Liberalism a Fishy faith? 
Check out 
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/opinion/12fish.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Dobeln, it is precisely “tolerance” that  
is at issue. One is either tolerant because one doesn’t really care or else because one perceives one’s own beliefs to be immune to criticism. The mullahs would be right to perceive in tolerance the actual threat since, as Nietzsche said, in order to discredit religion it needs to be put on ice. Religion thrives on the flames of intolerance.

Dobeln, you agree therefore that the progressive strategy at this stage would be for the state to suppress overt criticism and ridicule of Islam?

Uhm, “progressive” is meant in the sense of “right”, of course.

Sorry, I actually meant progressive in the sense of progress towards secularism. According to the Nietzschean logic, it would be wise to protect Islam from criticism and ridicule precisely in order for the cooler, more rational heads to prevail over the demagogues and rabble rousers.

I don’t think it was a case of secularism forcing Christianity to back down, rather that Christianity itself became more secularised. I would hazard a guess that many if not most of the great Europeans were Christians in addition to being committed to the ideals of rationalism.  
 
The obverse of the Nietzschean logic is that forcing secularism on the religious would merely inflame their anger and strengthen their resolve.

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith, which were continually inherited, until they became almost part of the basic endowment of the species, include the following: that there are enduring things; that there are equal things; that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself. It was only very late that such propositions were denied and doubted—it was only very late that truth emerged, as the weakest form of knowledge. It seemed that one was unable to live with it, our organism was prepared for the opposite; all its higher functions, sense perception and every kind of sensation worked with those basic errors which had been incorporated since time immemorial. Indeed, even in the realm of knowledge these propositions became the norms according to which “true” and “untrue” were determined—down to the most remote regions of logic. Thus: the strength of knowledge does not depend on its degree of truth but on its age, on the degree to which it has been incorporated, on its character as a condition of life. Where life and knowledge seemed to be at odds there was never any real fight; but denial and doubt were simply considered madness. Those exceptional thinkers, like the Eleatics, who nevertheless posited and clung to the opposites of the natural errors, believed that it was possible to live in accordance with these opposites: they invented the sage as the man who was unchangeable and impersonal, the man of the universality of intuition who was One and All at the same time, with a special capacity for his inverted knowledge; they had the faith that their knowledge was also the principle of life. But in order to claim all of this, they had to deceive themselves about their own state: they had to attribute to themselves, fictitiously, impersonality and changeless duration; they had to misapprehend the nature of the knower; they had to deny the role of the impulses in knowledge; and quite generally they had to conceive of reason as a completely free and spontaneous activity; they shut their eyes to the fact that they, too, had arrived at their propositions through opposition to common sense, or owing to a desire for tranquility, for sole possession, or for dominion. The subtler development of honesty and skepticism eventually made these people, too, impossible; their ways of living and judging were seen to be also dependent upon the primeval impulses and basic errors of all sentient existence.— This subtler honesty and skepticism came into being wherever two contradictory sentences appeared to be applicable to life because both were compatible with the basic errors, and it was therefore possible to argue about the higher or lower degree of utility for life; also wherever new propositions, though not useful for life, were also evidently not harmful to life: in such cases there was room for the expression of an intellectual play impulse, and honesty and skepticism were innocent and happy like all play. Gradually, the human brain became full of such judgements and convictions, and a ferment, struggle, and lust for power developed in this tangle. Not only utility and delight but every kind of impulse took sides in this fight about “truths”; the intellectual fight became an occupation, an attraction, a profession, a duty, something dignified—: and eventually knowledge and the striving for the true found their place as a need among other needs. Henceforth not only faith and conviction but also scrutiny, denial, mistrust, and contradiction became a power, all “evil” instincts were subordinated to knowledge, employed in her service, and acquired the splendor of what is permitted, honored, and useful—and eventually even the eye and innocence of the good. Thus knowledge became a piece of life itself, and hence a continually growing power: until eventually knowledge collided with these primeval basic errors, two lives, two powers, both in the same human being. The thinker: that is now that being in whom the impulse for truth and those life-preserving errors clash for the first fight, after the impulse for truth has proved to be also a life-preserving power. Compared to the significance of this fight, everything else is a matter of indifference: the ultimate question about the conditions of life has been posed here, and we confront the first attempt to answer this question by experiment. To what extent can truth endure incorporation?—that is the question, that is the experiment.

[stop the stream of consciousness already -razib]

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[stop the stream of consciousness already -razib] 
 
Razib – I am sorry to see that you find epistemological scepticism so disconcerting that you see fit to censure it. All I am trying to point out is that we have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live – by the postulating of bodies, lines, surfaces, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content: without these articles of faith no one could manage to live at present. But for all that they are still unproved. Life is no argument; error might be among the conditions of life.

[i might be opaque and jargonistic on occassion, but even i have my limits -razib]

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I think Fox canned it because it’s not that funny..

Well, it’s actually a dark comedy so it’s primarily meant to be clever, not amusing.

Nonetheless, Steve’s fixation with the film continues to mystify.

Related news:

John Snow was in China last week, and met some mid-level (?) officials from State Council.

New bulletin in Chinese:
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12265028&postID=2060227561534528190

Technological shifts have short-term consequences for income per person in the Malthusian logic. Shifts in the death schedule has permanent consequences. 
 
A a new disease, even one that makes people less productive, may have a short term hit on incomes via the technological shift, but it has a permanent effect on the death schedule. 
 
The black death was a “one-time” event. Its a nice case of the perversity of the Malthusian trap, but I don’t think its what Prof. Clark had in mind in the quote Caplan cites at the beginning of his first post on the subject.

