Cheeky QB

Pretty funny. Just walk through the D.

I wonder if the kid plays poker?

A more traditional version, where the QB takes the snap through the legs of the center.

Now, I thought a snap HAD to be between the legs to be legal, in high school and higher. But...no. Any continuous movement of the ball, including handing it to the QB, is legal.

Good One By Ken

Ken at Popehat speaks sensibly about some things where nonsense reigns.

The Krugman gambit

Paul seems to only have one card these days, but he does play it very, very well.

It's the "nothing is ever enough card" and he got it out again in Sunday's NY Times.

The way it works is this:

(A) Lobby for any and all expansionary policies.

(B) Then, when an expansionary policy get proposed or enacted, pitch a fit and say that it's way too small and will never work.

(C) When said policy doesn't work (which of course could well be because the policy is bogus) scream "I told you so" over and over at the top of your lungs.

Was the "problem" with the stimulus bill simply that it was too small as Paul claims? Or was it that a temporary burst of government spending no matter how large is not going to come close to curing an economy that is suffering from a severe real shock/wealth loss?

One thing that's for sure as a matter of simple logic is that the fact that Paul said "it's too small", doesn't prove at all that's why if failed. Yet people (and Paul) often act as if it does.

Now he's pulled the same gambit with QE II, a policy that's unlikely to "work" no matter what size is chosen.

Well played, sir. Kudos!

All Hail John Covil

For he is the winner of the KPC reader appreciation new tagline contest. His entry now sits astride the KPC masthead like a colossus.

John is also a blogger. You can check his blog here.

He will be receiving his custom designed, KPC-themed Starbucks gift card as soon as it is approved by the Starbucks censors!

Congratulations John and thanks to all our contestants and readers.

Buy More Better Cars, and Other Stuff

BHO writes an op-ed. (Okay, some ghost wrote it, but BHO read it and suggested some edits)

Here it is, in the state-sponsored mouthpiece of the administration...

He seems to believe, or at least he says he believes, that Chinese people didn't buy General Motors cars because of protectionism. I believe that that is not right.

Contest finalists

Here are the four finalists for the KPC tagline reader appreciation contest. These are actual verbatim entries from actual KPC readers!

"Business up front, quantitative easing in the rear"

"Fatter in real life than you imagined"

“Those are my principles; if you don’t like them, I have others.” (Groucho Marx quote)

"Still looking for our copy of the social contract"

Comments are solicited while the judges deliberate.

Monday's Child is full of links

Guy writing book on pessimism. Has pinched nerve. Turns out it was a tumor. On Jon Stewart. (Nod to Angry Alex)

The Monster from Jekyll Island: It was Neanderbill! He was there! (This time, I mean; he went to the conference). And he got quoted in the NYTimes. I carpool with a famous person. You can tell other people you know me. (Nod to Anonyman)

Due Process: "Tenure" means you can't just fire them. Or so says the arbitrator at FSU.

New GOP Majorities say, "Hey States! We Gots yer budgets RIGHT HERE!"

Distance learning, at home. Recruit Chinese students, save high school? (Nod to Kevin Lewis)

California is the Lindsay Lohan of states...

Uncle Sam: Part Pusher, Part Preacher

The front page of today's NY Times sings a new verse to a familiar tune. The Federal government actively helps market extra fatty pizza (Uncle Sam the Cheese Pusher) while at the same time putting out publications warning people against eating pizza.

Just like when it subsidized the production of tobacco while running advertising campaigns against consuming it.

Just like how it limits the importation of sugar and subsidizes the production of corn so that kids grow up swimming in an post-natal amniotic fluid of high fructose corn syrup, while at the same time good old uncle sam leads the fight against childhood obesity and diabetes.

We pay for the pusher and we pay for the preacher and they are one in the same.

Self experimentation and unintended consequences

People, I am no spring chicken. But I am moderately active. I play tennis, practice a fairly active version of yoga, "do" Pilates, and take daily walks with my pack.

Both Mrs. Angus (more of a spring chicken than I) and I have been bothered by post workout soreness. She asked her doctor about it and he recommended milk proteins taken post-exercise.

So she did some research and we've been using a product called "Muscle Milk".

AND IT WORKS!

This stuff is so awesome. I feel much better the day after exercising and can be more active more often.

However it is also highly caloric, so in spite of increased activity, I am gaining weight. I am up to 140 pounds, which is the heaviest I've ever been.

Now maybe the therapeutic value of Muscle Milk is mainly as a placebo; that's fine with me, I'll take help any way I can get it. But the weight gain part is very real.

There is a "lite" version of the product but (a) it's not very lite and (b) it contains less of the treatment (i.e. less milk proteins).

I guess I'll keep using it until I either get too big to do yoga or Mrs. Angus threatens to dump me.

Eric Posner on Roman Constitution

Political Economy of the Roman Constitution, by Eric Posner

Nod to Angry Alex