Donald Trump: The Peak Oil President?

Richard Heinberg (PCI)

Related:
2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart by Gail Tverberg (Resilience)

Fake News, Failed States by Bart Hawkins Kreps (Resilience)

Gene Logsdon, 1932 – 2016 (Resilience)

To confront power, one must first name it: Neoliberalism and the sustainability crisis by Kurt Cobb (Resilience)

The Moral and Ethical Weight of Voluntary Simplicity: A Philosophical Review by Samuel Alexander, Jacob Garrett

Forging Permaculture Hand Tools, Part 1 by Tim Wickstrom (Resilience)

Gene Logsdon Passes

FPR has the news.

Gene Logsdon on the Situation in Kentucky

Faith and fears in Wendell Berry’s Kentucky

An Update from Gene Logsdon, and a New Book

His blog. (Resilience)

Ever since Energy Bulletin was replaced by Resilience I have not been visiting the site daily. (It is still a useful clearinghouse of links pertaining to peak oil, energy, localism, and so on. Though it may be less "ecumenical" than before.) Consequently I had not been reading Gene Logsdon's blog posts. He has announced that he has cancer. He has not yet reconciled to God and His Church. I will have to see if he talks about his seminary experience in his autobiography - maybe his alienation is understandable. Kyrie eleison.

Promo for Gene Logsdon's Holy Sh*t

Chelsea Green

Items of Interest, 15 June 2012

The Flaw in Jefferson’s Idea of Ward Republics by Will Hoyt

The Baleful Comet of Boston: Samuel Adams and the Puritan Republic by M. E. Bradford

The Moral Imagination & Imaginative Conservatism by Eva Brann

William J. Watkins, Storming the Castle Doctrine

Imperial Dusk by Joseph Fallon

Bradley Birzer, Conservatism is Not an Ideology

Permanent Things: T.S. Eliot's Conservatism

Samuel Gregg, A Necessary Symbiosis
America’s Spiritual Capital
by Nicholas Capaldi and Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
St Augustine’s Press (South Bend, Indiana), 2012.
Paper, 176 pages, $17.

Modern but Not Liberal
A confident Christian faith can absorb and sustain the achievements of modernity
David S. Yeago

Too accepting of liberalism as one of the primary causes of modernity? (Rather than an ideology used by some to justify the consequences of political and economic centralization.)

Rod Dreher, Corruption and Family Structure

The Indian Law That Lets Citizens Shoot Cops
AllGov.com

Ralph Nader, Romney's Inante Campaign
Paul Gottfried, An Echo, Not a Choice

A Trump doing something positive? Ivanka Trump Makes Her Mark (modesty in fashion)

The Perfections of Jane Austen by Eva Brann

Economics and Sustainability:
Elinor Ostrom passed away earlier this week. Slate. Indiana University.

Thomas Storck, Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism

The Myth of the Free Market American Health Care System

Book review: "Energy and the Wealth of Nations"
by Richard Vodra, JD, CFP

'The End of Growth'… and then what? (review of Heinberg and Rubin) (EB)
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee

END OF GROWTH UPDATE: Neither a borrower nor a lender be by Richard Heinberg (EB)

Bill Rees: Why We're in Denial (EB)
by Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz



Relocalization:
Making a Local Coat: From Raw Materials to Finished Product

Eating our way to a better world? : A plea to local, fair-trade, organic food enthusiasts by Andrea Brower

Chris Martenson's website has some changes.

Is Your Home Fit? Here’s How to Find Out

John Michael Greer, Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush and The Parting of the Ways

Earth Blood : John Michael Greer (interview) - mp3

Club Orlov: Fragility and Collapse: Slowly at first, then all at once and Our Brave Experiment

10 Ways to Love Where You Live

We should do what we can to be neighborly and sociable, but these steps will not eradicate profound differences in culture and identity.