I should have mentioned that the short term effect, due to a technology shift, of disease may be negative, but the long-term effect, due to the death schedule shift, is positive. 
 
The short term drop in incomes “fixes” itself in the long run (as people die) and all we’re left with is the long-run positive effects of disease. 
 
Compare two societies, one with some disease and the other with the same disease and one other. The second society would have a death schedule pushed more to the right and thus higher incomes per person. This is true even if the second societies technology schedule is lower than the first’s.

bryan was wandering in “let us assume” land and then deriving from models based on his assumptionsIn any case, he was misunderstanding Clark’s view on the theory too. When Clark says “in equilibrium real incomes would still be higher,” he means that ignoring the dynamics in the transition from equilibrium to equilibrium, when the economy settles down again into its new equilibrium, incomes will be higher. I assume, by endorsing the diagram linked to in the update, Clark would agree that in the transition to the new equilibrium, incomes might be smaller.  
 
Clark is doing what economists call comparative statics. This is just answering questions like: All else equal, do societies with more diseases have higher incomes?  
 
I’m surprised Caplan got tripped up by that because economists rarely discuss transition dynamics.

Can you take me through this one? I think I know why it might be lower, but why would Nm be higher?

You don’t need a concept of aggregate utility to see why there’s gains from trade. Trade increases efficiency. This means everyone’s individual utility can, maybe after income redistribution, be weakly increased, i.e. everyone’s can be made better off (at least, no worse off). 
 
The typical economist answer to your concern about meeting displaced workers at the mall, etc is that we should be able to come up with a compromise to compensate the losers from trade. In fact, these compromises usually come in the form of retraining programs, etc. 
 
Also, given trade increases efficiency, its not just that it allows people to buy cheaper products, it means more stuff is being produced. This is the same effect that technology improvements have. Actually, with this analogy, many economists wonder why trade is such a political hot potato whereas technological innovation is almost universally praised.

The relevant economic concept is Pareto Efficiency. Trade is said to be Pareto improving.

Books: I like your list, but you should add Landes’ Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Kindleberger was a great historian and entertaining writer. I liked his Manias, Panics and Crashes. 
 
Clark’s book was in some ways a response to Pomeranz’ Great Divergence.  
 
I’ve heard Mokyr’s Lever of Riches is good, but its still on my too-read pile. 
 
Also, while its not economic history, Turchin’s Historical Dynamics might suit your fancy for more rigorous treatments.

ziel, in both cases, the economy is more efficient. People that are better, in relative terms, at making A/C’s are specializing in making them and people that are better at other things specialize at making those. As you’d suspect when people specialize, the net result is that more can be produced than before. 
 
In the immediate aftermath of the removal of trade barriers, American A/C workers are worse off. But the same is true in the immediate aftermath of the invention of computers and their impact on secretaries. I suspect all the wagon wheel manufacturers didn’t care that it was the invention of the car that made them redundant rather than the “shipping of their jobs overseas”.

Technological advance is not innocent of making whole industries disappear. Look only at the medium on which we write. Music distributors and newspapers, to name just two industries, were much happier before the internet.

Steve, you write:

“The Egyptian – Israeli fighting in 1973 of 35 years ago probably qualifies as a battle where both sides could look back with some pride, although the Egyptians didn’t really have a plan for winning the war. They just wanted to get across the Suez Canal to prove they could do it. But they did it so well that the Israelis, with the exception of Ariel Sharon, were psychologically traumatized. Sharon improvised furiously and turned the tide.”

This is incorrect. The Egyptian plan was to hold the Israeli bank of the Suez until a cease fire was imposed, which would then give Egypt the necessary political weight to force Israel out of Sinai. When they succeeded so easily at this task, though, Sadat changed his mind and started pushing for more.

You can't even get away from it watching Wimbledon on ESPN. I was looking though a copy of Brad Gilbert’s first book, Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis, and was amused to see this:

"In order to follow the plan succesfully, you need to understand what’s going on in the match, with your game, your opponent’s game, and with the interaction of the two. My coach at Pepperdine, Allen Fox, used to tell me “always be asking yourself during a match who’s doing what to whom.” That means knowing how and why points are being won and lost. It means knowing what’s going on out on the court."

pp.69-70
http://books.google.com/books?id=-ycjQqzdQugC&printsec=frontcover

Since Gilbert coached both Agassi and Roddick to the no. 1 ranking, and is generally considered the best coach of the last 15 years, I guess it turns out Leninst political doctrine is a lot more effective on the tennis court than one might have expected.

Extra credit if you can point out what else Gilbert and Fox have in common.

Paul Gottfried is one of the kindest and most encouraging scholars in academic. Although a ferocious polemicist who's drawn some truly disgraceful attacks, in person he's a kindly man who takes the time to share his knowledge with younger scholars and people entirely outside the academy. This is a wonderful appreciation of him. I hope it gets wide circulation that it deserves.

Steve,

Three questions I'm curious about: What schools were you accepted to as an undergraduate, and why did you choose to go to Rice?

What was your SAT score, and what was the verbal/math breakdown?

Why UCLA for b-school?

Any chance you could post a few links to the Islam origins hypothesis Wade discusses? It looks like the folks at Bloggingheads couldn’t find anything.

