Eating to Protect One's Joints

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Chris Masterjohn's Lecture for the 2012 Low-Carb Cruise

Mother Nature Obeyed: Why Animal Fats Are Good for You — My Low-Carb Cruise 2012 Lecture

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Items of Interest, 17 February 2012

Finished this response; will try to finish a couple of more on community and contemporary communitarianism before I take a break.

Thomas Fleming, American Idols and A Christian Defense of the Unspeakable Dawkins

Lessons in Empire

Marriage of Rights and Duties

Daniel Larison informs us that Andrew Bacevich is the editing a new book - The Short American Century: A Post-Mortem and American Exceptionalism

Oakeshott and Conservatism

Patrick Buchanan, Blacklisted But Not Beaten

I know there are some who are enthusiastic about Elizabeth Warren as a candidate in MA, but this (and her purported support for the feminist legal system) should give them some pause: Elizabeth Warren’s Rhetorical Extremism.

Mary Jo Anderson, Journalist for EWTN – and Professor Kevin Gutzman, Author of James Madison and the Making America – Join for Throwdown Thursday

Woods on Schiff with Rockwell and Gutzman

Faith and Marriage Under Attack

Patrick Deneen, Our Libertarian Future and Religious Liberty?

Obamacare:
Religious Freedom and the Triumph of the Therapeutic by Thaddeus Kozinski
Paul Gottfried, Immaculate Secularism
Rod Dreher, Liberalism's Assault on Catholicism and Has the Catholics Moment Passed?

Fast and Furious:
James Antle, Mission Implausible

Obama:
'Obama Girl' Turns on President, Slams Him in New Video

Economics:
The Fight of the Century by Richard Heinberg (EB)
Free online showing of The Economics of Happiness, followed by a live Q&A with Helena Norberg-Hodge (co-director and producer of The Economics of Happiness), Steven Gorelick (co-director of The Economics of Happiness), Manish Jain (founder of The People's Institute for Rethinking Education and Development) and Charles Eisenstein (author of Sacred Economics).
URL to be announced.

Relocalization:
The challenge of re-localisation by Graham Barnes (EB)
Book Review: Urban Homesteading by Oliver Lazenby (EB)
Big government and big corporations befriend the local food movement by Olga Bonfiglio
MDA: The Art of Crafting with Your Hands
Taproot Magazine

Farming:
Why Farms Want Cold Winters

Energy and Peak Oil:
World oil supply debate between ex-Shell chief and ASPO-USA professor
by Karen Rybold-Chin (EB)

Will Occupy Wall Street start drilling for peak oil?

How reliable are U.S. Department of Energy oil production forecasts? by Roger Blanchard (EB)
World energy consumption - beyond 500 exajoules by Rembrandt Koppelaar (EB)
Peak Oil and the Importance of EROI (review of Fleeing Vesuvius, Part 2)
The Grey, a peak oil flick quick take

Monsanto:
Open Seeds: Biopiracy and the Patenting of Life by grtv

Catholic:
Robert J. Araujo, SJ: What is freedom?
Introducing Chant into the Domestic Church
Culture, Liturgy, Beauty and Anthropology by David Clayton

Diet and Health:
Ask the Low-Carb Experts 6: ‘All Things Lipids (Cholesterol 101)’ | Chris Masterjohn (mp3)

Karen De Coster, Functional Medicine vs the Conventional Approach
How 1-minute intervals can improve our health

Feminism:
James Taranto Takes on Hypergamy

History:
Let It Not Happen Again by Clarence Moriwaki
Reflections on the 70th anniversary of Japanese American incarcerations.
If only immigration had been restricted... would there have been a  question of loyalty about a subset of the population? Why do we let Muslims immigrate to this country?

Which reminds me, I dreamt about SO a couple of days ago. I think she lives in Hawaii now. I saw some recent pics on her brother's FB. She has two or three kids, I can't remember. When I saw those photos I recalled how she defended "the right to an abortion" in high school. The details of the dream are lost to me now - I think it was related to HS drama/relationship problems.

Was Beowulf an Empty Nester?
Interview with Author Nancy Bilyeau (via Supremacy and Survival)

Music:
Alison Krauss & Union Station Commemorate The Simpsons 500th Episode with a Song
Brumel’s Missa “Et ecce terrae motus” (mp3)
Stile Antico on BBC3 (4 days left to listen)
Natalie MacMaster has a new album, Cape Breton Girl.