Farming:
Gene Logsdon, Can garden farming be too successful? (EB)

Soil Survivor: An Interview with Will Allen

Peak Oil and Energy:
Oil and the future: a review of Peeking at Peak Oil (EB)
Kersti Kollberg, Uppsala Nya Tidning (Aleklett's Energy Mix)

Modifying Hubbert’s model of peak oil to account for a rise in production due to higher prices (EB)
James Hamilton, Econbrowser


[ Charles Hall // Energy Returns ]

[ Charles Hall // Energy Returns ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo.

Energy Return on (Energy) Invested (EROI), Oil Prices, and Energy Transitions

Peak Oil = Slavery?

Education:
U of All People

Catholic:
Why I Wore A Strapless Wedding Dress
(Reminds me of JC and her wedding at the CC chapel.)

Political Withdrawal Reconsidered

James Kalb, In the Middle of the Journey
Catholics need to oppose the movement toward a society that prizes above all else security, efficiency, and the ever-more-demanding liberal version of human rights.


Music:
A review in the SFCV of Jordi Savall's concerts last weekend.

Materialism is Killing Country Music by Charlie Spiering

Items of Interest, 4 May 2012

M.E. Bradford' s Constitutional Theory: A Southern Conservative's Affirmation of The Rule of Law by Marshall DeRosa

PJB, A Decade of War for What?
Obama's 2024 Afghan 'Transition' Deal Not Convincing Everyone
What Is the Proper Role of Military Power

H. L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian by Murray N. Rothbard

The Panderer-in-Chief's Pitch for the Female Vote: The Life of Julia
Welmer: Meet Julia
The Men in Julia's Life
Jack Welch, Julia and the fallacy of working women ‘having it all’

False autonomy and empowerment disguised as radical equality, false because it is only possible through the government (and the enslavement of men to pay for it) - evil. (D/d)emocrats should be despised - their policies destroy family and community by destroying female responsibility.

The Contraception Mandate and Secular Discourse by R. J. Snell

How Patriarchy Crubmled: Silent Assent

Everything But Sex, Everything But Divorce

Liberalism Is Bad for Literature by Mark Bauerlein (marriage and courtship)


Democracy's Arc by John Michael Greer

Fred Reed, Enstupidation

Liberals will interpret things their way:
Five Lessons in Human Goodness from “The Hunger Games”
By Jeremy Adam Smith

Kevin Gutzman:
James Madison and the Making of America
The Virginians

Economics:
Ethical Labor

Is It Possible To Build An Economy Without Jobs? by Frank Joyce

Why are we striking? Or to put it another way – what’s wrong with the world?

Farming:
On Being a Worthy Heir of the Agrarian Contrarians (makes mention of Gene Logsdon)
Wendell Berry, Hater and Idealogue

Beyond Fossilized Paradigms: Futureconomics of Food
The economics of the future is based on people and biodiversity - not fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and monocultures.
by Vandana Shiva
In the Rain, Alice Waters Visits School Gardens to Celebrate Hard Work and Edible Education
Full Circle Farm: A New Level of Community

Factory Food is Making Us Dumber and Dumber

Shannon Hayes, One Chicken, Three Meals: The Best Bargain at the Farmers’ Market

Peak Oil and Energy:
Seven myths used to debunk peak oil, debunked by Andrew McKay (EB)

Living for free: a community thriving by recycling other people's waste


Diet and Health:
The 4-Hour Work Week

MovNat N. Am. Workshops

Catholic:


Benedict XVI, On the Prayer of the First Christian Martyr

Relics of 6 Martyred Priests Tour US

From Pagan Cosmos to Christian Creation: A Historical Path from Late Antique Priscillianus to Medieval Hildegard

Orthodox:
"Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon


Masculinity:
F. Roger Devlin reviews Jack Donovan's book: The Origins of Manliness

How Chemicals Affect UsBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The Stark Truth: Andy Nowicki in Defense of Squares (mp3)

