about having Democrats

Posted on August 11, 2010
The nice thing about having Democrats in control is that there is never any bad news. The New York Times touts the advantages of unemployment for those who have kept their jobs - "For Those With Jobs, a Recession With Benefits."

Bummers....Our Chance to Live in

Posted on August 09, 2010
Bummers....Our Chance to Live in a Brave New World is not as Good as We had Hoped. NRO relays this interview with the scientist responsible for the Human Genome Project: SPIEGEL: So the Human Genome Project has had very little medical benefits so far? Venter: Close to zero to put it precisely...

Father Barron on Mel Gibson and

Posted on August 09, 2010
Father Barron on Mel Gibson and Anti-Catholicism.

The Common Sense of Selma - Or

Posted on August 08, 2010
The Common Sense of Selma - Or will the '60s end during our lifetime? Victor Davis Hanson nails the common sense of the average person who wakes up in the morning and observes the bizarro-upside down world we now live in. Populism Is Now Bad? In contrast, the proverbial people seem angry...

Prop 8 Ruling. Of course, the

Posted on August 07, 2010
Prop 8 Ruling. Of course, the ruling was never in doubt.  Judge Walker is homosexual and throughout the proceeding has acted as if any opposition to homosexual marriage was inspired by conspiratorial and sinister motives.  Judge Walker has shown little or no sympathy for the civil rights of those who opposed Prop 8, going so far as to make their motives in voting for Prop 8 the issue of the case

Do walls a Christian make? St.

Posted on August 07, 2010
Do walls a Christian make? St. Augustine answered "yes."  Father Barron offers an explanation for this conclusion in his reflection on Anne Rice's "unversion": However, what she is proposing is, quite simply, impossible. With complete coherence, Ms...

When will the '60s come to an end? One

Posted on August 07, 2010
When will the '60s come to an end? One small part of the '60s has ended.  Marilynn Buck - a former "anti-imperialist freedom fighter" responsible for the death of several police officers in typically loonie radical fund-raising schemes, i.e., the forced expropriation of other people's money - has died of cancer one month after being released from prison 20 years into her 50 year "bit...

Obama Disconnected. William Jacobsen

Posted on August 06, 2010
Obama Disconnected. William Jacobsen at Legal Insurrection argues that Obama's strategy of stifling dissent has left half of America alienated from him. But as I wrote in July 2009, and again in February 2010, Obama was misplaying the "Birther" card because the frequency of the strategic accusations merely raised the public consciousness and suggested that Obama was hiding something...

St. Charles Lwanga - The Blood

Posted on August 03, 2010
St. Charles Lwanga - The Blood of the Martyrs. Father Barron observes that when St. Charles Lwanga was killed by King Mwanga in 1886 it seemed that Christianity was dead in Africa.  Now, there are 400 million Christian Africans.

Shirley Sherrod - Race/Class Oppressor Leftist

Posted on August 03, 2010
Shirley Sherrod - Race/Class Oppressor Leftist publication Counterpunch runs a story on how Shirley Sherrod and her husband oppressed Black workers hired through their non-profit New Communities, Inc: Shirley Sherrod was New Communities Inc. store manager during the 1970s...

"The Federal Government can do

Posted on August 02, 2010
"The Federal Government can do anything it wants." Quite a change from the intent of the Founders.

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