Han Hye Jin's (who married earlier this year) new drama: 따뜻한말한마디
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Observing the Welfare State
Several weeks ago I had to visit one of the local Social Security offices - a few white faces, senior citizens. The rest of the crowd? Immigrants, some could communicate in English well, others sounded FOB. Or fresh off the airplane. What were they doing there? You can guess. Everyone is out for his "share" of the pie.
The female security guard... "nice" but definitely looked butch and uhmerican. And packing a pistol. What stereotypes?
Vox: Multiculturalism is Isolationism
The female security guard... "nice" but definitely looked butch and uhmerican. And packing a pistol. What stereotypes?
Vox: Multiculturalism is Isolationism
The Current Issue of Utne Reader
Will they reconsider their wisdom? "The Cure for Ignorance"
The articles:
November-December 2013 Table of Contents
Women's Work
Mother and Children
A Day without Care
What does it mean to strike when "production" isn't the production of widgets, but care for the children, the ill, disabled, or elderly? by Sarah Jaffe, from Jacobin
Sympathy for the Stay-at-Home Mom
Work, life, and the modern calendar by Judith Shulevitz, excerpted from The New Republic
Know-It-All
Patriarchy, privilege, and work by Larisa Zehr, from Geez
The articles:
November-December 2013 Table of Contents
Women's Work
Mother and Children
A Day without Care
What does it mean to strike when "production" isn't the production of widgets, but care for the children, the ill, disabled, or elderly? by Sarah Jaffe, from Jacobin
Sympathy for the Stay-at-Home Mom
Work, life, and the modern calendar by Judith Shulevitz, excerpted from The New Republic
Know-It-All
Patriarchy, privilege, and work by Larisa Zehr, from Geez
Friday, November 29, 2013
Fitness At What Cost?
The extremely wide variety of body types among top-tier athletes [14 pictures]
But are all sports created equal? Or are some more "human" than others? Or should we be concerned overall, well-rounded [functional] fitness, rather than in excelling in one sort of movement? Is it possible for certain forms of extreme physical fitness in women to ruin their physical attractiveness? I think so, especially when it has an impact on their body fat percentage. (Then there is the stunted growth of female gymnasts.)
Steve Sailer: Women's Olympic ski jumping: The Anorexia of Defeat
But are all sports created equal? Or are some more "human" than others? Or should we be concerned overall, well-rounded [functional] fitness, rather than in excelling in one sort of movement? Is it possible for certain forms of extreme physical fitness in women to ruin their physical attractiveness? I think so, especially when it has an impact on their body fat percentage. (Then there is the stunted growth of female gymnasts.)
Steve Sailer: Women's Olympic ski jumping: The Anorexia of Defeat
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Surprise Monarchists?
Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries
The nerds who would be kings?
I've seen the use of "Cathedral" before by Roissy. Did he get it from Yarvin? I'm anti-democracy, but that's because I'm a republican.
The nerds who would be kings?
I've seen the use of "Cathedral" before by Roissy. Did he get it from Yarvin? I'm anti-democracy, but that's because I'm a republican.
Wealth Pumps, Liberal Justice, Social Atomism...
Not to mention immigration and the pursuit of wealth - these are all at work in Silicon Valley, but gentrification is taking place elsewhere, notably San Francisco. How much longer before it leaps across the Bay Bridge into the East Bay? Small wonder those in government are engaged in social engineering, coming up with solutions for problems that they've created because of their adherence to liberal capitalism.
Where does that leave those who are 'native' to the state but cannot find employment in tech companies or high-paying service jobs (plumbing)?
Charlotte Allen, Silicon Chasm
California's New Feudalism Benefits a Few at the Expense of the Multitude
Rod Dreher, The Shantytowns of Silicon Valley
Where does that leave those who are 'native' to the state but cannot find employment in tech companies or high-paying service jobs (plumbing)?
Charlotte Allen, Silicon Chasm
California's New Feudalism Benefits a Few at the Expense of the Multitude
Rod Dreher, The Shantytowns of Silicon Valley
JFK
Gene Healy, Kennedy Was No Conservative
His undelivered speech from that day.
Related:
Bill Kauffman, What Rural America is For
Where Wendell Berry Meets Martha Stewart
His undelivered speech from that day.
