I’ll tell you this much: If Japan doesn’t light up like the underside of a tricked-out Nissan Skyline 2000GT-EX street racer by, say, 5PM MT today, I’m going to file an ethics complaint against Japan for its unconscionable efforts at forcing us — by way of this tease of a possible catastrophic nuclear event — into hysterical, ill-informed, and often quite hyperbolic “coverage”. Much of which makes us look silly,

Obama has his Thomas Friedman moment: A beleaguered President Obama has told aides it would be so much easier to be the president of China, The New York Times reports. There are two ways to read the remark, which is attributed to anonymous aides. One is that Obama resents the burden of global leadership that comes with the American presidency. The other is that he longs for an authoritarian system,

More Republicans are beginning to get it. Now if only our leadership would sack up. From The Corner, Andrew Stiles: The House will vote Tuesday on a three-week continuing resolution that would cut federal spending by $6 billion. It is the second short-term resolution proposed by the 112th Congress. And though it is expected to pass the House comfortably, a number of conservative groups have come out against the measure.

As protein wisdom readers well know, the TEA Party caucus leadership in the House is at odds with the GOP leadership over the issue of CRs — specifically, CR agreements that leave in place the funding for ObamaCare the Democrats snuck into an authorization bill. One of the conservatives on the front lines of this battle with establishment Republican leadership has been Steve King, who today lays out his case

Stephen Hayes provides the WI coda. For background, see this, also from Hayes. Seems strange that if Walker “didn’t run on” collective bargaining reform — as the Journal Sentinel’s Politifact Wisconsin now states — the Journal Sentinel itself would have written this back on Sept 13: Walker wants to make it easier for school districts and local governments to buy insurance through a state-run health benefits program. Barrett would require

Most transparent administration EVAH! President Barack Obama once promised that negotiations over his health care overhaul would be carried out openly, in front of TV cameras and microphones. Tell that to the White House now. Republican congressional investigators got the brush-off this past week after pressing for details of meetings between White House officials and interest groups, including drug companies and hospitals that provided critical backing for Obama’s health insurance

Looks mostly sunny in my backyard right now, but I’m not going to say with any certitude that it won’t rain later. **** update: By the way: if it doesn’t rain later, remember who it was who first reported that it was sunny in my backyard. **** update 2: BREAKING: nothing much has changed — though I do note a suspicious movement of the sun westward. Developing… **** update 3:

From Ace’s comments: OK, does anyone read ProteinWisdom regularly? What’s happened over there? I used to read it, but kind of lost interest when the main host got involved in some sort of blog battle and subsequent whiny emotional meltdown. But now I discover (via a link at Patterico) that they have really jumped the shark and are accusing Ace, HotAir, and Patterico of going full-blown Katrina over the Japan

Looks like they’ll be no real-world Godzilla vs Mothra battles, after all. I still say nuclear energy needs to be strongly promoted here in the states (it’s probably best to keep reactors out of California, however). And I suspect we can use what we learn from Japan to better the containment and cooling technology. Besides. I’m pretty sure wind turbines wouldn’t have stood up any better to the earthquake and

Someone please email this to Brian Kiteley. I’ve never been beaten with tweed and smugness before, but I suspect it doesn’t leave much of a mark. So. So. (thanks to geoffB)