Obviously integration hasn't gone far enough.

Mr. Sailer is right. The first nine months… indeed the first nine minutes are crucial.

That's why integration of schools with busing has failed.

It is essential we integrate our nation's wombs. Of course we possess the technology to achieve this; artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization. However there is also another simpler more natural way.

So my dear Americans, some of you may find this sacrifice difficult, but it is essential for the future of the diversity of our great Rainbow Nation.

By lottery based on your responses to the ethnic and racial identity survey of the decennial US Census, each of you will be assigned….

What kind of complexion did the accident survivors have that dear George helped?

More proof of racism perhaps?

Isn't that all we care about?

The Soviet journalists covering jubilant fulfillment USSR 5 year plans seem to have been reassigned to the US crime stats beat.

I get it.

If people of color can feel sad and left out if there are no representations of their kind, so does another minority – people with blue eyes.

Watching this video / ad for Fiat cars, ostensibly an ode to "Sexy People" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk9PfN2Hphw you will notice that there are no blue eyed talent worthy of inclusion among this ensemble of the "cool" and "vibrant."

Now there is no need to make everything look like a ridiculously contrived Benetton ad, but if right-thinking (more likely left-thinking)SWPLs acknowledge a need for media that reflects the viewer, now that the "vibrant" ones are in demand, when am I going to see media depictions that are respectful of squares like me?

PS.

Where are the "sighs of disappointment" about the lack of male voices that also look like me at middlebrow mass-intellectual rags and blogs like the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, NYT, etc.

If this one thinks we've had enough British men playing Dr. Who, are we allowed to say we have had enough capable Jewish ladies scribbling at these fine (if dwindling) journalistic institutions?

The Economist has the best policy. Anonymity offends and disappoints noone. And the pimply rookies among them can hide behind the facade of a respected institution.

In all earnestness, the best solution to that peculiar American obsession and paralysis regarding identity politics would be to put every citizen in a hood, chador or burqua that completely obscures ethnic identity, gender, age, etc. but with a clear and legible serial number linked to a personal CV / credit report so we know if we are dealing with trusted people or deadbeats.

Think about it. No more profiling with regard to race, age or gender. No more women getting raped by strangers – no one will know if it's a lady or a linebacker. No more nepotism and people being given unearned attention, respect and credit. We wouldn't select or reject a candidate for president because of his (or her) complexion or genitals.

If we really care most about achievement and merit, we spend way too much breath worrying about identity.

If IQ is so important, why use race as a proxy?

It's easy enough to test IQ…
Indeed it's easier to determine somebody's IQ in just a few painless minutes than to ascertain the indeterminate races of people like Mr. Sailer's Conquistador-Americans.

Certainly intelligence is important, but having known enough high IQ wastrels, it's obvious that just this one strength is not enough to determine success and contribution to our communities. Persistence, patience, discipline and agreeability are also essential to the constellation for social success. Indeed examine the holders of our highest positions; the level of erudition and intellectual firepower are hardly guarantee for effective execution.

I've known plenty of clever decent brown people – whose IQs might actually outshine mine. In many capacities I'd rather the company of the decent and down-to-earth rather than so many insufferable smart-asses.

Indeed go to places like San Francisco. The only people who aren't insufferable pretentious hipster fools are the folks fresh of the plane from far away. With normal traditional values, these new Americans are perhaps the only hope for the places where that species of highly credentialed liberal artists dominate who themselves would be incapable of maintaining any kind of civilization on their own.

Perhaps we don't need a wall at the border after all. A velvet rope and a strict bouncer would do quite well. Somebody who would kick the troublemakers out (even the insufferable bobos!)

Come on Steve, I know there is much to be cynical about.

Don't you have any hope for anything to be good or better in the future.

At the moment I can't think of anything either. All you alternative media cynics have got me thinking the worst of things.

Go ahead Steve, I want to see some optimist bets.

I'll do my best to go first.

On climate:
1. Sea level increase will be minimal … endangering zero human built infrastructure.

2. Agricultural output per capita of developed OECD countries will increase.

Geopolitics
3. Either a Gorbachev or a Hitler will cause tensions in the middle east to evaporate in a climax as shocking as the end of the cold war in that miraculous year of 1989.
(Make no assumptions about which side makes that surprising move…)

4. The demagogues in US Congress finally get their wish and China floats their currency. But…

5. The rising power of China's economy compels the US if they want to sell the PRC bonds, they better be Yuan denominated.

6. After a collateral backed Chinese bail-out of the US Federal Treasury and a Bail-In of US savers, retirees and IRA holdings, the US government finances are finally on track to being balanced.

7. Thanks to the unprecedented bail-in, the inequality of the distribution of wealth is reduced by more than 3/4 overnight.

OK I granted all my scenarios aren't optimistic for everybody.

Next prediction,

After Senator Cory Booker is elected President in 2020 to replace the third President Bush, the US never elects another European-American to be President.

Do Conquistador Americans count as European Americans?

"Instead of Googling the parents, how about counting the number of Linkedin connections they have?"

I always thought that the overclass sent their kids to private school so they didn't have to do anything so gauche as signing up for linkedin.

"an advocate for women in technology…"

No doubt also has also worked to get more women involved in technology.

But Ms. McCallum shows perhaps a more effective way to achieve better numbers of women in the industry.

Take the promising men who are already there and just call them "women" and they'll be able to benefit from all the special mentoring and support programs reserved for "women."

Ms McCallum even shows that this doesn't necessarily get in the way of dating or a relationship with a natural woman. But it still doesn't protect one from the false accusations and legal manipulations so popular among the crazier cis-women breeders.

If being Mikhail Prokhorov's strawman can be profitable for Jay-Z, Magic deserves a piece of the action.

@peterike said…
"Just like there are the wrong kinds of white people, there are the wrong kinds of Jews, these old school embarrassing ones that haven't gotten with the program and think there are differences between racial groups."

Our contemporaries of the progressive left, in spite of their pious adherence to "diversity," know better than to publicly express their true beliefs that they clearly show in their drive to "insulate" from the wrong kind of folks by segregating themselves in the right neighborhoods, school districts, the ivy league, etc.

Sure they may publicly show their contempt for the God-fearing and gun-toting white-trash. But they know better than to say anything critical or even acknowledge the existence of the vibrantly colored kind of trash that also inhabits their country. Both Belmont and Fishtown have citizens of all races.

If the gangsta' rappers can sometimes be phony thugs who conceal a mostly privileged and bourgeois upbringing, I'm looking forward to the gentle black genius pretending to be a dull brute. In this case I'm convinced it's merely accidental genius that DMX is creating noise exactly in the spirit of the times and at the depth and wavelength of the mass of his audience.