The myth… like all myths doesn’t surprise me. I am bombarded by “I read a study that said…” or “You know they say…” and when I say “What study?” or “Who says?” I don’t get a straight answer. People aren’t looking at studies when they are perpetuating the myth. They are listening to someone who said something about the study (whether that person is right or wrong or has even read the study themselves), and 9 out of 10 times when I follow the thread back to its source I am confronted by someone with an agenda who is outright lying if not terribly misconstruing whatever data they happen to be using, or they are using a study that is either suspect or entirely discredited.

So no.. This kind of thing, sadly…. doesn’t surprise me at all. I have come to realize that most generally accepted knowledge is neither knowledge nor many times even generally accepted (It is just generally accepted that it is generally accepted).

Oregon conducts all voting by mail in ballot. Therefore there is no "exit polling." This could significantly skew results depending on the method used to collect the distribution of voters.

A great critique by Prof. Gottfried.

My experience as a professor and student taught me that rankings of colleges matter much less than the cavernous gap between selective and non-selective institutions. Selective institutions, especially selective and highly selective liberal arts colleges, have a critical mass of bright, curious, intellectually engaged students who set a tone. Other places lack that, especially when a critical mass of their students just roll in from high school without much idea of what they really want. Non-selective places get students who would do well at Harvard or any other highly selective place, but there are never enough of them in a single class. So they're stuck with the stupid or indifferent or just the poorly educated and never get much chance for real growth. Stultifying anti-intellectualism is the default position in most of US higher education. Which is one of several big reasons why you want your children to go somewhere selective. It's not all the same.

Hi, could you post the exact percentages of each run ?
Thanks,
By the way, that’s an intersting run. Contrary to Dodecad here appears a basque cluster, whereas at Dodecad the Basques are about half Sardinian/ half north-european

I've been reading your blog for a while and had no idea you're also an MTG player. I'm also annoyed at the new system. It seems like something in the middle could have been achieved by giving out more points for each tournament placement. (First place gets an extra 10pts, Second place 8pts etc.) Combined with the multiplier these would be meaningful.

It would still reward grinders, but it would reward grinders who do very well even more.

Razib, with all due respect, I believe you have missed part of the point of Robert’s post. Namely, it’s not whether the overall attitudes toward evolution and creationism have changed all that much (I agree, they haven’t). Rather, Robert’s point is that the public activities of the more extreme elements in both camps have become more vocal and politicized.

As to who “shot first”, that’s not really a scientific question (or rather, is exceedingly difficult to measure as such); it really depends on who, collectively, feels they were insulted or attacked. That in turn would be largely driven by any leadership in either camp. The average church goer, for example, isn’t likely to care (or even be aware of) what Dawkins or anyone else says – but their pastor might, and preach more heavily on the subject than they would otherwise. Or the church leadership might, passing resolutions on the subject in order to “clarify” for their membership.

There is another effect that I think both your data and Robert’s thoughts circle around but miss; when people’s beliefs are threatened, they entrench themselves. It’s a self defense mechanism ( http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/10/19/when-in-doubt-shout-%E2%80%93-why-shaking-someone%E2%80%99s-beliefs-turns-them-into-stronger-advocates/ ). If I tell you that your ideas are stupid, not only will you likely not reconsider your position and delete my post, but subconsciously you will note that only hostile, unintellectual people seem to be disagreeing with you.

In other words, when someone like Dawkins comes out and calls Christians idiots, he’s nothing more than a real life troll. Atheists within ear shot might rally behind the flag of their perceived leader, but Christians will harden their view. The same is likely by Atheists who hear some Christian go on about an Earth that is 6,000 years old.

All in all, there’s no expectation that this strategy will convince anyone, in either direction. The real measure that should be looked at to see if Robert is correct isn’t whether people have been swayed one way or another; I would expect them not to. Rather, it’s to see how much public policy has been proposed or debated regarding evolution and creationism. If his view is correct, it proposes that although people’s minds have not changed, the amount of policy being kicked around (alternately, how strongly these issues sway voters) should have increased.

Which would be an interesting topic, but I think the lesser point. The more relevant issue should be this: “militant atheism” is unhelpful. That level of in your face aggressiveness to the point of insulting only reinforces the opposing view.

Emma, to the extent culture doesn’t vary, you’re right. “Sub-cultures” is where the variance is at, but I don’t really know what that term means. Razib, what do you mean by that term? The first forms of sub-culture that pop to mind are pretty correlated with parents, e.g. geography, language, SES, etc.

Has anybody tried to tease apart not-shared environment?

“With friends like these, does Hegel need enemies?”

I know Schopenhauer doesn’t like him.

The bias is evident in the fact that the reporter constantly refers to this little boy as "she."

In a sane society, this boy would be sternly told that he is a boy, not a girl. But, as Ezra Pound noted decades ago, all America's an insane asylum.

Will they allow this "girl" to continue using the girls' bathroom when he's a senior in high school? I can just imagine it: a bunch of girls are standing at the mirror, applying make-up, when in through the bathroom door walks broad-shouldered, deep-voiced, stubbly-faced Coy.

Insert links, don’t copy-paste and without attribution to boot

Hurrah! You are right, Russia is experiencing a demographic change for the better!

AK: What you are doing here – posting two year old articles about Russia’s growing irrelevance – has no relation to the subject of this post. There is a special section here where you can discuss anything you want that’s Russia related, but comments in reply to posts have to be related to the subject of said post. What you currently insist on doing constitutes trolling. This is your final warning. Cut it out or get banned.

“burqa-covered woman with a Syrian flag”

you don’t like women wearing burqas Mr. Karlin? That’s unfortunate, considering that it is practically mandatory in Chechnya, which is Russia’s most demographically fertile region. And I know how much you like to trumpet Russia’s amazing demographics…

HAHA! You might as well start looking for a new word for Siberia soon. Russian de facto rule in the Far East is finished!

