Oswald Sobrino was nice enough to put my comment in as a guest post at his Catholic Analysis blog. Scroll down. The Pope's Irish pastoral letter is the current running topic.

I'm opposed to the HCR, but nobody personally has done anything to me. I suppose that it has been galling for Gore voters who lost the White House by the number of people that work in the 11 story office building in Irving that I do to see the U.S. persist in a war in Iraq. Now the Democrats have a razor thin margin and will wage war against reality, see Asymmetric Info, or social injustice. Profiters are probably welcome in either case. Becker-Posner and Ann Althouse note that CAT says their first year increase in costs will be $100 million which can't be good for U.S. job numbers

NPR had a delightful interview with the professor, Bart Ehrman, who wrote Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) "which has just come out in paperback" though I think the hardback, at the bottom of the linked page, is much easier to read.

Apparently there is a 'Brophy law' related to insider trading. Also on Finance, Greg Mankiw has a great string of recent posts among which is a link to Fama, apparently one of the founders of modern financial economics, reviewing his work.

The NY Times most emailed article is about 'building a better teacher' and it suggests what seem like important ideas.

David Brooks, reflecting on the Norwegian 9 gold medals in the Olympics, the same as the larger US, on the hard and soft of Norwegian character, a most emailed NY Times article

The Atlantic Wire highlights in the red right upper side of the page the five best recent articles by the 50 most influential opinion makers. They'll have some good articles and to go to the bottom of the section for the full 50 can be informative. Today, I particularly liked Fareed Zakaria's article Don't Scramble the Jets. The Israeli Defense Minister apparently agrees. Peggy Noonan's article was also good.

Following a discussion of the draconian taxman here. The lack of perspective exhibited by this government agency may have had something to with people not wanting to see mandates in health care. That system would grow on Medicare which is unfair in that it prevents you from any negotiation with a physician.

Re: McQueen

A focal point in the linked article is the psychological meaning, which had never occurred to me, of the dance contests of the thirties where two people would probably ultimately have to cling to each other to be the last couple dancing, exhausted and desperate, surviving to win something they could very much use. A sign of those times and one ideal I guess. You may find that in Bonnie and Clyde too.