It’s Thor’s day. Therefore, links!

My sister’s visiting today, so I decided to give myself the time off until she goes. But that’s no reason not to blog, at least while I’m waiting to drive to the airport.
•What is conservatism? One academic answers that it’s an ongoing effort to create and maintain an aristocracy.
•An old quote by Andrew Mellon suggests we’ve got it the wrong way around: We should tax wages and salaries—what people earn by the sweat of their brow—less than we tax investment.
•I’ve long held that building our policies around the Founders’ “original intent” is probably unworkable and often a bad idea. This article makes the case much better, and in more detail.
•To reduce the deficit, raise income taxes on the poor! Another example of conservatives treating the poor as evil.
•Echidne on sexist questions in interviews (it’s acceptable to ask a woman if she slept her way to the top, but would anyone ask a man if he’d given women workers jobs for sex?)
•Motley Fools says what we can learn from JP Morgan’s massive losses this year.
•One blogger on why he hates Big Bang Theory. The criticism are valid, but I still like the show.
•Creepy sexism on Reddit and the ethics of outing creepy sexists. John Scalzi weighs in.
•In addition to the Seasteading and Libertarian City concepts I mentioned yesterday, here’s a plan to use the Honduran coup to create a libertarian hellhole—I mean, utopia.
•When the Southern Poverty Law Center proposes students eat with someone different from their usual crowd, anti-gay activists realize this can only mean promoting homosexuality!
•Conservatives may not believe in global warming, but insurers do.
•Social Security took in $95 billion this year. It’s not going broke. Medicare isn’t bankrupt either. Paul Krugman sums up the issue with cutting them: Thousands must get sick or suffer to preserve high-income tax cuts!
•Searching someone’s cloud-stored email without a warrant is perfectly legal.
•According to right-winger Pam Gellar’s recounting of this conversation, even the ultra-liberal CIA hates Obama.
•A right-wing terrorist caught plotting to blow up a mosque.
•Echidne reminds us that right-wingers who condemn “class warfare” mean “criticize poor people, not rich people!”