CBS: Cardinal Dolan: Contraception debate not over
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Anywhere else it'd be called fan fiction...
But at a university it's a MA thesis - The Peace Weaver: Wealhthrow in Beowulf
Why would it be taken that seriously? Take a look at the abstract:
Maybe it can't be called fan fiction if the author is not really a fan of the original epic poem? She probably is, though.
Why would it be taken that seriously? Take a look at the abstract:
This historical novella charts the events as they unfold within Beowulf through the eyes of the minor character Wealhtheow, Hrothgar’s Helming Queen. The novella tries to remain as historically accurate to the culture of fifth and sixth century Scandinavia, for this is when most scholars agree the historical events of Beowulf unfolded. This fictional account of the Beowulf-poem presents the story within a different genre in hopes of creating an environment that is vivid and more easily accessible to modern readers, especially young adult readers, not only referencing Scandinavian culture but also the role of Anglo-Saxon women.
Introduction: My goal in writing this fictional novella is twofold: to make Beowulf more accessible to modern readers and to expound upon the less articulated female point of view in the poem.
Maybe it can't be called fan fiction if the author is not really a fan of the original epic poem? She probably is, though.
Items of Interest, 10 April 2012
No Country for Old (Catholic) Men by R. Cort Kirkwood
The Real Reason Pat Buchanan Got Fired from MSNBC
PJB, The Outing of Deep Throat
Rick Santorum is out. Good. I didn't like the idea of him receiving the Pro Deo et Patria medal then, and my opinion of him has gone down even more since then.
Why Ron Paul Matters More Than Obama, Romney, Santorum and Gingrich
How Could a Former Con Law Professor Be So Ignorant?
Judge Napolitano on Admin. Sending $500M to IRS for Health-Care Law
Are We Serious about Talking with Tehran?
The Afghan Syndrome
Democrats and Republicans at local level step up to oppose NDAA detention
The U.S. Government's Top Secret Town
Growing up in the first Great Depression
(Peak Moment Television)
Economics:
Revisited: Three Data Points That Prove Europe Cannot Be Saved
First World Happiness report launched at the United Nations by Earth Institute (EB)
The Return of The Limits to Growth by Ugo Bardi (EB)
Mapping the GLobal Transition to a New Economics
Catholic:
Christus Resurrexit a Mortuis - A Latin Version of the Byzantine Easter Hymn
by Gregory DiPippo
Medieval Monastic Library of Lorsch recreated online
Cardinal Burke Clarifies: Employers Providing Contraceptives “Materially and Formally” Cooperating with Sin
Vatican Cardinal: If Catholic employers provide contraceptive coverage they cooperate in sin
Dating Pascha in the Orthodox Church
Marriage and Courtship:
The scam of diamond engagement rings
Diet and Health:
The first in a series on America's Pedestrian Problem: The Crisis in American Walking by Tom Vanderbilt
How we got off the pedestrian path.
MDA: The Definitive Guide to Traditional Food Preparation and Preservation
The LLVLC Show (Episode 566): Karly Pitman Encourages ‘Growing Human(kind)ness’ To Overcome Sugar Addiction (mp3)
MovNat Featured in the Washington Post: Commentary by Master Instructor, Clifton Harski (The Washington Post)
Beef 101: A guide to what 25% of Americans eat every day - the original at Frugal Dad
Music:
The Vespers - 'Close My Eyes' ~ Live at Music City Roots (HD)
J. D. Crowe to Hang Up His Banjo
Josh & Renee Fleming Perform Brigadoon Medley
Best Of The West 2012: Classic Cowboy Songs
Watch Rachel Holder's New Video For 'In Your Arms'
Movies:
Whit Stillman Rescuing Damsels
The Real Reason Pat Buchanan Got Fired from MSNBC
PJB, The Outing of Deep Throat
Rick Santorum is out. Good. I didn't like the idea of him receiving the Pro Deo et Patria medal then, and my opinion of him has gone down even more since then.
Why Ron Paul Matters More Than Obama, Romney, Santorum and Gingrich
How Could a Former Con Law Professor Be So Ignorant?
