04-30-18

How the Death Penalty Saved Civilization
"Frost and Harpending calculated that one percent of the male population were executed every generation throughout the Middle Ages. And another one percent were killed at the scene of the crime or died in fetid prisons awaiting trial or execution. So two percent of young men were eliminated every generation.
And because they tended to be young, this process meant that they had fewer children than if they hadn't been executed. Thus, they would have passed on fewer of their genes.
It’s here that Frost and Harpending perceptively draw their conclusion. Capital punishment must have changed the nature of European personality—by, in effect, culling out the psychopaths."

04-25-18

An Internet Pioneer™ on why & how we now live in a digital hell  (American Conservative)
"[Jaron] Lanier has some unnerving remarks about what he calls 'Digital Maoism,' which is the idea that everybody is going to be empowered by the Internet, but what ends up happening is that only a few people get power, and all the meanness of people is set loose on each other, on the Internet. He says that Internet utopians only thought about the good things that the Internet and social media could do, and didn’t think about the terrible things — like, for example, how there is an equal and opposite reaction to every positive social movement facilitated by the Internet. In fact, Lanier believes that the Internet ends up causing net damage."

04-22-18

Shitting in Your Own Nest, Redux: Shift to Cultural Marxist view is killing enrollment in the Humanities (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Yeah, so go figure?

04-18-18

The Constitution actually is in fact a suicide pact  despite many learned judges opinions to the contrary says this post at the blog Kakistocracy.

"Of course the Supreme Court", says Kakistocracy's Porter, "has always been our most visible petri-dish for observing this repetitive behavioral phenomenon. The extreme right-wing of that eminent tribunal routinely takes the extreme position of following the country’s founding charter, whether it leads to Disney or Camden. In contrast, their opposing faction simply locks the wheel left and produces sententious pap whenever they can muster five votes. So if I only care about the destination and you only care about a check sheet, where do you think we’re going to go?"

American conservatives focus on form, style, and symbolic piety toward the Sacred Paper, while the left focuses on moving the ball ahead, and guess who wins? So, yeah, conservatism is a suicide pact.

04-16-18

I don't have much sympathy for the suffering and misery of people who live in Chicagoland and similar solid-blue urban shit-holes. Stories like this one about how the incompetent sheriff of Cook county, IL who is responsible for the pre-trial custody of Chicagoland's lumpenproles, a job which he botches continually, breezes to re-nomination on the Dem ticket. Sheriff Tom Dart had no serious opposition in the Democrat primary and only token opposition come the general. Hey Chicagoans: If you elect and re-elect these fuckwits (and gladly too), then you'll continue to get what you've been getting! Go figure?

People in these deep blue cities and states piss and moan, then go and re-elect the same bum. Not a different bum, but the same fucking ones. And this phenomenon cascades all through the hierarchy of officialdom. Judges, district attorneys, alderman,  and the rest, no matter how bad. They get in and fucking stay in, until the feds send them to jail. So, no more tears for you blue bots. Suck it up or move.

04-17-18

The slaughter of World War I created the spiritual emptiness that hurts Europa and its diaspora to this day. It killed religious belief and ended people's faith in cultural and political institutions that had held fast for a thousand years. The Claremont Review of Books has a review of a compendium of books marking the upcoming hundred year anniversary of the Great War's end this November. A great review of some great books.

04-15-18

Radio Host Art  Bell Dies (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
"Bell’s show had a huge national following in part because he played to people’s imaginations, 'like a Disneyland for sci-fi,' local talk show radio host Alan Stock said. He remembered Bell as a creative, unique, nice man who will undoubtedly live on as a radio icon."
I loved that show when I worked midnights back in the 90's. Later on I used to record it and listen to Art during the day after I changed shifts. Art Bell was a like politer version of Alex Jones in the way that they would both discuss forbidden topics,  but Bell did it without Jones's red-faced raving,  which made him  unique among talk show hosts. R.I.P. Art Bell.

04-14-18

GOP Death Throes Continued & the Political Demise of Paul Ryan (Will Wilkinson, NYT)
"Politics isn’t physics, but a governing Republican philosophy that sees it as a moral imperative to slash the budgets of social programs that benefit mainly older and working-class white people is bound, sooner or later, to drive a party of mainly older and working-class white people off a cliff. The slow-motion disaster now unfolding in Washington results in no small measure from Mr. Ryan’s puzzling success in persuading Republican elites that they could flourish as the party of free-market, anti-redistributive convictions." [link]

Should Law Yield to a Judge’s Personal Beliefs? 
A NYT legal affairs reporter says, yes they should, in a warm and fuzzy remembrance of a recently deceased federal appeals court judge who famously did so all the time. So much "for the rule of law", eh?

