That didn't take very long at all, now did it.

The hive reacts frantically and angrily at signs of a foreign presence.

? I open up the “Saturday Morning Headlines” email and this is at the top. Is the WashPo going gun nut? They hired what looks like a teenage law professor? “Negroes and the Gun”?? What? And what the hell is a Volokh Conspiracy?

You go to read NEWS, and you get BIZARRE. ThatÂ’s the internet for ya. Too bad itÂ’s happening at the Washington Post. Yet another sign of decadence.

Eugene Volokh answers him with far greater bonhomie than I could ever hope to manage.

Volokh tries to reassure him that the new libertarian/conservative leaning blog will be offering Washington Post readers solid facts, novel arguments, and fresh perspectives, some of them quite strong and possibly even quite convincing.

I hate to tell him this but: They know that's what you're offering to the public. That's the problem.

Thanks to @tsrblke.

[Update - Andy:] I was about to double-post the Head Ewok on this. Glad I looked.

But this needs a screenshot. Like I said on Twitter, it's like I died and woke up in schadenheaven.

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So the President is pushing college education, but is it really required for the jobs that you are most likely to get? Especially in a tanking economy where there is a growth of college grads in dead-end jobs. Is it worth 6 figure debt when you could do this? But if you do go for a degree, perhaps it should be oil and gas related. more...

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This is his second week of hosting a show on Connecticut's 1320 WATR. We all wish him the best of luck in his quest to become a media tyrant. You can listen to him every Saturday, from noon to 2pm EST, at the link below.

I'm honored that he chose me to co-host his show today, even if he isn't officially calling me the co-host. We all know how everyone has been scrambling to listen to me, and hang on my every word, well, now you have the opportunity to listen.

To me.

Lots of me (and that other guy) in the 1pm hour. As a courtesy, I'm posting as his show starts up. You'll have to wait about an hour though for the highlight of your day, which is me of course.
Click to listen (save and open in WMP to listen to live stream)

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Good afternoon beloved horde.

Thanks for joining us for another Saturday car thread.

Today, Countrysquire offers the meat, starting with his terrific write-up about recent high-stakes classic car auctions. I'll admit to being staggered by some of these prices and, especially so, by his report on the Jeep Wagoneer:

Last week was auction week in Scottsdale Arizona and a lot of coin was dropped. All of the totals are not in yet, but cumulative sales should be in excess of a quarter billion dollars. Not enough to build a buggy health insurance website, but a lot to spend on iron, leather, rubber and paint. The circus called Barrett-Jackson is the most famous because of the television coverage and the shear number of cars they sell. In years past, they sold some great cars from the classic pre-war period, but in recent years have become known for muscle cars. 1,402 of the 1,407 cars sold for a staggering $110,521,505 total. The high sale was an L-88 equipped 1967 Corvette Sting Ray which went to the owner of Heartland Dental for $3,850,000. The high sellers at both the RM auction and the Gooding Co. auction were both 1958 Ferrari 250s. The RM car was a LWB California Spyder and brought home $8.8 million dollars. A similar 250 GT cabriolet only managed to muster a mere $6,160,000. Sales for the weekend at those two premium auctions averaged well over $400,000. The Bonhams sale averaged $270,000, with a Â’53 Ferrari just edging a 1931 Alfa Romeo for high sale honors, with each bringing just north of $3 million.

The Â’31 Alfa was a Zagato bodied 6C 1750 Supercharged Gran Sport Spyder and probably my favorite car offered this year.

Eight million dollar Ferraris and three million dollar Porsches are fun to talk about, but everyone has one, so letÂ’s move on to some It sold for how much?! cars...
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Happy weekending, 'rons & 'ettes.

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Greetings fellow morons and moronettes! Welcome to your weekend yard and garden thread. Your co-hosts are Y-not and WeirdDave. Feel free to use this thread to share ideas, thoughts, questions, product reviews, jokes, and whatnot about gardening.

January seemed like a good time to start this thread, which we hope to do every week. Football season is basically over, no one watches hockey (I keed, I keed!), and many of us started the New Year with aspirations of turning over a new “leaf,” tackling projects that save money and make our lives happier. So without further ado, here’s some thread-fodder.

Just to help orient folks, Y-not is in Zone 7a (at roughly 4,600 feet in Utah) and WeirdDave is on the East Coast in Zone 6b. For those who donÂ’t know, USDA plant hardiness zones are based on the average annual extreme minimum temperatures over a 30 year window. They are updated periodically. The current USDA map is based on data from 1976-2005. Find out your zone by entering in your zip code at this website.

Contributions from WeirdDave and Y-not below the jump.
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In the words of Instapundit: That which can't go on forever, won't.

U.S. stocks fell sharply and Treasuries rallied on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling triple-digits for a second session and posting its worst week since November 2011, as investors pulled money from emerging markets and other assets viewed as risky.

As Wall Street's faith in some of the world's largest developed countries unraveled, currencies of those nations were hit, with Turkey's lira falling to a record low against the dollar, and Argentina's peso down sharply against the U.S. currency.

"We've touched off by what's going on around the world, so to speak, and are reallocating assets from some of the emerging markets into what is thought of as more reliable," said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade. "It's a safe parking spot," Kinahan added of fixed income.

Rick Santelli says that markets are beginning to wake up to the fact that central banks' straining efforts to levitate a deadweight market cannot continue. His nontechnical point is that central banks have been trying to artificially juice up the market, in hopes that positive psychology would then turn fake growth into real growth, and feigned confidence into genuine confidence.

But he says the frantic efforts to get sodden wood to catch fire have failed, and people are now catching on.

Video at the link.

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Just a quick mention here that several lefty blogs are sharing this post from UC-Irvine law professor Rick Hasen suggesting that "what looks like a victory against having to do a symbolic act may really be a defeat in having to do the nearly identical symbolic act."

First, here's the order:

Hasen writes:

So they win by not having to fill out the form. But they have now to send a letter containing essentially the same disavowal in order to not be covered. Presumably this triggers the very same thing: the insurance companies providing the contraceptive coverage directly.

Everything Hasen writes in the sentence beginning "Presumably" is incorrect, which is what happens when someone who apparently hasn't been following an issue starts a sentence with the word "presumably."

First, the coverage the Little Sisters object to is not triggered by giving HHS notification, as contemplated by the Supreme Court order. Rather, it is triggered "[i]f a third party administrator receives a copy of the self-certification," i.e., the accommodation form that organizations objecting to the contraception mandate have to fill out. You can check me on this, if you like (PDF). The Supreme Court order specifically says that the Little Sisters notification to HHS does not have to use the accommodation form or provide it to their third-party administrator. Thus, providing an alternative notification to HHS does not trigger the objectionable contraceptive coverage.

Also, contrary to Hasen, the insurance companies aren't even in this. The Little Sisters use a self-insured health plan, which has a third-party administrator, again as specifically stated in the Supreme Court order, not an insured group health plan. The different types of plans have different requirements.

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Via Danger Girl, a funnier blow-off post. more...

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