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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Richwine Redux
John Derbyshire, who has firsthand experience of such things, has an excellent column on the Jason Richwine witch hunt. Sailer (does the guy ever sleep?) has tons of incomparably good stuff on the subject as well. The Richwine episode is … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Marxism, HBD, Political Correctness, Race
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Art and the Ineffable
Can great art, tapping into the deepest recesses of our collective psyches, serve up objective correlatives of the ‘ineffable’? The so-called ineffability question in philosophical aesthetics – can art convey or communicate ‘knowledge’ of a different kind than scientific (or … Continue reading
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Richwine Resigns
Race realism’s latest sacrificial lamb: The Heritage Foundation announced the resignation Friday of senior policy analyst Jason Richwine, co-author of a controversial report critical of the Senate’s immigration reform bill. After Heritage issued the report this week, news articles pointed … Continue reading
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Hearts & Minds
While the Zetas follow Pablo Escobar’s example and throw parties for kids, there ain’t no party for Mexican bloggers. A Facebook page in Mexico that updates people on roadblocks, shootouts and other risky drug war situations in the border state … Continue reading
Marc Maron
An article on Marc Maron, whose time is now I think. Last week, I just caught the premiere of his new show Maron (Fridays at 10 pm EST on IFC), and it was f-ng great.
Government Is Your Friend
From Obama’s commencement address at Ohio State University on May 5, 2013: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some … Continue reading
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Nancy Pelosi Drive
Last summer, driving through S.F.’s Golden Gate Park, I noticed one of the street names was Nancy Pelosi Drive and then promptly regurgitated some of my lunch. (Sometime last year, the city renamed Middle East Drive to Nancy Pelosi Drive.) … Continue reading
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Kierkegaard at 200
Upon the great philosopher’s 200th birthday, Julian Baggini has a very good synopsis of Kierkegaard, a philosopher whose work I think was way ahead of its time. Kierkegaard got to the root of the existentialist dilemma arguably before anyone else. … Continue reading
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Schumpeter on Keynes
“He was childless and his philosophy of life was essentially a short-run philosophy.” — from Joseph Schumpeter’s obituary of John Maynard Keynes, in the American Economic Review, September 1946. More on the Ferguson kerfuffle from the left and the right.
Posted in Political Correctness
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8 Charged In $45 million Fraud Scheme
Time to Celebrate Diversity! NEW YORK (WABC) — Eight members of a New York cell are charged in a massive 21st century bank heist that reached across the Internet and stretched around the globe, inflicting $45 million in losses on … Continue reading
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