Saturday, March 24, 2012

Casting pearls...

There doesn't seem to be much use in continuing to use a certain free online dating website. My profile or my comments may be too beta, or it may be I lack sufficient physical attractiveness. Why put so much effort into it when it is unlikely that I'll find someone "equally yoked"? Or with the same sort of moral, intellectual, and cultural education? To think that I deserve to not go on dates or have a "relationship" because of past and present sins is probably just a temptation. There are plenty who have less moral scruples who are more successful. So if some women cannot appreciate virtus, why waste any energy on them?
Today there was a short memorial service at the cemetary for Mrs. W. It was raining, but the service was short, maybe 10 minutes long. Afterwards all were invited to have dinner over at New Port. I have to say that the food there tonight was only average, which is rather surprising since the quality is usually better. (In fact I think that the restaurant tends to be one of the better ones in the area.) Carb overload...

Minimalist Running

The Key To Successful Minimalist Running
by Danny Abshire and Brian Metzler

Online Shoes
NaturalFootGear intoduces some new shoes.
AltraZeroDrop

Vancouver Running Symposium

Items of Interest, 24 March 2012

Joe Sobran, Jefferson was Right

The Christian Humanists Challenge the Machine
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC co-Editor
Patrick Deneen, Birzer Against the Machine


The White Savior Industrial Complex

Srdja Trifkovic, Just a Regular French Youth
PJB, Tolouse: The Dark Side of Diversity

Rod Dreher, Race and the "Important Conversation"

Gl Piggy, Ditch the Hoodie
The hoodie: comfortable and versatile, eliminating the need for separate headgear on cold nights. But too much association with the "bad elements" of society?

Robert Bales: Lone Nut or Scapegoat?

A WSJ review of Kevin Gutzman's book on Madison: A President Oft-Overshadowed.

Obama Administration Releasing New Rules To Expand Ability To Hold Citizens' Data

Former Navy SEAL: “Cold Civil War, but for how long?”

???


Three New Books from League of the South

The Automatic Earth: To Where Our Oppositional Culture Takes Us

Egypt's next pope

Counterpunch:
Their Pope Dead, Egypt’s Copts Fear Worse Times by Patrick Cockburn
Occupy World Street! by Thomas H. Naylor
Alexander Cockburn, The Myth of the Knowledge Economy
Dave Lindorff, Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown
Ralph Nader, CEOs Contemplate the Occupy Movement

Economics:
Center for a New American Dream


Why the end of economic growth can bring more happiness


A review of The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg.


Farming:
Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan
by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
(EB)

Catholic:
NLM: Scholarly Liturgical Articles, Antiphon, 2010
The Adoption of Christianity by the Irish and Anglo-Saxons: The Creation of Two Different Christian Societies
(I'm not impressed by the first paragraph.)
Cheeky Complaints Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts

Feminism:
The Spearhead: Chivalry—Whether or not it’s dead, it’s not for us regular men.
How feminists define gender traits
Vox Day, Sl_tgate and Society
Temptation and Redemption: A Monastic Life in Stone


Diet and Health:
Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 10): ‘All Things Thyroid (Thyroid 101)’ | Chris Kresser (mp3)
The People of PaleoFX
9 Food Cures You Can Grow at Home

The 5th MovNat Principle: Vital
I think there is something to what MovNat is trying to teach with respect to human mobility and strength development. This week the founder says something like this on his FB: "Matriarchal societies are wiser."
Roussea taken to an extreme, with the noble savage replaced by the noble savage woman. He has not experienced the misandry that follows feminism taking over a society yet? How many hunter-gatherer groups could be properly said to have been matriarchies? Has he not done research into that point? He doesn't claim to be recovering that sort of ancestral fitness, but it is close. Too much reaction against "civilization" for his own good?

Movies:
SDG reviews October Baby.

Movie review: Rachel Weisz a passionate force in 'Deep Blue Sea'
More emotional porn for women?

(Apple)

TV:
Mad Men Returns, Cocky and Confident As Ever

More crap coming to television! Hooray!

New neighbors coming...

One of the houses on the street is being sold, and despite the rain today, there are many interested buyers going to the open house. As I expected, many of them are Indians, and the rest are E. Asian (probably Chinese).

Lee Young Ae's twins



Ad campaign:

Scythian raising money for a new album

Scythian makes a new album!


Reverbnation

Tonight in Mountain View!

Haas and Rioux: Redwood Bluegrass Association performance

I'll hear them tomorrow at Don Quioxte's.

Lester Flatt Folsom Prison Blues

World Over - 03-22-12 - Andy Garcia discusses religious freedom, Cuba and the Pope Benedict visit.

Bluegrass Today: Rhonda turns 'em loose

With some videos of their appearance on WAMU's Bluegrass Country.



A medley:


I think I posted this before:
Overheard at a local track and field:

Boy running at the end of soccer practice: "I'm so COLD!"
Girl attending a separate soccer practice, walking in the opposite direction but near the boy: "Shut up!"
Boy: "Calm down, princess."