04-13-18

Identity Politics Will Drive Out The Rotten Right (Brett Stevens, Amerika)
Explains why all these Conservative(INC)™ hacks like Paul Ryan are going down in flames. Their corporatist agenda mixed with all the old cliches (i.e., free trade, open borders, Israel, and Gawd) don't play well with the GOP base of White working class voters any longer. The What's the Matter with Kansas? critique is coming into play as the WWC becomes more woke.

04-11-18

It’s Time For The United States To Divorce Before Things Get Dangerous (Jesse Kelly, The Federalist)
"Anyone who thinks this is a radical idea has an extremely narrow view of history. If you don’t believe me, go try to book a plane ticket to Czechoslovakia, or look at a map of Europe from the year 1600, then look at one today. See any differences? Borders move. Countries split and change hands. They do this for a myriad of reasons. Ours would be a major cultural shift toward the left and half the country refusing to go along with tyranny."

04-10-18

"Universal bipartisan agreement on anything is usually the first sign that something deeply unwise is about to happen." (American Thinker)
So says TV talking-head Tucker Carlson about latest false-flag "poison gas" attack in Syria and which is plainly a hook to keep America engaged there because anything related to "poison gas" sends our (((neo-cons))) and their lackeys right over the edge doesn't it? Don't get fooled by this ruse again America.

The End Of Front Porch Republicanism (Henry Olsen, Social Matter)
Further evidence that the "old republic" (that is, traditional America) is way, way gone.

04-09-18

E.U. Head Juncker Slams Poland for Taking in Ukrainian Migrants But Not Muslims (Breitbart)
Who is more likely to fit into Polish society? MENAs or White European slavs? The E.U. should stick to economic and trade issues and leave the demographic composition of member states alone.

04-08-18

With The Rise Of Identity Politics, Our “Post-Racial” Mixed-Race Future Dies (Amerika, Brett Stevens)
"In other words, you can have it one of two ways: either race is not real and your group gets eliminated, or race is real and 'post-racial' means the passive genocide of minority groups:" Care to guess which outcome the left prefers?

04-07-18

Vox Day on the JQ (Vox Populi)
"I suspect that this lawsuit, if successful, will spell the beginning of the end of the Jewish century in America:" The lawsuit in question is against Harvard University claiming discrimination against Asian-Americans, but would likely reveal the huge amount of the ostensibly White European Americans Harvard admits are in fact actually (((something else))).

"U.S. Jews" says Vox Day, "have perpetrated four self-serving myths that have contributed to their control of the intellectual high ground in the United States. One, Judeo-Christianity. Two, the historically nonsensical 'nation of immigrants' narrative. Three, that they are unusually intelligent. And four, that their statistically improbable success in Hollywood, the media, and the financial sector is primarily a consequence of that superior intelligence." Whoa! Shots fired! VD then reloads for another volley.

"Those myths", VD continues, "have been severely eroded, but not exploded entirely yet. The primary reason that Harvard is so desperate to conceal the extent to which it has engaged in racial, ethnic, and religious favoritism is that it will a) reveal how far superior the Asian intellectual elite is to the Jewish intellectual elite, and, b) expose the extent to which Jewish admissions officers have compromised Ivy League admissions on behalf of their co-ethnics for the last five or six decades." And thus concludes Vox's rhetorical fusillade. VD had better plan on staying in Italy for while once this blog post gets around.

 "Dear Republicans: most people who run America's major companies are left-wing. Recognize it now before you make another stupid paean to Wall Street." (Thermidor)
Additional fall-out from the Kevin Williamson's bait'n'switch firing from The Atlantic imbroglio.

How Socialism Moved Into Capitalism And Took Over America (Amerika)

04-07-18

Ruining Gun Ownership for the Rest of Us-The right needs to rescue the Second Amendment from hapless Libertarians (FashTheNation)

"The average gun owner has an outdated idea of what the Second Amendment is for and an ineffective rhetorical style that appeals to other pro-gun conservatives while having little impact on public opinion. Many in the gun community are committed to an abstract ideal of absolute gun freedom that has never existed in the real world and actually makes necessary political maneuvering on gun policy impossible."

