Tom Piatak, Robert Bork, RIP
Insight Scoop
Rod Dreher, How We Got Borking
Robert Bork and the End of Democracy
The Significance of the Bork Battle
Robert Bork: from Atheism to Christian Faith
A collection of his writings: A Time to Speak
Kyrie eleison.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Interview with Professor Kjell Aleklett
The great energy journey by Jan Fröman (EB; Peak Oil)
I thought I had mentioned his book, Peeking at Peak Oil, in a post, but I can't find it in the search.
ASPO profile
Aleklett's Energy Mix
Kjell Aleklett and Charles Hall: Peak Oil Postponed?
Related:
What Everybody Ought to Know about Energy (EB)
Richard Heinberg, Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 4 - Post-carbon governance
I thought I had mentioned his book, Peeking at Peak Oil, in a post, but I can't find it in the search.
ASPO profile
Aleklett's Energy Mix
Kjell Aleklett and Charles Hall: Peak Oil Postponed?
Related:
What Everybody Ought to Know about Energy (EB)
Richard Heinberg, Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 4 - Post-carbon governance
2 CD Set of the Concert of Byzantine Music by the Choir of St. Romanos the Melodist
The bookstore for St. Nicholas Cathedral has the CD.
More information on the CD.
An article about the tour of the St. Romanos the Melodist Choir.
(More from Robert Sweiss)
Beautiful temples.
With the blessings of His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP of North America and His Eminence, Metropolitan ELIAS of Beirut, and thorught the generosity of The Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch (the charitable arm of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America), 12 members of the St. Romanos the Melodist Choir of the Archdiocese of Beirut, Lebanon toured the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America in mid-September, 2012. Under the direction of their leader, Father Romanos Joubran, Dean of St. George Orhtodox Cathedral of Beirut, Lebanon and instructor of Byzantine Music, the choir spent two weeks performing concerts and singing at liturgical services from the Midwest to the East Coast. The tour culminated on Sunday, September 22, 2012 in an historic concert attended by more than 450 people at the Mother Cathedral of the Archdiocese, St. Nicholas Cathedral of Brooklyn, NY. With the additional blessings of His Eminence, Archbishop DEMETRIOS of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Archdiocesan Byzantine Choir of the GOA, under the direction of Dr. Demetrios Kehagias, made a special guest appearance and added to the beauty of the evening. This 2-CD digitally mastered set of hymns in Arabic and Greek consistst of th esets performed by the Beirut Choir and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Choir as well as the combined set where they performed together. In addition, there are two tracks from the Divine Liturgy that the Beirut choir chanted the following day in the Cathedral and a few bonus selections from their concert in Boston, MA that were not include in the Brooklyn concert due to time constraints. We hope you enjoy the beauty of this ancient and sacred music.
Each 2-CD set is $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping for each of the first two CD's and $2.00 for each CD after that. Quantity discounts of 10 or more are available.
More information on the CD.
An article about the tour of the St. Romanos the Melodist Choir.
(More from Robert Sweiss)
Beautiful temples.
The Nexus of Emotion and Reason
Zippy, at Dalrock, on female attraction. Attraction (and by extension, hypergamy) is not just an animal instinct but is under the influence of reason - making a judgment about the fitness or suitability of potential mates.
An update on one Christian's attempt to educate other men about being manly.
An update on one Christian's attempt to educate other men about being manly.
Connections
Alt Right on the BBC
Archeofuturism from the 1970s
Colin Liddell links to an episode of the documentary series by James Burke which examines our dependence upon technology (and cheap energy) - I find it curious that he would say that such programs have an "Alt-Rightish feel to them" when there have been plenty on the left who have been skeptical about contemporary technology and claims of progress since the 1960s and 70s, if not earlier.
Archeofuturism from the 1970s
Colin Liddell links to an episode of the documentary series by James Burke which examines our dependence upon technology (and cheap energy) - I find it curious that he would say that such programs have an "Alt-Rightish feel to them" when there have been plenty on the left who have been skeptical about contemporary technology and claims of progress since the 1960s and 70s, if not earlier.
