Dennis Mangan nails it : But it also occurs to me that Orszag and his ilk have another motivation beyond pushing their blank slate theories, and that is self-justification. Those like him who have made into the elite are made of sterner stuff, practicing their 10,000 hours, and thus deserve to be part of the […]
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Posted in Culture, Ridiculousness on Aug 27th, 2010
Do a Google search on “ Lincoln Memorial “. Glenn Beck, a conservative radio host, and Tea Party activists are having a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow. Really, Google? Here’s to Bing taking more of Google’s business. The infants are running the commie camp over there.
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Posted in Culture on Aug 18th, 2010
“Cheap Chalupas” Cowen has a post ruminating on what things around today would be considered most distinctively 21st century in ten years. (Or, more accurately, what things would be considered most distinctively first decade of the 21st century.) A gallant effort, but missed the mark. Here are the two things that are the defining characteristics […]
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Posted in Culture, Goodbye America on Aug 13th, 2010
( Here is part one of ‘Then and Now’.) *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************ *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** Compare and contrast our noble ancestors with modern Americans. Then: Poor, yet dignified, with strong family and community bonds. Now: Overfed, government assisted trash who look like shambling monsters. It won’t be long for this country.
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Posted in Culture, Escape on Jul 25th, 2010
It is explained that subjects under sedation have to be “kicked” into a falling motion in order to wake up, and that this is accomplished by falling in the dream state, such as driving a van over a guardrail into a river. Why couldn’t Fischer alone have been dropped instead of everyone being dropped? Since […]
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Yet another churlish, resentful SWPL broad is on the warpath against game , armed with the same primitive stone tools all the other anti-game broads wield. Reading the half-baked hate, I can’t help but get the impression of a very nervous woman. A woman apprehensive that men are gaining power in the sexual market and […]
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Posted in Culture, Misandry, The Good Life on Jul 8th, 2010
Our TV shows, movies and music give us hints about America as she is and where she is heading, at least as filtered through the eyes of a certain cultural or ethnic niche. A friend told me I must watch Californication . He said the Hank Moody character closely resembled my life. Michael Blowhard, formerly […]
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It was early evening and the sun still blazed on the horizon, casting shards of soft yellow light across faces and dewy beer pints. Sitting on the bar stools to my right were two white women. I could tell they were friends by their isolationist banter. I looked over and visually judged them; both were […]
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Apropos yesterday’s post : This paper examines the extent to which human capital and career decisions are affected by their potential returns in the marriage market. Although schooling and career decisions often are made before getting married, these decisions are likely to affect the future chances of receiving a marriage offer, the type of offer, […]
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Hanna Rosin wrote a stream of consciousness diatribe against men in The Atlantic recently called “ The End of Men “. As with most of these articles written by foot soldiers of the femborg collective lamenting — or celebrating, if the tone is any indication — the regression of men into second and third class […]
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