He sounds like a rather modest matter of fact guy. Not at all the "Prince of Darkness" the libs tagged him. And tagged him successfully given that for years, decades really, Robert Novak was twinned with Prince of Darkness in almost every televised or print reference made about him.

What a nightmare it is when students are in any way whatsoever proactive, to use the modern bullshit term for students acting as though they are peers of their teacher and therefore are entitled to engage him in a back and forth, as equals no less.

The entire nightmare of modernity boils down to the unrelenting attack on hierarchy/authority.

The whole game rests on whether the Colts offensive line can protect Manning in the pocket. My bet is they can and that'll give him time to pick apart the Saints' secondary.

A question. This may be naive of me, but all those betas who are lucky enough to find women who'll settle for them…how do they stand the humiliation?

And as a beta myself I have to agree with Hummy. The world was much better for the likes of us betas when it was a world of arranged marriages.

Although I always read Whiskey's posts with appreciation I simply can't believe that a moderately attractive beta who makes the effort to hold conversations with available women on a regular basis won't find one to bed down.

How about the radical concept of letting people, even those benighted low IQ'ers live…and die as they see fit?

In a country in which the whole point of an education is to amass enough credentials to get a berth on the government roster and then get both hands up to the elbows into the government till isn't bankruptcy inevitable? I'm talking about Greece, not the U.S. Well, maybe both.

My pet peeve is the awarding of the gold, especially in womens' figure skating, to a female skater who may perform perfectly from a technical standpoint but is without grace. Given that this is first and foremost an aesthetic event it always floors me when the judges hand the top prize to an unappealing – in figure or movement – skater.

Cheap energy is the key to economic growth. The U.S. sits atop enormous veins of coal, oil shale and offshore oil. But the beautiful people don't want their beautiful environmental fantasies tampered with. They've got theirs and screw the untermenschen. Until rule by beautiful people is overthrown the average shlub will suffer.

I just love the great overarching explanations of everything that you get in Freya's and Whiskey's posts. Whether they're true or not is hardly the issue. It's that human, all too human, compulsion to wrap everything up in a great all encompassing theory that fascinates.

The wisest comment I ever heard regarding advertisement is that what counts is not the brilliance or even effectiveness of this or that particular ad or commercial, what counts is the appetite teasing masturbatory consumerist sea we swim in, revved up by ALL the ads, good bad or indifferent.

Wheeling and dealing can't be made to fit some grand overarching economic theory. That's why Krugman was so pissed off by Sailer's suggestions re: scalpers.

How much dreck has the world been spared due to the pity shown a hapless lad by a comely lass? Quite a load.

Jews, in this area, as in many others, buck the trend. Many brilliant Jews are short.

This one statistic seals the fate of America. All the brilliant proposed solutions in the world are so much futility in the face of the coming army of dull normals.

@Mexiphilia:

Do I laugh?
Do I cry?
Do I eat a rancid taco?

I've had a couple of mental breakdowns in my life. The interesting thing is that I went on functioning through the several months of each breakdown. Functioning poorly and feeling all the time like a shattered glass but somehow going on. And then I came out of the breakdowns. Time. Time was the doctor and as far as I'm concerned the only doctor that ever works.

In your article you state that charter schools are (somewhat) like marine boot camps and that they work because their student bodies consist of self-selected hard workers. You then go on to say that charter schools wouldn't work if there were enough of them to cover the general public school population. Why? They might not work as well, but to assume that they would not affect any improvement in the performance of the general run of students is just that, an assumption. Looking back on my basic training experience I can say without hesitation that it improved me. For one thing it knocked a lot of self-pity out of me. It also toughened me up. Have I backslid since? Of course. But once you do what you thought was impossible a well of self-confidence has been established which makes achievement more likely in future. How do we know that demanding more of the general run of students won't have some positive effect on their prospects? We don't. It's well worth the try.

Wouldn't a brilliant type find Leftism – with its extreme reduction of our condition to a simple equation of who/whom – deathly boring? And yet Obama wages class warfare and nothing but class warfare: the mark of a true believer.

And the answer is…Mr. "I get a tingle in my leg."

The Libs have done it: Scotch-Irish Protestants, the very marrow that made America, have been disappeared.

I don't think there were ever vast reservoirs of good will toward blacks among the vast majority of lower middle and middle class whites, which is to say the vast majority of whites, period. What there was was Bush fatigue, a deeply unlikable and uninspiring Republican candidate in McCain, and Obama sold as a non-threatening moderate. It was a fluke. There will be a tsunami of a reversal come November.