Ryan Grant Reviews Liberty: The God That Failed
Part 1
Someone really should write a critique of the book from a paleo or tradcon perspective. Certainly someone more qualified than I should do so, though I may write something once I have read the book.
Related:
Patrick Brennan wrote the Foreward to the book.
Someone really should write a critique of the book from a paleo or tradcon perspective. Certainly someone more qualified than I should do so, though I may write something once I have read the book.
Related:
Patrick Brennan wrote the Foreward to the book.
One of the instructional aides re-introduced herself to me today; apparently she remembered me for a good reason, but I couldn't remember who she was, even though I had seen her a couple of times today, once in the morning and once at lunch. Those encounters didn't jog my memory. She is probably correct that we had met before...
A Different Take on Zero Dark Thirty
And its stance on torture: The Kidd Vs. ZERO DARK THIRTY. Diverging opinions. I'll have to watch the movie and see for myself.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
C.C. Pecknold on "Catholic instead of what?"
Thinking Well About Things (Other Than Politics) (I posted the video of Dr. MacIntyre's address here.)
Another Catholic intellectual trying to span the divide but going beyond it, but I don't think he goes far enough. The problem is not with "politics" per se, but with the scale of the "National Unity." Scale is one of those limits which few American Catholics recognize, probably because they have become habituated to living in this mess and thinking that it is normal.
I've been wondering if the lack of real conversion is due to a failure of witness, not only through words but in how we live. (As in that saying attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, "Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.") And not because we fail to live as Catholic individuals, but because we have failed to live as Catholics in community.
Catholics affirm that the state has the authority, within limits, to recognize marriage and to protect people who enter into it; to recognize the sanctity of life, and to do no harm to it; to recognize the dignity of the human person, and therefore ensure an economy in which every person can flourish according to their capacities without being debilitated by poverty. Yet currently, the Catholic is being asked to divide her affirmations and denials more or less equally between political parties that may or may not finally represent these concerns at all. It is like asking King Solomon, or a mother, to tear a child in half.
That means that we are beyond the Churchillian “least bad” problem in choosing between parties. The political culture we inhabit has exceeded that problem. Ours is not only a polarized politics, it is also an excessive politics. It dominates every aspect of life. Political campaigns have learned to carefully cultivate every existing identity for itself, and only for itself. It has come to take over every aspect of life so there is no place where presidential politics is absent. I think this excessiveness is an enduring aspect of every politics that detaches itself from natural limits, that consistently refuses to allow space to that which is not politics, that refuses to admit that there is anything prior to politics, that habitually ignores anything which supersedes politics, and which denies anything which is not reducible to politics.
All of this makes my post-election reflections sound like a plea for resistance to political instrumentalism. It is that, but it is also simply a plea for contemplation on those things which are not political, but are nevertheless important to political community. The popular motto of the Catholic resistance movement during WWII, “France be careful not to lose your soul” is worth recalling to this end. A generation earlier, Charles Péguy, the atheist socialist convert to Catholicism, sought to remind France to attend those things which were preludes to politics: metaphysics, narratives, language, family, friendship and contemplation upon the causes, effects, and ends of our most cherished commitments – our loves and our liberties (to recall St. Augustine). In our post-election reflections, Christians should be the ones asking the really substantial questions, not the ones asked at our very insubstantial presidential debates – but the questions we would want our children to ask: questions about existence, such as why there is something rather than nothing; about justice, and to whom it is owed; about truth, and making ourselves truthful; about the nature of goodness and how we can be formed in accordance with it. Questions like these are pre-political, but they matter for politics too. If these sorts of question whither, we will get the politics we deserve. Amongst ourselves as well as with others, we must be asking what it means to be a Christian in our excessive, polarized, political order.