Music:
Cappella Artemisia


Jubal's Kin, Boy Blue


Delta Goodrem:




How to build a better trebuchet

TV:
NPR with Steven Moffat

Misc:
Gear Blog: Interview with an Arc'teryx Designer

College Dropout Jason Padgett Becomes Accidental Mathematical Geniusu After Brutal Mugging

Items of Interest, 26 April 2012

The Revolutionary Conservatism of Jefferson's Small Republics by Arthur J. Versluis

John Michael Greer, Seascape With Methane Plumes

CISPA is the New SOPA
Jordan Bloom, The Cyber-Narc Bill

Peter Hitchens, The Over-Rating of Oscar Wilde

Chief Justice Says States Have Compromised Their Sovereignty

The False Idol Of American Democracyby Michael Hill (via Rebellion)

KunstlerCast #203: Live Audience Podcast – Part 2 (mp3)
JHK & Duncan at Union College Humanities Seminar

A good Republican - Kristi Noem, My Voice: Focus on real issues, not sideshows

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Soldier by Steve Sailer (on Tiger Woods)

Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, A Full Spectrum Confrontation World?
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Memory Failure at the Pentagon
Tomgram: Lewis Lapham, Machine-Made News

Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme

How Intellectual Property Destroyed Men's Shaving

via some Left Conservatives:


Economics:
Redefining wealth by Craig K. Comstock
To young people, justice is a key ingredient in good food by Yoni Landau (EB)

Relocalization:
Sustainable Local Economies - Nick Osborne Transition Network Speaker at 7GGC

Occupy the Farm, A Model of Resistance

Gene Logsdon, It Pays to Stay Home (EB)

Hiding Behind the Screen

Permaculture:
raised garden beds: hugelkultur instead of irrigation
Hegelkultur
Why Permaculture Design Inspires Me

Catholic:
Kathleen Blum, A Tuscan Childhood
The legacy of the 13th Apostle: origins of the East Christian conceptions of church and state relation
What is “Lectio Divina” and will it help my prayer life? – A Guide to Lectio Divina
Cats, Compliments, and Whit Stillman
8 Reasons Catholics Are the Worst Protestors
Who cares about protesting? Catholics have been neutered as an effective political force, whether they have been complicit or not in this process. (E. Michael Jones talks about the destruction of Catholic neighborhoods in the major cities.)

A liberal Protestant who doesn't understand Church authority (or Christianity, for that matter) - Having the Sisters' Back

CWR: The Church and the Sisters: What Is Really Happening?

Catholic Because I’m a Sinner by Jack Mulder

Teaching Virtue for the New Evangelization


Education:
The Real Business of Liberal Learning

Diet and Health:
Memorandum by Richard Horton (PI 108)
THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND MEDICAL JOURNALS
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science



Saturated Fat is Good for You - by Uffe Ravnskov MD - Part 1 of 3 By Uffe Ravnskov MD

MDA: 2 More Common Nutrient Deficiencies
Why Fast? Part Seven – Q&A
Dear Mark: Risk of Gout?

Alas, Tom Murphy buys into the China Study propaganda: Flex-Fuel Humans (EB)

Marriage:
How young should a woman marry? (Part 1)
A Conversation with John Witte about the Evolution of Marriage Law in the West (mp3)

History:
The Methods of Medieval Translators: A Comparison of the Latin Text of Virgil’s Aeneid with its Old French Adaptations


Music:
The Punch Brothers

The complete program.



Larry Vickers:

Items of Interest, 4 April 2012

Mark Signorelli, A Burke for our Times, Part 3

Thomas Fleming, The Nerve of the Turks

Chris Hedges Challenges NDAA in Court

A Conversation with Wendell Berry

Peter Hitchens, Do this in Remembrance

Florida's Self-Defense Laws (contrast with the combox ford Dreher's post)
Patrick J. Buchanan, A Nation Arms Itself — For What?