I wonder where HBO viewers would be on this graph? My guess is slightly left of center though not as far left as their programming would indicate.

Glenn Beck would win in a walk if he ran for president — which he won't. But he's what millions upon millions are starving for — an decent man who loves America and wants to preserve what's left of her.

The same Anonymous who declares himself a lifelong progressive as much as admits that progressives are vicious totalitarians who have no compunction about annihilating those who oppose or even differ with them. He also will have to live his entire life in a state of self-censorship or suffer career death. But that's alright, given how much there is to be gained by stifling himself and how much would be lost should he speak his mind.

What this tells me is that until Americans experience severe economic hardship the grip of progressive thugs will hold. Only when there is much less to lose than is presently the case will the comfortable, enough of them anyway, having lost their comfort regain their balls.

…it is a no brainer to get your sons in to a school where they will be socializing with high iq females.

Ever try to live with a super bright woman? Downright sadistic to make that likely for your son.

"Women have no say."

Sounds like paradise.

I suppose there are great French meals at the very high end, but my lumpen tourist's experience was that the standard bistro is uninspired and limited as to its menu. Also there's a general gray drabness to Paris and even moreso to the provincial cities. What the French do they do well (some extraordinarily stylish, if conformist, dressers), but I'd say France is a more conformist, limited and limiting country than America.

A boy grows up listening to two yentas yammering on and on about how hateful and superfluous men are and he's gonna turn out right, huh?

Calling all ethereal blacks!

The fact is that a bright individual will almost helplessly be drawn toward that which stimulates and challenges his intellect. You can't keep the bright ones from the attraction of science and the humanities, the two great poles of learning, as they enter their teen years. The inevitable conclusion is that the percentage of bright blacks is lower, much lower than the percentage of bright whites.

Each extended family should have its own territory. This is the closest humans can come to mitigating the inevitable conflict between tribes or peoples: each extended family on its own territory. Since this is no longer possible in the modern world, or at least the modern western world, the next best solution to the problem of the inevitable friction between different peoples is an ever expanding economic pie, the pursuit of which takes up so much energy that little is left over to kill thy non-extended family neighbor. Of course the hatred remains. But it is reduced to back burner hatred. This is why prosperity, the maintenance of a diffused ongoing prosperity, has become more than a good thing, it has become the difference between low level simmering hatred and a sea of blood. Our coming economic meltdown is going to be no fun, no fun at all.

In a nutshell? America, even in its present wounded state, is infinitely more dynamic than the rest of the world. The same old same olds are always and ever aware of the dynamic; the dynamic barely notice the bores.

"…whites are to be commended for opening up their societies to others without being conquered."

Commended for what, immiserating themselves? And whites are being conquered.

White Europeans developed the technology to be able to set sail on the bounding main and then they were supposed to do what, not set sail on the bounding main?!

But go ahead, crap on whitey, be one of the herd of independent minds.

To the posters here who aren't worried or concerned: where's your tipping point, when every other face you see is asian? Or maybe there's no tipping point for those who have transcended that dirty evil racism and are all clean and one worldy.

Human biodiversity is only a thorny topic to those who worship at the altar of equality — liberals.

The more it is used the less punch the charge racist packs. Considering it is being overused to the point of parody the "R" word is already being filtered out of otherwise consequential conversations as inconsequential. And it is being filtered out by the people who really count in America: the productive moderate middle who know they are not racists and are slowly but decisively turning away from those who advance their agenda behind the "R" word. This is a sea change and it will devastate the Left.

I may be misreading Twain but it seems to me he is attempting to have it both ways. On the one hand Jewish sharp financial practices developed as a way to survive in reaction to Christian Europe's proscription of almost every other normal way for a Jew to make a living. On the other hand Jewish ruthlessness is an inherent trait (the Joseph story) that forced European Christians to limit Jewish opportunities to compete as a defensive measure. In other words Twain criticizes an attitude toward Jews that he himself holds.

The comparison of baseball to golf is idiocy. A batter in baseball with a batting average of .333, one hit for every three times at bat, is an elite player. A golfer who hit the ball into the rough twice for every hit down the fairway or onto the green wouldn't be a competitive amateur nevermind being a pro. Sheesh.

Kipling was spot on about the sullenness of the lesser breeds.

