Urban legends...

Urban legends.  That's what ObamaCare enrollees have become.  We hear about them, but nobody has actually seen one.  Reason has a post on the phenomenon, including the short at right...

Sure looks like fun!

Sure looks like fun!  Does anybody know where this is???

Reduce your income...

Reduce your income.  If you want to lower the impact of the new, higher ObamaCare health insurance premiums, that's the advice from SFGate, a publication of the San Francisco Chronicle.  It's all summed up with this:

You can also consider reducing your 2014 income by working just a bit less.

Say what?

It's all because of some poor law-crafting in the hastily cobbled-together ObamaCare law.  It includes some “cliffs” in the subsidy formulas that cause sudden changes in the amount of a subsidy when your income changes by as little as $1.  That's right – making $1 more can cost you thousands of dollars in subsidies.  So:

People whose 2014 income will be a little too high to get subsidized health insurance from Covered California next year should start thinking now about ways to lower it to increase their odds of getting the valuable tax subsidy.

So now our government is providing incentives to work less.  Lovely.

This is how a welfare state looks.  People pour their creativity into finding ways to game the system, instead of inventing the next iPhone.

Doom.  I feel the doom...

“Mr. President, tear down this wall!”

“Mr. President, tear down this wall!”  I never would have imagined that Reagan's trenchant sentence could be reused.  Well played, sir!

John Hinderaker, at PowerLine, has much more...

Dance of the atoms...

Dance of the atoms – in the world's thinnest sheet of glass, imaged by an electron microscope as it's being bent.  Awesome!

“Never mind.”

“Never mind.”  Scott Adams' all-time favorite Dilbert:

Interview and his top ten list...

Mars, with some changes...

Mars, with some changes.  This photo was taken yesterday by the Curiosity rover, then corrected to make colors appear as they would if the scene were on Earth.  Generally that means it's more blue and less red than it actually would appear to us, were we standing on Mars – but it's more comparable to similar scenes on Earth.  That scene looks like any number of desert places I've visited, and I've never left Earth...