James Antle, Obama's Preemptive Strike on the Supreme Court

Judge Napolitano Blasts Back at Obama Predicting of the Uphold of ObamaCare Says “He Know This is Our System”


The Supreme Court and Obamacare

Paul Gottfried, Obama Mobilizes His Leftist Base

Jim Bovard, 95th Anniversary of Horrendous American Wrong Turn: World War One

Subsidiarity and Libertarian “Small Government” by James Baresal

Chinese women are killing themselves at astronomical rates: is the one-child policy to blame?

Putin’s Philosophy by Paul Robinson

Interview with Jack Donovan (mp3)

Gene Logsdon, Nature's Promises Kept Again

Economics and Relocalization:
Commodification: the essence of our time by Colin Leys and Barbara Harriss-White

“The first question should always be “how are we going to work together?” rather than “what are we going to do?” by Rob Hopkins

Can There Be “Good” Corporations?
Collaboration is Key to Small Business Success

A new film from REconomy: The Totnes Local Entrepreneurs Forum

Back to the Land

Permaculture thinking on the farm: going beyond tradition by Rebecca Hosking

Energy and Sustainability:
Dealing with energy shock in Japan (mp3
Timeline: How We Learned to Love—and Hate—Natural Gas
Does the U.S. really have more oil than Saudi Arabia?
Tom Murphy, Heat those Feet!
Review of Lt. Col. Eggen’s thesis, Impact of the Peaking of World Oil Production on the Global Balance of Power by Rick Munroe
1970’s Study Predictions Are Still on Target for 2030’s Decline of Humanity
Expanding our moral universe by Joy Merwin Monteiro (EB)
True sustainability solutions by Gail Tverberg (EB)
Peak oil denial: How does this help? by Rich Turcotte (EB)

Diet and Health:
The LLVLC Show (Episode 564): Stefani ‘Paleo Pepper’ Ruper Brings A Refreshing Irreverence To The Paleo Community (mp3)

Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 11): ‘Saturated Fat Is Good For You?’ | Dr. Jeff Volek (mp3)

How giving up sugar can take 20 years off your looks

MDA: Is Eating Meat Ethical?

Red meat has many benefits for athletes, magazine says

Robb Wolf, MovNat & Erwan LeCorre – Episode 126 (mp3)

Catholic:
First Chrism Mass of UK Ordinariate at St. James, Spanish Place (more photos)
Christendom: Va. Attorney General Cuccinelli Exhorts Students to Get Involved (lecture at itunes)
Contemporary Byzantine Icons Exhibition to be Presented in Trieste

History:
Foundation of the Renaissance: The Civic Culture of Early Italian Humanism

Feminism:
Sex and the modern girl: Are we witnessing a new age of female sexual assertiveness?
I dated 50 men in six months (and STILL didn't find love)

Guys, 'Girls,' online porn and the younger generation

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Dalrock Responds to Darwin Catholic: What, Me Worry?

The Corruption of Christianity

Steve Sailer, Mortal Combat From a Feminine Perspective

Music:
Scruggs funeral audio available online - Eddie Stubbs’ On-Air Tribute to the late Earl Scruggs

Harmonia Time Capsule: 1618 by Laura Osterlund

Punch Brothers cover The Cars

Punch Brothers cover The Cars

Hollywood:
Jef Costello, Breaking Bad: A Celebration

More weirdness from the master of weirdness?
David Lynch - "Crazy Clown Time" (Official Video)

5.11 Tactical Paragon Softshell Jacket


NRA American Warrior #7

Items of Interest, 2 April 2012

Dr. Fleming has read Philip K. Dick! I was surprised by this recent column: Alien Life Forms.

In the comments section, he writes:

To explore the concept of "cool" would require more space than a newspaper column, much less a comment section. The Magnificent Seven is not at all a bad movie, but it is not good either, especially when compared with Kurosawa's original. It may have been influenced by the apparent coolness of Kurosawa's heroes who are not, however, indifferent, but merely Stoically Japanese.

