Thursday, May 17, 2012

Items of Interest, 17 May 2012

The Tactical Virtues of Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor : The Jack Donovan Interview

Thomas Fleming, The Inalienable Right to Porn

BETA NATION


Russell Kirk and Swords of Imagination

Glory Days: A pundit’s rosy view of the Pax Americana by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Reserved Powers of the Tenth Amendment by Marshall DeRosa

The Tyranny of Liberalism

From July 4, 2010: Skoble's DELETING THE STATE, a review on this Fourth of July

Predator Nation: America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill by Tom Engelhardt
On Staring Death in the Face and Not Noticing

WILLIAM ASTORE, The National Security State Wins (Again)

GARETH PORTER, The Parchin “Stand-Off”

Lawrence Auster on Buchanan: he overreaches in attempting to read the souls of Buchanans and others on the "right"; I don't think he substantiates the claim that he is different from them in articulating goals and being sad (as opposed to being Nero taking glee in the burning of Rome).

Uncommon Knowledge: Thomas Sowell on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals


How Ron Paul is Winning

The Devil Is in the Details by Scott P. Richert (a review of Timothy Stanley's bio of PJB) (via Conservative Heritage Times)

Issa to Holder: Waiting for Fast and Furious documents like waiting for godot

Urban Design and Architecture:
KunstlerCast#205: Prominent New Urbanist Authors (mp3)
A CNU Panel on Classic, Current and Critical New Urbanist Writing

The Social Factor in Sustainable Architecture by Marcin Gerwin (EB)

America's Demographic Future:
Aaron Wolfe, Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Honkers
Vox: Game Over

Economics:
Chris Martenson, Get Ready, We're About to Have Another 2008-Style Crisis

John Williams: The Real Unemployment Rate: 22% – Not 8.1%
The coming fiscal cliff: hyperinflation on track for 2014

Fabius Maximus: Is there a dark swan event ahead for the American economy?

Neo-Feudalism and the Iron Fist

Robb Wolf, The Paleo diet, Sustainability and Economic Growth

Kevin Carson Awarded C4SS’s Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory

FOOD: Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on Soil by Wes Jackson

The Next Money: As the Big Economies Falter, Micro-Currencies Rise

Festival of Transition:
In the shadow of the City: A walk through the history of the Corporation
What if... we cancelled the apocalypse
What if… we left the oil in the ground?
What if… land grabbing was banned?


Relocalization:
Jason Peters, Why I Am Not an Environmentalist
False Idyll by J.B. MacKinnon
Seeing only nurture in nature is missing half the point

6 Ideas for Sensible Homes
Small, supportive, affordable, recycled—and you can build your own.

On construction, cake, and local economic regeneration: why we should start with the materials by Rob Hopkins (EB)

Resilience or death: Preparing our farms for the end of agriculture (…as we know it) by Dan Allen

The commons law project: A vision of green governance by David Bollier (EB)

Back to the Land for the Occupy Movement by Jeff Conant (EB)

Food Authors, Writers and Academics Urge UC Berkeley to “Embrace the Gill Tract Farm, Not Police it”

How Small Groups Can Power Big Change by Sarah Byrnes
Progressive social movements don’t often take inspiration from conservative megachurches. But their lessons about organizational structure may be worth a second look.

Why such a lack of common sense about dogs? by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Shannon Hayes, Gainful Unemployment

Energy:
Jeffrey Brown responds to "U.S. energy independence is no longer just a pipe dream"

Translating "Peeking at Peak Oil" by Michael Lardelli (EB)

Commentary: Major oil companies on peak oil by Robert L. Hirsch

Clean Energy as Culture War

Free Energy Does Not Occur in Nature

Catholic:
Mexican Catholics Fight for Christ in Greater Glory

Fr. Uwe Michael Lang on Vernacular Translations

James Matthew Wilson, Misanthropy or Hymenopteraphilia? E.O. Wilson is Ant(i)-Gracehoper

التاسعة للسيدة في صلاة السحر لأَحد الأَعمى


Diet and Health:
MDA: Why We're Missing Out on Real Life

Bring Back Butter... and Cheese, Red Meat and Whole Milk! How Our Low-Fat Obsession May Harm Our Health, Says Nutritionist

Even Art of Manliness has joined the barefoot movement.
(Better than What to Wear on the First Date?)

NPR: Breasts Bigger and More Vulnerable to Toxins
The Thinking Housewife: Walking the Walk, and Breast Cancer Lies

Interview with ‘Wheat Belly’ Author Dr. William Davis

Adam Farrah, The Paleo Dieter's Missing Link

Latest in Paleo

Biological Clock Cannot Be Rewound

Music:
The Timless Traveled Treasures of Jordi Savall

Lonesome River Band


Lindsey Stirling - " Crystallize " Dubstep Violin (music video HD)


Nora Jane Struthers & The Bootleggers


Movies:
Eve Tushnet on Damsels in Distress: Guys and Ladies

TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: Dennis Quaid
By Joe Leydon




Julianne Hough on DWTS


Misc:
Me262 at the ILA2006 in Berlin (original sound)

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