Items of Interest, 21 March 2012

Almost got run over tonight! That ------- is lucky that I didn't trust his driving or visual skills.

For the feast of St. Benedict (on the old calendar of the Roman rite): Pax Inter Spinas by Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P.
Suscipe Me, Domine







Paul Gottfried, German Sabotage and America’s Entry Into World War I

Kevin Gutzman on Jack Riccardi: "James Madison and the Making of America" (mp3)

The funeral of Pope Shenouda III - in pictures


(via Byzantine, Texas)

Juliet Schor on Consumption and the Environment

The great, invisible brain wave in the sky by Gene Logsdon (EB)

From January: Happy 130th Birthday, A. A. Milne: “Happiness” and the Origin of Winnie-the-Pooh

Relocalization:
Building Businesses That Stand For Something

Preparing for the unimaginable by Dave Pollard (EB)


Peak Oil and Energy:
Behind Oil Price Rise: Peak Oil or Wall Street Speculation?
Peak oil, keeping reality in mind

Education:
Laziness by Any Other Name

Diet and Health:
Mark Nugent, Will Red Meat Really Kill You?
Gary Taubes, Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat

Catholic:
Garbage Generation
Life after RC: Pressing for an investigation
Brennan Pursell, How to Develop a Prayer Life that Transforms
Don Nicola Bux Personally Appeals to the SSPX: "This is the appropriate moment..."

Music:
Pretty Little Girl from Galax video

Movies:
Whit Stillman Q & A: 'Damsels in Distress,' 13-Year Hiatus, Upcoming Ska Rocksteady Project

ARC'TERYX LEAF Urban Wolf from ARC'TERYX LEAF on Vimeo.

Items of Interest, 4 March 2012

Forecasting a Collapse (an article on Michael Ruppert)

Connecting the Dots on Fast and Furious

Jack Donovan recommends:
How to End the Culture Wars
The Demise of Guythink

A paper that has been cited in various places in the manosphere:
How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

John R. Lott, Jr. and Larry Kenny1
It is not really surprising that this welfare state should breed a
politics not of “justice” or “fairness” but of “compassion,” which
contemporary liberalism has elevated into the most important civic
virtue. Women tend to be more sentimental, more risk-averse and
less competitive than men—yes, it’s Mars vs. Venus—and therefore
are less inclined to be appreciative of free-market economics, in
which there are losers as well as winners. College-educated
women—the kind who attend Democratic conventions—are also
more “permissive” and less “judgmental” on such issues as
homosexuality, capital punishment, even pornography.


Dave Pollard, Not Ready to Do What’s Needed

Paul Gottfried, Hard Questions for Romney, Paul, and Santorum

Farming:
Joel Salatin: "Holy Cows & Hog Heaven" (mp3)


article

Education:
Dr. Helen: “[T]oday’s college degree is the equivalent of the 1950′s high school diploma…”

Music:
Music in the Modern Age by Peter Kalkavage (a review of Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music by Robert R. Reilly)



Catholic:




Diet and Health:
Carbohydrates are Good; Dogma is Evil!
Cycling: 12 Common Century Ride Mistakes

Misc:




Identical twins adopted from China by two different Ontario families grow up 400 km apart

Items of Interest, 12 October 2011

The Occupation Movement:
Thomas Fleming, Occupied America
Why the metamovement will ultimately fail by Dave Pollard (EB)
Ralph Nader, Rumble from the people (Counterpunch)
Welmer, Occupy Wall Street Protests: Real Movement or More Party Politics?
The Occupation Movement: Grand Alliance or Anti-Tea Party?
John Robb, JOURNAL: A Capitalist Reformation?