Indeed nobody every went broke underestimating the intelligence (or taste) of the American public.

BTW I love the popular misuse of the word pristine. It's incorrect usage is so common by now, perhaps we should accpt a new alternative meaning if the malapropism is more popular than the correct usage.

On another note, I'm not sold that the use of a high falutin' vocabulary is necessarily evidence of a higher intelligence. Everybody is certainly familiar of the abuse of 10 dollar words to affect a false impression of intelligence, when simpler and more direct alternatives exist. Hiding behind advanced vocabulary and opaque prose is often a symptom of pretentious wannabe middlebrow intellect. It shouldn't be necessary to cite examples of crackling simple direct phrasing that leaves quite an impact.

Tom Wolfe should really do a novel about 21st century LA. It would probably write itself, but Mr. Sailer might enjoy playing host and consultant on his home turf.

If he doesn't get started on it by his own initiative, we may need to do a well funded kickstarter campaign to draft him to the project.

"Not everybody. NBA Owner Armageddon is totally in my best interests. These depositions and email discoveries could provide years of great blog material."

Mr. Sailer, do take care of yourself; don't burn yourself out.

Looking forward to years more of entertainment and enlightenment.

1%?

Extraordinary!

That's more than conservatives at the Times!

Haven’t read the book yet, but I suspect all the hot air and outrage surrounding it is more interesting than any common-sense truths or conventional wisdom contained within.

Nevertheless I wouldn’t be surprised that races differ in deeper ways than mere complexion.

Differences in raw intelligence get almost too much attention. Indeed intelligence is important but it’s not everything. Many are upset that one class of humanity scores statistically lower on standard measures of IQ. Racism is often blamed, but how can they be so closed minded to examining the evidence? Why would they deny the possibility that our differences are more than skin deep? That doesn’t make anybody less human — even if our differences make working in a single united community more challenging.

Even if it means that one race is statistically less gifted on average than another, this doesn’t really excuse prejudice. By know doing a simple IQ assessment is probably easier than reviewing the complicated family trees of multiracial individuals. So there is really no reason to prejudge an individual’s intelligence based on their external racial characteristics.

Furthermore intelligence isn’t the sole characteristic that people evaluate in order to determine if one is worthy of connection. I know all to well that there are plenty of folks to the right of me on the bell curve of intelligence, but I like to believe that I still have something to contribute to our civilization. Similarly I sure don’t mind working with the others who are the left of me on the same bell curve. Sure intelligence is important to contribute to the team, but we all know plenty of brilliant people who are totally worthless and nobody wants them on the team because they lack agreeableness, persistence and energy. That’s why it’d be very interesting to know how the races score on these other measures of personality.

For all the thought our the greatest black American thinkers are dedicating to this topic, I’d really like to read what the expert voices of the other races think of the issues. The American perspective on race is without a doubt provincial and overwhelmed by the legacy of black slavery. Leading black American thinkers often view themselves as self-appointed representatives of all oppressed people of color. But what do our cousins in Asia, Africa, Europe think on this? In spite of all our differences at least all of these people are clearly recognizable as members of the human family. Australian aborigines seem perhaps even more distant relatives. What do they think of the whole thing? And do our black cousins view the Australian aborigines as their brothers and sisters as well or perhaps as something lesser?

Well that’s one way to get more women in science and technology careers

I don’t even like watching basketball, but I’ve been watching this saga.

I’m making popcorn and looking forward to a good show.

Paging Tom Wolfe, get that white suit pressed and get typing…

If WhiteMales are so privileged, why aren’t more queuing to surgically or legally join their ranks?

“It was a real white-bread jury…”

This guy’s ignorance and prejudice are showing.

I sincerely doubt that the white hipster BoBos favor the industrial white bread of their grandparents over the fashionable bread of color made of organic ancient whole grains. Nowadays America’s people of color are among the few holdouts buying that kind of soft white bread.

“People who can afford to live in Brooklyn now don’t have the experience of police officers throwing them against cars and searching them.”

These gentrifying pioneers however are probably familiar with a different kind of experience of being stopped and harassed for no reason other than the color of their skin by the kind of local thugs on trial.

I’d rather they allowed freedom of association that implied private organizations and businesses can include whomever they want based on any criteria they choose.

Dear Leftist Social Justice Warriors:

Choose either preferences for minorities OR antidiscrimination preferences.

They’re mutually incompatible.

I’d rather they allowed freedom of association that implied private organizations and businesses can include whomever they want based on any criteria they choose. Independent organizations or actors should be free to promote diversity or justice for perceived past wrongs. Get the lawyers and judges out of the way. I’ve heard managers reluctant to hire certain protected minorities because they were concerned that should the employment not work out for whatever reason, there might be consequences of antidiscrimination lawsuits. Unintended consequences indeed…

Dear Leftist Social Justice Warriors:

Choose either preferences for minorities OR antidiscrimination protections.

They’re mutually incompatible.

With sleazeballs like Dov Charney and Mike Jeffreys of Abercrombie and Fitch, it’s hard not to root for the modest low-profile billionaire Armancio Ortega who founded Inditex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amancio_Ortega

I’m often disappointed by much of the rhetoric concerning immigration. Why can’t we support sensible limitations on immigration while at the same time affirming the humanity and dignity of our Mexican friends and neighbors? We can be welcoming and show hospitality to our guests while they visit, but we should keep in mind that even neighbors need to go home if the relationship isn’t to be strained.

Nevertheless whatever we do think about the newcomers from Mexico (and Asia), they without a doubt are browner and shorter than most of the European-Americans who previously dominated American population.

Check out this bit in Vox that claims that Americans are getting shorter because of the kind of economic inequality a la Piketty.

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/30/5857354/what-are-the-tallest-countries-in-the-world

Ctrl-F “immigr*”? = Nada.

Could it be that both the shorter stature and income inequality both have a common cause?

The article offers as a contrast case of the tall blondes from the Netherlands. Try as we may to encourage contemporary Dutch immigration, it’s probably fruitless. The Netherlands enjoys a significantly superior quality of life and scores higher in human development. Furthermore why would they put up coming to the ‘hood and risk sending their kids to worse American schools. Americans themselves are obsessed with moving to “the better school districts.” If they were really serious about this they should be looking overseas.

A keen observation of unintended consequences.

Bravo.

More please.

A minor quibble, “…withstand the onslaught of illegal immigration…”

That they are illegal isn’t the problem. The problem is that the unfettered immigration is too much for the previous population to integrate and assimilate. A different administrative status that made all those immigrants “legal” wouldn’t make the situation any different.

