Monday's Hoglets

By Fester:

My first week back from blogging after I became a dad of my beautiful and well-sleeping daughter.  Here are some of the things that I have been seeing over the past week that I think you might find interesting:

Shlok Vaidya catches an interesting article:   --- California solar power plant that is cost-competetive with adding new coal fired electrical capacity without any additional tax advantages. 

Ezra Klein has the line of the week on the Palin and Caroline Kennedy media coverage comparison:

Palin got bad coverage because she simultaneously came off like a blithering idiot and was running to serve as the Vice President of the United States of America. Generally speaking, you're only allowed to do one of those things at a time. Indeed, her comparison with Caroline Kennedy is actually instructive. When Kennedy emerged on the scene, she, like Palin, received rather glowing press coverage. Then she began giving inarticulate, defensive interviews. Then her press coverage got worse.

Pat Lang looks at Jewish Just War writings and notes the lack of proportionality....

There is one major difference between the Judaic guidelines and the Just War tradition: there is no real developed ethics regarding proportionality. This is important to take note of for two reasons: 1) it is the question of proportionality that goes to the heart of the argument over Israel’s actions in Gaza....

The reason for this seems to be, the historic reality that from 135 CE the Jews never controlled a state. As a result all subsequent discussions of War and its conduct, even by such intellectual and ethical heavy weights as Maimonides, were all academic activities.

The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat looks at the value of middling performances for resilency in recessions --- via some interesting metaphors:

Back in the day, John Pittsburgh wasn't actually, let's say "hot with the ladies," but with everyone else wearing cardboard belts, trying to pay for services in pocket change, and with syphilis, Pittsburgh looks pretty good and may do things to you that your uptight Republican wife would never, ever think of doing because her Mother-in-Law's church group is outside the porn store every FRIGGIN' NIGHT protesting something that should be between two consenting and possibly a goat and/or a midget. I mean dammit Louise! Why can't you meet my needs for once!?!

Ol'Froth has fun word-smithing

Sue Kerr of the Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondants looks at the nexus of gay issues in Western Pennsylvania, media coverage on an alleged bath house, political corruption and disclosure laws....

So, we have a lot of gay issues on your menu....

Now do you see why I kept harping on the need for full-disclosure on the campaign contributions for anyone associated with the Mayor's GLBT Advisory Council?  I'm just gonna finish my coffee and know that my gut instincts and those of many commenters on this blog were right. 

I do have a pretty reliable source telling me that the digging isn't going to stop here.  I sincerely hope there's nothing more to find. 

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at some screwed up incentives in the Alabama prison system....

Hilzoy needs to get out of the house more often as her dreams are strange.....

Jill, who is Brilliant at Breakfast , is applying pressure for accountability among the elite (shocking, us plebes should know our place...)

And you can't have one set of rules for "national security" and a different set of rules for everything else; there is no "national security exception" in the oath President-elect Obama will swear on January 20 in front of the people of the United States and the world:

The Chicago Boyz are hosting a  Clauswitz seminar. They have assembled a great group of writers, and for some reason, I was included on the invite list.  My first piece should be going up this Friday.

 

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[Peter G.]

The angry drunk bureaucrat missed one in his header. To the engineer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.