Items of Interest, 4 December 2011

Dr. Fleming, Democracy Comes to Egypt
James Howard Kunstler, Suspended Civilization
Fabius Maximus: RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died this week. Of course, we don’t care (that’s why it died).
Craig Holland Dixon, Will Due Process Cease to Exist for Americans?
Paul Craig Roberts, The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples
Karen De Coster, Public Education, Meet the Newest Bullies on the Block and Federal Bully Pulpit

Economics:
The Restoration of Property
Distributism and the Supremes

Relocalization:
Britta Riley: A Garden in My Apartment


100 Best Permaculture & Homesteading Books: The Ultimate Reading List for Sustainable Living

LOCAL - A Short Documentary

LOCAL - A Short Documentary from Christian Remde on Vimeo.

Energy:
The myth of renewable energy - Dawn Stover, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (via EB)

Peak Engineering

Diet and Health:
Vox Populi: Exposing Injectors

Free the Animal: Unifying Nutrition: Osteoporosis and Atherosclerosis May be Linked: Vitamin K2 and The 21 Convention: My Presentation to 20-Somethings

Who says the whole world can’t eat paleo?

Toadally Primal Smoothies: The eBook

Kurt Harris: Jimmy Moore inquires about "safe starches"

Items of Interest, 18 September 2011

Shaping a new world order by Andrew J. Bacevich

Gelded Men and Insane Socialist Women by Takuan Seiyo
(One should definitely read Never Trust Anyone Who Hasn’t Been Punched in the Face by Scott Locklin as well.)

How much conflict, that is actual fighting or exertion of physical strength against an opponent, is necessary to develop a healthy and virtuous masculinity? Military service should be a necessary preparation for the full exercise of citizenship.

Men who have fought know how difficult it is to stand against the crowd and that civilization is fragile and important. A man who has experienced violence knows that, at its core, civilization is an agreement between men to behave well. That agreement can be broken at any moment; it’s part of manhood to be ready when it is. Men who have been in fights know about something that is rarely spoken of without snickering these days: honor. Men who have been in fights know that, on some level, words are just words: At some point, words must be backed up by deeds.

Sex differences and the division of roles, anyone?

Something on Fr. Reginald Foster: If they'd write in decent Latin, things would be different!

Chris Masterjohn recommends this:
Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science

Diet:
Gary Taubes: Catching up on lost time – the Ancestral Health Symposium, food reward, palatability, insulin signaling and carbohydrates, kettles, pots and other odds and ends (with some philosophy of science as a special added attraction). Part I.

Hyperlipid: Should we abandon the carbohydrate hypothesis of obesity?

Kurt Harris: Archevore Diet Revised

His interview with Robb Wolf: The Paleo Solution, Episode 97 (mp3)

Practical Paleolithic: Carb Fueling vs. Fat Fueling on Paleo…

Kurt Harris, Paleo 2.0 - A Diet Manifesto and Why Paleo 2.0?

Dr. Kurt Harris Has a New Series of Posts

About "Macronutrients":
There is No Such Thing as a Macronutrient Part I - Fats
No such thing as a macronutrient part II - Carbohydrates

PāNu: Dr. Kurt Harris's 12-step plan, and his post on how to lose weight.