Jay, Mona, great podcast.  Please do this again.

1. No

2. No

3. No

Whatever other reasons people come up with, something you have to add is a biased media that was totally in the pocket of the party in power.

Sound familiar?

Also, for those of you that are blaming modernity, Genghis Khan and the Mongols killed many people without the benefits of guns.  Estimates I found range from 5 to 40 million.

The other side will never declare a truce because they will never be done trying to fix things....

My wife just got this in her inbox.  She is a teacher here in AZ.  The rest of the email is left wing drivel...

We don't have school Monday, November 12th, but watch the Meatless Monday video on our Facebook page, and learn that if every American cut out meat from one meal once a week, it would be like taking half a million cars off the road and saving 1.4 billion animals from being factory farmed. Talk to your friends and family, and make this Monday, and every Monday a meatless one!

No Impact Spirit Week!!!!!

Tuesday: Food --> Farmer, Farm Animal, Fruit, or Veggie

Wednesday: Sustainable Transportation --> Biker (Cyclist), Hiker, Runner

Thursday: Recycling --> Go Green out! Wear your green, and promote recycling!

Friday: Water and Energy --> Blue and Gold

What will it get us?

Is anyone here thinking that the typical resident of NY, CA and PA will switch to Republican if we give up on abortion and gay marriage?

Not going to happen.

One of the things I hate about political correctness is that certain people can use a word and it's ok, but when others use it, that's "bad".

This would appear to be about the same thing.

I hang up on most and don't care who is on the other end.  Or I ask them "For the love of God, is this a political call?"  When they try to answer in an Obamian fashion, then I hang up.

Let me quote Dennis Miller:

Michelle Obama looks like a long day...

Go big!

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...

Best of luck and speedy recovery.

Karl,

I would be interested in you posting occasionally about this experience.  Are you planning to run for a full term or was it understood you would be a placeholder?  Do you have any goals?  How long is the rest of the term?

Good news, everyone!

Our overlords have started thinking of applying Title 9 to the sciences.

What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15tier.html?pagewanted=all

It must have killed the Ninth Circuit to rule in your favor...

Does not work.  It was in my list.  The only two that work Ricochet and  Hinderaker-Ward Experience that are hosted on feedburner.  Something about HTTP authentication which apparently is an Apple thing.