The Romance languages are more flowery than the Germanic languages, of which English is one. English, relative to French or Italian, is a blunt language. This makes shit detection easier in English. Of course there are bullshit artists everywhere. But I think they have an easier time of it in France.

Merit? We don' need no steenkin' merit!

"Obama is an atheist." And that would be a bad thing? Weren't most of our founders deists, which was the 18th century elites' way of making a gesture in the direction of conventional belief without having to participate in organized religion? The private correspondence between Jefferson and Adams is blessedly free of God talk. My guess is that a significant percentage of our founders were atheists. Ethical atheists. That's the rub with Obama, not that he's an atheist but that he is utterly lacking in a restraining ethical code.

"Running on third-and-short is more likely to convert than passing on third-and-short."

This seems so obvious even to a layman like me that I am constantly surprised at the number of drives short circuited by the decision to pass on third-and-short. Not only is conversion less likely but there is also the significant possibility of a sack for a loss of yardage or an interception and run back.

The key to keeping your weight under control is what goes on from 6 PM till bedtime. Or between the evening meal and bedtime. If you can refrain from noshing during those 4 or 5 or 6 hours you'll be okay.

What single event, more than any other, forced the assimilation of earlier waves of immigrants? The Immigration Act of 1924, which cut legal immigration to a trickle. Would Italian immigrants have had any incentive to think of and turn themselves into Americans if there had been a continuing stream of new Italian immigrants and ever expanding Italian neighborhoods in which they could live their entire lives in but not of America?

If he weren't president no one with half a brain would hesitate describing what makes Obama tick. He's all about racial revenge. Put more simply still — Get Whitey!

That Asians are bright and hard working goes without question. But where are they on the creativity scale? Pretty low, I'd say.

So a director is just someone good at faking it? Faking being in the know? Faking competence? Then why do all the great directors – Hitchkock, John Ford, Peckinpah, Kazan – put a stamp on their work that marks it as theirs alone?

Southie Irish are not remotely like middle class Irish. I haven't seen the film but I guarantee their pervasive under class harshness has been soft focused. There never has been and probably never will be an American film that is not only sympathetic to the under class but is under class. The overwhelmingly middle class audience wouldn't stand for it. I have never seen a depiction of under class or even working class America that is not a softening and sentimentalizing of those segments of our population in order to make them palatable to the middle class.

Modern Thought = Thoughtlessness?

It's much worse than that.

Modern Thought = The Denial Of The Obvious

Have no fear about how horrible people would behave if they found out the truth (about what makes them tick) because just as quickly as they had discovered the truth they would forget it. It's the forgetting and then rediscovering and then forgetting and then…that keeps humanity from dying of boredom.

Once again an American bitter clinger gets the job done.

If the economy turns around, though, he could come back strong in 2012.

Leaving aside those who are utterly repelled by him and the wookie, whatever connection he might have made with apolitical types no longer exists. Awfully hard to pull the lever for four more years of an unlikable unrelatable to type.

For the cynics on this thread: the difference between a government run by relatively prudent Republicans and utterly irresponsible destructive tax and spend Democrats is the difference between economic life and death for the great mass of middle class productives out here in the hinterlands. That's what's at stake tomorrow.

What's the motivation?

Nostalgia for the Ingmar Bergman era "art" films of their youth?

In my experience Asians (east) in America are indifferent toward whites (we are as invisible to them as they are to us, assimilation is not even on their radar) and are thoroughly dismissive of blacks. South Asians, on the other hand, are quite receptive to the idea of assimilation: they care what whites think of them. It's no accident that Bobby Jindal and now Nikki Haley, from a much smaller base of South Asian immigrants are so integrated as to have been elected Governors of Southern States!

At the end of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai the women of the village are shown planting rice in the fields at a pace set by the men beating on drums.

It is obscene for any government anywhere to take more than 10%, a tithes-worth, of any citizen's income.

Intellectuals in the US, including Jewish ones, are for the most part atheists, and they don't have a way to the square the equality circle if IQ is shown to be different across different groups of people.

Change atheists to liberals and the mystery of Jewish intellectuals' denial of IQ group differentials is solved.

The city that Jane Jacobs championed, the high density WALKABLE city, is a thing of the past, the 19th and first half of the 20th century past to be precise. And even then it only existed in New York City and to a limited extent in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. A city has to reach a certain size and must also be a center of some sort, in other words a World City – New York, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin – for its streets to act as a magnet, to be interesting enough, exciting enough to make it a walkable and walked in city. But all that is either ending or over and for no other reason than the fact that the great romantic phase in man's development has ended. Yes, all the hard headed so-called realists will deny this but the great driver has been and will always be what is in man's heart…which is no longer romantic, merely materialist. As man's heart has shriveled so has his cities. Oh, the buildings will be there but the action, such as it is, will be…elsewhere.