AK: I believe I have already asked you to insert hyperlinks as opposed to spamming the comments threads with entire articles.

You nutty as hell. Bosnians, Kosovars, Albanians are white and overwhelming Muslims not counting the hundreds of millions white Muslims worldwide.

Most Bosnians are Muslims. If a Serb or Croat come from Bosnia, they will call themselves Serb or Croat.

The word used in the ad is “chickaboom,” the rest you made up, and you, as you know, are pathetic.

Ahh, the black judge trope.

Public school does teach English, but not as it should. The problem here is that you have about a 44% that want statehood, (which most don’t dominate the English language) about 40% want it to stay the way it is,5% want independence, and about 11% want a free associated nation (whatever that is). Politic in the island is very damaging to the economic and education system. Every parties impose their ideal to benefit the status they want.

Private education is to way to go in Puerto Rico. I’m lucky to have two of my children in private school. They learn proper English, and the education standard is high. (You get what you pay for). Don’t get me wrong, all public schools are not bad. We must remember that education start at home. We do have great doctors and journalists that were raise by public education. But unfortunately this is the exception. Public school teacher are prepared regrettably they don’t received the tools and the proper paid to execute their jobs. An amazing fact is that those teachers usually paint their classroom and buy school stuff with their poor salary.
Brief history of Puerto Rico, we were invaded by the U.S in 1898; in 1917 we became American citizen just in time for WW1. P.R has been a great contributor for all wars; we have produced great amount of veteran including myself. For being a small island, P.R has produce great athletes, engineers, singers and military member to include Generals in the Air force, Marine and Army. We have the only rain forest in the U.S; we are the only place in the world that you can visit a rain forest and a dry forest in the same day. (I wouldn’t recommend it, each forest you need a minimum 2 day to see it completely.) Our beaches are better than Hawaii, or any states. Our mountains are beautiful. Our Ecosystem is something to talk about and we have one of the largest caverns in the world.
For more information look up Dr. Cornelius Packard “Dusty” Rhoads and his studies on Puerto Ricans.

As a patent attorney who has drafted over a thousand patents I can tell you this is correct.

IMHO the real travesty is that lower tier colleges … are also priced as luxury goods.

You’re tellin me.

#99 Drexel: $49K
#93 Bennington: $48K
#2 Harvard: $45K
#1 Princeton: $43K

I am informed by a professor at the U of Pennsylvania Veterinary School that the limiting factor in thoroughbred horse speed today is lung capacity. There is simply no place in a horse for lungs to take up more space.

I referred to them as “The League of Extraordinary Israeli Art Students”. They were active in Northern CA and made 4 or 5 attempts to sell artwork from portfolios at the offices where I worked at the time (1995-2001) south of San Francisco. I found their cover story to be very thin and suspicious and their artwork to be hokey and poor quality, wholly inappropriate for a sophisticated hi-tech office environment. Naturally, they had all been in the IDF, and one admitted to having been Mossad.

There’s Tegan and Sara. “Back in Your Head”

Good OnYa Mike, fellow Montanan (i’ve been a resident of Billings since ’05) and currently in Wash DC cuz i have G-kdz here, who’s parents are high level gubmint workers needing support. And who don’t like Trump.
They don’t get what a PoS Pence is ~ i would hope that you can do an Obit on this guy and the scum soon surrounding Rosenstein.

Wrong.

Matthew 21:43
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God (covenant relationship) shall be taken from you (Jews), and given to a nation (NT church) bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Jews ceased to be God’s chosen when they rejected Christ and then God put an end to His covenant with them (Hebrews 8:13).

Romans 9:4 doesn’t support the Jews as God’s present “chosen” people. Romans 9:6 clearly speaks of two Israels, one is the nation of Israel, no longer God’s chosen people as Romans 9:8 makes abundantly clear, and true Israel, the NT church (Galatians 6:16). Further, Paul the apostle makes it abundantly clear that, rather than being chosen, the Jews are enemies of God & under His wrath (1 Thess 2:14-16).

Your Deut 7:6 reference is irrelevant as the NT plainly demonstrates the Jews were cutoff by God and are no longer chosen.

John 4:22 has ZERO bearing on Jews presently being God’s chosen people. ZERO. The whole point of that verse is that the OT prophesies announced that salvation would come through a Jewish line, which it did in the person of Christ.

Romans 1:16 More ignorance. The whole point is that salvation was first offered to the Jewish people through the preaching of Christ and His apostles. Its not highlighting some kind of supremacy or “chosenness”.

Romans 15:27 Go back and read vv. 25-26 o’ brilliant one. The whole point is sending money to poor Christians in Jerusalem and Paul speaking of the propriety of their generosity in light of the fact that they’d been beneficiaries of the gospel which was brought to them out of Jerusalem via apostles/other ministers.

Only retards use/cite the NIV by the way. That partly explains your Romans 9:4 error.

You’re out of line, friend. Your point is well-taken but lacking in respect.

Trying to identify different camps is a red herring. Whatever camps there may be, they are the product of a media run/dominated by Jews.

Imagine writing an article of an ongoing coup against Trump and ignoring the elephant of Jewish subversion/machinations that’s in the room.