As for cool, it is largely though not exclusively a post World War II phenomenon that is a convergence of several tendencies. The French existentialists clearly have a strong influence--Camus' Meursault seems indifferent to everyone and everything including his own death. Cool people have few attachments. They can, of course, fall into love or lust or cherish a tender spot for something or someone or somewhere, but outwardly they seem indifferent to their fate. One of the predecessors of the cool film hero is the Bogart persona. Rick Blaine: "I don't stick out my neck for anyone." Film noir heroes and villains are often though not always cool, though Richard Widmark is too over-the-top, usually, to be cool. The Man With No Name and his enemies are ultra-cool, because they are nothing. Harry Callahan, by contrast, only seems cool. At bottom he is a moral and compassionate man who refuses to show what he feels--another thing, entirely. What you put your finger on in the Magnificent Seven is the obvious fact that the Western is not a genre, really, for cool people. In the mythology of the West, only Doc Holliday is cool and that is because he know he is dying.

To cut this short, let me just say that the tight-lipped hero who does not often show his feelings is a solid Anglo-American ideal, who stands in stark contrast with the cool hero who is subhuman. Steve McQueen is a repulsive character in virtually every film as are most cool actors/characters. Cool is also related to hip--the people with so much inside knowledge about the human condition that they are indifferent to it. Hipness is of course a gift from black Americans who cultivated this act. Some time in the future we should take this up at greater length in Chronicles.

Peter Hitchens, Iron Fists, Islamic votes, general thoughts

The Distributist Review:
Thomas Storck, The Chief Question in Economics
Dr. Franciszek Stefczyk: Father of Polish Credit Unions

Jennifer Roback Morse, Privatizing Marriage Is Impossible

Bhutan leads the world to a new economy of happiness

KunstlerCast #199: Communications Wasteland (mp3)
Our Overcomplexity and Hyperdependence on Modern Technology

Healthcare for all in the U.S? by Mary Logan (EB)

"Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future"

Fabius Maximus: We ask the mineshaft: should we be reasonable when arousing America? Perhaps reason plays no role in this battle.
What every American needs to know about the Federal Reserve System

Energy and Technology:
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Welcome to the New Third World of Energy, the U.S.

Are We Oppressed by Technology? by Jeffrey Tucker
Cluelessness which merits a considered response... if it is driven by the free-market then people should adapt right? Even if no real consideration is given to what is required for these practices, i.e. cheap energy. What about respecting people's choices for a simpler way of life? Would we be right to expect the use of contemporary technology by monasteries? As for faciltating communication and strengthening community -- that's bs, if you're still neglecting your neighbors.

Farming:
Local Good Food - Melo Farms
How to Farm in Your Big City Apartment (Via CollapseNet)

Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon

Catholic:
Monk, He Shines
A Canonical Defense of Father Marcel Guarnizo - II
Father Anonymous Responds

The Pope Slipped One Word Into His Speech In Cuba That Makes The Castro Regime Shake
Tehachapi nuns break ground on new future
The Vatican Bank: Moneychangers In the Temple

He's wearing a nice chasuble in the picture, but should Timothy Cardinal Dolan be one of Time's top 100?

ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT’S NEW BOOK
A Heart on Fire: Archbishop Chaput's meditation on secularism in the U.S.
Random House
More "power politics" in promotion of the nationalist system, as opposed to genuine community-building?

Feminism and Misandry:
Oz Conservative: You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up
Review: MIRROR MIRROR, Tarsem's Proto-Feminist, Family-Friendly Fairy Tale
Holding Out for a Hero: Katniss and the New (Female) Role Model

Law and Disorder: The End of Male Mentoring at Law Firms

Podcast: 3/28 Brian talks with Dr. Helen Smith, forensic psychologist, about the negative images of men in the media. (mp3) [via Dr. Helen]

From 2010: Kristin Scott Benson With The Grascals – Cutting The Grass Ceiling

Giving socons a bad name?
Dalrock mentions an internet controversy involving Darwin Catholic over the "manosphere."
Is there a possibility that those involved are talking past one another? Does DC really ignore the consequences of sexual sin on a woman's character, her ability to bond, and so on? One may be able to look past one or two "indiscretions" but how many mistakes are too many, and reflect upon her true character?

