Amerika

A friend asked this week if I was optimistic or not. My answer is that no, not by nature; but yes, I’m seeing good signs in the world. True, they’re buried under a horde of bad omens but it is always darkest before the dawn, as the cliche goes.

The forces of stupidity and cowardice are raging as a means of convincing themselves that they’re alive. It’s not a victory dance, but a futile exercise in confidence-building. And the drumbeat of sanity gets stronger, marches on…

• The Obsidian Files: The Plight Of The Marginal White Male
• FerFAL: Hidden inflation and the incredible shrinking toilet paper roll, The Yin and Yang of preparedness
• The Spearhead: The Unfiltered, Genuine Draft, The Game is Getting Worn Out
• The Thinking Housewife: Just Another Career, The Skyscraper and Multiculturalism, More on Game
• Jim Kalb: How to live in accordance with reason
• Secular Right: Social conservatism & religious conservatism
• Gornahoor: Awakening to Consciousness, Perspectivism
• Homestead Revival: Making a permanent lifestyle change
• Man Sized Target: Columbia: Obama’s Alma Mater
• Dienekes: Human migration and cultural change in the origins of European farmers
• GNXP: The residual of the genes & geography correlation, “black Brazilians have a much higher load of European ancestry than black Americans, while white Brazilians have a much higher load of Amerindian and African, than white Americans.”
• Oriental Right: “The best public schools are either heavily Asian or white and wealthy”
• Larval Subjects: Invisible Objects
• View from the Right: The futility of trying to get America to see beyond its own reflection, Demographer says it’s “basically over for Anglos” in Texas
• Victor Davis Hanson: A New America in a New World Order, The Rise of the Adolescent Mind
• Counter Currents: Sex Differences
• The Audacious Epigone: “Liberalism feels good because anyone can succeed. And this underpins its success; realist ideologies advocate fatalism and no one likes that.”
• Fourth Checkraise: Fortune comes for some, summer comes for all
• Bruce Charlton: A definition of political correctness, Christianity and Political Correctness, The Good and the trancendental goods: Truth, Beauty, Virtue, The Psychology of Political Correctness
• Euro-Synergies: Plato & Indo-European Tripartition
• Stephen Clay McGehee: Confederate Independence Day
• Sarah Maid of Albion: When the truth becomes the crime
• Athol Kay:Reader Story: Husband Finally Gets It, Cynical Advice on Responsible Non-Monogamy, A Short Message from the Rationalization Hamster
• Race/History/Evolution Notes: Further update on People of the British Isles project
• Darwinian Conservatism: Does Believing in God Arise from Our Evolved Theory of Mind?
• Home Living: The importance of having tea
• In Mala Fide: In Mala Fide 3.9 launches on Monday, March 7th and here’s how you can be a part of it
• National Review: America’s technological plateau: Tyler Cowen thinks we can’t expect restored economic growth anytime soon.
• Steve Sailer: Hoist by their own petard in Wisconsin

News

• NIH: Children who live close to freeways are twice as likely to be autistic.
• The Independent: A return to Stupidland: Ten years after the dotcom boom
• The Economist: The world’s population will grow from almost 7 billion now to over 9 billion in 2050. John Parker asks if there will be enough food to go round
• CNN: “We can’t sustain the contracts that have clogged up the arteries of government for the last 30 years.”
• CSM: The Southern Poverty Law Center says the number of US hate groups has topped 1,000 for the first time. But conservative critics say a too-broad definition of hate stifles legitimate debate.
• Center for Biological Diversity: North Carolina’s Golden Sedge Plant Receives Critical Habitat Protection
• The Onion: Open-Minded Man Grimly Realizes How Much Life He’s Wasted Listening To Bullshit
• WSJ: Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty.
• NYT: Swedes Begin to Question Liberal Migration Tenets
• TreeHugger: Amazon Deforestation Up 1000% From Last Year
• Houston Chronicle: Texas demographer: ‘It’s basically over for Anglos’
• Reuters: Texas group to offer college scholarships to white men
• In These Times: “The ‘Western Buddhist’ meditative stance is arguably the most efficient way for us to fully participate in the capitalist economy while retaining the appearance of sanity.”

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