I don't know if the two know one another; maybe it's something typical of elementary school students, but they were both in middle school. Someone's overdue for learning some basic manners? How rude would it be to say, "Shut up," to a stranger? Girl power: aggressiveness and rudeness? Are their coaches doing them any favors by promoting team sports for girls, if it's at the expense of femininity?

Friday, March 23, 2012

5 hours of John Taylor Gatto

(via Complementarian Loners)

The Ultimate History Lesson_ A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto


Parts 2, 3, 4, 5

Plus there are the following:




John Taylor Gatto on Compulsary Education and Permanent Childhood

Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt: The Secret History of Western Education - alt

Angelus ex machina

Supernatural

*spoiler warning*

Andrea Beaton and Troy MacGillivray in Davis tomorrow night

More info.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Paul Hébert - Le printemps

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face


How much of this is linked to obesity in women or bad diet?

The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Cantonese

I should have checked the date of the UCA article.



Uh, girl altar servers. Normal in the Roman rite in Hong Kong; still...

The music is interesting, even if it doesn't sound Greek/Near Eastern. I don't know what the source is.

I hope Fr. B. will be in attendance

Crosscut Tout: Tallis Scholars in a fine new venue

Items of Interest, 22 March 2012

John Michael Greer, America Crossing the Line

Thaddeus Kozinski, Sacred Ambivalence: A Reflection on Remi Brague’s “Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible”

Fabius Maximus: America enters the dreamland, part of our culture of defeat

Joseph G. Trabbic interviews Raymond Dennehy on two recently republished books by Jacques Maritain: The Return of Thomistic Political Philosophy, Part I and Part II

Jordan Bloom, If the Individual Mandate is Constitutional, the Commerce Clause has No Limits

John Médaille, The Music of The Spheres and The Terminally Tone-Deaf

Paul Gottfried, Tea Party Constitutionalism

James Antle, Weak Tea

Gay marriage is now the issue through which the elite advertises its superiority over the redneck masses





Réunion du Pape Shenouda III-21.04.2010:Le péché de langue

pathways radio: The Economics of Happiness (mp3)

Energy:
Tom Murphy Interview: Resource depletion is a bigger threat than climate change by James Stafford (EB)

Catholic:
In Defense of Bells: Their Use and History in the Roman Liturgy
Byzantine liturgy in Chinese ‘a success’
I wish that some audio or video were available.

Mgr Lefebvre + s'abandonner à Dieu

Feminism:
No Long Ladies
Trampling the Nag
St. Birgitta: The Disjunction Between Women and Ecclesiastical Power
The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome’s Attitudes to Women

Education:
Cultivating the Affections by Dr. Peter Vande Brake

Movies:
Steve Sailer reviews Whit Stillman's latest.

Music:
Performing in the Bay Area this weekend: Brittany Haas and Lauren Rioux
Two rising stars in the Appalachian fiddle world come together for a mini 'fiddle festival'

Pat's Product Review: Benchmade CSK II - Combat/Survival Knife

AH-64 Apache mishap caught on video

A Southron gives his point of view

on the Constitution and such; Mr. R. M. Peters at "Patriotism vs. American Exceptionalism" - see, for example, this and this.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Items of Interest, 21 March 2012

Almost got run over tonight! That ------- is lucky that I didn't trust his driving or visual skills.

For the feast of St. Benedict (on the old calendar of the Roman rite): Pax Inter Spinas by Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P.
Suscipe Me, Domine







Paul Gottfried, German Sabotage and America’s Entry Into World War I

Kevin Gutzman on Jack Riccardi: "James Madison and the Making of America" (mp3)

The funeral of Pope Shenouda III - in pictures


(via Byzantine, Texas)

Juliet Schor on Consumption and the Environment

The great, invisible brain wave in the sky by Gene Logsdon (EB)

From January: Happy 130th Birthday, A. A. Milne: “Happiness” and the Origin of Winnie-the-Pooh

Relocalization:
Building Businesses That Stand For Something

Preparing for the unimaginable by Dave Pollard (EB)


Peak Oil and Energy:
Behind Oil Price Rise: Peak Oil or Wall Street Speculation?
Peak oil, keeping reality in mind

Education:
Laziness by Any Other Name

Diet and Health:
Mark Nugent, Will Red Meat Really Kill You?
Gary Taubes, Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat

Catholic:
Garbage Generation
Life after RC: Pressing for an investigation
Brennan Pursell, How to Develop a Prayer Life that Transforms
Don Nicola Bux Personally Appeals to the SSPX: "This is the appropriate moment..."

Music:
Pretty Little Girl from Galax video

Movies:
Whit Stillman Q & A: 'Damsels in Distress,' 13-Year Hiatus, Upcoming Ska Rocksteady Project


ARC'TERYX LEAF Urban Wolf from ARC'TERYX LEAF on Vimeo.

Chris Thile, E Major Prelude



Bach Project

For Greater Glory

Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby