Contributed by: filbert Sunday, March 07 2010 @ 11:15 AM CST
Tournament time–lots of sports today! Go Rabbits!
Two Different Views of a Vancouver Sailaway [*1]
Cruising Europe 2010 [*2]
Sports:
All Summit League Tournament Games Available Live Via Television and Internet [*3]
Baylor coach says Griner remorseful [*4]
Lady Vols cruise past Ole Miss in SEC tournament for 12th straight win [*5]
Cy Young winner Greinke picks up where he left off [*6]
IPad to hit stores April 3 [*7]
Royals notebook | Greinke makes a big difference [*8]
UMKC can get a leg up on next year with a win today [*9] — Sadly . . . see below . . .
Tourney starts today without SDSU, and that’s OK [*10] — Yesterday . . . I’m a little behind . . .
For SDSU women, it’s all about the encore [*11]
Griffin gets career high as Huskers make history with 29-0 regular season [*12]
Oral Roberts Beats Southern Utah in Summit League Championship Quarterfinals [*13]
KU thrashes MU in the Border War [*14]
No. 4 Tennessee rolls past Vanderbilt, 68-49 [*15]
Western Illinois Women Upset Oakland, 68-57 [*16]
Oakland Tops UMKC in Quarterfinal Matchup [*17]
UMKC’s Morris dares to dream big [*18]
Jackrabbit women open Summit with IPFW [*19]
IUPUI Defeats Western Illinois in Quarterfinal Action [*20]
The soul of basketball can be found in the small towns of Kansas [*21]
Jacks sweep twinbill with big ninth innings [*22]
Sorenson earns return trip to nationals [*23]
Can Oakland help Summit earn respect? [*24]
On solid ground: Nobody says a Division I transition is simple. But SDSU seniors Kai Williams and Garrett Callahan have learned that the journey can be worth the pain. [*25]
Science, technology, and space:
Search the PopSci Archives[*26]
Straight News–Stuff sufficiently serious to deserve a serious treatment:
Federal pay surpasses private sector [*27] — Well, the Mandarins should be more well off than the serfs, shouldn’t they? Shouldn’t they? In China, maybe . . .
Miscellany (amusing things not fitting above, or below):
James Pinkerton: ‘Generation Zero’ is the ‘Most Important Film of the Year’ [*28]
Extra Fancy Award Show Popcorn [*29]
Profane, Pointless…and Profound: The history Gimme Something Better charts punk’s cultural triumph. [*30]
Yes, we have no tomatoes: Florida freeze causes temporary shortage [*31]
A Sign of the Times: Neiman Marcus Serves Corn Dogs [*32]
Japan Airlines fights to keep uniforms out of Japanese sex clubs [*33]
Yellow snow falls in Russia’s Far East [*34]
Dog Put To Sleep, Buried With Its Owner [*35]
Devastating: Hollywood to remake … “Police Academy” [*36]
Whatever Happened to Crazy? [*37]
SECTION THREE: Politics: The neverending battle against blithering idiocy:
People doing potentially good things (including sightings of politicians doing something less than totally idiotic):
New Poll, New Result: Americans Support the First Amendment After All [*38]
Fire John Stossel? [*39]
Hottie McAwesome challenges Obama “to do better” – which we translate as “stop lying, quit being a socialist, and for once listen to the American people, you dummy” [*40]
<<br>The cure for blithering idiocy: freedom and individual liberty (yeah, I know–ooh, ick, philosophy!):
Dare to Ignore Race [*41]
The Culture War Divide: American Exceptionalism [*42]
Consent of the governed – and the lack thereof [*43]
The reality of President Obama and his entire Administration as blithering idiots:
Real World Evidence for the Laffer Curve, even from the Government of Washington, DC [*44]
The reason this isn’t what it looks like is that if it really were what it looks like, he wouldn’t do it. [*45] — The cynical corruption of Barack Obama and his cronies . . .
You know what America needs now? A brutal political battle over amnesty [*46]
Has Obama done any irreversible damage so far? [*47] — To the Democratic Party . . . possibly. To the country . . . well . . . Americans are pretty resourceful and resilient when put under pressure . . .
