Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola
$25, Integral Tradition
Very rarely does a book make you feel good about receiving bad news. Usually, there’s something you fear so much that you want anything but to face it. But if someone is able to explain in clear steps what you must do to face it, and how the [...]
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Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola
Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue, by Paul Woodruff
Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue, by Paul Woodruff.
$11, Oxford University Press)
This little book wins people over because of its simplicity not its rhetorical fireworks or intricate arguments. When you think about it, distilling a simple truth out of a complex situation is either supremely difficult, or strikingly dishonest.
In this case, I believe, it’s the former. [...]
We’re unfiltered
A friend kept replying to links I’d send him saying, “I wish I could see these.”
Finally, I bit — I asked the obvious question that he was pretty much waiting for me to ask, so he could spring the trap.
Well, why not?
“Because I only watch the internet at work, and your site is filtered by [...]
Why publishing, music and movie industries fail
Every time someone is bemoaning the dying state of the record industry, I get in trouble.
I get in trouble because I point out that it’s not just the record industry — it’s also the publishing industry and the movie industry.
What do these have in common? They’re entertainment. And also, since the 1980s and even more [...]
Folk wisdom and our witless scientists
From the ever-rambling BBC:
Eating watermelon has a similar effect on the body to Viagra, according to researchers in the US.
It’s down to a chemical called citrulline which is found in the juicy fruit. It helps relax the blood vessels which means blood gets around the body more easily.
The BBC
Again, “science” — in reality, an [...]
Non-plastic food storage solutions
So you’re worried about plastic decomposing under heat and leaching strange chemicals into your food? All I can say is: that’s perfectly reasonable.
No sane “science” will tell us yea or nay on this one for another fifty years, or indeed ever, since we cannot mathematically isolate this factor, unless we find someone who literally [...]
The great modern product scam
New from Loreal: Hydra Energetic Turbo Booster moisturizer. It’s moisturizer, but for MEN (as if you couldn’t already tell)!
Yeah, you heard right! Hydra Energetic! Not just merely hydrating, we’re talking several mythological heads of moisture-embedding manliness! In TURBO! This is a moisturizer so energetic and masculine, the effect of applying it is like furiously masturbating [...]
I understand Jane Austen
On a recent trip to some decaying, faceless city or other I spotted the following inscription crudely scratched into the wood of a toilet cubicle door:
“I understand Jane Austen”
It was a very curious thing to write on a toilet door and intrigued, I decided to capture it photographically for further analysis before heading back to [...]
Jesus needs better mints
So in the name of being open-minded, I tried the “scripture mints” that came my way through interesting channels. On the whole, I have a rule that I will consider anything, but if I figure out it’s based in bad thinking, I bail out and head for the hills, never to return.
My first concern, of [...]
Why I don’t buy Apple
Most posts on this forum are not what I’d consider opinion pieces; they’re descriptions of knowledge about what will happen in certain circumstances, not prescriptions as to what should happen.
However, in this post, I’m going to describe why I detest Apple Computer, Inc. and will not buy any of their products, least of all a [...]