I have a piece up on that subject over at Reason. It’s a reprise of some of the arguments I make in the book, which I now expect to be available next week (my printer screwed up). I’d hoped to have them available for SpaceUp LA this weekend, but that’s not going to happen.
The ObamaCareBear
The web site has a new mascot.
Updated #ObamaCareBear poster, to better accentuate our compassion (ignore previous). But don't forget the rabies. pic.twitter.com/JResyN6i1h
— HealthCareDotGov (@HealthDotGov) November 5, 2013
NFL “Bullying”
Call me crazy, but I think that it’s possible to have a good football team without some team members calling others racist names on their home phone.
The Inner Solar System
Rick Boozer (who has a book out
Meanwhile, Bob Crippen is spinning fairy tales about SLS:
The combination of SLS and Orion will effectively establish a highway to the entire solar system.
It will be obsolete before it flies.
Obama As Manager
ObamaCare supporters are worried that he might not actually be a very good one.
What tipped them off? And why didn’t they notice it five years ago, as some of the more perspicacious among us did?
ObamaCare And The Widening Disconnect
A good piece by Salena Zito:
Our relationship with government is in shambles, our feeling of disconnect with Washington at an historic level.
Yet the real problem is not a health-care website that doesn’t work. The real problem is a president and a Washington culture which both believe it is okay to lie to get a bill passed.
Hey, gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette. As I said before, I hope that this is an asteroid smashing an ideology.
The Tea Party And Alger Hiss
A takedown of Cass Sunstein’s idiotic theory:
We aren’t seeing a right-leaning populist surge today because of Alger Hiss; we are seeing it because many Americans believe that President Obama’s liberal and technocratic agenda represents a threat to a way of life they value. We are seeing it because many Americans blame the establishment of both parties both for the financial crisis and for the vast transfer of resources to the wealthy that came after the crash. We are seeing it because whether you look at foreign or domestic policy, the technocratic suggestions of the Great and the Good have not been helping ordinary Americans much for the last 20 years.
Via Meadia isn’t a Tea Party house organ, and any tea parties at the stately Mead manor are more about Earl Grey than Ayn Rand. But we don’t think Tea Partiers are wrong to see President Obama’s political goals as fundamentally opposed to their own vision of what America should be. They aren’t angry because they are stupid, and deep disagreement with technocratic liberalism is not a mental disease.
But if it is, ObamaCare will cover it. One way or the other.
Fall Colors
The weather’s been warm, or what passes for warmth in our state of ever-diminishing expectations. Fifty, fifty-two; cloudless sky; mellow sun. Most of the trees are now participating, although a few just go from green to dull green, like adults invited to a costume party who prefer to put on an old pair of glasses and consider that sufficient. Sunday winds separated the hardy from the weak, stripping some trees with the frenzy of starved piranhas.
Pictures, too.
Dealing With Schizophrenia
Some interesting discussion from those suffering it.
The “Second-Term Curse”
Really? That’s Obama’s problem? Not listening, but that’s the title of the panel segment on This Week.
Of course, if we’d known half of what we know now a year ago — about Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservatives, the blatant deliberate lies about keeping your health plan, period, etc., there wouldn’t have been a second term.