More on the Economy:
The FALL of Phantom Assets by Dr. Peter Chojnowski

Tomgram: Andy Kroll, America's Lost Decade

Transition Culture: “Communities are more important than individuals, and probably more important than states and nations”: An interview with Bill McKibben

Joel Salatin:
The Self-Sufficient Gardener: Episode 125 Interviews – Joel Salatin, Cheryl Long, Diane Ott Whealy (mp3)
Farmer And Philosopher Joel Salatin (mp3)
Joel Salatin, Part 1: “Folks, This Ain’t Normal”
Joel Salatin, Part 2: Food Regulation And The Little Guy
Mother Earth News (2008)
Making Food Friendly
Dekacrossfit

Peak Oil:
How I prepared my family for peak oil - Nicole Foss (EB)


Catholic:
Papal Vespers in Carthusian Monastery

Solemn Ambrosian Vespers and Benediction (Usus Antiquior Ambrosianus)

Rob Vischer, Occupy Wall Street v. Tea Party: Should Catholic Identity Shape Our Preference?

Are we really talking about identity, as opposed to political preferences or the alliances that we form with others? Is there any movement that embodies CST? Would we not be better off pursuing concrete strategies of relocalization and living in accordance with the order of charity?

CD-Aufnahmen zur neuen CD "Chant - Amor et Passio": 1. Tag


Probe mit David Ianni für die CD "Chant - Amor et Passio"


Predigt von Kurt Kardinal Koch

Diet and Health:
Mark Sisson: How I'd Change Gym Class


Music:
NPR: A Final Gift From Steve Jobs, Plus New Music From First Aid Kit

Breathing New Life Into Hank Williams' Lyrics : NPR

Exclusive Interview: Scotty McCreery talks hitting No. 1, his 'no' list and prom

Mark Sisson would say, "Don't forget play."

Living disconnected (EB) by Dave Pollard

First Mr. Pollard summarizes the article he wrote last year, "What Are You Going to Do When the Internet's Gone," including his alternatives to the Internet:

In the same article I described what I think we will do with our time instead:

• Instead of downloading music and film, create our own music and theatre, in live performance
• Instead of taking photos, draw, paint, sculpt
• Instead of blogging, write a journal, and meet in our community and share stories and ideas, cook together, rant, organize, build something together
• Instead of playing online games, organize a real-space scavenger hunt, eco-walk, or bicycle rallye, or play board games
• Instead of taking online courses, unschool ourselves in our own communities, and learn about our place… or show/teach others what we know (including, most importantly, teaching children how to think and learn for themselves)
• Instead of organizing online petitions and complaining online about the state of the world, go visit our local politicians, get involved in community activities that make a difference (disrupt, show our outrage, satirize, or create something better)
• Instead of looking for health information online, set up a local self-help health co-op, offering preventive care, self-diagnostic and holistic self-treatment information
• Instead of porn… well, use your imagination

Items of Interest, 11 May 2011

Alte, The Artifice of Submissive Femininity

Transition and the collapse scenario
Dave Pollard, how to save the world

At the risk of exasperating my crisis-fatigued colleagues in the Transition Movement, here’s a collapse scenario, not inconsistent with those of many researchers, scientists, historians, economists and theorists who’ve looked at peak oil, runaway global warming, economic depressions and the history of civilizations.

Good news on the right to food by Timothy Wise (EB)

Are food prices too high or not high enough?
Gene Logsdon, From The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

Not one mention was made of the best way to be farming this year: letting the animals graze for their food as they turn untilled pasture into meat, milk and eggs. It has been so wet that you did dare put cows on some pastures some days but, on the whole, pasture farmers are happy with all this rain: we could graze twice as many animals as normal.

Making a Living (Economy)
We're wasting our resources subsidizing a war economy, sprawl, and consumerism. What we could do differently in a living economy.
by David Korten

How a community-based co-op economy might work (original)

Dave Pollard, how to save the world blog

Most people have been brought up to believe that the competitive, grow-or-die, absentee-shareholder-owned, "free"-trade "market" economy is the only one that works, the only alternative to a socialist, government-run economy. This myth is perpetrated in business and other schools, by the media, by accountants and lawyers and bankers and, of course, in the business world.

Dave Pollard is the author of Finding the Sweet Spot: The Natural Entrepreneur's Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work.