Items of Interest, 28 March 2012

Club Orlov: A Modest Health Care Proposal
Michael Shedlock, "Healthwreck": Obamacare May Go Down Entirely; Medicaid Funding in Question; Justice Scalia Joked Reading Entire Bill Would be "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"; Wrecking Operation or Salvage Job?
Amicus Curiae of Senator Rand Paul

Conservatism or Liberty? by Nikolai G. Wenzel
A Guiding Principle Revealed by David Schaengold

The War on Guns by Frank Borzellieri

Jack Donovan, The Trouble with Squares
Interview with Andy Nowicki (alas, hosted at a WN website)

10 Places to Meet Women Other Than a Bar or Nightclub
Location does matter, but they have to be very specific in order for one to find a woman of compatible cultural background and character. Is AoM too beta?

Relocalization and Sustainability:
Dave Pollard, How many circles does it take to make a community? (EB)

Translating Transition: from small town to mega-city by Joanne Poyourow (EB)
But if nothing can make an alternative arrangement sustainable, wouldn't it be better to leave?

Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (book review) by David Bollier (EB)

New Urbanism Now

Farming:
Watching Hens Eat by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Energy:
The Phantoms I’ve Killed by Tom Murphy (EB)

The solar envelope: how to heat and cool cities without fossil fuels
by Kris De Decker (EB)

Christian:
Improperia: Popule Meus for Good Friday

A more "Eastern" version:
Reminds me of what the SSJ did with the use of organum. That group was such a disappointment, to put it mildly. The Archaeological Evidence For Jesus (PHOTOS) The Real Persecution Today If We Mock the Sacred We Will Have No Future Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Islam: Hijab – the Islamic dress code: its historical development, evidence from sacred sources and views of selected Muslim scholars Diet and Health: Robb Wolf, The Paleo Diet Budget Shopping Guide Paleo Women are Phat I’m Calling for a New Paradigm Music: Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (here) Two Requiems by Wendy Gillespie TV: Gillian Anderson on ‘X-Files,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Great Expectations’ MODERN-DAY BATTLE AXE (includes a photo of United Cutlery M48 Hawk (top) and Smith & Wesson SW671 Tomahawk) ZT Knives at SHOT Show 2012 (source) Soompi's 14th Birthday Celebration!