Judge Napolitano on Admin. Sending $500M to IRS for Health-Care Law
Are We Serious about Talking with Tehran?
The Afghan Syndrome
Democrats and Republicans at local level step up to oppose NDAA detention
The U.S. Government's Top Secret Town
Growing up in the first Great Depression
(Peak Moment Television)
Economics:
Revisited: Three Data Points That Prove Europe Cannot Be Saved
First World Happiness report launched at the United Nations by Earth Institute (EB)
The Return of The Limits to Growth by Ugo Bardi (EB)
Mapping the GLobal Transition to a New Economics
Catholic:
Christus Resurrexit a Mortuis - A Latin Version of the Byzantine Easter Hymn
by Gregory DiPippo
Medieval Monastic Library of Lorsch recreated online
Cardinal Burke Clarifies: Employers Providing Contraceptives “Materially and Formally” Cooperating with Sin
Vatican Cardinal: If Catholic employers provide contraceptive coverage they cooperate in sin
Dating Pascha in the Orthodox Church
Marriage and Courtship:
The scam of diamond engagement rings
Diet and Health:
The first in a series on America's Pedestrian Problem: The Crisis in American Walking by Tom Vanderbilt
How we got off the pedestrian path.
MDA: The Definitive Guide to Traditional Food Preparation and Preservation
The LLVLC Show (Episode 566): Karly Pitman Encourages ‘Growing Human(kind)ness’ To Overcome Sugar Addiction (mp3)
MovNat Featured in the Washington Post: Commentary by Master Instructor, Clifton Harski (The Washington Post)
Beef 101: A guide to what 25% of Americans eat every day - the original at Frugal Dad
Music:
The Vespers - 'Close My Eyes' ~ Live at Music City Roots (HD)
J. D. Crowe to Hang Up His Banjo
Josh & Renee Fleming Perform Brigadoon Medley
Best Of The West 2012: Classic Cowboy Songs
Watch Rachel Holder's New Video For 'In Your Arms'
Movies:
Whit Stillman Rescuing Damsels
Monday, April 09, 2012
The heroic bloodshed genre... originating in the U.S.
Something I had not considered in the films of Sam Peckinpah, who did influence John Woo, until I read Bill Kauffman's Peckinpah Country.
It is difficult to sympathize with the bad guys in The Wild Bunch, since they have very little scruples in killing in order to save themselves. (I don't think they feel much remorse when civilians are shot in the crossfire?) The noble criminals of John Woo's movies do have some scruples...
But the memory of that lost place—the pain of watching that which one loves disappear—informs his best movies: “The Wild Bunch,” “Ride the High Country,” “Junior Bonner,” “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.”
This last, with its elegiac score by Bob Dylan, is at once listless and haunting, as it treats Peckinpah’s two favorite themes: men out of time and the imperative of loyalty. Its tersely poetical script is by the underrated novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer (check out his brutal and ethereal The Drop Edge of Yonder) of the jukebox family.
Queried why he doesn’t kill his pursuer Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid (played by Kris Kristofferson) says simply, “He’s my friend.” No other explanation is necessary, or even possible. It’s the same reason Peckinpah’s Wild Bunch go on a mission perdu to rescue their compadre Angel from the sleazy federale Mapache.
“Aren’t your losers and misfits conformists to outdated codes?” asked a Playboy interviewer in 1972. Peckinpah replied, “outdated codes like courage, loyalty, friendship, grace under pressure, all the simple virtues that have become clichés, sure. They’re cats who ran out of territory and they know it, but they’re not going to bend, either: they refuse to be diminished by it. They play their string out to the end.”
It is difficult to sympathize with the bad guys in The Wild Bunch, since they have very little scruples in killing in order to save themselves. (I don't think they feel much remorse when civilians are shot in the crossfire?) The noble criminals of John Woo's movies do have some scruples...
Seventh Annual Napa Valley Catholic Men's Conference
To be held on Saturday, April 28, and Bishop Robert Vasa will be hearing confessions and celebrating Mass. (Co-sponsored by Ignatius Press) Register online.