The vast majority of Jews (about 80%) voted for Hillary not Trump. They do hate Trump. Granted his Israel butt-kissing & servility to Zionist aspirations are second-to-none but that doesn’t, in itself, prove Jews don’t hate Trump. Who runs the media that is actively trying to effect a coup against him? Jews. Who is attacking him for his posture toward Russia? Neocons, who are Jews. Jews want Russia punished for its intercession in Syria which put a stop to their imperialist march across the Middle East, halting the progress of Oded Yinon. What NGOs constantly hammer him on immigration & ICE? Jewish funded/led ones.

I was following right up until the obligatory Holocaust plug under the guise of adding “context”. It never ends.

Article guidelines:

1. Plug Holocaust
2. Plug Jew as Victim
3. Plug Jew as Hero
4. Plug Jew as champion of civil rights

Philip Giraldi deserves a medal. Very grateful for his work. Fantastic article. Thank you Philip

Note to Self: Don’t read another Nick Turse article

NYT worldview summed up in a single image:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/dont-mess-with-auntie-jean.html

Really inspiring to see the plucky younger Rockefeller sons work their way up in the world through grit and determination alone.

A sprinter from the U of Tennessee, Christian Coleman, ran an electronically timed 4.12 a few years ago, but it never seemed to get that much play. You’d think people would talk about that like the 4-minute mile or 600 lb. clean-and-jerk, one of the epochal athletic achievements, but no.

Kirk Gibson was said to have been timed (by hand, presumably) by NFL scouts at 4.28 back in 1978. Is that the fastest time for a Person of Pallor?

I heard a rumor that they shouted “this is Obama country” as they killed him

The Last Testament Of Flashman’s Creator: How Britain Has Destroyed Itself.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-506219/The-testament-Flashmans-creator-How-Britain-destroyed-itself.html

A perfect complement to Shamir’s running interference TWICE now for Jewish Bolshevism/Communism. Plug the Holocaust by appealing to its lessons not being internalized by its very propaganda architects. Is it any wonder the lessons are not internalized by the very people who created the Big Lie and know it to be such?

Many thanks to Mr. Shamir for his continued sophistry and to you for reminding me of the Holocaust since I hadn’t been reminded of it in the last 30 seconds.

One wonders what the higher virtue is: revealing the Holocaust to be a hoax to fellow Jews and calling for repentance or hoping an appeal to dampen chutzpah before the proverbial train goes off the cliff as it has over-and-over for Jews throughout history?

If history is any predictor of the future, a reaction against the Jews is inevitable. Then, the Jews, wherever they may be, will go on to their next revolutionary, country-wrecking endeavor.

It’s not clear virality is the goal.

One modest suggestion would be a website with a Best Of. I think at some point you mentioned a book. Things like the race faq, some of the gladwell pieces, fundamental constant of sociology, and other long taki think pieces are legendary pieces of reality observation and sociology no one else out there provides.

The pidgin guides to a dead rapper are funny, but only because they’re backed by some world class observation and saying what no one else is saying. A ranked list of pieces would help, maybe not in terms of virality but immediate accessibility. Not everyone is ready for the more pithy and direct pieces.

The material is out there but fairly buried (skimming through years of archives looking for the good ones isn’t for everyone).

What is etymology or origin of the phrase, “O YOU KID”?

Pretty sure the whole point of the last quarter century of changes was to obscure those finer gradations at the top. They would tell a story the customers don’t want to hear.

This.

The SAT is deeply broken on math with a terribly low ceiling. (Which as noted above, the AMC competitions solve for anyone applying to Caltech / MIT.)

Their real problem is they removed the single most g loaded verbal item, analogies, and took out the guessing penalty. This makes scores more random, fails to reward a sense of your own confidence in getting down to three answers, etc.

Drug addicts mostly are trying to medicate themselves in to oblivion. Drug addicts turn in to selfish heartless Zombies or are that way ti begin with and exasebate that condition through the use of Drugs.
Black drug addicts are no different than any other Drug Addict. The predilection towards violence is compounded by peer pressure form others who raised themselves without Fathers or Mothers who actually are addicts themselves. Not excuses for violent or unnatural behavior, but a look at the situation. How you want to tackle problems of this nature are totally up to Society as a whole. Mostly it seems to be ignored because some call out racism for trying to stop such behavior. The squeaky wheel (racist accusations) get’s the grease. That should be ignored and punishment for crimes should deter bad behavior. Equal treatment for crimes should be acceptable no matter where or who commit them.

Happy Father’s Day.

Is there anyplace where you can find for a given year how many people took the exam, and then a breakdown of how many got perfect scores, how many got 1590, 1580, 1570, etc., all the way down to 800?

What’s even more remarkable is that these “shootings” are obvious hoaxes. The fact that ANYONE believes this level of ongoing “violence”, all using the SAME WEAPON, featuring lone wolf gunmen who usually die or from whom we never hear from again, manifestos/ideologies galore, etc. is organic is mind-boggling.

El Paso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC7YHS9-KMQ

Video Link

Gilroy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO-6zai2ocY

Video Link

Dayton: https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=2X85X9G5HNAY

“Son of a lawyer, Kelvin is now a real estate agent in Dallas. He married his college sweetheart, with whom he lost his virginity. So much for black sexual precocity.”

Since when do exceptions/outliers disprove averages for the group? Time for a statistics refresher, Riceman.

The El Paso “shooting” is a complete hoax. Its part of the warfare on white, Christian America, to take their guns. Wake up white America!

https://twitter.com/auntietermite/status/1162812702902931456

https://twitter.com/JeffDeRiso/status/1158040667043577862

Indeed. Lenin’s question. When the fight is on my money won’t be on the Jews and their lackeys.

