Links and Shorts – Maverick Philosopher

What fools these mortals be! Death by atomic wedgie.
Why carry?
George Will on Gesture Liberalism: "liberalism’s belief that any institution of civil society can be properly broken to the saddle of the state."
Leftists lose in Chicagoland gun rights fight.
Rule by fools. Their names say it all: Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein, Holder . . . .
Memo to Bill O'Reilly: the proprietor of a website is not the purveyor thereof.
Obama the Stupid: he thinks everyone should go to college. So everyone is college material?
How the college bubble will burst.
Some straight talk about Social Security.
David Gelernter, The Closing of the Scientific Mind. This is by far the most important of today's links. I should devote a separate post to it.
Second most significant link of the day: D. G. Myers, Academe Quits Me.