PRESTOPUNDIT -- "Kerry in Cambodia" Wall-to-Wall Coverage

XRLQ HAS AN SUV

and he's out for blood.

A check of any pre-school in SoCal will clue even the stupidest academic into the fact that "SUV" is simply Madison Ave. for "full size family car". At the local pre-school 4 out of 5 cars in the lot are SUVs. Every try to get a kid in and out of a car seat in a sub-compact?

The SUV - car seat angle explains alot. Ralph Nader has no children? Who woulda guessed. Hollywood enviro-lefties hire nannies to pull their tots in and out of the limo? You don't say.

"I'm waiting for the 'Baby Boomers are Dead' stories".

Why late boomers hate the Bill & Hillary boomers.

Quotable: "The [myopia and self-centeredness of The Beattles's song "Fixing a Hole"] remind [music critic] Jim DeRogatis of two boomers born in 1946: Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In his autobiography, "Clinton takes 957 pages to say he really didn't do anything wrong," Mr. DeRogatis says, while President Bush "still won't say he was wrong" about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction."

Link via Virginia Postrel who writes: "I've been saying for decades that my end of the baby boom has little in common with the "baby boomers" we constantly hear about".

And, of course, don't miss the ever popular Boomer Death Watch.

UPDATE: Late boomer Michael Blowhard has his say.

More capitalism, less greenhouse gas.

""Put simply, poor people are willing to sacrifice clean water and air, healthy forests, and wildlife habitat for economic growth. But as their incomes rise above subsistence, "economic growth helps to undo the damage done in earlier years," says economist Bruce Yandle .. The link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic prosperity is no different. Using data from the United States, Professor Robert McCormick finds that "higher GDP reduces total net [greenhouse gas] emissions." He goes a step further by performing the complex task of estimating net U.S. carbon emissions. This requires subtracting carbon sequestration (long-term storage of carbon in soil and water) from carbon emissions. Think of it this way: when you build a house, the wood in it stores carbon. In a poor country that wood would have been burned to cook supper or to provide heat, thus releasing carbon into the atmosphere. McCormick shows that economic growth in the United States has increased carbon sequestration in many ways, including improved methods of storing waste, increased forest coverage, and greater agricultural productivity that reduces the acreage of cultivated land. Because rich economies sequester more carbon than poor ones, stored carbon must be subtracted from emissions to determine an economy's net addition to greenhouse gas emissions. McCormick's data show that "rich countries take more carbon out of the air than poorer ones" and that "the growth rate of net carbon emission per person will soon be negative in the United States." .. ". MORE Terry Anderson.

Immigration & Environmentalism.

Graph posted on the SUSPS (Support US Population Stabilization) web site -- the organization backing Richard Lamm's run for a post on the board of the Sierra Club.

Welfare State.

Robert Samuelson says don't worry, be happy. Or maybe not.

Gay Marriage. "Lots of younger conservatives think of themselves as tolerant, freedom-loving and possessing metropolitan sensibilities; but they also revere tradition and aren't comfortable with needlessly monkeying around with old institutions. The issue of same-sex marriage sits atop the intersection of these values .. " MORE Nick Schulz.

ThinkTanks. The Heritage foundation has a Policy Weblog tracking new Heritage policy papers and Heritage folks in the papers and on the radio. Note to the Heritage people -- the blog will take off when make it a more personalized group blog, more on the order of The Corner or the Volokh Conspiracy. Stay tuned for the Hayek Center launch of a new group blog in the very near future ..