If you’re searching for solutions and models to replace the existing insanity, checkout Abbeville Institute, particularly YT videos by Donald Livingston, Kirkpatrick Sale, and Marshall DeRosa. They address secession better than any I know as well as issues of human scale, nullification, decentralization, etc.

Also, Brother Nathanael mentioned as a solution in one of his videos brining the (((media))) under control by requiring approval from a majority of citizens before its contract could be renewed.

@WorkingClass

No (White initiated) secession can happen now. Core FBI/the rest of those outfits, and more importantly, armed forces, are loyal to the central government. And, key personnel there are White.
White Colonel will execute the order. White Leutenant too. His senior NCOs too.
Or FBI guys.

Texas was 2 votes shy a few years back from a secession referendum and the Texas Nationalist movement continues to grow.. Somewhere between 300-400K people, perhaps more since I last looked.

Alabama & Missouri challenges on abortion & Tennessee/Wyoming nullifications of anti-2A legislation are but harbingers of more nullification and secession coming.

The notion of the armed forces being loyal to the US government against their own people is not credible.

What the hell happened to the Torco sign?

Here’s the El Paso “hero’s” story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlFSoN4_qZY

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Since when do produce sections carry “bottles” and since when do they have stacks of chips to hide behind.

The media fakery on this stuff is off-the-charts.

Since when ambulances arrive with victims at the hospital with no one on the gurney?

See video entitled, “Ambulances arriving with patients to University Medical Center”

https://www.ktsm.com/local/el-paso-news/videos-eye-witness-videos-and-accounts-from-inside-el-paso-cielo-vista-walmart-shooting/

One big development is that the ones staging the attacks have now started actually killing people instead of just claiming a body count in the media coverage.

When you have evidence of dead people and wounding/trauma, let us know. Until then, your claim is based on ZERO evidence.

This means a government strong enough to take on the vested financial and corporate interests and prosecute Wall Street’s financial crime and corporate monopoly power. When neoliberals shout, “But that’s socialism,” Americans finally are beginning to say, “Then give us socialism.” It beats being ground down into debt peonage.

Not any Americans I know. Time to shake off that closet Bolshevist, Marxist economist costume and recognize the state isn’t the solution to all man’s problems. Leave your dad’s dreams of a Bolshevik utopia behind, Michael, and start living in reality. The state IS the problem.

Why does Buchanan ask idiotic questions like this?

The US is never going to pull out of the Middle East until Israel has complete dominance of the region, Israel is bombed into oblivion or the US empire is brought down by one of many means (states seceding, major war loss, economic meltdown, civil war, etc.)

Even if Trump is anything more than talk, the White Helmets will have crisis actors ready for another fake chemical weapons attack to blame on whoever it must be blamed.

Chemical weapons hoaxes in Syria to push regime change in Syria and shooting hoaxes in America to overthrow the 2nd Amendment.

I recently watched “Renee,” a documentary about Richard Raskind/Renee Richards and, uh, she conforms exactly to that model. Just amazing levels of narcissism and self-absorption. It’s an interesting portrait of his early family life – parents both doctors, with his mother one of the first female psychiatrists in the US. The mother absolutely dominated the family life, browbeat her husband into submission on everything. “He never won a single argument with her,”said Richards. Is that sort of parental dynamic common in these cases?

Also interesting to note that the tournament director who let her enter her first professional tournament as Renee Richards was Eugene Scott, her old college teammate at Yale and member of Skull and Bones.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/ESPN-Films-Collection-Vol-1-Blu-ray/100729/

Do sailors have unusually good vision? There’s a whole lot of staring at the horizon when you’re at sea for months at a time. In Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws there’s an aside about how good Quint’s eyesight is after decades on the ocean. And I read something in a book I can’t recall about how British ships sailing in the Pacific in the 19th century used to take on native islanders as translators or liasons as they went from port to port. And the British sailors were dumbfounded at how acute the vision of the islanders were. One would point in one direction and say “ship.” The Brits would look, see nothing, then take out their spyglass and still see nothing and say “there’s nothing there.” And invariably a few minutes later a speck would appear on the horizon and pretty soon the ship was in sight. Not sure if there’s really anything to this or it’s just folk wisdom.

I haven’t seen it for a while, but my recollection is that the final sequence of the film is a sort of Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance montage that shows a bat eating from some horrifying monkey corpse in the jungle, then dropping from an overhang into a pigpen, then the pigs being loaded on to a truck, one of the pigs being butchered then taken to a restaurant at a casino, the chef preparing the pig, then coming out front to take a picture with some of the diners, who include Paltrow. And the last image is a picture of the chef and Paltrow smiling cheek-to-cheek as the photo is taken. But I don’t believe any direct bat consumption is shown or implied.

Fair enough. I thought I was doing OK to remember as much as I did after eight years. Wait, was I the one who ate the monkey corpse? This is going to keep me up all night.

“Imagine a system built on a selfless devotion to the welfare of others, and against all vanity. It’s certainly not what inequality-provoking, financial turbo-capitalism is all about.”

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. – Proverbs 14:34

My own Larry Davidesque suggestion would be a law requiring the doors in all public men’s lavatories to open out instead of in. By my observation something like 95% of men’s rooms have doors that you push in to enter; then you have pull a handle on the door to exit. This makes no sense at all. You use the lavatory, scrub your hands thoroughly, then with those hands clean less than ten seconds you’re forced to grasp a door that might have been touched by someone with cholera or hemorrhagic diarrhea who didn’t wash his hands upon leaving. You’re at the bacteriological mercy of the filthiest person who might have touched that handle. If the doors open out, then you can just push it open with your foot on that metal plate at the bottom of the door and be on your way. Sure, you’ve got to grab the handle when you enter, but you’re going to be washing your hands in the next few minutes anyway, so who cares? If you feel strongly about it you can pre-wash your hands before you attend to business, then hit them again on the way out. But if the door opens in, there’s no way to avoid the handle unless you draft out right behind someone else, which really sends the wrong kind of signal. If there’s one place where social distancing should Rule Them All, it’s in a public men’s room.