$10 discount if you register before April 14. After that the registration fee is $50 (includes continental breakfast and BBQ lunch), until April 22, when a $5 surchage will be added. In the evening those who are attending will have the opportunity to see For Greater Glory. (RSVP required.) More info.
"The Bishop's talk is Men as the Pastors of the Domestic Church." How far will he go in his talk to support patriarchy?
$10 discount if you register before April 14. After that the registration fee is $50 (includes continental breakfast and BBQ lunch), until April 22, when a $5 surchage will be added. In the evening those who are attending will have the opportunity to see For Greater Glory. (RSVP required.) More info.
"The Bishop's talk is Men as the Pastors of the Domestic Church." How far will he go in his talk to support patriarchy?
A few days after I read Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Patridge, I had to suffer through an activity revolving around Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores, which encourages tomboys to be themselves instead of forcing themselves to be girl and to be friends with boys, forming clubs with them (because the clubs for girly girls are too boring for the tomboys). Are you skeptical that public schools are indoctrinating children to accept the new morality?
Worse business decision of the year?
Facebook acquires Instagram for about $1B
$1 billion? Where do they get the money? The private "misallocation of resources" continues...
$1 billion? Where do they get the money? The private "misallocation of resources" continues...
Podcast Interview with Jack Donovan
Counter-Currents Radio: Interview with Jack Donovan (mp3)
Once again something involving Jack Donovan is hosted at that WN website, but it nonetheless has a good discussion of emergent tribalism and what is necessary to strengthen the bonds between men, which are the primal instance of political life [the living and directing of community] and action. I prefer Aristotle's understanding of the virtues, but Mr. Donovan's delineation of characteristic habits of males is useful. (I don't think his notion of virtue completely escapes the moral realm into the "pre-moral" though.)
In the course of the interview Mr. Donovan mentions a book he wrote with others, Blood Brotherhood, which includes an examination of gang cultures all over the world.
It's interesting that the host concedes that race nationalism is rather abstract in comparison to the particular ties we have to family and to a certain people. These primal attachments seem to be more important than something based on race. Still, both he and Mr. Donovan believe that if things begin to collapse, people will seek protection in numbers with people of the same skin color. (Like in prisons.) If things get bad, warrior skills will be needed.
Both refer to John Robb, whose book Brave New War I have not read. This reminded me that John Michael Greer has mentioned 4GW theorists before, noting that he will discuss his differences with them in the future.
How are we to create a community within a megapolis? Even if we can find like-minded people, who will volunteer for stability, like the monks of old, weathering any major crisis that may come their way? But the economic pressure may be too great, if one cannot find appropriate work to pay for one's lifestyle commitments.
Care for one's family will probably always outweigh any friendship one may form with non-family.
Related: Biologist E.O. Wilson on Why Humans, Like Ants, Need a Tribe (via Rebellion) - The Social Conquest of Earth
Kirkus Review
Once again something involving Jack Donovan is hosted at that WN website, but it nonetheless has a good discussion of emergent tribalism and what is necessary to strengthen the bonds between men, which are the primal instance of political life [the living and directing of community] and action. I prefer Aristotle's understanding of the virtues, but Mr. Donovan's delineation of characteristic habits of males is useful. (I don't think his notion of virtue completely escapes the moral realm into the "pre-moral" though.)
In the course of the interview Mr. Donovan mentions a book he wrote with others, Blood Brotherhood, which includes an examination of gang cultures all over the world.
It's interesting that the host concedes that race nationalism is rather abstract in comparison to the particular ties we have to family and to a certain people. These primal attachments seem to be more important than something based on race. Still, both he and Mr. Donovan believe that if things begin to collapse, people will seek protection in numbers with people of the same skin color. (Like in prisons.) If things get bad, warrior skills will be needed.
Both refer to John Robb, whose book Brave New War I have not read. This reminded me that John Michael Greer has mentioned 4GW theorists before, noting that he will discuss his differences with them in the future.