At its best, true Christianity has always resisted being instrumentalized by politics – it has always affirmed the legitimate authority of the state, but it has also helped the state to flourish precisely by pointing out its limits, and its disorder. Sometimes it has done so with martyrs, but usually with a different kind of Christian witness — one which entails discursive reasoning as well as contemplation and prayer, marked by both seriousness and joyfulness about things other than politics but which nevertheless matter for the political health of the places that God has entrusted to us.
Another Catholic intellectual trying to span the divide but going beyond it, but I don't think he goes far enough. The problem is not with "politics" per se, but with the scale of the "National Unity." Scale is one of those limits which few American Catholics recognize, probably because they have become habituated to living in this mess and thinking that it is normal.
I've been wondering if the lack of real conversion is due to a failure of witness, not only through words but in how we live. (As in that saying attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, "Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.") And not because we fail to live as Catholic individuals, but because we have failed to live as Catholics in community.
Items of Interest, 18 December 2012
Newtown Tragedy Exposes our Deep Societal Flaws Again by Chris Schumerth
Debt-Free Permaculture Farming with Joel Salatin
Announcing 2013 BALLE Local Economy Fellows
More on the Issues Raises by Zero Dark Thirty:
An All-American Nightmare by Peter Van Buren
Rendition, Zero Dark Thirty and the brutal reality of Britain's secret services
Kathryn Bigelow's film about the killing of Osama bin Laden does not touch the reality of what occurred in the 'war on terror'
Diet and Health:
Why Stretching is Bad For You
Latest in Paleo: Perfect Health Diet Q&A with Paul Jaminet (follow-up to episode 64 - mp3)
High-Fat, Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet For Cancer Featured On The 700 Club
Feminism:
RONDA ROUSEY MEETS LIZ CARMOUCHE IN FIRST UFC WOMEN'S TITLE FIGHT AT UFC 157
Dana White on why Ronda Rousey will headline UFC 157: 'She's the champ'
Entertainment:
CS Video Interview: Jack Reacher Director Christopher McQuarrie
Discovery Series American Guns Cancelled
NBC Sports Network Cancels "Gun Programming" - 3-Gun Nation
Debt-Free Permaculture Farming with Joel Salatin
Announcing 2013 BALLE Local Economy Fellows
More on the Issues Raises by Zero Dark Thirty:
An All-American Nightmare by Peter Van Buren
Rendition, Zero Dark Thirty and the brutal reality of Britain's secret services
Kathryn Bigelow's film about the killing of Osama bin Laden does not touch the reality of what occurred in the 'war on terror'
Diet and Health:
Why Stretching is Bad For You
Latest in Paleo: Perfect Health Diet Q&A with Paul Jaminet (follow-up to episode 64 - mp3)
High-Fat, Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet For Cancer Featured On The 700 Club
Feminism:
RONDA ROUSEY MEETS LIZ CARMOUCHE IN FIRST UFC WOMEN'S TITLE FIGHT AT UFC 157
Dana White on why Ronda Rousey will headline UFC 157: 'She's the champ'
Entertainment:
CS Video Interview: Jack Reacher Director Christopher McQuarrie
Discovery Series American Guns Cancelled
NBC Sports Network Cancels "Gun Programming" - 3-Gun Nation
An Orthodox on the Growth of Christianity in China
Available This Week on BBC Radio
The Early Music Show: Cristobal de Morales (expires in 4 days)
BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, The English Concert - Corelli, Bach
The English Concert plays music by Corelli and Bach at Christ Church Spitalfields
(expires in 6 days)
This Thursday: Stile Antico
"An exciting couple of days in prospect with performances at Foyles and the Wigmore Hall! Both events are now sold out, but you can hear our Wigmore concert, a glorious Byrd/Tallis programme, live on BBC Radio 3 at 1930 GMT on 20th December. We hope you enjoy it!"
BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, The English Concert - Corelli, Bach
The English Concert plays music by Corelli and Bach at Christ Church Spitalfields
(expires in 6 days)
This Thursday: Stile Antico
"An exciting couple of days in prospect with performances at Foyles and the Wigmore Hall! Both events are now sold out, but you can hear our Wigmore concert, a glorious Byrd/Tallis programme, live on BBC Radio 3 at 1930 GMT on 20th December. We hope you enjoy it!"
Foodopoly
website
The author, Wenonah Hauter, will be appearing at Book Passage at the Ferry Building in San Francisco on January 22, 2013 at 6 P.M.
Related:
Food and Water Watch
More Videos:
Monday, December 17, 2012
Dr. Fleming on Protectionism
Though he does not explicitly endorse it in this piece: Back to the Stone Age II G: A Trip to Alsatia.
Misc.
David Duley and Robb Wolf discuss the Abbeville Institute video on the size of the United States: (mp3)
Raimondo and Larison are Fighting … Again
Speaking of Intra-paleo Feuds
Misc.
David Duley and Robb Wolf discuss the Abbeville Institute video on the size of the United States: (mp3)
Raimondo and Larison are Fighting … Again
Speaking of Intra-paleo Feuds
Possible Matriarchy for South Korea?
FT: Park says S Korea needs ‘motherly’ leader
I don't care if she's Catholic; with that kind of campaigning and sloganeering, her party deserves to lose. That sort of conception of statesmanship is patronizing and emasculating. What an embarrassment to South Korea.
* East Asians Confucian bureaucrats/magistrates thought of themselves as father/mother officials, duty-bound to look after the people as if they were their children. At this point I will only say that I disagree with this analogy as well. I'd also disagree with the claim that if Adam had not fallen, men would be governed according to an eternal patriarchy with him as a head (Filmer?). But rule by a male who is claiming to be a "father" is less offensive and problematic than rule by a female posing as mother. Men are at least inclined to submit to the authority of a man they recognize as being superior.
I don't care if she's Catholic; with that kind of campaigning and sloganeering, her party deserves to lose. That sort of conception of statesmanship is patronizing and emasculating. What an embarrassment to South Korea.
* East Asians Confucian bureaucrats/magistrates thought of themselves as father/mother officials, duty-bound to look after the people as if they were their children. At this point I will only say that I disagree with this analogy as well. I'd also disagree with the claim that if Adam had not fallen, men would be governed according to an eternal patriarchy with him as a head (Filmer?). But rule by a male who is claiming to be a "father" is less offensive and problematic than rule by a female posing as mother. Men are at least inclined to submit to the authority of a man they recognize as being superior.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Went to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk today - first time I've actually been there. Don't think I missed anything while growing up, though the commercials I saw on channel 2 did make it appealing to a child. (Advertising.) While the kids went on the Thomas the Tank Engine ride, I started walking around the beach and headed towards the municipal wharf. I didn't make it halfway on the wharf when the train returned.
Afterwards, I went over to Betty's Burgers to try it. The fries there are somewhat like those of The Counter, iirc, except with maybe more batter. The strawberry shake was good and thick. As for the burger, I ordered a Double Dutch - the patties are supposed to be "all natural"; visually the texture of the patties reminded me of Bob's Giant Burgers in Fremont - not sure if what I saw was gristle or something else. The patties were well-done, maybe overcooked, though not dry. But there was a strong charred taste to the surface of the patties. Maybe one of the single-patty burgers would have tasted better.
Afterwards, I went over to Betty's Burgers to try it. The fries there are somewhat like those of The Counter, iirc, except with maybe more batter. The strawberry shake was good and thick. As for the burger, I ordered a Double Dutch - the patties are supposed to be "all natural"; visually the texture of the patties reminded me of Bob's Giant Burgers in Fremont - not sure if what I saw was gristle or something else. The patties were well-done, maybe overcooked, though not dry. But there was a strong charred taste to the surface of the patties. Maybe one of the single-patty burgers would have tasted better.
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