That Egypt uprising? A product of global climate change. No, really. A Nobel laureate and New York Times’ columnist told me so. — Just before he dressed himself in lederhosen and bib suspenders, donned a feathered Bavarian cap, and spent a half-hour yodeling himself into a frenzy on 5th Avenue in advance of eating an entire tabby cat. And even that wasn’t as crazy as his Egypt column.

Governor Daniels, writing in the WSJ: The default option if any state declines to participate is for the federal government to operate an exchange directly. Which got me thinking: If the new law is not repealed by 2013, what could be done to reshape it in the direction of freedom and genuine cost control? I have written to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Services (HHS), saying that if her

I missed the last quarter of the SuperBowl last evening — well, live, at least — because my son got sick at the party we went to, and we had to drive an hour home. Then, his fever spiked to 105 in the early morning hours, so I spent the entire night up with him, alternating ibuprofen and acetaminophen dosages and applying wet wash cloths to bring his fever down.