Blanket condemnations of the manosphere are rather useless. It would be better to respond to the concerns expressed there than to play the amateur therapist. So long as the manosphere helps men understand the reality in which they find themselves, I think it should continue. But it does have a limited usefuleness.

Update: Mr. Darwin Responds

Diet and Health:
Balanced Bites: Useful Guides
11 Natural Ways to Heal and Prevent Heartburn

Sugar:
What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Brain

60 Minutes: Is Sugar Toxic?


Wait a Minute, Lustig. The Threat of Fructophobia. And the Opportunity.

Jerry Douglas Dobro solo - Little Rock, AR


Katie Melua - Better Than a Dream @ Kvelden er din (31.03.12)


Stars and Stripes: MMA Issue

April Verch live-streaming concert on April 27 - $3. Details.

Lubbockites step back in time for English country dance


5.11's April Fools gag:

Items of Interest, 28 March 2012

Club Orlov: A Modest Health Care Proposal
Michael Shedlock, "Healthwreck": Obamacare May Go Down Entirely; Medicaid Funding in Question; Justice Scalia Joked Reading Entire Bill Would be "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"; Wrecking Operation or Salvage Job?
Amicus Curiae of Senator Rand Paul

Conservatism or Liberty? by Nikolai G. Wenzel
A Guiding Principle Revealed by David Schaengold

The War on Guns by Frank Borzellieri

Jack Donovan, The Trouble with Squares
Interview with Andy Nowicki (alas, hosted at a WN website)

10 Places to Meet Women Other Than a Bar or Nightclub
Location does matter, but they have to be very specific in order for one to find a woman of compatible cultural background and character. Is AoM too beta?

Relocalization and Sustainability:
Dave Pollard, How many circles does it take to make a community? (EB)

Translating Transition: from small town to mega-city by Joanne Poyourow (EB)
But if nothing can make an alternative arrangement sustainable, wouldn't it be better to leave?

Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (book review) by David Bollier (EB)

New Urbanism Now

Farming:
Watching Hens Eat by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Energy:
The Phantoms I’ve Killed by Tom Murphy (EB)

The solar envelope: how to heat and cool cities without fossil fuels
by Kris De Decker (EB)

Christian:
Improperia: Popule Meus for Good Friday

A more "Eastern" version:
Reminds me of what the SSJ did with the use of organum. That group was such a disappointment, to put it mildly. The Archaeological Evidence For Jesus (PHOTOS) The Real Persecution Today If We Mock the Sacred We Will Have No Future Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Islam: Hijab – the Islamic dress code: its historical development, evidence from sacred sources and views of selected Muslim scholars Diet and Health: Robb Wolf, The Paleo Diet Budget Shopping Guide Paleo Women are Phat I’m Calling for a New Paradigm Music: Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (here) Two Requiems by Wendy Gillespie TV: Gillian Anderson on ‘X-Files,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Great Expectations’ MODERN-DAY BATTLE AXE (includes a photo of United Cutlery M48 Hawk (top) and Smith & Wesson SW671 Tomahawk) ZT Knives at SHOT Show 2012 (source) Soompi's 14th Birthday Celebration!

Items of Interest, 27 March 2012

Thomas Fleming, Lynching George Zimmerman
Clark Stooksbury, Idiot Wind, Blowing Every Time You Move Your Mouth . . .