Misc:
Tim Kennedy - in a Gerber video for a giveaway contest

Items of Interest, 21 November 2011

Peter Hitchens, The Hidden Persuaders and the Menace of TV
Gareth Porter, Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim
Patrick Cockburn, Huge Stakes in Syria
Spanish Conservatives Win Majority
Richard Heinberg: Islands in an Expanding Sea

Economics:
Rupert Ederer, Oinkonomics

I think his objection to distributism is rather flimsy, and partly a strawman argument in so far as he identifies distributism solely with agrarianism.

Catholic neo-liberalism under the guise of "personalism"? The Need for Economic Personalism (archive) - the Acton Institute, of course.

The primary error of distributism lay in its understanding of the economy as a zero-sum game, where wealth was seen as a static, non-reproducible entity. Therefore the main problem was not the production of wealth but its distribution: How is the static pie of wealth most equitably sliced up? Distributism hindered the emergence of an adequate understanding of human capital and productivity. The distributivists saw economic development only in terms of the cultural dangers of industrialization and as a threat to the family unit. They did not agree that economic growth would generate wealth that would raise living conditions and be "redistributed" by market mechanisms and through charitable organizations. Such economic naivete blinded them to market realities and the basic laws of economics. By the end of the 1920s, however, distributism began to wane and was soon eclipsed by the New Deal Catholics of the Roosevelt era.

What is the author missing? Is It Really Possible to Decouple GDP Growth from Energy Growth?
He could also read John Michael Greer on the primary economy. (In a similar vein to the above, The Economic Personalism of John Paul II: Neither Right Nor Left.)

Relocalization:
How to Make Multigenerational Homes Work
A rather provocative title: Transition plans and meetings a waste of time, says Greer
Michael Shuman, HOW BAMBI BEAT GODZILLA: A response to James Surowiecki

Guest Post: A Message To The SPLC From A Montana "Extremist"

From Liberty Fellowship’s relocation program, to James Rawles’ American Redoubt, Stewart Rhodes’ Operation Sleeping Giant, and my own Safe Haven Project through Alt-Market.com, the powers-that-be are noticeably perturbed at the very idea of Americans walking away from their computers, leaving their homes, talking to each other face-to-face, and forming mutual aid groups. God forbid…

OWS:
Thomas Fleming, Otherwise Occupied
Occupy Wall Street Occupy Your Street
Jack Random, The Austerity Regime

Education:
Classical Homeschooling
In Defense of Poetry
Coleridge: The Education of Children
Respect the Classical Tradition

Diet and Health:
Chris Masterjohn: At the Intersection of Price and Paleo: My Second Interview with Cary Nosler (mp3)

Misc:
Rorate Caeli: the new SSPX seminary

Orion Design Group (ODG) ODTDM-2 Arid-Environment/Multi-Environment/Multi-Terrain/Multispectral Military Combat Camo (Camouflage) Pattern/”Individual Signature Management” Technology Makes Cover of SureFire “Combat Tactics” Magazine Fall 2011 Issue (Photo!)

Items of Interest, 19 September 2011

Dr. Fleming: Getting Real Again

Rush is right about the basic point though, and this is a subject I have been meditating on for years. Justice demands that the guilty, not the innocent pay, and the guilty parties to the national debt are the congressmen and officials of both parties who took bribes and pandered to the lobbyists and ward heelers. When elected legislators and bureaucrats go into debt, it is their fault as much as it is the fault of the board of directors and managers of a business. Let the responsible parties be held accountable. If every member of Congress and White House flunkey who got us into this mess were held responsible, we’d have about 500 people to pay back the trillions of debt they–not we–owe.

Thoughts on the British Riots by Mark A. Signorelli ·
He may be blaming Uhmerican culture too much for the riots.

Medievalists.net: Burgundian Costume: Being a study of women’s formal dress of Northern Europe, especially Burgundy and Flanders, in the later half of the 15th century
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) and Her Music Drama Ordo virtutum: A critical review of the scholarship and some new suggestions

NLM: Fr. Guy Nicholls on Chant and Mass Propers

Gun seller who helped ATF had doubts about the sting

San Francisco CSA Roundup

Diet:
Jimmy Moore: The LLVLC Show (Episode 499): Jamie Scott Pushing Paleo In New Zealand, Green Deane Is A Modern-Day Low-Carb Forager (mp3)
Chris Masterjohn: An addendum to How to Do a Proper Self-Experiment, and Why Your "N" Doesn't Technically Equal "1"

Barefoot Running and Minimalist Footware:
The Natural Foot: Loosing Faith in Instincts, Movement and Intuitive Sensation - C&NN Connect
Hiking the Smoky Mountains in Toe Shoes
From 2008: That rather famous piece, "You Walk Wrong."


NYT: Wilma Lee Cooper Grand Ole Opry Singer Dies at 90
CMT
Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper






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