Related:
Bill Kauffman, What Rural America is For
Where Wendell Berry Meets Martha Stewart
Steve Sailer on the New Hunger Games Movie
Google+ Hangout with Peter Jackson
Post by The Hobbit.
If my cousins want to see it, I'll go with them, but I won't be that enthusiastic about it. Peter Jackson's interpretation/adaptation has worn thin.
Details Interview with Christian Bale
The Transformer: Christian Bale
Regarding his character in Out of the Furnace (FB):
DETAILS: For a Brit, you play a lot of Americans.
Christian Bale: I'm English, but America has been my home for half my life now, and I see Russell, for example, as someone who isn't represented very much: good old America at its peak. Someone who stays and is loyal and has to endure and take care, who is really having to take a look at his priorities and his loved ones and his loved town. And that's a very important part of it—the loved town. I've never had that. I've always moved around a lot, so I'm jealous when I see people who have an attachment to a place.
Variety: Christian Bale: Reluctant Movie Star Talks ‘Furnace,’ ‘Hustle’
'Out of the Furnace': Christian Bale on loving enough to let go
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-out-of-the-furnace-envelope-screening-series-christian-bale-bridge-scene-20131127,0,3850498.story#ixzz2lyEUHr5b
Details interview from 2008 - Bonus Photos
Related:
Ridley Scott’s Moses movie will be “shocking”, says Bale - Hitfix
Regarding his character in Out of the Furnace (FB):
DETAILS: For a Brit, you play a lot of Americans.
Christian Bale: I'm English, but America has been my home for half my life now, and I see Russell, for example, as someone who isn't represented very much: good old America at its peak. Someone who stays and is loyal and has to endure and take care, who is really having to take a look at his priorities and his loved ones and his loved town. And that's a very important part of it—the loved town. I've never had that. I've always moved around a lot, so I'm jealous when I see people who have an attachment to a place.
Variety: Christian Bale: Reluctant Movie Star Talks ‘Furnace,’ ‘Hustle’
'Out of the Furnace': Christian Bale on loving enough to let go
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-out-of-the-furnace-envelope-screening-series-christian-bale-bridge-scene-20131127,0,3850498.story#ixzz2lyEUHr5b
Details interview from 2008 - Bonus Photos
Related:
Ridley Scott’s Moses movie will be “shocking”, says Bale - Hitfix
Arnie's Next Movie to Be Released
Max Martini's in this one. But, not just one strong woman but two! Still, Arnie himself is enough to turn me away from the movie.
For Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Go and leave...
and take any feminist priests and bishops with you...
Vox: Bring it on - "I agree with Tony Jones. It is absolutely time for a schism in the Church over the role of women."
Mr. Jones is ostensibly a Protestant, but there are feminists in all Christian denominations in the West.
Sunshine Mary: Learning domesticity in a post-feminist world.
Vox: Bring it on - "I agree with Tony Jones. It is absolutely time for a schism in the Church over the role of women."
Mr. Jones is ostensibly a Protestant, but there are feminists in all Christian denominations in the West.
Sunshine Mary: Learning domesticity in a post-feminist world.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
C.S. Lewis
It was the anniversary of his death last week - there are a couple of Lewis fans at OLF. C.S. Lewis: Scholar to the Common Man
Blind to the Problems of the Age?
The tyranny of low standards & the acceptance of girl power - no mention of the endorsement of radical egalitarianism by the movie.
What’s So Great About “The Hunger Games”? by Kim Scharfenberger
It's not great fiction and often leaves a lot to be desired, but there's more depth in this series than in other young adult offerings like 'Twilight.'
Lifeteen
What’s So Great About “The Hunger Games”? by Kim Scharfenberger
It's not great fiction and often leaves a lot to be desired, but there's more depth in this series than in other young adult offerings like 'Twilight.'
Lifeteen
Sold Out!
NOM NOM PALEO: FOOD FOR HUMANS BOOK RELEASE PARTY + A GIVEAWAY!
Hope there are other local events on the book tour.
Related:
Adobo Peppered Steak
Something by the third winner of Master Chef (US), Christine Ha.
Hope there are other local events on the book tour.
Related:
Adobo Peppered Steak
Something by the third winner of Master Chef (US), Christine Ha.
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