Perhaps replace “illegal immigration” with “excessive immigration.”

What about humans raised by apes or dogs?

Tarzan??

It’s a shame we don’t have a handy term to distinguish the members of the underclass from functional and productive black citizens.

Nobody has any problem criticizing or mocking “white trash” or rednecks. The taboos that prohibit any kind of similar treatment of dysfunction among black society mean that we have to paper over these problems with depictions of black Americans that are exclusively aspirational images of professionals or intelligentsia.

Surely we should all be able to have categories that distinguish between folks like Professor Thomas Sowell, Oprah and Li’l John?

Probably it’s too late to mainstream a certain 6 letter word.
How about black trash to parallel white trash?

My confession of my own personal racism.

The black people I know from work and the neighborhood all seem fine. In fact I prefer their company to that tiresome middlebrow BoBo SWPL pack. It’s mostly the self-anointed black political and “civil-rights” leadership that gives me indigestion. By now it’s more a ressentiment industrial complex than anything about asserting equal civil rights. I just need to remind myself that these blowhards don’t necessarily speak for black people as a whole. Indeed they may be dangerous demagogues who seduce “their people” but they’re also probably mostly cravenly focused on their own personal ambition.

If women nowadays behave just as males do, matching their tastes, ambitions and coarseness pound for pound, why is it that the transsexuals have to aspire to the most ridiculous cliched paradigm of femininity?

I disagree with the blank-slatists that all sex and gender is mere imaginary socialization, but I fail to see how feminine fashions are somehow so “biologically” coded that the trannies are compelled to follow some arbitrary old-fashioned notions of external femininity.

Any ideas what’s going on here?

Just as trans-women have become an important source of “female” technical talent on the other end of California, perhaps some really butch trans-men could pull off macho leading hero roles that are so outside the experience of most actors who rise through the typical drama-queen pipeline.

If they can build a Keystone XL pipeline to get go-juice from the Canadian upper plains to the Gulf of Mexico, imagine what they could do with water if there were the will and confidence to act.

Canada has lotsa surface fresh waters. The locals up there might even cheer if that meant starving the mosquitoes and other bugs their breeding ponds.

I figured the Canadians would probably be reflexively opposed to selling their dear yank friends any of their precious H2O. Nevertheless it’s more possible that Californians could make the Canadians an offer they can’t refuse… more likely than if any Hollywood talents like Miley Cyrus could appease the Gods with any kind of a rain dance. If not for gold, at least lead can be a very persuasive currency in bargaining with the Canadians.

Up here to the north of your Golden State we should perhaps be speculating in water and real estate for the time when they all eventually seek refuge…

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2014/07/will-pacific-northwest-be-climate.html

On another topic, I share this link http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/microchips-men-conversation-intel about the early days of Silicon Valley. It hasn’t been so long and indeed still within living memory, but it’s hard to imagine the current generation of young kids down there now living a square family life with kids at home. That era now seems to my young imagination a culture as distant and foreign as Saudi Arabia. The picture of the normal “squares” that were the original employees of Intel speaks a thousand words. Also please note the high proportion of female technical talent pictured there. Perhaps the old fashioned values of restraint, respect and proper manners made for a hospitable working environment that was undermined after the sexual revolution repealed old rules and unleashed animal libido? I wasn’t there so I can only speculate. Who knows, maybe those Intel founders were just the same kind of Brogrammer Horndogs as the Tinder app “founders?”

I’m a little bothered by the hypocrisy exhibited by the new generation of Silicon Valley leaders. They’re code writers, and software is different from hardware. With software people, there is this big, romantic philosophy—“Do no evil”—yet it’s always combined with a sort of duplicity. These guys who are running the social-networking era, they’re really behaving like oligarchs: “You know the reason we’re successful is that we’re special. We’re smarter than other people.” You didn’t see that in the early generation of Silicon Valley leaders. They were the children of blue-collar working families. They worked with their hands. So they didn’t try to be your whole world. They didn’t build a campus for you to live on twenty-four hours a day, like in a dorm. They expected you to go home to your family. They had an admiration for working people. You just don’t see that right now with the social-networking guys. Average folks in the Valley, especially poor people, have a really strong sense that these guys don’t care about them. And I think it manifests itself in all sorts of ways, like working with the N.S.A., and the perpetual effort to monetize our private information. It’s a very different world.

Please excuse the digression, I didn’t know the proper protocol for letters to the editor.

A peculiar hypocrisy…. the Ivy-League = Egalitarianism + Snobbery.

Who hasn’t noticed the creeping credentialist snobbery that dominates?

Talk to any SWPL BoBo and they’re hyperconscious about being inclusive to every ethnic, gender or sexual minority. But boy is the look down their nose a long one of contempt for the uneducated gun-totin’ regligious rednecks of flyover country…

Any of us from elder generations able to recount about how this snobbery and imperative for higher education has evolved and changed in your lifetime? It seems the founders of Silicon Valley came from modest working class backgrounds. How has this changed?

It was one thing for our parent’s generation to have been the first college educated one coming from a working class home. Now when so many more of these are 2nd generation educated professionals who have managed to ensure that their offspring managed to maintain the same position or even advance to a higher caste…. whatever the causes, whether in the blood, culture or values privilege is certainly as heritable as ever.

Check out what Chris Hughes’ husband is up to… http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/nyregion/Young-Rich-and-Relocating-to-Hudson-Valley-in-Hunt-for-Political-Office.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0,

California wasn’t ripe for Michael Huffington to buy a seat as a Republican. These boys are probably clever enough to do their homework. We’ll see if the bumpkins there fall for it…

Perhaps there is chance that they’ll leave without natural heirs?

As a citizen of Israel, doesn’t Shel Adelson qualify as one of these MENAs? It seems he’s got the system down for lobbying for his special minority privileges. Maybe he’d like to show fellow Middle-Eastern and North-African brothers and sisters how to get on the gravy train?

You know… solidarity and all…

Apparently many of our dear cousins of colour are cleverer than some in these parts claim. They seem to follow Comrade Derbyshire’s point “(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.” from his infamous “The Talk: Nonblack Version” http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#axzz3ElEMFlJq

@A very knowing American

“In Australia, koalas specialize on eucalyptus. How would they do in Southern California?”

Well, koalas are very cute and quite photogenic, but their skulls are rather empty and filled with inert fluid due to their nutrient-poor eucalyptus diet.

They’d prolly fit right in.