Right. I’m delighted to handle the residue of another person’s fecal matter as long as I’ve got a damp, tissue-thin paper towel with which to do it. Problem solved!

Good analysis of our domestic situation, but dragging China into it? For example,

Conspiracy theories on the origins of COVID-19 are of course a very convenient and useful tool for the Chinese government, because they deflect attention from the fact the outbreak can easily be attributed to bad government, and to Communism itself. I find the idea that the virus originated in a Wuhan “wild food” market to be utterly compelling

The wet market hypothesis has been discarded. Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University, says that because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing, and the presence of infected people with no links to wildlife market, the virus could not have originated from the wildlife market. Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute, agreed with the assessment.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

The Chinese have endured many US bioweapon attacks [1] in the past, so they’re hardly guilty of ‘conspiracy theories.’ They are are pointing to a massive US coverup which our media are conspiring to maintain. Some questions that I and others have raised but which the CDC and HHS refuse to address are:

1. Why did the President fire the entire US Pandemic Response Team in May, 2018? “The White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense’s job was to be the smoke alarm — keeping watch to get ahead of emergencies, sounding a warning at the earliest sign of fire — all with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm blaze.” [Washington Post, March 13, 2020]

2. Why did this 2019 simulation not cause America to prepare for such an outbreak: “From last January to August, America’s Health and Human Services ran a simulation, code-named “Crimson Contagion,” that imagined an influenza pandemic: the outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China and was quickly spread around the world by air travelers, who ran high fevers. In the US, it was first detected in Chicago, and 47 days later, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic but, by then, 110 million Americans were ill, 7.7 million hospitalized and 586,000 dead.” [New York Times].

3. After the WHO warned of an outbreak January 1, why did the CDC forbid Covid-19 testing until March?

4. Why did CDC Director Robert Redfield not reveal the dates or locations of Americans whom he said were diagnosed as dying from influenza but later tested posthumously as positive for Covid-19?

5. Why will our CDC not reveal when patient zero was detected in the US? This helps determine the time of initial infection, estimate the scope of transmission, the scale of the epidemic, and location of the intermediate host.

6. Why will our CDC not reveal the earliest positive test result confirmed by a tissue samples? Epidemiologists, pathologists and public health authorities need this.

7. Why will our CDC not reveal the names of the US hospitals where they were first detected?

8. How many people are currently infected in the US? It has been almost three months since we learned of Covid-19 yet we have no idea how many of us are infected??

9. Why does the CDC classify its coronavirus deliberations and why are HHS Coronavirus meetings held in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facilities, which are usually reserved for intelligence and military operations?

You see, it’s not something you can just wave away.

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[1] THE REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FACTS CONCERNING BACTERIAL WARFARE IN KOREA AND CHINA. Lead investigator: microbiologist Sir Joseph Needham. From Professor Needham’s Oral History: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80009774

On Jan. 13th, 1952, a B-26 bomber of the American Air Force was shot down over An-Ju in Korea. By May 5th statements of considerable length admitting their participation in bacteriological warfare had been made by the navigator Lt. K. L. Enoch, and by the pilot, Lt. John Quinn, and issued to the world through Peking. As has already been stated, these documents will be found in SIA/14 and 15 respectively, and together with lithograph reproductions of the original manuscripts, in the printed brochure issued from Prague. The relevant parts are here reproduced in App. KK. and LL. Documents SIA/17 and 18 should also be consulted, though the later interviews recounted in them did not add much to the technical and scientific evidence. What were the essential points in the principal declarations of these airmen? First of all, both officers had had to attend, in Japan and in Korea, secret lectures on the methods of bacteriological warfare. These expositions, which it was impressed on them contained highly confidential information, described the use of bacteria directly as cultures deposited or sprayed, of insects transmitting diseases biologically or mechanically, of rodents in parachute-containers, of poisoned foods, and of bacteria containing artillery shells. Various kinds of containers or “bombs” were described and sketched. Correct altitudes and air-speeds for delivery were given. Particularly significant statements made in the lecture attended by Lt. Quinn were (a) that “almost any insect could be used for spreading diseases”, (b) that “rats could be dropped, though this might not be necessary”, and (c) that there was an intention to use encephalitis, “for which no positive cure is known.” Secondly, both officers had received orders to carry out bacteriological warfare missions, and had duly fl.own them, though with the greatest inner reluctance. There were various peculiarities about the special bombs used, and in some cases these were under special guard so that the pilots could not examine them too closely. In one of the reports information was given as to the various types of planes most suitable for delivering various kinds of containers. From the personal knowledge of the two airmen many of their fellow service-men had also engaged in such missions, and later conversations brought out well the large number of Air Force personnel who had been instructed on bacteriological warfare, Lt. Enoch was briefed “germ bombs” while Lt. Quinn was briefed “duds”, but both were told that in debriefing (i.e. reporting the results of the flight) “duds” was to be the term used. There can be no doubt that these admissions had considerable influence on the western world. But those who did not wish to be convinced tended to brush them aside as confessions obtained under physical or mental duress, saying that after all, only two young men had come forward, and suggesting indeed they did not really exist at all, and that the whole declarations were forged. Attempts, however, to demonstrate inconsistencies in Lt. Quinn’s story, failed (SIA/16).