How are we to create a community within a megapolis? Even if we can find like-minded people, who will volunteer for stability, like the monks of old, weathering any major crisis that may come their way? But the economic pressure may be too great, if one cannot find appropriate work to pay for one's lifestyle commitments.
Care for one's family will probably always outweigh any friendship one may form with non-family.
Related: Biologist E.O. Wilson on Why Humans, Like Ants, Need a Tribe (via Rebellion) - The Social Conquest of Earth
Kirkus Review
Am I a modern conservative?
The Pillars of Modern American Conservatism by Alfred S. Regnery
"Ordered liberty" is often discussed by conservatives, following Edmund Burke, to distinguish liberty from licentiousness (see, for example, Patrick Deneen). But we can distinguish between liberty as it describes a political community in itself and the members of a community, i.e. political self-rule versus individual "sovereignty." One can have the former without the latter, if that sort of liberty is identified with complete self-rule (or autonomy). Those who rule in a polity should be qualified to do so on the basis of virtue.
How much liberty is necessary for the members of a community? There should be freedom from government interference with legitimate activities or the abuse of authority (legislating in those areas where it has no competence); subsidiarity vs. micromanaging.
Is the conception of liberalism given here one that is more allied to "voluntaristic" notions of law and will rather than a "rationalist" notions? Is there a sense of liberty which is not tied to certain errors which nonetheless retains the importance given to the limits upon human authority? I think so - but one must still show how the different meanings of "uncoerced" can be related with one another. (Freedom can also mean faculty or the potency to some action?)
At the end the author writes: "Conservatives advocate free market capitalism, less regulation of economic activity, and fiscal responsibility." "Free-market" conservatism. The essay is representative of the conservatism articulated by ISI. I would have to say that such a statement of principles is not sufficient as it is not explicitly tied to any particular conception of the human good (or goods).
Related: The Principles of True Politics
On Ordered Liberty A Treatise on the Free Society
Bradley J. Birzer, The Meaning of Liberty During the American Revolution (part 2)
The first pillar of conservatism is liberty, or freedom. Conservatives believe that individuals possess the right to life, liberty, and property, and freedom from the restrictions of arbitrary force. They exercise these rights through the use of their natural free will. That means the ability to follow your own dreams, to do what you want to (so long as you don’t harm others) and reap the rewards (or face the penalties). Above all, it means freedom from oppression by government—and the protection of government against oppression. It means political liberty, the freedom to speak your mind on matters of public policy. It means religious liberty—to worship as you please, or not to worship at all. It also means economic liberty, the freedom to own property and to allocate your own resources in a free market.
Conservatism is based on the idea that the pursuit of virtue is the purpose of our existence and that liberty is an essential component of the pursuit of virtue. Adherence to virtue is also a necessary condition of the pursuit of freedom. In other words, freedom must be pursued for the common good, and when it is abused for the benefit of one group at the expense of others, such abuse must be checked. Still, confronted with a choice of more security or more liberty, conservatives will usually opt for more liberty.
"Ordered liberty" is often discussed by conservatives, following Edmund Burke, to distinguish liberty from licentiousness (see, for example, Patrick Deneen). But we can distinguish between liberty as it describes a political community in itself and the members of a community, i.e. political self-rule versus individual "sovereignty." One can have the former without the latter, if that sort of liberty is identified with complete self-rule (or autonomy). Those who rule in a polity should be qualified to do so on the basis of virtue.
How much liberty is necessary for the members of a community? There should be freedom from government interference with legitimate activities or the abuse of authority (legislating in those areas where it has no competence); subsidiarity vs. micromanaging.
Is the conception of liberalism given here one that is more allied to "voluntaristic" notions of law and will rather than a "rationalist" notions? Is there a sense of liberty which is not tied to certain errors which nonetheless retains the importance given to the limits upon human authority? I think so - but one must still show how the different meanings of "uncoerced" can be related with one another. (Freedom can also mean faculty or the potency to some action?)