There is a scene early in the film in which the Steinfeld girl matches wits with a sharp as a tack businessman (the issue is proper recompense for the horses rented by her murdered father from the businessman) and BESTS him, totally unrealistic. In fact why she has to be painted as some kind of supergirl escapes me.

Bridges' relatively unheroic interpretation of the Cogburn character is a relief in comparison.

The black stableboy may be on the screen for only seconds but no black stableboy in that era would dare address a middle class white girl as an equal. It's the PC override of that era's social norms that's offensive.

This is the year that all the movie theaters close.

But what will the kids do on date night?

As someone who has had two nervous breakdowns, which I stumbled through and emerged from after about 6 months in the case of the first and a little over a year in the second, and without medication, in other words the brain righted itself given enough time, I am fairly confident saying that such episodes did not classify me as a lunatic and don't classify the hundreds of thousands who suffer through similar incidences as lunatics either. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is a huge gulf between those who walk around in a fractured state for awhile and those who hear voices or follow instructions of revenge against those who have wounded them or are out to get them. Was I crazy during the period of my nervous breakdowns? I suppose so. But I was no threat, heck I was in no shape to be a threat to anyone. This is the case for most crazies.

"Extremely ethnocentric Jews like Jeffrey Goldberg…"

Well, yes. Of course an extremely ethnocentric Jew is going to have a terribly skewed view of things and is likely to level the charge of antisemite at the drop of a name.

A Jew who is not extremely ethnocentric is not the paranoid vituperative monster that many if not most of the commenters on this thread will make him out to be simply because he's a Jew. He's just a Jew. No horns. Really.

If such super competent people comprise the elite in America how come everything is so fucked up?

How can that [throwing out a dictator] not be moving and exciting?

They threw out a bad guy and guess what? within no time flat they'll be slavering for a worse guy, probably with a towel wound round his head, to dictate every last move they make. Depressing is what it is.

What is it with our intelligentsia, or our chattering class if you prefer, this obsession with blacks? That's a straight question. I really don't get it. Thoughts?

The poor bastard caught the presidential bug and that's all he can think of, not how personally unattractive he is, not how dated his beautiful person brand of liberalism has become, just a steady presidential pounding in his head.

…ultra-rightwing…

Translation: doesn't vomit out the party line.

Pure miscalculation on Zero's part. He thought he could piggy back on the "rebels" victory over Gaddafi and claim the credit without the effort, or with minimal involvement, but fatally dithered while the tide turned against the rebels, and put the American toe in the water two weeks too late. Now he MUST get Gaddafi or face certain defeat in 2012. Which means there will be American boots on the ground. By hook or by crook.

If curiosity is the mark of intellect Obama is an intellectual nonentity.

One of the many anonymous posters said that she sat in the front row in class in order to "intimidate" the instructor into giving her a good grade. How did she do that, by keeping her legs spread?

More neurotics as a percentage of those over IQ 150 than of those IQ 125 – 135, I'd be willing to bet. Bright but not too bright is the best place to be for a happy life.

The socialist "solution" is to kill the old; the capitalist solution is to overcharge them: not much of a contest.

…a perfectly respectable member of the old WASP elite, smart but not brilliant and very hard working and honorable, George W. Bush.

Well, we now know that Henry Canady is a bona fide snob. The "honorable" George W. Bush promised read my lips and delivered kiss my ass. Which is why the millions who were not intoxicated by the trappings of the old WASP elite denied him a second term.

Libya is historically of course roundabout where Carthage was…

No, that would be Tunisia. Tunis, it's capital, is geographically close to the site of the ancient city.

My mistake, should have been Bush the Elder, not George W. Bush. The point still stands.

Hierarchy. It's what's for dinner.

I thought Beck was losing advertisers big time and that was the reason FOX let him go. First the advertisers dropped him because of sliding ratings and then FOX dropped him, simple as that. Not because he didn't fit some politically "safe" profile.

McCain breathlessly anxious to pull Obama's chestnuts out of the fire. The Republican who can only get it up by sabotaging Republicans.

"…his opponents seem at times all too willing to continue to make things a referendum on him."

