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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Items of Interest, 19 May 2012

Back to Burke

Defending Strauss by Samuel Goldman

The Spirit of American Constitutionalism: John Dickinson's Fabius Letters by Gregory S. Ahern
Champions of Modern Civilization

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth

The Truth of Beauty: Educating the Moral Imagination by Benjamin G. Lockerd, Jr.

The Third Way: Wilhelm Röpke’s Vision of Social Order by Ralph E. Ancil
Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton by Clyde Wilson
James Madison and the Dynamics of the Constitutional Convention by Lance Banning


Tom Piatak, Georgetown Needs An Exorcist
(Dr. Fleming, Re: Georgetown)

The Looming Reversal of Centralization by Gary North

Charting Obama’s Journey to a Shift on Afghanistan
Accurate history? Or spin and lies to make Obama look better after the fact?

New Right vs. Old Right by Greg Johnson
Nationalism: Phenomenology & Critique by Alain de Benoist


SSM:
Effects of Same-Sex Marriage

Sean Collins, Why I’m coming out... against gay marriage

A "New York progressive" gives four reasons for opposing "gay marriage"
Law professor says flawed view of sex threatens religious freedom by Michelle Bauman
Rod Dreher, A Burkean View on SSM
Social Issues Matter
Green is a color in the rainbow
Vatican Diary / That sin of Sodom which cries out to heaven

90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide

Economics:
The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You
BREAKING: You Know That TED Talk You Weren't Supposed To See? Here It Is.


Conceptualizing post-capitalist economics by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (EB)

Carson Interviewed on Truth Jihad, American Freedom Radio (mp3)

Guest Post: Failbook’s Epic Fail: Does Zuckerberg Want Users To Pay?

Congress for New Urbanism 20
Some reports.

Peak Oil and Energy:
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
By: Jeremy Wakeford

Fukushima Disaster: One Year Later

Shannon Hayes:



(alt)
Shannon Hayes archive at Yes! (Her website and Radical Homemakers and Grassfed Cooking)

She has a new book coming out in September, Long Way on a Little.

Five Questions for Florence Williams
May 18, 2012, by Kristen Hewitt

In Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, journalist Florence Williams delves into the biology, culture, and evolutionary history of this life-giving organ. In her witty and wide-ranging account, she explores where breasts come from, why we see them the way we do, and what they reveal as bellwethers for human health in a compromised environment.

Get Ready for the Breastaurant

Feminism:
Early Feminists: Moderate or Radical?
The Land of The Free and Home of The Soulless, Uninspiring and Robotic Women
Revisiting The Soulless, Uninspiring and Robotic Women

Gamer advice, some good, some bad: 66 Things On Life, Men and Women, and America

The Biggest Financial Decision a Young Man Will Ever Make

Even Miranda Lambert, supposed "Strong woman" tweeted publicly that she is reading the book Fifty Shades of Grey. SNL skit.


*warning* It is a rather bawdy skit.

How many women admit on Facebook or Twitter to reading this book. How many of them are self-proclaimed feminists? I'm not going to check search results.

The audience for ASCII porn
Women are Always Concerned with their Sexual Value


Catholic:
TAC: News from Two Alumni Priests in Minesota
The 2012 Baccalaureate Mass Homily by Rev. Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J. (mp3)
2012 Senior Address by James W. Thompson (’12) (mp3)
The 2012 Commencement Address of Mother Assumpta Long (mp3)

Gregory B. Sadler, Yves Simon on Moral Virtue (part 1 of 2)
Yves Simon on Moral Virtue (part 2 of 2)

Evangelization and human contact

Mass in the Vernacular, Yes. But at Least It Should Be Translated Well

I suspect the video of the FSSP ordinations will eventually be made available.

10 Fascinating Facts About Hildegard von Bingen

Michael Coren interview: Why he believes Christianity is the most abused faith on earth

What Can Historians Do with Clerical Masculinity? Lessons from Medieval Europe


Russian Orthodox:
Celebrations on the occasion of 5th anniversary of reunification of Russian Church Abroad with Moscow Patriarchate to take place in Moscow
Five Years of the Reunified Russian Church: Reflections of Fr. Nikolai Balashov

Five Years Together (mp3)

Patriach Kirill Gets Facebook Page

Diet and Health:
MF trains with Erwan Le Corre


Movnat Helps 65-year-old win Warrior Dash

The Real Deal on Adrenal Fatigue (full article)

Balanced Bites Podcast: Episode #21 with Karen Pendergrass of Paleo Approved (mp3)

HealthWatch: NorCal Olympic Athlete Credits Paleo Diet For Healing

444: Daniel ‘The Barefoot Professor’ Howell Says Shoes Destroy Your Feet (mp3)

Modern-Day Primal Living

Esther Gokhale had a TEDxStanford talk today. If it becomes available on YouTube I will post it.

Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 13): ‘Low-Carbing Women & Weight Lifting’ | Dr. Cassandra Forsythe (mp3)


Music:
On the occasion of the passing of Donna Summer
Welmer, Goodbye, Donna
In Defense of Dance Music

Cappella Musicale Pontificia "Sistina"


Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas - Bowl Of Bula


Mark O'Connor - "Tom and Jerry"


Misc:
Cannes 2012: Lily Rabe to Play Silent Film Star Mary Pickford on Screen

Preview – Travis Haley – Climbing the Ladder
Article by Recoil Staff

A Day in the Life of Tim Ferris


The Origins of the Tuxedo, Explored (via Tea at Trianon)

Friday, May 04, 2012

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

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Items of Interest, 18 April 2012

John Michael Greer, America: The Price of Supremacy

Did the Founders expect the Courts to Declare Laws Unconstitutional?

T. S. Eliot as Conservative Mentor by Roger Scruton

Our Allotted Time is the Passing of a Shadow: The Modernist Fallacy by Brennan Pursell

Peter Hitchens, Reflections on How to Punish Mass Murderers

Katniss Everdine, Localist

Mysterious Particle Found After Decades of Searching

How the Duggars Support 19 Kids and Live Debt-Free

César Chávez hailed as model for Catholics in public life
(Cesar Chavez: Longtime foe of illegal immigration, Cesar Chavez, Minuteman, The Rise and Fall of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers)

Senators Reject Iran Talks, Demand More Sanctions

Daniel Larison, Democratic Peace Theory Is False

Jason Peters, Devolution, Triviality, and Vocation

Rod Dreher, The Myth of Food Deserts

More on the power of makeup: Before and after makeup: Reddit user’s startling photo

Economics:
Young People Tire of Old Economic Models By ANDREW C. REVKIN
3-Part Series on The Most Promising Sector of Our Economy: Small Business

Peak Oil and Energy:
Two Energy Books of Interest
Are oil subsidies worth the price? by Mark Notaras and Brendan Barrett (EB)

Catholic:
The Precepts of the Church
Holy Resurrection Monastery: Eastern-rite monks celebrate Easter
Late Night at Holy Resurrection Monastery
Rorate Caeli: COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE PONTIFICAL COMMISSION "ECCLESIA DEI"
UPDATE: SSPX COMMUNIQUÉ


Orthodox:
риарх Кирилл совершил чин умовения ног

Patriarch Kyril, washing of the feet
The Priest Who Translates the Gospel Into Sign Language

Feminism:
Who Knew that Women Crave Dominant Men
Transvaginal Ultrasound: Nothing Like Being Raped
The female body, animal imagery, and authoritarian discourse in the Ancrene Riwle
Bringing home a porn star

History:
Social alienation and political subversion: Anti-Judaism in medieval Spanish music

Diet and Health:
LLVLC SPOTLIGHT: Swedish Physician And Kostdoktorn ('Diet Doctor') Blogger Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt
How I Lost 30 Pounds on Tim Ferriss's Slow Carb Diet

Music:
Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era


Lindsey Stirling


Rebellion: Southern Music Break (Sons of Bill)

Chrissy Crowley: A Caper in Cuba Too!

Baroque Dance: "La Chaconne de Phaestons"


Gillian Welch's Spring Tour
Only one stop in CA, in San Diego. But she is performing in Phoenix and San Antonio.


Movies:
La Princesse de Montpensier: fantasy & reality

TV:
Rod Dreher, The ‘Who Watches Mad Men?’ Effect

Military:
Where This Brotherhood Began