At the end the author writes: "Conservatives advocate free market capitalism, less regulation of economic activity, and fiscal responsibility." "Free-market" conservatism. The essay is representative of the conservatism articulated by ISI. I would have to say that such a statement of principles is not sufficient as it is not explicitly tied to any particular conception of the human good (or goods).
Related: The Principles of True Politics
On Ordered Liberty A Treatise on the Free Society
Bradley J. Birzer, The Meaning of Liberty During the American Revolution (part 2)
Items of Interest, 9 April 2012
More on John Derbyshire: A Purge too Far
Derbyshire and National Review: A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Fleming
Paul Gottfried
Peter Hitchens, Quiz Show: ‘We thought we were going to get TV … but TV has got us instead’
Why Obama's Jobs Act Couldn't Suck Worse
Political correctness beats cosmopolitan Libertarianism: because sacrificial religion beats hedonic individualism
Paul Gottfried, What the Hell is the West?
The Uniforms Came in One Color by Adnan Sarwar
DAVE LINDORFF, Kurt Vonnegut and the American Police State
FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, The Afghan Disaster (link at Fabius Maximus)
The 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights
When are Federal Laws Supreme?
Health Care On Federal Enclaves, And Really Silly Journalists.
Who Was the Real Thomas Jefferson? A review of Liberty, State, Union
That Old Romanov Feeling
America loses even if it wins a war with China.
Economics:
(via Mish)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (Trailer)
Media Education Foundation
Energy:
Beehive Design Collective: “The True Cost of Coal” Slide Show
Education in a Post-Carbon World by Steve Bull
Catholic:
The Pope's Homily for the East Vigil Mass
The Legion Must Disappear
Orthodox:
Orthodox believers celebrate Palm Sunday
The Byzantine communion chant for Easter in 14th-century manuscripts
Orthodox Christians Celebrate Palm Sunday
Education:
Grounding the Life of the Mind
Diet and Health:
The Paleo Solution – Episode 112, guest Dr. Loren Cordain (mp3)
7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest Prize Package Post #2
Guest Post: The Difference Between Eating Paleo and “Being Paleo”
The Trouble With Pork, Part 2
Women cannot rewind the biological clock
Architecture:
SCA – Notre Dame
American History:
Rare color photos from 1930s-40s
Inside the Army's Secret Cold War Ice Base
Derbyshire and National Review: A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Fleming
Paul Gottfried
Peter Hitchens, Quiz Show: ‘We thought we were going to get TV … but TV has got us instead’
Why Obama's Jobs Act Couldn't Suck Worse
Political correctness beats cosmopolitan Libertarianism: because sacrificial religion beats hedonic individualism
Paul Gottfried, What the Hell is the West?
The Uniforms Came in One Color by Adnan Sarwar
DAVE LINDORFF, Kurt Vonnegut and the American Police State
FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, The Afghan Disaster (link at Fabius Maximus)
The 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights
When are Federal Laws Supreme?
Health Care On Federal Enclaves, And Really Silly Journalists.
Who Was the Real Thomas Jefferson? A review of Liberty, State, Union
That Old Romanov Feeling
America loses even if it wins a war with China.
Economics:
(via Mish)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (Trailer)
Media Education Foundation
Energy:
Beehive Design Collective: “The True Cost of Coal” Slide Show
Education in a Post-Carbon World by Steve Bull
Catholic:
The Pope's Homily for the East Vigil Mass
The Legion Must Disappear
Orthodox:
Orthodox believers celebrate Palm Sunday
The Byzantine communion chant for Easter in 14th-century manuscripts
Orthodox Christians Celebrate Palm Sunday
Education:
Grounding the Life of the Mind
Diet and Health:
The Paleo Solution – Episode 112, guest Dr. Loren Cordain (mp3)
7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest Prize Package Post #2
Guest Post: The Difference Between Eating Paleo and “Being Paleo”
The Trouble With Pork, Part 2
Women cannot rewind the biological clock
Architecture:
SCA – Notre Dame
American History:
Rare color photos from 1930s-40s
Inside the Army's Secret Cold War Ice Base
How true a representation?