And why shouldn't they? What was the 2010 election – a victory of historic proportions for his opponents – but a referendum on Obama? Probably close to 80% of hetero white males will vote against the putz in 2012. The key to the election will be keeping white females focused on the guy they've fallen out of love with. And to do that all his opponent has to do is to keep the focus on Mister Use 'Em And Throw 'Em Under The Bus. That'll register with white females just in case they're thinking of a second fling.

If the bourgeois paradise of the fifties so appealed to Krugman why has he spent his life a member of the relentless rat pack attack on it? I'll tell you why: modern intellectuals are the present day equivalent of the priest class. They hunger for some great overarching meaning: the one thing that bourgeois society – which provides so well for a decent life economically – does not provide. An unforgivable lack in the eyes of those, like Krugman, who must have, who in fact are lost without an "explanation." So they proceed to systematically destroy the decent life and the decent world in pursuit of a…chimera.

I love the muzzies I love love love them even when they cut the head off my little girl my little boy I love them I good good good person!

What a relief that she's finally proud of her country.

What was Melinda supposed to say? That, at the outside, 10% of the black population (and not that much more of the white) has the mental wherewithal to make a go of it in college (undiluted college, that is)? But then she wouldn't be loved. Never underestimate the power of the desire, hell, the NEED to be loved.

There are two ways to win at golf: 1) with a perfect swing: Tom Watson 2) on sheer determination: Arnold Palmer. No one could rev himself up and make a charge like Palmer. Woods doesn't have the perfect swing and he may no longer have the fire in the belly.

I know there are a lot of high IQ types who hang around here and can't get over their high IQ's but what a horrible life it must be to be in pressure cooker competition from earliest childhood with all the other best and brightest to be the best the brightest the brightest the brightest the best the very tippy toppy brightest best. Exhausting just to think about it. And what joy can such a person ever feel? What space could possibly be left for joy? For such a useless thing as joy? Talk about deprivation.

Well, with the rarest of exceptions people, places and things are ghastly.

A regular grapes of wrath for the poor put upon browns. And yet they keep pouring in. The statisticians must be missing something. What could it be? What could it be?…

Apes have culture?!

Does the Rivera painting you show have charm? Even though the subject should lend itself to charm the painting is actually rather coarse, heavy and stiff. This is the true mark of Mexican culture, or maybe the mestizo race. Look at Mexican silverwork for example, then compare it to a Jensen goblet or bowl. None of the lightness or grace that marks the European product. Always heavy, blunt and above all else UNSUBTLE. In short indelibly primitive. That's Mexico.

The best wilding and flash mob action always takes place on or around the various Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards, avenues and roads that were once Main Street.

Very noble sentiments on Starkey's part. But has Starkey ever actually looked at the actual black man, or should I say black boy, on the street? I mean looked at the actual creature, not the idealization Starkey would like the creature to be, if only? Of course not. And so the argument goes back and forth round and round…and it's all in the air, way up in the air. Meanwhile, on the ground, stands the fact, the obdurate fact of the creature: a dull normal piece of violence imported by idiot idealists, who will not adapt. Ever. Yes, a fine pickle the high minded have gotten themselves into. And there's no getting out of it. Ever.

Has there ever been a twin who became a recognized artist in any medium? My guess would be no. And the reason is because twins are the only humans who are not lonely in the existential sense. The need to breakthrough the otherness of the world by expressing ones separate isolate self doesn't exist for a twin, who goes through life with another inner self out there, in the world.

Next mayor of New York? Janette Sadik-Kahn. The present darling of the spandex set. Why not? All the beautiful people l-o-o-o-v-e her. And what the beautiful people want…

No matter how dominant or triumphant whites may become in DC (and frankly at present that's pure fiction which barely stands a chance of becoming the case in future) no black will ever walk the streets there in fear for his life simply by virtue of being black. The reverse will never be the case even should whites "triumph." That's the urban world we live in now. All else is fantasy.

When the Brits see no advantage in massaging a stranger they simply say, "Quite."

The best part about Moneyball is that there was a minimum of razzle dazzle in it. The problem Pitt (Beane) was up against was explained clearly, thoroughly and slowly enough that the average non-baseball obsessed viewer could get it and so was his, in combination with the Jonah Hill character's, solution. For example, the film slowed down enough to explain the importance of OBP (On Base Percentage) in picking up relatively undervalued players who had decent OBPs but were undervalued for reasons (age, appearance, social issues) irrelevant to their potential for contributing to winning games.
A thoroughly enjoyable film.