Episode 4 of Rob Pincus's Series

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Foghorn Stringband, "Pig in a Pen"

Going to hear them tonight, as part of the Redwood Bluegrass Associates concert series.

A B&W Movie Set During the English Civil War?

Twitch: First Shot From Ben Wheatley's A FIELD IN ENGLAND Features Exactly That

Usury, Usury

It’s the interest, stupid! Why bankers rule the world by Ellen Brown (via Resilience)

For Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day: Sean Bean reads Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

Or maybe somewhere in the middle...

The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on Earth

Katie Melua - Forgetting All My Troubles

The Walls of the World

Not in the mood to put anything up today, check out the links to the side, especially Post Mortem and True Politics in the Wake of Obama.

Proving Stereotypes True

1. The breakdown of voters in the presidential election among groups tonight.

2. After some wannabe academic posted on a "friend's" wall about the Founding Fathers, I made a point about constitutional interpretation. Her response? Trumpeting her credentials. Or the fact that she is on the way to getting one. When pressed on whether she agreed with a point, she bowed out saying FB wasn't the place for discussion about politics, though she repeated her claim about there being no consensus among American historians regarding the beliefs of the Founding Fathers. I then wrote that much of American academia is subversive (implying it is not to be trusted) and that the opinion of historians didn't matter much to those who following a living tradition. Of course she would take this as a personal insult.

So why do womyn and everyone else have to prove the bigots (whether real or those who are tarred as such by their enemies, like the "androsphere") correct?

Te Deum

Omnia gloria tibi, Domine. Miserere nobis, qui merēmus duces quos ligimus.

Clyde Wilson, Did You Ever Think You Would See … ?

The Future of Books

The New Criterion: The digital challenge, I: Loss & gain, or the fate of the book
by Anthony Daniels

In a post-carbon world... is anything certain? I was reminded of this post by Damien Perrotin: The importance of handwriting.

AHS12 Session on "Safe Starches"

The Bachands, "Inisheer"

Their website.

Jerry Douglas, "Who's Your Uncle"

William Lind on the Anti-War Right

William Lind, Why Conservatives Hate War
Conflict erodes a nation’s cultural continuity as well as its finances.

One gain that comes out of war is as disturbing to conservatives as any of the losses: an aggrandizement of state power. The argument of “wartime necessity” runs roughshod over all checks and balances, civil liberties, and traditional constraints on government. In the 20th century, American progressives knew they could only create the powerful, centralizing federal government they sought by going to war. It was they, the left, who engineered America’s entry into World War I. Nearly a century later, 9/11 gave centralizers in the neocon Bush administration the cover they needed for the “Patriot Act,” legislation that would have left most of America’s original patriots rethinking the merits of King George. Just as nothing adds more to a state’s debt than war, so nothing more increases its power. Conservatives rue both.

Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome Trailer

Caprica was cancelled by Sy-Fy after only two seasons; this prequel movie is being shown on Machinima's Prime channel this Friday. Looks better than the series that inspired; too bad this wasn't made into a series. I think there will be enough people interested in the BSG label to watch it. I think the delay is due less to concerns about the quality of the movie and more with SyFy's being a lousy entertainment company. But, I haven't seen it yet.


'Battlestar Galactica' Spinoff 'Blood & Chrome' Finally Arrives: Too Little, Too Late?

Peter Hitchens on Our National Politics

A Louse versus a Flea. Who really cares about the US Presidential Election?

For a proper conservative, American national politics is a desert. You can choose between declared liberals and neo-conservatives who are liberal on all important issues. And that’s it. Or there’s dear old Ron Paul, who is another sort of liberal, really. But he’s not important anyway. There’s nobody who is really socially conservative, above all nobody who will act( it’s decades too late anyway) to end the lax immigration politics which have revolutionised the country and will render it unrecognisable within 30 years. There’s nobody who will rescue the married family, or protect and recreate manufacturing industry so that ordinary people have proper honest work to do again, or reform the schools, or devise a foreign policy that actually makes the country safer.

What absolutely amazes me about this election is the way that leftish commentators try to build up Mitt Romney as some kind of conservative monster. If only he were. But his own record shows otherwise (and I might add, his running mate, whose name I can never remember, is a keen student of Miss Ayn Rand, another liberal) .

Metropolitan Hierotheos Interview

Mystagogy: Metropolitan Hierotheos: Church and Politics in Greece Today

He has some things to say about Golden Dawn and the issue of immigration. It was of interest since it is the perspective of an Orthodox bishop on these questions. Sufficiently "conservative"?

Links:
Ecclesia.gr

Who Succeeds Caesar?

Medievalists.net: Rome in the imperial idea of the 14th century: The age of emperor Lewis the Bavarian

Bill Kauffman on the Federal Executive

Who Needs a President?

Many Anti-Federalists proposed, as an alternative to what they called the “president-general,” either a plural executive—two or more men sharing the office, a recipe for what a sage once called a wise and masterly inactivity—or they wanted no executive at all. Federal affairs would be so limited in scope that they could be performed competently and without aggrandizement by a unicameral legislature—that is, one house of Congress—as well as various administrative departments and perhaps a federal judiciary.

More from Richard Heinberg's Tour in Australia

Sydney Opera House: The End of Growth

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Who will get this economy going? No one by Dave Gardner

The Last Episode of No Reservations

I hope his new show on CNN is as good.

Anthony Bourdain: Eat out and tip big to save NYC restaurants after Sandy
Anthony Bourdain Wants 'Bigger and Better' Version of 'No Reservations' at CNN

Finally, A Full Trailer for WKW's Yip Man Movie

Twitch: Spectacular Full Trailer for Wong Kar Wai's THE GRANDMASTERS

If the vid there isn't working, you can see it here.

Who did the choreography for the movie? Many of the moves by LCW do not look like authentic Wing Chun.

Shannon Hayes Interview

Daniel Rubin: The 'Radical Homemaker' explains the benefits of going off the grid

Diet and Mental Health

From AHS12: Emily Deans, M.D. — What Not To Eat for Good Mental Health

Emily Deans, M.D. — What Not To Eat for Good Mental Health from Ancestral Health Society on Vimeo.

From earlier this year: Depression: Your Brain on Sugar