TIL that due to their small brains koalas are unable to perform complex, unfamiliar tasks such as eat leaves off of flat surfaces.
byu/sentient_sasquatch intodayilearned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala#Description

Mr. Sailer,

I’d really be eager for some updates on your trend of gentrification in South LA.

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/04/white-gentrification-of-south-central.html

Everything else in the region is climbing out of reach of all but the not so petit-bourgeoisie.

How does a young family with kids ever scrape together the 20% down payment on the half-million it takes to live in “decent”* neighborhoods around LA? Not everybody has a trust-fund or boomer parents willing or able to cash out some to help their offspring.

Perhaps you are well situated to do some original reporting and track down some of these families who choose to be these pioneers and tell their stories. I don’t doubt much would confirm expectations, but there are probably some unexpected angles that only hearing from those living it could reveal.

If you’d be inclined, I’d even be honored to come down at my own expense to help out on the report and work as an apprentice.

Ahhh, the wholesome fun and camaraderie of the high school varsity football locker-room.

There is certainly something unseemly about grown men and their fascination for watching young men run and tumble around like that. Maybe the creepiness isn’t confined to the spectators and also PERVades locker-rooms as the team in Sayreville, NJ shows. Apparently some guys have a hard time seeing the boundary between macho swagger and homoeroticism.

I never understood why there isn’t more interest in watching and admiring the female form in athletic endeavors. Granted the competition of many sports compels participants to cultivate freakish bodies in order to be successful. Nevertheless in some sports women are able to achieve a balanced and ideal form.

I wish the media followed up on Michael Brown’s character and social interactions in school prior to his fateful day of convenience store robbery followed by his celebratory by swagger down the middle of the street obstructing traffic and subsequent confrontation with the police.

Clearly the security camera footage hints that the nation’s favorite martyred “gentle-giant” was an expert at strong-armed bullying. It’s unlikely that it was his first experience pushing others around. Where are all the kids whose lunch money he took? Where are the nation’s civil rights leaders defending those innocent black citizens who suffered under that? Too busy defending and rationalizing the rotten character and thuggery that make the decent quiet types, black kids and seniors suffer in silent fear.

It’s long been obvious where the masters of America’s profit-driven propaganda industry stand on things. Perhaps the task is simply too important to be left to the market all too keen to cater to the public’s basest tastes for celebrity, scandal, emotional manipulation and pornography.

But what could be the alternative?

As U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta Lynch was responsible for going after serious violent crime. Nevertheless her Wikipedia entry exclusively highlights her prosecution of high profile cases of white cops accused of civil rights abuses of blacks, eg Abner Luima, Eric Garner, and so on as well as cases of corruption among bankers and Republican politicians.

Of course the article supports the official narrative that New York is a generally tranquil place with no gang-bangers of color, whose innocent NAM citizens suffer a reign of terror under abusive white cops and corrupt Republicans. Maybe the Democratic legislators who dominate there, just have such a lock on their local districts that they can afford to be squeaky clean because their seats are safe and they don’t need to resort to corruption in order to hold on to power or realize their bleedy-heart vision of government.

Of course…

As U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta Lynch was responsible for going after serious violent crime. Nevertheless her Wikipedia entry exclusively highlights her prosecution of high profile cases of white cops accused of civil rights abuses of blacks, eg Abner Luima, Eric Garner, and so on as well as cases of corruption among bankers and Republican politicians.

Of course the article supports the official narrative that New York is a generally tranquil place with no gang-bangers of color, whose innocent NAM citizens suffer a reign of terror under abusive white cops and corrupt Republicans. Maybe the Democratic legislators who dominate there, just have such a lock on their local districts that they can afford to be squeaky clean because their seats are safe and they don’t need to resort to corruption in order to hold on to power or realize their bleedy-heart vision of government.

Of course…

Does anybody have any details of Ms. Lynch’s record prosecuting perhaps more stereotypical examples of violent criminals?

Anybody else think Chris Hughes has an unusually excellent example of a Backpfeiffengesicht?

Such a look of soft, spoiled, uncompromising arrogance. With his squillions, why should he compromise?

On the other hand, I probably hate him so much because I recognize these traits when I look in the mirror at myself.

Check out the story of his husband who ran for congress.
http://freebeacon.com/blog/even-the-new-york-times-agrees-sean-eldridge-is-the-worst-candidate-of-2014/

Hollywood screenwriters couldn’t come up with anything so ridiculous.

I’m really not even a Christian, but I find it incredibly tasteless to climb on the Cross at the summit for something as trivial as a photo op.

Kids today.

Attention hungry, narcissistic Facebook slaves.

It was a lady friend of comet-probe pilot, Dr. Taylor, who designed the awful tacky shirt. Perhaps he did it to get her some nice TV exposure for her “unconventional designs.”

Try to help a lady, other ladies beat ya up.

Just like the irrational contradictory abuse you describe.

Can’t win.

“With much of the national establishment urging on a small fraction of blacks to behave badly…”

Maybe I’m not losing my mind since I’m not alone getting the impression that the media elites are relishing the chaos a little too much. After crafting the narrative and propaganda, sowing mistrust and stoking fear, they might reap a civil war that’s a real ratings bonanza.

The media seems to sense a duty to responsibility to play down the knockout gangs and polar bear hunters. Where is their sense of responsibility and restraint with respect to all this? They’ve gotten blacks so upset and frightened that they have no trust civic institutions, justice or police.

What hope for peace and unity can there be?

Maybe it’s time for America to consider a no-fault divorce if they can’t get along and share their home? But how could there be a civil dissolution of such a troubled union?

I hate to imagine the division of property and who’s going to move out?

Upgraded to “White-Privilege.”

If you look closely you can see his invisible knapsack.

The Emperor’s New Tailors also know their way around paintbrushes.

If only their paints were as exquisitely invisible as their threads, no canvases would be wasted.

Who is the child who will be believed when exclaiming what meaningless rubbish this is?

The output of the Hollywood branch of the Cathedral, with all its clever screenwriters, has done more to advance progressive causes than all the ivory-tower academics, NYT columnists and Washington opinion leaders combined. Years of depiction of permissiveness (aka non-judgmentalism) and glorified characterizations of sexual minorities and racial diversity have been working to undermine the status of “traditional” western citizens as privileged villains or at best hopelessly old-fashioned squares.

So if there is any hope for the philosophy that resonates in these dark corners of our society’s consciousness populated by incorrigible real-talkers like Mr. Sailer to find a wider audience, then some screen-writers and producers will please take notice. The Brian Banks Story might be a way to meet the progressive establishment that dominates the mainstream halfway. But would the message of monster packaged in a greedy venal black woman be lost in order promote a more palatable message about racism and over-eager law-enforcement and prosecution?

I appreciated Mr. Sailer’s reviews of Gone Girl and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. At least feminists should welcome that women might be given a change to portray some interesting villainesses like Gone Girl’s Amy Dunne. It’s long overdue feminists to give up on the condescending fantasy that everything would be peace, love and rainbows if women ruled the world. We misogynists don’t necessarily hold that women are inherently worse than men. We merely reject the notion that they are somehow better, unsullied innocents… sugar and spice and everything nice. Feminists (and the rest of mainstream culture) claim that men are beasts. We misogynists have no argument with this fact, but assert that women are probably beasts as well, if of a different genus.
Men sin, but so do women.

I’ve been asked for help while shopping at Target stores.
Must have been the khaki pants and red polo shirt I was wearing.

Otherwise nice and friendly folks work there.
Probably nicer and friendlier than snooty lawyers like Mrs. Obama.

With many slave-descended Black-Americans the chip on the shoulder is standard from the factory. Black-African immigrants are a different story. Nothing in common, these brothers of color… other than their ancestors captured and sold the ancestors of the others into slavery.

Kinship and brotherhood indeed!

Reminds me of the “awful” slight that Oprah Winfrey suffered while shopping at a pricey boutique in Switzerland. Having seen a picture of the god-awful ugly expensive handbag that Mrs. Winfrey was inquiring about, I imagined that the saleswoman was sincerely trying to help by presenting a more tasteful but also less expensive option.

Too bad that with that chip on the shoulder, one always assumes the worst.

If all White Americans took a pill today to make them color blind and “cure” racism, many Blacks would likely still interpret much innocent behavior as hopelessly racist.

Sad indeed that our fellow Black citizens have to suffer that. Whatever racism there is, certainly is bad enough. The paranoia to see bad faith everywhere makes it even worse.

Maybe both Black and White America would be better off with a no-fault divorce. Irreconcilable differences and all that. When an all black police force stop and frisks fellow blacks in an all black society, there can be no charge of racism. They’re just trying to keep innocent black civilians safe…

But did Mrs. Obama happen to be shopping at Target on Black-Friday?

Thanks for another year of fearless commentary… and reporting as well.

The connection between Mr. Sailer’s website and pornography probably is clearer than Mr. Pinsen expects.

Looking at porn is a lot like reading iSteve. More people are doing it than will admit.
Both are hard habits to quit.

At least after I read Sailer’s sparkling wit and wisdom, at least I never feel like I just wasted the last 15 minutes.

I’m trying hard to appreciate why Mr. Sailer included the picture of Ms. Gessen, but I’m not sure I get it. Maybe it’s because I’m just blonde. I can’t imagine that his point was anything as silly as just to mock her appearance. Perhaps you dear fellow readers could share your own interpretations?

But if I compare the pictures of Mr. Tsarnaev and Ms. Gessen, it seems Masha looks darker than Dzhokhar. So is she black too? Does that mean that we fellow children of Abraham count as black?

Masha Gessen calls Dzhokhar Tsarnaev black. But no matter the color, he and his Chechen family are without a doubt Caucasians.

I like that the picture of the dashing young Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was added. Together with the photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev we’ve got a great start to a Tiger Beat Calendar featuring the hottest heartbreaking young mass-murderers.

This has got to be the most shocking bit of real-talk I’ve ever seen… even if it’s mere speculation.

Unfortunately because it’s such a shocking notion, it’ll never be investigated scientifically.

Thanks for the courage and the willingness to think in public like this. Have you nothing to lose? Do you not fear anything?

Even under the cover of ostensible pseudonymity I lack the courage to openly express in public how much sense this makes.

No matter I’m certain that not only the NSA knows who Mr. Thin-Skinned is. I’m sure that Mark Zuckerberg, FICO, Transunion, AT&T, Match.com, Amazon, the IRS and the College Board have also already made the relevant connections to my natural identity.
But I’ve still never met my neighbors.

“Or perhaps somewhere else. Next year in Havana?”

Or this Yank will go to Spain…

I’m nurturing some silly dreams of one day becoming a worthless Eurotrash playboy.

Root for the Greenback friends!

While lost in a Vibrant Urban neighborhood, a group of friendly local youths kindly suggested,
“Go back to where you came from white-boy!”

I suppose that would be Europe, no?
You know that might be the smartest thing those guys ever said?

If reconquista is good enough for the Zionist Israelis and for la raza in California del Norte, perhaps it would work for us European-Americans? Perhaps that’s a kind of immigration those nice Europeans would welcome?

Frogs, Krauts, Acadians (Cajuns), Yanks etc…

I’d be happy with any of these. Even though my own “Tory” sensibilities mean that I would have likely sympathized with the Royal Loyalist cause, my immigrant ancestors decisions mean that only “Yank” could apply to me.
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The cold of the northern latitudes makes our skin grow thick…

no matter what my Thin-Skinned alias may seem.

Cheers from the great dark winter of the great white north.

I have the good fortune of living in a very vibrant neighborhood of a city blessed by the enlightened generosity of progressive local governance. Two big camps of tents for homeless bums and crazies are just a few blocks away occupy the parks and ruin them with human waste and trash. There’s plenty of dough to go around to all the activists representing the homeless and every flavor of ethnic diversity, but for decent policing and public order? Forget about it. The police department is being supervised by the Feds and the Justice Department after investigation of “excessive force” or “civil rights” concerns. So the cops have given up and pretend to be doing their job.

What do I get out of my property taxes? The schools are terrible and excel only in instruction of leftist political dogma. This gentrifier is ready to wave the white flag and surrender.

The only other white guy in the neighborhood is the HIV+ meth dealer that lives across the street. His rent gets paid with Section 8 subsidies thanks to yours and my taxes. I shudder to think what his pills cost to control his HIV.

My house was broken into twice in the first month I lived here. The Mexican guy who lives in the same building as the white meth dealer has told me that he can’t stand the diversity and chaos here. He’s looking for a place in a white neighborhood that he can afford. He has nothing but contempt for the crooks and scammers who run the local “la raza” racket. Apparently they do nothing but shake down the taxpayers and provide “services” that are statistically exaggerated for an clientele they strive to infantilize in dependency.

I visited my brother last week in a gated community in the hills of southern Orange County. I truly felt like I was flying to Blomkamp’s Elysium. No homeless bums and crazies, no chaos, no fear; why can’t we keep the rest of our civilization nice like that? It’s not that they were racially homogenous. There were plenty of he emerging Asian overclass represented there too.

It’s as if in our general public, the wrong ones have fear, while the crooks, spongers and bums can terrorize and harass the innocents with impunity. People talk an awful lot about civil rights, but isn’t also an important civil right for the black grannies and black kids to be able to walk around the neighborhood, to go to school and play in the parks unmolested?

Sailer and Cowen are some of my favorite contemporary thought provokers. If these two got together with a few more interesting minds for a tv-talk round, a middle-brow fella like Mr. Thin-Skinned might actually have to subscribe to cable. Perhaps some simple published form with dueling text might even be better to let the ideas shine instead of the shallow style and bluster that dominate cable tv talking heads.

Maybe there’s enough funds and motivation here to do a Kickstarter campaign to make it real?

Have these two ever met?

Mr. Sailer,

How about some fun “I believe in Haven Monahan” or “I am Haven Monahan” T-Shirts or Bumper Stickers?

You know as a “gift” for various donation levels during your next pledge drive…

I guess the Ivory Tower hasn’t gotten hooked up for cable yet.

On anti-Semites, Harvey Weinstein wants to “kick ’em in the ass…”
On women, Harvey Weinstein wants to “grope ’em in the ass…”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harvey-weinstein-accused-groping-woman-785295

But what to do about anti-Semitic women?

I’m certain our dear host will probably have already seen this as he is a frequent commenter over at Tyler Cowen’s place.

Residents of Puerto Rico being granted Social Security Disability because they can’t speak English??

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/04/10/puerto-ricans-who-cant-speak-english-qualify-as-disabled-for-social-security/?hpid=z4

In the US mainland, I didn’t think the ability to speak English was required any more for many jobs.

This blog is great about noticing things, but does anybody else notice that Miss Horwitz might be an interesting case to be a lens to examine immigration?

So many of the folks here carry on about the heritability of personality or intelligence. Ultimately it doesn’t matter if it’s in the blood or in the family environment if these can’t be separated. In Miss Horwitz’s case the blood was separated from the natal family environment. Immigration might turn out differently if they were all adopted as infants and raised by good “Jewish” families or tiger mothers.

Actually I do hope Mr. Judge burns an Ellen Pao facsimile token woman POC. Many laughs guaranteed. It’s a story so ridiculous, they may have to remove some of the actual true details (see Buddy Fletcher) to make it believable.

Make it a heavy-handed bogus sexual-harassment case or make a mockery of sensitivity training to be inclusive to the programmer dilettante sisters.

Or even better, let Pied Piper meet its ridiculous gender quotas by letting the fellas dress as sham trans-employees. It shouldn’t even be hard for them because they could just claim to be wearing the same androgynous gender neutral clothing of jeans and t-shirts like most of the genetic females do.

Can’t get NYC to quit “stop and frisk” so he’s shopping for a jurisdiction where it might not be necessary.

Omaha? I don’t know, but that Warren Buffet dude sure looks like he might be in a mean gang and packin’ heat.

Do the Americans have any women scientists of similar calibre to Marie Curie?

If they can give the freshly elected President Barry O. the Nobel Prize for Hope before he actually accomplished anything, maybe they could prematurely give the 20 dollar bill to Candidate Hillary.

But they need to make some fun motif on the obverse that includes Bill and Monica.

The arguments against requiring photo ID for voting are incredible. After all one needs a photo ID for any basic participation in our society and economy, to open or access a bank account, to get a job, to get on an airplane, to get into certain public buildings, even to buy certain otc cold and allergy pills…. Why should it be any different for voting?

The American progressive left has always been so infatuated with the social democracies of the blue-eyed kingdoms in northern Europe. Perhaps they should follow their example of requiring of identification to vote.

It would seem to me that if we put our minds to it we could get every citizen a legitimate photo identification. The left has so much faith in the government to organize and regulate industry, market and economy. Why can’t we just agree to get some kind of national ID in everybody’s hands?

I recall when the Social Security card was printed with the statement “this is not an ID.” I’m tired of the hypocrisy and would welcome some thing that could take its place and perform as a genuine ID.

With a convicted rapist for a father and an estranged mother who might not have been much better, Mr. Fryer deserves respect for being a clever seed that managed to thrive even after being sown among thorns.

The obsession about IQ differences among the races among many of this audience isn’t entirely satisfying. With Mr. Fryer we clearly have a brother who is to the right of me (and likely many others..) on whatever bell-curve we choose. So what if those with African blood on average may have a lower IQ? That doesn’t mean they have nothing to contribute to civilization. Wouldn’t it be the same if everyone to the right of me on the bell-curve looked down on me and thought I was a worthless waste of air and space?

Furthermore with the complicated family-trees of multiracial individuals, it’s probably easier with a quick little test to determine a person’s IQ than his racial identity.

As I understand it, a rational appreciation of ethnic differences of individual potential might be useful to get us to stop obsessing about “the achievement gap.” For me the purpose in education should be to realize potential achievement. The problem in fact seems to be more the unwillingness of individuals to live up to their potential than deficiencies in that potential.

If there are any utilitarian based arguments that expending resources on those of limited potential are a waste and would yield a higher return if dedicated to more gifted individuals, I suggest that attention be focused on the immense resources given to “special ed.”

Finally it’s perhaps not too bad that we all are endowed with different gifts. While I agree with Mr. Sailer that “It’s too [bad] we don’t have more people like Fryer.” However if everyone were as gifted as Mr. Fryer, who would be left to make the coffee? It’s not that we should be snobs about less intellectually demanding work… it all has dignity. But we are suffering under a dire surplus of wannabe creative knowledge workers. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/04/what-professions-are-oversaturated.html

Before they go off to an undergraduate education to become future intellectuals, the clever ones could use a real lesson in humility. The humility and modesty that was common to the communist farmer and worker states would be something that would benefit even our society.

Enough with the obsession with IQ already. Not that it’s unimportant. IQ might be hereditary, but conscientiousness and agreeability probably are as well. Where is the standardized test to measure these? It isn’t just intelligence that determines how well an individual integrates and contributes to civilization. I’d like to see some investigation about the heritability of the OCEAN personality traits. If we take the example of Michael Brown, it wasn’t necessarily a lack of intelligence that got him into trouble. I’ve worked with colleagues with down’s syndrome and they made fine contributions to the team. I’d rather have their cheerful agreeability even with whatever limitations. What doomed Michael Brown was more his lack of conscientiousness and lack of agreeability that likely contributed to him being an aggressive bully that couldn’t help but escalate the confrontation with the police to fatal consequences.

I wish some intrepid reporters had the courage to track down some of the poor black kids whose lunch money had been taken by Michael Brown while he was bullying them. Does anybody really believe that his strong arm robbery in that convenience store was his debut?

I don’t at all dispute the importance of IQ for explaining much of the achievement gap between ethnic groups. I’m suggesting that the ethnic differences probably go even further than mere intelligence. If intelligence is heritable couldn’t characteristics such as sociability, conscientiousness and agreeability also be transmitted that way?

I’m curious about it based on what I observe. Sure intelligence is important, but focus, discipline and grit are too. Traditionally we’ve had faith that these elements of character are virtue, but what if they are “gifts?”

If some people suffer a natural “attention deficit,” perhaps people “suffer” deficits in these other areas of character? If studies about ethnic differences in intelligence are taboo, wouldn’t studies about other aspects of character be even more taboo? Has anybody been looking at this? Do they even have a neatly packaged way of measuring conscientiousness and agreeability like they do for intelligence in the IQ tests?

If genius begets genius, perhaps also saints beget saints and trouble-makers beget trouble-makers…

Thank you.

This “willingness” is exactly my point. It may correlate no doubt, but why aren’t we examining and measuring it specifically in a systematic and standardized way like we’ve been measuring IQ?

The question of “acting white” that Fryer is examining is very different from intelligence. There may indeed be some untapped latent intelligence in these populations that don’t adequately explain the observed achievement gap. “Acting white” is more a question of conscientiousness and agreeability than intelligence. Perhaps there are inheritable explanations why some populations are more aggressive, conflict prone, and indeed merely “boisterous.”

These characteristics are typical of boys in general when compared to girls. No doubt you have all noticed that in general the girls are exceeding the boys in scholastic achievement, Perhaps some ethnic populations show more of these typically “masculine” traits than others. Based on your own experiences, you can of course infer what I mean by some populations being more cooperative, docile, studious, and indeed feminine than others. No doubt that these traits correlate with IQ, but this goes above and beyond mere intelligence.

To summarize, I don’t disagree that innate intelligence contributes to the observed achievement gap between ethnic populations. However I suggest that other additional factors contribute to this achievement gap and might indeed actually be more important to explaining why some populations have been falling behind.

I’m pretty sure many of you are in agreement with me that as far as learning goes, we can lead the horse to water but we sure can’t make ’em drink. In our education we spend too much time worrying about the “gap” in achievement between populations and too little attention on the gap between potential and actual achievement.

I just wish we could kick any and all disruptive trouble-makers out in order to focus on those who actually want to learn – no matter their raw potential. But leave the door open whenever they eventually see the value in education.

I don’t disagree with the notion of protecting the border. I just wish the rhetoric about our “neighbors” returning home after their visit were more humane.

We all may invite our neighbors over to visit our homes for a barbecue or some other visit. It doesn’t diminish our hospitality for us to expect them to return home after their visit. We wish our neighbors nothing but the best… health, prosperity and everything good. But our neighbors live in their homes and we live in ours. If their lifestyle and values are different, it’s ok because we don’t have to share homes. I’m sure our neighbors wouldn’t welcome us moving in and imposing our way of life on them either.

But in addition to the “wall” or “fence” that so many want to see on the border, I’d like to see a velvet rope and a tough bad-ass bouncer. Let in the few, the interesting, the clever and the beautiful and kick out any spongers or trouble-makers.

Yes, they truly have no shame and are longing for a brilliant post-shame future.

“Perfect Angel” and “Gentle Giant.”

Much like the asthmatic Eric Garner with the weak heart,
now we get the “Delicate Dealer” ….

Precious and fragile. Please handle with extreme care!

So when they sell poison to black brothers, they look the other way.
Maybe occupying forces should withdraw to allow local autonomy. They’ll choose as much law and order as they want. Let the locals decide how much their own innocents, children, senior citizens should suffer in terror of thugs.

TNC knows all too well that “snitches get stitches”… better not to betray the homies and air their dirty laundry like a Cosby.

So “IF” people in Seattle do get around to having kids, they do actually try hard and raise them in two parent families. Of course many of those families do include two men or two women instead of the more typical one of each.

However in reality they’ve mastered the art of contraception.
Apparently they prefer dogs to children….
They have 50% more dogs than kids.

http://www.seattlemag.com/article/seattles-dog-obsession

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-03-13-babybust_x.htm

The liberal baby bust
By Phillip Longman
What’s the difference between Seattle and Salt Lake City? There are many differences, of course, but here’s one you might not know. In Seattle, there are nearly 45% more dogs than children. In Salt Lake City, there are nearly 19% more kids than dogs.

Is anybody else of the sense that the preference of pets to kids is a sign of hopelessness and decadence almost worse than the sexual excess that the “family values” crowd usually decries?

Anybody care to do the math?

How much would it cost to buy out enough of the distressed homes in the ‘hood at current market prices to start the momentum?

I’m sure Ballmer, Buffet and a few of their kind have the resources to get things rolling.

If white people and their racism are the source of all black woe, then perhaps it’s time for blacks to consider withdrawal and reconsider segregation? In separate all black community there can be no blaming whites for any microaggressions or other harassment. Black youth will no longer be subject to racism and neglect in education that prevents them from achieving their potential that is not fulfilled with the achievement gap in integrated society. It’ll be possible to have all black faces in elite positions of politics and business. If they prefer to “look at black faces like their own,” let them have their own media and culture where only these are represented.

What is the goal of the Afro-American intifada? Perhaps it’s time for them to consider a two state solution… It’ll be their chance to cultivate black utopias.

Indeed aren’t there a number of municipalities whose politics are dominated by long time elected black Democratic machines? Okay past opportunities may have been wasted, but dear black brothers and sisters, don’t let that stop you to rise to the challenge and build these black utopias where you already have the power.

Key and Peele’s Negrotown Utopia.

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I don’t know how either Mr. Sailer or Prof. Cowen come across in person, however I do enjoy reading both.

Does anybody else think these two interesting thinkers might make for interesting company and perhaps television?

Whom else might we want to include in a “McLaughlin Group” for the 21st Century?
Who should get to moderate?

Personally I might be tempted to include too many with whom I agree.

At the very least some folks who are willing to question the orthodoxy of whatever tribe or creed to which they belong, perhaps like an Andrew Sullivan?

Maybe to get things to crackle we’d also need somebody from the Ta Naheesi Coates school of thought but who isn’t such a muddled thinker?

I haven’t watched TV in years and I generally ignore youtube talking heads preferring to read. A lively discussion among some interesting minds might actually get me to tune in.