I find the idea that the virus originated in a Wuhan “wild food” market to be utterly compelling

The guy who can connect the dots so well regarding Jewish influence thinks the virus came from fish, taking his cue(s) from 60 Mintues and Vox no less?

A .01% US infection rate with a mortality rate just over 1%. The idea this is a pandemic is an absolute joke.

“There may be only two people who died from coronavirus in Italy, who did not present other pathologies….The majority of these people are carriers of chronic diseases. Only two people were not presently carriers of [other non-COV] diseases” – Silvio Brusaferro, President of Italian Higher Institute of Health

Source: https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/03/17/corona-bologna-the-truth-begins-to-leak-out/

Thanks for plugging the MSM narrative, Andrew.

Very well said.

But the facts proved otherwise, including the very rapid spread and growing death toll in Italy and most recently in New York.

That’s not an argument. The fact that it exists in other countries or spread so quickly doesn’t rule out it being a bioweapon. In fact, if you wanted to use a bioweapon and disguise its employment as such you might take care that it be disseminated in multiple countries.

Spot on, my dude. Mr. Unz is pushing fantasy/panic/fear.

Another Italian health official came out and announced as much.

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/03/17/corona-bologna-the-truth-begins-to-leak-out/

Thanks for sharing some sanity. Sometimes Unz has a peculiar tendency to stray significantly from his seeming capacity to reason (i.e. his takes immigration). One has to wonder how accidental Mr. Unz occasional straying is.

“This, of course, is when stat-molesters jump in to inform me that pneumonia is known, but COVID-19 is new & its spread could be exponential

BUT, you’d need to base this on something far less moronic than using infection & death rates among the sick to project to the population”

– https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1242487066711273473

“So far we know:
-tests have large error margin
-positive tests only associated with small chance of being sick
-vast majority of COVID-19 cases have other serious diseases
-We have 80x more pneumonia cases than COVID-19

Are these good reasons to suspend the lives of billions?”

– https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1242489837409701894

What America is Buchanan living in?

Jews Hijack Conservative Movement -> PNAC -> 9/11 -> Oded Yinon Plan / Endless Wars in ME for Israel (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Libya) -> Israel getting $38 Billion over 10 years -> Endless attempts at Regime change which will never end -> Endless belligerence toward China/Russia -> Never-ending support for the land theft, genocide operation in Palestine (aka Israel) -> Fed QE Infinity -> Globohomo & Immorality out of control -> Cultural Marxism flooding education and media -> Fake shootings to take down the 2nd Amendment -> The Constitution hanging by its last thread -> The current nonexistent virus pandemic bailout such an embarrassment that congressman are trying to avoid have their votes recorded -> Letting some idiot (think puppet) from the CDC run the county based on a statistical model that kids at a nursery school could top -> Millions of Americans waiting on the next word from the Kardashians.

This whole thing is going up in flames. States are beginning to nullify federal laws as the founders intended and state secession isn’t much further down the road. Tough to tell how dark its going to get, but the idea there is a turnaround, some post Cuban Missile Crisis return to halcyon days ahead is beyond retarded. Trump is owned by Adelson, Bernard Marcus, and Paul Singer. All 3 rich Zionist Jews.

Israel keeps up its agitation it’ll be blown off the map. America is crumbling and how the pieces are put back together will vary state by state. You can’t stop a car that has no brakes, Pat.

I agree with your assessment. One positive is that the hook-up culture may be coming to a screeching halt. Maybe, with these new social distancing rules, there will even be a return to monogamous marriage (hope springs eternal) and a reduction in divorce. Two married people together for life is more powerful than 10 single millenials.

I am puzzled by your puzzlement. Stocking up on toilet paper in Mexico, of all places, would seem to be as prudent as remembering not to breathe underwater.

I am no authority.

Finally, something from Fred we can trust.

Why did the Chinese respond so drastically to what appears to be little more than normal flu?

The Chinese, being an intelligent people, understand that the US is waging an undeclared war against them and feared that things had progressed from propaganda and economic to major bio-warfare so they responded appropriately it seems.

Most confusing.

Your confusion has been evident from reading your articles for quite some time now so I stopped reading them. Have a nice day.

Ron continues pushing “pandemic” flatulence based on a 0.01% US “infection” rate & a 1% mortality rate, less severe, BTW, than the common flu which statistics the CDC also inflates to dupe the goyim into vaccinations.

Unz himself is becoming a propaganda-pushing clown with more authors, most recently Andrew Joyce, with his panegyric to 60 Minutes for identifying the virus source as the Wuhan fish market, hopping on the goy duping bandwagon. Why not the North Pole, Andrew?

Mr. Unz, true to the form of all the MSM fake “mass shootings”, would like to offer us a hero as well, a woman in a cape who miraculously saved millions, who knows, maybe all of California or the world even from infection/death. In her Bolshevik-style lockdown, not allowing people the liberty to do as they please, their right to assemble, their liberty to get sick if they so choose, etc., Dr. Sarebear saved you from the evil, non-threatening, non-lethal Coronavirus. Stalin in a skirt who saved us from nothing is the archetypal hero Unzy would like for us to embrace. No thanks. I’ll take economic liberty, freedom of assembly, the freedom to be human and make bad decisions after being warned or informed.

Unz.com is quickly becoming a propaganda operation aside from Philip Giraldi and a few others.

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