Peter Hitchens, Psychiatrists Snatching Our Children

Paul Craig Roberts, How the New American Empire Works

The Religion of Money by Stratford Caldecott

Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology

Rediscovering Christopher Dawson | An Interview with Dr. Bradley J. Birzer

Blessed Karl von Habsburg by Denis Kitzinger

Vox Populi: Housing Can't Bounce Back

The Iraq We Leave Behind
Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War

Obamacare versus the U.S. Constitution By Alan Caruba
Randy E. Barnett: Vindication for Challenger of Health Care Law

Peter Daniel Haworth: Newman, MacIntyre, Aristotle, and Tradition in ANAMNESIS

From December of last year: 14 United States Governors : Prepare State Militia Defenses, To Be Ready Against Obama’s Rogue Federal Forces!

Get Ready for the Crackdowns by Kelley B. Vlahos

Club Orlov: Trained for Success, Bred to be Eaten

Bill Gross: "The Game As We All Have Known It Appears To Be Over"

Sandra Postel, Reflections on a Thirsty Planet for World Water Day

Gene Logsdon's newest - Now Available: A Sanctuary of Trees!

"Being Southern…"

Relocalization:
Rethink & Relocalize by Alex Smith (EB) (alt)

Strengthening Local Economies: Michael Shuman on Investing in Small Businesses (mp3)

Shannon Hayes, Bees, butterflies and beneficials

Ackerman and McPherson dialog: Practical paths to a post-carbon lifestyle

A DIY Civilization by Colleen Shaddox
Can we create the machines of modern life sustainably, cheaply, and close to home?

The Wealth of Networks (pdf)

Local Food

On being in time for Transition by Sharon Te Apiti Stevens (EB)

Farming:
Perennial Crops, Sustainable Agriculture: A 21st Century Green Revolution

Catholic:
Chant tradi- Vierge des Francs
The Greatest of All Things


LCs:
Letter from a victim-survivor

Ratzinger in Mexico

Those millions of Mexicans who could care less for the Catholic Church – and there are more than would likely admit it – might also have asked Ratzinger to comment on the slew of sex-abuse complaints made against members of the country’s clergy. In fact, the papal visit coincided with the launch of a book by a group of priests who in 1998 brought charges against Legion of Christ founder Marciel Maciel for having abused them when they were seminarians. “La voluntad de no saber” (“The Will not to Know”) includes powerful evidence that the Vatican knew of the notorious Maciel’s altar-ego – drug addict, paedophile – decades before it acted. Maciel was “disciplined” by Joseph Ratzinger in 2005 and died three years later.


Not all of Mexico’s clergymen are pederast, pro-militarization fanatics, however. Since the earliest days of the Spanish conquest, the Mexican church has been littered with rightly-celebrated dissident voices; from Bartolome de Las Casas, who stood up for indigenous rights in the 16th century, to Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, a liberation theologian who risked his life by sympathizing with the Zapatista rebels in the 1990s.

Feminism:The Volokh Conspiracy: "Slut" and Postmodern Me

Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men by Jef Costello
Review at Amerika.

Diet and Health:
James Howard Kunstler, Matrix of Rackets

Is Your Baby a Good Baby? by Heather M. Carson (via Thinking Housewife) - see The Baby Book by Dr. Sears

The LLVLC Show (Episode 560): Dr. Peter Attia Has Declared ‘War On Insulin’ (mp3)


Chris Masterjohn, Good Fats, Bad Fats: Separating Fact from Fiction

MDA: Dear Mark: Food for Skiing, Menstrual Carb Cravings, a Stubborn Teen, and More

Exercise Your Eyes

Learning MovNat is Making Me a Better Strength Coach: Guest Post by Jeff Turner

History:
The Roman elite and the power of the past: continuity and change in Ostrogothic Italy

Hoard of Roman Coins Found in England

Men in Poufy Trousers

Military:
Special forces are special, not magical

Movies:
Politically incorrect film reviews – Coriolanus

TV:
'Mad Men' Creator On What's Next For Don Draper

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, 14 March 2012

Energy Bulletin becoming Resilience. I had seen notice of a new website coming on Facebook, but I did not know that Resilience would be replacing Energy Bulletin. It will incorporate the content of Energy Bulletin and add more pertaining to relocalization.

April 3: INVEST IN YOURSELF: Building Personal Economic Resilience & Community Strength

Supporting the Swingle

Austin Bramwell, Top of the Class

The 100 Greatest Hong Kong Films

Boycott the Boycotters: the Culture War

Scars keep the record of our lives by Gene Logsdon

Contamination fears linger for Japanese children, workers one year after Fukushima meltdown by Amy Goodman


Lew Rockwell Show (podcast)

"Southrons" complicit in the demise of the South: Tina Dupuy, How The South Can Rise Again: Immigrants

Gardening:
Bay Area garden experts' grow-to guide

Peak Oil and Energy:
Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay (Tom Dispatch)
Understanding the new price of oil

Home Heating for the Hardy by Tom Murphy

Diet and Health:
MDA: Can We Feed the World on the Primal Blueprint Diet? – Part 3
Denise Minger, Will Eating Red Meat Kill You?
Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein Diets May Reduce Both Tumor Growth Rates and Cancer Risk


Play Revolution
Elevating Child Care - Janet Lansbury's Online Parenting Resource (FB)

Catholic:
Read This Before You Get Married

Music:
ARTE Lounge - Im Gespräch mit Andreas Scholl

KTSF: Our Song Contest

The Cranberries on Good Morning

Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars - Safe & Sound (The Hunger Games)





Rhythm of the Dance

A Daniel Defense video:

Items of Interest, 15 February 2012

Redeeming America's Political Culture

Tom Piatak, A Warring Visionary
A review of The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan
by Timothy Stanley

Counterpunch:
GARETH PORTER, Obama’s Zig Zag Maneuvers with Israel and Iran
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, Obama, the Human Rights Hypocrite and The Divine Right of Money
NOAM CHOMSKY, Empire and Its Discontents and American Decline in Perspective (Original TomDispatch)
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, The EU Plays the China Card

Relocalization:
Rod Dreher links to this interview with Craig Bartholomew: Where am I? The Middle-Class Crisis of Place. Those commenting at Mr. Dreher's blog don't get real Christian spirituality: the diversity of vocations and the order of charity.

Building Houses As If They Mattered

Coffee and tea anyone? - Mt. Shastians bring Transition and Tea Party together

BALLE Blog: 10 Reasons for Financial Optimism (If You Invest Locally) - 5 Ways to Make Your Dollars Make Sense (EB)

Rob Hopkins: ‘Breathing new life into the concept of resilience’: the notes from my ‘Four Thought’ talk (mp3)

Breaking through the myths: New book seeks to redefine urban farming
Twighlight Greenaway, Grist
(More links on urban agriculture)

Orion Magazine: What Love Looks Like
A conversation with Tim DeChristopher by Terry Tempest Williams

Sustainability:
A country for old men by Gene Lodsdon (EB) (Humanure!)

Paul Kingsnorth & Friends Discuss “Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist” (EB)

Energy:
Tom Murphy, Fossil fuels: I’m not dead yet (EB)

Feminism:
All About Women, What Big Sister Doesn’t Want You To Know

Catholic:
Mass of Installation of the First Ordinary of the Ordinariate in the USA
The Tyranny of Misunderstood Freedom (Jim Kalb: Turnabout)
The Truth About Same-Sex Attraction
Mischievous Monks and Naughty Nuns? Scholar re-examines the illicit sexual accusations against monasteries in England during the dissolution
Top Five Dating Tips for Men
The End of the Affair by William Fahey
Moral Theology 101

Music:
Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa
'After the End of Music History' Conference at Princeton

Mexico:
Border Battleground

Misc:
8 Elevators You Need to See to Believe
Linsanity Heads Eats, Linfects China, Taiwan
Step Up to the Plate, From Baseball Bats to Chopsticks