Unqualified Offerings

White women just want the Communism. Pull-quote:
Only commies openly date inter-racially. Real Americans (R) are like Strom Thurmond, and hide their mixed children in the shadows until after they’re dead.

Via Balloon Juice. (Is it okay to say "Balloon Juice?")

By Mona
Radley Balko thinks other Catoites’ countering Cato’s Roger Pilon with words is the way to go, rather than a pink slip. I heartily disagree, and wrote this in comments there (Hit and Run):

Radley, I believe this is the first time I have vehemently disagreed with you. Unless Pilon has a contract with [...]

By Thoreau
Here’s a nice summary of an article in the latest Physical Review Letters.  The proposal is intriguing, but the required chemistry is rather speculative.  However, I have something in the works that’s related but far less speculative.  OK, it’s also theoretical, but I’m doing calculations and simulations for something that requires far less speculative [...]

This one wasn’t even hard:
Dogs in the Vineyard
Mitt Romney
Brigham Young University

By Thoreau
EDIT: All it was was a bunch more complaining, and at the end I segued into criticism of the Democrats again. I’m going to check out Optics Express and find something cool to share with you guys.

Obama-Cult skepticism is like a cult. Discuss.

By Mona
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Posting at chez Jeff Goldstein, “Karl” spews an absurd and wholly false statement in the context of SCOTUS having just declined to review a 6th Circuit case involving the illegal electronic surveillance the NSA has conducted on U.S. persons for years, by undertaking it without warrants in violation of the Foreign Intelligence [...]

By Thoreau
Well, everybody here knows how pessimistic I’ve been lately, and some have hinted I should do more science blogging.  So I’ll combine themes and say that even if quantum teleportation works, it won’t be teleportation in the “beam me up!” sense.  Which means you won’t be able to hop on a transporter beam and [...]

America’s sanctions policy drives Fidel Castro from power in fewer than 50 years! Teach Cuba to mess with the USA! Factoring in distance, size and political conditions, I calculate that our Iraq policy can "work" with under two centuries of blood and treasure. I hope anti-interventionists everywhere will consider themselves rebuked by today’s news.

By Thoreau
After seeing this bumper sticker, I decided that I’m just going to come out and start predicting what will happen when a Democrat is in the White House:
Democratic President:  Well, I wanted to bring the troops home, but a Republican said something mean about ‘Defeatocrats,’ so I’m expanding the mission and calling it a [...]