Saturday, April 07, 2012

Items of Interest, 7 April 2012

A Conservatism of Hope? Still?

PJB, The Socialist and the Social Dawinist

Constitution Party Podcast on the Recent Supreme Court Decision on Body Cavity Searches
Fox
Fabius Maximus: Why should we care about the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing strip & cavity searches of prisoners?

7 Rules for Recording Police

Vox on John Derbyshire's PinC column: Profiles in Intellectual Courage

My own perspective should be perfectly clear, but I shall elucidate it anyhow. Due to past desegregation imposed by force of one kind or another, be it private action or government policy, rapid large scale segregation is going to take place because the vast majority of people on every possible side find it to be desirable. That future segregation is going to be either voluntary or involuntary, and will be either violent or non-violent. Therefore, government policies should, to the greatest extent possible, be strongly biased towards voluntary, non-violent, and gradual segregation in order to reduce the risk of rapidly destabilizing multi-ethnic and multi-racial societies.


Multiculturalism is dead. Desegregation is dead. MLK's dream is dead, and more importantly, it was never more than wishful thinking anyhow. Racial equality is the same failed myth as every other aspect of human equality, none of which have ever been shown to exist in any tangible form. And all that dropping weak-kneed to one's fainting couch or clinging to the oft-disproven canards of the racial equalitarians will achieve is to increase the level of violence and amount of involuntary cooperation that will eventually be required to recreate the historic balances that were originally brought about by the natural processes of group behavior. The American black/white situation is only one, and one of the smaller and less problematic, of the desegregations that should probably be anticipated in the medium term.

(See also Derbyshire's Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Awake?)

Shelby Steele: The Exploitation of Trayvon Martin

John Michael Greer, The Eagle and the Lion

The debate over American Exceptionalism: We’ve finally hit bottom

China's Rapid Economic Growth Means Population Is 'Wealthier but Unhappier’

An interview with Archbishop Chaput: Ringing a Bell for Liberty

A Coptic Good Friday

Liberty, State, & Union: The Political Theory of Thomas Jefferson

Economics:
Richard Heinberg, Talking Happiness

Farming:
Dirt! The Movie (2009) - Documentary film online

Hatching Your Own Batch of Eggs

Peak Oil and Energy:
Peak eggs: Hubbert and the Easter Bunny
Chris Martenson's Crash Course

Education:
New Models in Old Bottles (mp3)
KMO, Olga, and Justin Ritchie, co-host of the Extraenvironmentalist Podcast, talk about how people are adapting to economic decline, particularly in the increasingly wide-spread realization that a college education has morphed from a entry into the middle class into the express route to debt slavery. In the second half of the podcast, Sally Erickson, the producer of the film What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire, asks KMO to account for his refusal to sacrifice his own happiness for the sake of a respectable seat at the grown-up’s table of traditional employment.

The Lowering of Higher Education in America

The War of the Three Humanisms: Irving Babbitt and the Recovery of Classical Learning
April 2012 Podcast: Cindy Rollins


Feminism and Misandry:
How feminism arrives at one of its contradictions
As Industrialization Devalued Male Labor, Automation will Devalue Female Labor
Obama Writes off Men in Presidential Campaign (Romney Appears to do Same) (CBS News on Romney)

Comment of the Week: A Life Not Worth Living

Diet and Health:
Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 12): ‘The Fallacy Of Vegan/Vegetarian Diets’ | Denise Minger (mp3)
The 6th MovNat Principle: Unspecialized
Using sand to analyze your running form
Robb Wolf, Paleo Diet: How do I convince someone to try it?
Gary Taubes, Chocolate & Red Meat Can Be Bad for Your Science: Why Many Nutrition Studies Are All Wrong


Music:
NPR - Mountain Stage Event (April Verch Band clip will be available soon?)
Here's Bearfoot.

Watch: Punch Brothers Perform "This Girl" on "Late Show with David Letterman"

(The Late Show)

US Army Special Forces:
Special Forces Regimental Day marks 50 years of history with the green beret

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