I have a blog?? Dump of recent grumps

Apparently the act of moving things into my category tab bars now substitutes for the psychic release I used to achieve through, you know, blogging. Discussion and analysis, venting, all that stuff. Now it's just a boggling heap of tabs up there leering at me. So here's everything that makes me want to scream (other than toddler willfullness, etc.), compiled from the last, um, two months:

• A radical embrace of nullification -- our Disloyal Opposition
  
  
• Wonkbook: The real unemployment rate is 11 percent (including those who've given up looking)
  
  
• NYPD shred kids' paper hearts commemorating Occupy arrestees before their very eyes
  
  
• What Global Warming May Mean for World's Wine Industry -- some people can't pretend it's not happening (look forward to English wine soon!) [related: US agriculturists planning to overhaul the planting zone map to reflect changing temperatures.]
  
  
• A two-part essay on how we're approaching climate change (arguments) completely wrong:
  1. The brutal logic of climate change mitigation
     
  2. The frog and the polar bear: The real reasons Americans aren’t buying climate change
  
  
• WSJ will publish literally anything, as long as it disputes global warming
  
  
• Melting Glaciers Mean Double Trouble for Water Supplies
  
  
• Suffering bad hayfever in Melbourne? -- global warming meaning more pollen?
  
  
• Politifact, R.I.P.

  The people at Politifact are terrified of being considered partisan if they acknowledge the clear fact that there’s a lot more lying on one side of the political divide than on the other. So they’ve bent over backwards to appear “balanced” — and in the process made themselves useless and irrelevant.

• Chump Change -- even the housing bubble was racist
  
  
• Servicer Horror Stories: Resurrecting Zombie Mortgages
  
  
• DOJ to America: we won't reveal the circumstances under which you can be assassinated by us
  
  
• LA City Attorney to Occupy: pay for brainwashing lessons on limits of free speech and we'll drop the charges
  
  
• 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free Sigh.
  
  
• Abortion, Parenting, and the Government -- how small barriers add up
  
  
• Anatomy of an unsafe abortion (from an E.R. doctor)
  
  
• It’s a girl: The three deadliest words in the world
  
  
• No Women on Facebook Board
  
  
• Boys Will Hire Boys: The Media Is Male and Getting Maler
  
  
• The big "O" stands for "omitted variable" (ahem!!)
  
  
• The real divide here is on gender, not Catholicism (religious arguments are just a cover for men who don't respect female autonomy)
  
  
• Things That Are Not Racist
  
  
• Neuroscience could mean soldiers controlling weapons with minds
  
  
• Why maximizing shareholder value is no way to run a company
  
  
• What's the social cost of making it harder to get Sudafed? -- more stupidity from the War on Drugs
  
  
• Two variations on a theme (societal panic over children's safety):
  1. Me, APD, and 'Babysitting While White,' Part Deux
     
  2. Man At The Bus Stop! Call The Police!
  
  
• The Plan So Far (for Greece = magic!!)
  
  

Quote of the day, political woes edition

Oh well, you battle global economic meltdown with the corrupt idiotic elites you have...

- Atrios