Thursday, March 15, 2012

Items of Interest, 15 March 2012

John Michael Greer, America: Modes of Expansion
What would paleos make of his series on American culture and history?

Republicans Pushing Mandates on State Courts

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Myth of the Rational Market
BARBARA EHRENREICH, Rediscovering Poverty

The Rise of the Machines by Stratford Caldecott

PJB: Rush Limbaugh and the New Blacklist

The death of manners by Kristin Marino

The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling As We Speak by Kevin Carey

Does College Destroy Your Faith? By Zachary Gappa
Is the Chronicle of Higher Ed a dependable source? It is noted that RC institutions may have a detrimental impact on students, as was noted many years ago by Arbishop Fulton Sheen and repeated by many Catholics since then. But what of public and non-religious private schools? Are the culture and the environment of these schools toxic to someone who is a beginner and still trying to resist temptation?

Relocalization and Resiliency:
RALPH NADER, The Parasites of Big Finance
The U.S. does not need to be shackled by the global corporatists to what may happen in Greece or Spain or Portugal. We should be less dependent on financial economies abroad and more self-reliant and independent of the global economy’s dangerously contagious risks.


That is why the more community-based economic activity there is in our country – credit unions; renewable, efficient energy; community health clinics; community food markets, etc. – the more insulated we will be from global seismic ravages. Those same community economies would have helped shield the Greek people from the wily clutches of Goldman Sachs and other aggressive casino creditors.

INVEST IN YOURSELF: Building Personal Economic Resilience & Community Strength

Towards economic resilience: Local Dollars, Local sense, an interview with Michael Shuman by Monica Hadley & Caroline Kilbourn (EB) [mp3]

How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

Preventing the Fall of Rome by Gar Alperovitz

10 Alternatives to the Sliced Tomato in Your Winter Sandwich

Peak Oil and Energy:
Tom Whipple, The peak oil crisis: surging gasoline
Reflections on Energy Descent Action Plans: a response to Vera Bradova by Rob Hopkins

Feminism and Misandry:
The Daughters of Feminism Expose the Lie
The Thinking Housewife and Phyllis Schlafly on VAWA.

Catholic:
Looking Again at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, Fréjus-Toulon
Pugin’s Church Becomes Official Shrine of St Augustine

The Party's Over: Mary Eberstadt on men, women, and what the sexual revolution has wrought (via Insight Scoop)
Is she putting too much blame on the sexual revolution, that is to say the technology behind it, rather than the pre-existing culture/ideology (feminism) that made use of that technology?

Celebrating Fr. Buckley's Golden Jubilee: 50 Years in the Priesthood


Teaching Children the Value of Pre-Web Pages

Christendom to Graduate Largest Class in History; Honoring Rev. Kenneth Baker and Mother Agnes Donovan

Diet and Health:
Mysterious Honey Kills All Bacteria Scientists Throw At It




TV:
Bad 'Luck' for HBO Series
HBO ends 'Luck' after equine deaths
‘Luck’ Director Michael Mann Cites TMZ As One Reason Why Show Ended
Michael Mann needs to make some more movies.

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