This comes from Claire Berlinski at the City Journal, on the government takeover of the auto industry.

The only truly relevant measure of productivity is consumer choice: if people don't want to buy a company's products at the company's price, it may have been busy, but it has not been productive. This point escaped all concerned.

She is talking about the heavy government subsidies and planning of British Leyland, that started in the 1970's. The best bureaucrats the British government had to offer failed to run the auto industry with anything approaching success. Since Americans are better than the British, expect the American government's takeover of the auto industry to be an even more spectacular failure.

Hat tip to Instapundit.

Kari Jobe, who is apparently a famous and talented singer, was at our church this weekend. And the whole time, I couldn't help thinking, "Why is Kari Jobe wearing a lumpy gray pillowcase?"

I occasionally see cute or pretty or otherwise attractive women wearing these things. But it seems tailor made to be ugly. It is a shapeless bag of cloth that completely obscures a woman's figure. You can't tell if she is fat, skinny, or beautifully curved. Though you almost never see it on fat women.

What's the message here? That you're so hot you can dress ugly? Except that it looks like some expensive designer job. A designer potato sack is still a potato sack, though you could get more use out of an actual potato sack. Why this faux ugly is fashionable is beyond me. Maybe in all the vitriol this post will cause someone will let slip an actual answer.

As more news leaks out about the latest global warming climate change scandal, I wanted to post my own random ideas about it.

It will play out like most scandals that hit the left. It will be ignored until the media and politicians are forced to acknowledge it. Then the actual scientists who perpetrated the fraud will be sacrificed to appease the masses. This will satisfy most and allow the politicians who enabled politicized science in the first place to get off scott free.

Once public attention moves on, government efforts to 'fix' global warming will pick back up. When conservatives point out that liberals are trying solve a problem that was proved to be a conspiracy, two memes will be started by the left. The first will be that the bad behavior of some scientists doesn't mean that the science itself is bad. The second will be that the authorities have already taken care of the trouble makers and bad data, so your argument is moot.

In the mean time, temperatures will keep falling, and eventually someone will state that whatever cockamamie climate bill President Obama got passed is the cause.

Amongst normal people however, this will be the general reaction.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are terrorists.

Much has been said about the Fort Hood massacre last week. And I have just one question: why did no one in the army return fire? It’s a fucking Army base! Am I really supposed to believe that the only armed personnel on the whole base were Maj. Hasan and police Sgt. Munley? Do they not issue real guns to the guards? Did they even have guards? Or is there some bizarre standing order to not respond to armed assaults on US soil? The Army ought to be ashamed of itself for promoting a known terrorist sympathizer to major, and then letting a civilian police officer deal with the problem when he turned traitor.

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After somewhat more sober reflection, it occurs to me that the last time I got this riled up over gross military stupidity was when the Navy was in a standoff against four pirates in a life boat. That situation was caused when President Obama modified the rules of engagement to prevent the Navy from engaging the pirates. While Obama didn't order the Army to allow Hasan to go about his business until he ran out of ammo, the same mindset of appeasement and surrender is prevalent in the politically correct bureaucracy that makes up the military, and every other government organization. No one will be able to give a good reason Hasan was still in the Army, but I would like to know the Army's operating procedure for someone shooting up one of their bases.

For now, though, my prayers go out to the dead, wounded, and their families.

I found a link to a clip on Big Hollywood today (which I can no longer find) that was from ABC's new series V. It was a segment from an interview with one of the aliens that was a heavy handed piece on selling journalistic integrity to gain access. Yeah, that's right, ABC sent a dangerous political message by making Morena Baccarin cut her hair.

One of the tragic features of modern life is the number of women who think it's acceptable to cur their hair short.

Women look better with long hair. This is a basic fact of feminine beauty. Here we get a direct comparison of the same woman with long hair and with short hair. Look at the two pictures. Baccarin can make short hair work, but she is far prettier with longer hair.

And here the difference is striking enough that I think I can see what is going on. She simply looks more boyish with short hair. Her femininity is diminished by her hair style. We men are attracted to women, not 12 year old boys in drag. Ladies, dressing and styling yourself to hide your womanliness makes you less attractive.

Some of you are pretty enough to get away with it, as is Baccarin, but here we can clearly see that long hair is much better.