Maybe so, but once you drop the absolutist position (i.e., the "shall not be infringed" language), nit-pickers will pick away with "reasonable" requirements, such as more down to the molecular-level background checks, fees, taxes, waiting periods, and what-the-fuck-all in order to red-tape gun ownership into extinction. (NB: Look up what you have to do now to get a gun carry permit in NY, CA, or MA.)

"Gaius Marcius"* makes some good points but misjudges the situation they apply to. There's more to this issue than just geek tier debating points.

*Nom de plume.

04-06-18

Time to stop using social media for anything but gardening tips and cookie recipes. (Organic Prepper)
If you must use social media make it an invitation only password protected bulletin board kind of thing like we all used in the 1990's rather than Facebook or other social media that is open to the public.

04-04-18

Kevin Williamson, who was hired away by the Atlantic  from National Review a few days ago has  been fired already. (Vox Day)
"There is no public square anymore because there is no common ground. The Left is fighting a cultural war by any means necessary, and even if you're not willing to do the same, it is reprehensibly foolish to expect them to do otherwise, much less mend their ways for fear of handwringing moderate right-wingers following through on ominously implied threats which they are manifestly unwilling to even articulate." Lol. Williamson was a foolish mofo for trusting those guys to be fair. What a goof.

04-04-18

Humanities scholar tells why he gave up on the humanities (American Conservative)
The only cure for this is a Pol Pot-level Year-Zero program of reform for the entire secondary education bureaucracy.

Kevin McDonald getting into a pissing match with some lefty academic over his Culture of Critique series (Occidental Observer)
Academics doing what they do I suppose, but this strikes me as a colossal waste of energy on McDonald's part though. After years of being ignored it probably feels good to McDonald to finally have a stand-up, open fight over his work with his detractors, even if it seems pointless to the rest of us, because it's always better to be attacked than to be ignored, in academic circles anyhow.

Z-Man giving up on the Alt-Right (Z-Man blog)
"Now, after a year of bad decisions, they look more like the freak show that is the libertarian party. They are on the cusp of becoming a punchline now."

04-02-18

Aimless Individual Freedom Is Slavery (Amerika)
"It’s never enough. That’s by design. It keeps you in a box. There isn’t any sane or sensible way to encourage cooperation or societal commonweal. The entire rat race is designed the way it is because the society we live in pretty much believes we are all rats. If we validate this thesis by participating, that thesis will never change. Why should it? The progressive society gets what it wants. Your submission."

A Boomer Cuckservative Can Get You Out of Debt (Identity Dixie)
"It’s surprising how much money we blow on things we don’t need that our supposed friends, family members and degenerate society tells us we need. Usually, by the time we’ve spent money on a lifestyle of unhealthy living and consumerism, there isn’t enough money at the end of the pay period to save or do anything constructive. Then, we’re clamoring for the next paycheck."

Our Greatest Ally(INC)™ Helps out America once again! (Steve Sailer)
By donating their unwanted African migrants to us. To wit: "Israel to Deport African "Illegal Infiltrators" Not to Africa, But to West" (i.e., USA, Canada, Europa, & Australia) Go figure?

3-D CHESS: IT ONLY LOOKS LIKE TRUMP IS THROWING AWAY HIS PRESIDENCY!
(Ann Coulter)
"I was there! At every single rally during the campaign, Trump would whip the crowd into a frenzy over the wall, deporting illegals and no more "stupid wars" -- but he was always VERY careful to end his speeches by saying: Unless, of course, anyone who represents conventional Republican thinking disagrees, in which case, I will do none of this."

The Jeep We Can Buy But Can’t Drive (Eric Peters)
The Roxor is a basic bitch SUV without all the bells & whistles the US gov desires, but is priced around $12k less than a Jeep. Interior looks like this. No air bags, ABS braking, back-up cameras, roll bar cage, and the rest so the Roxor is hard to register and insure, which makes it nearly impossible legally drive on the road.

04-01-18

London U.K. murder rate exceeded NYC's for the first time ever (Daily Mail)
For short period of about three weeks Londonistan had12 killings in 19 days. The killed were mostly all vibrant lumpenproles killing each other over asinine bullshit, but still.

Fed's blow "slam dunk" mass shooting prosecution bc jury didn't trust FBI testimony (Orlando Sentinel)
11 plus hours of interrogation, but the G-men failed to record any of it, and instead relied on written notes and recollections for their evidence. The jury didn't buy it, and acquitted. Go figure?

What White people riot about (MLive.com)
"Michigan fans take to the streets of Ann Arbor after Final Four win." NCAA basketball, to answer the question. Sheesh.