VFR: An Indian immigrant on Indian anti-white animus and America’s suicide
Indian children and parents in the classroom are usually friendly; the same can't be said of those who are actually living nearby.
Lawrence Auster writes: "Thank you very much for this. I don’t think white Americans know much about Indian anti-whiteness. Chinese anti-whiteness, for example, is a more familiar phenomenon. If you would like to give some examples of this, that would be helpful."
Is it the case that every group is chauvinistic? Even the SWPLs are, though they base it on liberalism instead of ethnic identity. For the Chinese, ethnic identity and culture are tied together. Chinese people may believe themselves to be superior to white people with respect to culture and morals, but I don't see the same sort of animosity that they reserve for other groups.
Related:
The Uniforms Came in One Color by Adnan Sarwar
Indian children and parents in the classroom are usually friendly; the same can't be said of those who are actually living nearby.
Lawrence Auster writes: "Thank you very much for this. I don’t think white Americans know much about Indian anti-whiteness. Chinese anti-whiteness, for example, is a more familiar phenomenon. If you would like to give some examples of this, that would be helpful."
Is it the case that every group is chauvinistic? Even the SWPLs are, though they base it on liberalism instead of ethnic identity. For the Chinese, ethnic identity and culture are tied together. Chinese people may believe themselves to be superior to white people with respect to culture and morals, but I don't see the same sort of animosity that they reserve for other groups.
Related:
The Uniforms Came in One Color by Adnan Sarwar
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Some Kevin Gutzman interviews
Kevin Gutzman and his new book, James Madison and the Making of America (mp3)
The Forgotten Men: Kevin Gutzman returns for a second interview
And a Lew Rockwell podcast...
268. Ron Paul Has Won the Future (mp3) That Joel Salatin episode isn't available yet?
John Stossel: Salman Khan and Joel Salatin
The Forgotten Men: Kevin Gutzman returns for a second interview
And a Lew Rockwell podcast...
268. Ron Paul Has Won the Future (mp3) That Joel Salatin episode isn't available yet?
John Stossel: Salman Khan and Joel Salatin
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
(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
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
Ron Paul at CAL
another (in 3 parts)
So I went to see a politician instead of attending Maundy Thursday Mass. The organizers had to move the rally from Zellerbach to Memorial Glade because of the number of people expected to attend. A typical campaign speech for the good doctor? The beginning was federalist in its rhetoric, which would appeal to those who believe that the Federal Government no longer complies with it and that the power of the Federal Government needs to be curbed in accordance with that document. But he shifted to his libertarian message, which dominated the rest of the speech. He was, after all, introduced by the founder of one of the campus libertarian student group. Talk about freedom and liberty would appeal to many; the crowd was rather diverse, and there were some Muslim students. Talk about liberty may appeal to those who want to be left alone so they can do their thing, but it does't advance a program for redirecting society towards the good. Dr. Paul does believe in state sovereignty and that states have the right to regulate morals, so how should we understand his unabashed espousal of (paleo)libertarianism and his pitch to the youth? Does he think that it would be better if the states themselves become more "libertarian"? It would seem so.
Ron Paul is Right (as Usual) about Judicial Review and the Commerce Clause
Ron Paul Addresses Government Controlled Health Care, the Dangers of Judicial Review and America’s “Intellectual Revolution”
Related:
Healthcare for all in the U.S? by Mary Logan (EB)
The Supreme Court and Obamacare
The Meaning of Liberty During the American Revolution (Part II) by Bradley J. Birzer
Jeremiah Bannister on why he is no longer Christian
One man's story - Paleocrat on Rejecting Christianity
At the beginning there is the problem of subjectivism (and hence interpretation or hemeneutics). At the end, there is the problem of evil. No more contributions to Distributist Review?
RD Extra: Interview with Jeremiah Banister
Paleocrat Radio; YT
At the beginning there is the problem of subjectivism (and hence interpretation or hemeneutics). At the end, there is the problem of evil. No more contributions to Distributist Review?
RD Extra: Interview with Jeremiah Banister
Paleocrat Radio; YT
Friday, April 06, 2012
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