Read it. Economists like to arrange things neatly. This includes thoughts. I like this approach.

Read it. Sometimes when you push the envelope, the envelope pushes back.

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Steve Sailer takes a look at cultural anthropology, which appears to have fallen out of fashion.

Yaacov ben Moshe looks at the left through the eyes of Basil Fawlty. It is not a pretty sight.

It is sad because it causes so much harm. The Basil Fawlty governments of the west who simply can’t force themselves to bring up the subjects of Palestinian bad faith, mis-management and terror as thy keep pouring aid into Palestinian Authority in spite of the proven correlation between that aid and terrorism aimed at innocent Israelis is a perfect example.

Oh, say it ain’t so….

It should come as no surprise that members of the honor-shame culture of Caliphate Islam are subject to this kind of tantrum. This is what honor-shame is all about. They will win the upper hand by any means that they think will work. They are, emotionally labile and see honor as a mere matter of having the upper hand. They are, by definition, The People of the Tantrum.

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Before we let Uncle Sam into our kitchens, at school or at home, these questions deserve some exploration.

Indeed. Bet you don’t find any Democrats asking those questions.

Read it. China’s traditional culture eventually swallows everything. It worked with the Mongols, it worked with the Manchus, and it’s working with Communism.

Read it. Yet another attempt by “progressives” to sweep an issue under the rug by making it a ThoughtCrime.

Steve Sailer ponders why people don’t want to live in the most pleasant place in the country.

Steve Sailer draws an interesting parallel.

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Read it. Well, I guess that’ll stop now that they’re officially foreigners.

Read it. Marvelous news.
Although not in Takoma Park, Maryland, which has officially declared itself a “nuclear free zone” — as if anybody cared. (Since TP is a suburb of DC, though, it would be amusing were some jihadis to ring the uranium bell there on the day. Just putting everything in perspective, like.)

Read it. This could be very weird.

Read it. Parsing the Second Amendment. Who knew there were so many obsessive-compulsive grammarians out there?

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Steve Sailer has the sort of enemies that make a man proud.

Personally, I’d consider my life a raging success to be mentioned in the same group with Stephen Pinker. But that’s me.

Read it. I believe Asimov wrote about this in on of his Foundation novels.

Read it. No, I don’t understand it either. But it sounds important.

Read it. Once again, a case of the world turned upside down — or, at least, it’s upside down from the viewpoint of the current mythology.

This, from a colleague of my wife’s:

I got depressed last night so I called a hotline.

I was connected to a call center in Pakistan.

I told them I was feeling suicidal.

They got all excited and asked whether I could drive a truck.

Read it. This is very interesting. I would not have thought that people in 1967 could be that prescient.

Read it. An interesting perspective. I must confess that I have no clue as to how one would go about doing a “search” in an ideogrammatic language, but I suppose there must be some way of doing so.

Which brings up another thought: Since Chinese characters are ideograms rather than syllabary, it ought to be possible to read and write “Chinese” without actually knowing one of the (mutually unintelligible) “Chinese” dialects. Hmmm.

Read it. Perhaps doctors aren’t as knowledgeable about the practice of medicine as they’d like us to believe.

Read it. Perhaps because the Left thinks of serial killers as victims and thus objects of pity, whereas it reacts to “vigilantes” (i.e. anybody attempting to defend himself against, say, a serial killer) with shock and horror?

That’s just a guess, of course.

Read it. Market incentives work, even in the most unlikely places.

Read it. More fun Language Log.

Rod Dreher shows up every now and then to give us his views.

Arnold Kling critiques Mencius Moldbug.

Read it. The primary defect of the common lefty trope “No blood for oil” is that if we wanted the oil we could just pay for it; no blood is required. That was certainly the case with Saddam’s Iraq — if it had really been “all about oil”, we wouldn’t have invaded, we’d have just ended the sanctions and bought to oil.

Yaacov ben Moshe speaks.

Kimberly Strassel over at the Wall Street Journal takes a lemon and attempts to extract some lemonade.

Christopher Hitchens is really on a tear about religion recently. He writes so well that one sometimes forgets that he is a socialist and therefore prima facie an idiot. He’s sound on the Muslim threat, though, and I’ll forgive him a great deal for that.

David Friedman is always worth reading.

Read it. Especially if you’re a libertarian.

If you are a libertarian, you are already resigned to the fact that most fashionable people think of you as a nutcase. Today we are going to ask you to crawl a little farther out on that limb, and suggest that you replace your libertarian views with thoughts that are even more extreme.

Read it. People without legal training (or a knowledge of history, for that matter) often mistake how limited the Fourth Amendment really is. Even otherwise intelligent and knowledgeable people (as here) often forget that the government has a legitimate interest in knowing what people are doing, even if they don’t like it much.

Read it. It’s amazing what people thought the future would be like.

Read it. That wouldn’t be so bad, if it weren’t for all of the target advertisements….

Read it. I wonder why?

Read it. An interesting point.

Christopher Hitchens is apparently unaware of what a secret intelligence agency is supposed to do.

Still, he’s got a point.

Steve Sailer doesn’t ask the obvious question, which is: Faster than what?

Read it. I’m not sure I buy it, but it’s an interesting perspective.

Read it. Well, it’s not really the Magna Carta, but rather a later confirmation of the Magna Carta, but it’s still pretty cool.

Mickey Kaus has his own unique perspective on the Mitt Romney speech.

Read it. We have the technology — the question is, do we have the will?

David Friedman gets down with his home-b0ys.

Read it. And watch the videos.

Read it. More sanity than one usually expects to see from a techie.