The reality of Washington Democrats (and Independents, and Socialists) as blithering idiots:
Democrat house fortunes slipping on Intrade[*48]
Harry “This War Is Lost” Reid Complains About Politicians Rooting For Failure (Video) [*49]
Rash of Scandals Tests Democrats at Sensitive Time [*50] — But, but, but . . . they were going to be The Most Ethical Congress EVAH! What Happened?
Fumbling Majority Jerks Recklessly, Arhythmically [*51]
The reality of Washington Republicans as blithering idiots:
McCain: Hey, Where the Hell is the Gang of 14 on Reconciliation? [*52] — Where they’ve always been, John, manipulating your idealistic naivety . . .
Other blithering idiots at large making life difficult for regular folks:
Sue Lowden Demolishing Harry Reid, But (Fake? Plant?) Tea Party (?) Candidate May Save Harry Reid [*53]
UWM Tuition Protest Turns Violent [*54]
Unreal. School Board President of Failing Detroit Schools Can’t Write [*55]
Foul-Mouthed Comedian Kathy Griffin Puts On Palin-Bashing Show In Anchorage With Levi Johnston [*56]
Hollywood Elites Are Now Openly Calling For the Murder of Conservatives (Video) [*57] — My only quibble with the title is that “now” should probably more accurately be “still.”
Opposition Research: because blithering idiocy can be dangerous, especially when organized into idiotic groups with idiotic ideologies:
Seizing the Opportunity to Destroy Western Civilization [*58]
The Right to Trial by Jury – A Principle Worth Keeping [*59]
One Bong Hit Away From Murder: Warning Signs of Psycho-Libertarianism [*60]
Tides Foundation: General Support, Major Concern [*61]
Big Labor, Obama And Dems Have Big Plan$ For You [*62]
Hatemail of the Day [*63] — Lesson: never, ever disagree with a “progressive” because if you do, they will consider you less than human. It’s happened before . . .
Disgusted that Partisan Politics Is Going On [*64]
SPLC’s Democratic Party Mission [*65]
The Fear that Palin Produces (Update: Audience Member Debunks Laugh Track Lie) [*66] — Progressives lie. It’s the only way they can justify their actions. It’s the only way they can sleep at night.
The Keith Olbermann Memorial “Special Comment” on blithering idiots in the Media:
One Fails To Understand How David Brooks Breathes [*67]
Craig Crawford quits MSNBC, tired of being booked to do “boring” hit pieces on Palin [*68]
Paul Krugman Thinks Republicans Are Stupid Because They Agree Wtih, Er, Paul Krugman [*69]
EPIC FAIL: Christian Science Monitor says Pentagon shooter right wing extremist [*70]
MSNBC On-Air Talent Bails; Points Finger At Matthews [*71]
Juan Williams Beclowns Himself on the Sean Hannity Show [*72]
How a conservative can make news [*73]
Brooks And The Tea Parties [*74]
Andrew Sullivan And Leftist Blogs Are In Decline [*75]
Why Do Charles Johnson’s Beliefs Keep Turning Out to Be Delusional? [*76]
SECTION FOUR: Case Studies in Blithering Idiocy
“Global warming” aka “Climate change” — or should that be “Climate Reform?”:
E-mails from National Academy of Sciences plot attacks on AGW skeptics [*77]
Bully Boys Waxman and Markey Promote ‘Endangerment’ of Economy, Democracy [*78]
Grasping at Straws [*79]
Health care “reform” aka health insurance “reform” — or should that be health care “change?” Perhaps “Global healthing?:
Who Americans Trust on Health Care Policy [*80]
ObamaCare: the Democratic manhood contest? [*81] — It’s not about health care. It’s about winning . . . it’s about power–power of the politicians and bureaucrats over you.
Should the ‘Smarties’ Really Be Put in Charge of Health Care? [*82]
The Economy (Can the blithering idiots bring down the most productive economy the world has ever seen? Yes, They Can! Will they?):
Long-term Unemployment Still Too High [*83]
Missouri Lawmakers Discuss Ditching State Income Tax [*84]
The Dem’s Disastrously Timed Minimum Wage Hikes Hit Teens & Black Youth the Hardest [*85] — Yet another of the Democrat/Progressive good-sounding bad ideas that are corrosive to the economy . . .
The Keynesian Stimulus Dogma [*86]
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?):
Hermit Kingdom Linux, Giant Juche Rabbits, and the Dear Leader’s Hennessey Problem [*87]
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.
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