“If only Ferguson had done the right thing by just arresting the cop. So what if he is technically innocent. Let a jury do the dirty work. In America, someone sufficiently lawyered up will eventually win.”

The rioting mobs aren’t demanding the rule of law.

It’s a blood-thirsty lynch mob.

“racism may exist at the sub atomic level and perhaps the CERN Large Hadron Collider should be tasked to look into it.”

Makes sense. They are looking for “Dark Matter” aren’t they?

Now I see why the Koch brothers are the nation’s number one villains for trying to buy American politics.

If psychoanalysis were conceived today, they wouldn’t ask “Tell me about your childhood…” but rather, “Tell me about your time in high school…”

I appreciate that our host, Mr. Sailer, usually focuses his observations on other figures in contemporary society rather than dwelling merely on his own experiences, like the narcissistic exercises in navel-gazing that the ladies of Slate-Salon-NewYorkTimes-HuffingtonPost foist on us with their personal experiences supposedly of universal relevance.

On the few occasions that Mr. Sailer does share some of his own biography, it serves well as background for the issues he’s discussing. Nonetheless I’d be interested to know if there were some experiences, regrets, insecurities or disappointments in his past that shaped him like Mr. Weiner was scarred by his own perceived exclusion from elite Los Angeles society. Perhaps young Steve was a normal solid well adjusted, well integrated young man of the kind seldom depicted by out popular culture. Do such spiritually healthy individuals without serious cares or complexes actually exist? Indeed if Mr. Sailer benefited from the privileges of strong family and values, perhaps we should consider how other families can learn from this so they too can raise their kids with the same kind of privileges. It’s not merely a question of economics or inequality either. Mr. Weiner likely lacked for nothing of the sort in his prosperous professional family but still matured with a sense of cranky bitterness. Not exactly a case for well-adjusted equanimity.

Mr. Weiner is an inspiration to all the Jewish boys in America like me… That if we work hard we might some day beat the odds (and the Daves) to break into Hollywood and write for television or movies. As much as it would delight me, I don’t dare to dream that Jewish Americans like me might some day write for a reputable news media outlet like the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic or Slate.

One day we will arrive!

Maybe I should aim even higher and submit my application for that journalism internship with Mr. Sailer?

If none of that pans out, maybe I can just console myself that at least I could be in a fine country club and find distraction in golf.

Give the money to Elon Musk for a hyperloop pilot project.

The only way the US will ever see a high speed rail network is if they sell out to a government that has the will to allow the benefits for the majority of the population overrule a few NIMBY BANANAS. Sounds like it would be almost like democracy in action if that would ever be?

It could happen though. With the Chinese holding so many US Treasuries… And they have some experience building large infrastructure projects in spite of some local resistance.

I’m not an MBA, but wouldn’t have made more sense to offer the workers a chance at their old jobs in the new outsourced organization? Even I can see a restructuring transition might be a great opportunity to get rid of deadweight and troublemakers while keeping the real producers. Maybe some reduction in compensation would have made the Yank workers competitive with the H1-Bs. Furthermore they could have saved on the administration for immigration and visa formalities and the training for the new workers.

Perhaps that’s why I’m just not cut out for management not seeing the big picture.

PS
The link for the story seems to be something about John Paulson not Disney outsourcing.

With the Yank lasses as overfed as they are, “DD”s are hardly scarce if you can find them among their other bounteous “curves.” I’ll take the “B”s if you can still see some waist and hips to go with the hourglass.

So why are the Hindu guest workers so compliant? When they see the ladies in human resources, they can’t help but thinking “Holy Cow!”

All kidding aside, living in the Seattle area, the Brown New Americans here are almost the only normal looking ones around. The young whites are a tragic freakshow of tattooed hipsters. I can almost sympathize with the employers who feel they need to import some normal squares. The newcomers look like they’d count as part of Nixon’s silent majority.

The retconning of “Bruce Jenner” from history is part of something that is much bigger than WWT. It’s part of a sad modern compulsion to scrub any depictions of the past that offend modern sensitivity. Something as simple as the depictions of the NY skyline needed to be “corrected” tout suite after the tragedy in 2001. Why was this so urgent? Are we so thin-skinned that we can’t handle that kind of reminder of what was lost in the tragedy? Other examples include the replacement of outdated terms for “African-American” in literature and historical account.

From my perspective I find it enlightening to see evidence of how we’ve changed rather than stumbling over awkward anachronisms that have been injected in order to bring things up to date. Whatever we think of WWT, mainstream media have the power to establish style standards that could aim to maximize clarity and accuracy and to avoid this kind of ridiculous absurdity. Let’s not hold our breath.

So it seems the same material that drives viewers and clicks for E! also works for Mr. Sailer and Mr. Unz.

What is the traffic like? Are more people viewing now as well as commenting?
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are plenty of readers for the usual material that normally just don’t participate in the comments. Now I’m sure that so many just have some silly remarks that they’ve just got to get off their chest.

Maybe our host needs to start shopping for an outsourced service to review your comments.

What proportion of comments gets rejected? What reasons… Spam? Offensive?
We all appreciate that the discussion is allowed to go in directions that might be a little too hot for other hosts. Some of the more scandalous or tactless remarks just embarrass themselves, hopefully without reflecting too badly on our host.

What I don’t get about the transsexuals is how exaggerated an image of femininity they embrace. Nowadays the women in the west hardly ever wear a dress, skirt or makeup. Among my female colleagues there are several who are quite a bit more “butch” than I am as a naturally born man.

By now the women have embraced the worst aspects of men, the swagger, the cursing, the slovenliness, the tattoos without bothering to adopt the positive traits, and character strengths such a the stoicism.

Blame feminism and Title IX athletics, but the transsexuals maybe the only ones left in America who hold femininity” as a value worth striving for.

It’s gotten to the point when I’m looking at online dating profiles, if “she’s” wearing makeup and a dress trying to look pretty, chances are pretty high it’s a case of a MtF transsexual.

Of course my perspective here on the West Coast here in Seattle and San Francisco may be a bit extreme. But it’s probably the future all you in flyover country get to look forward to…

After being married, to three different women no less, I’d be surprised if he had anything left to cut off. Don’t wives nowadays get to keep their husbands’ bits and pieces in their purses?

“especially brave”??

Nah.

That’s what ordinary men are who are stupid enough to marry in contemporary America.

Now that the gays want to marry, let ’em have it but good and hard.

One big difference.

The good Viscount Governor was trying to look like a lady.

Ms. Dunham is going more for the monstrous or livestock look.

Anybody else ever try to make a connection between Lena Dunham and Barry O.’s mom, Stanley Ann Dunham?