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This week seems like it was burly for everyone out there. Yet some radiant objects shine amidst the dross.

• The Obsidian Files: Women are attracted to brainy guys, after all
• Northwest Alternative: Issue #1 of this separatist green-state newspaper.
• Bruce Charlton’s Miscellany: Does anybody, nowadays, have an integrated personality?,Freedom-from, freedom-to – fashion as god, fashion-makers as primary,Alienation, not-thinking and animism,If intellectuals are to blame – what should intellectuals do?
• Victor Davis Hanson: Decline Is in the Mind
• Primordial Traditions: The Perennial Philosophy the Modern Economy and KFC (The World Economy) – Part VIII – The Price of Cars
• Turnabout: Always something to say
  
• Married Man Sex Life: The Highlight Reel Isn’t Magic, Jennifer Answers Some Questions
• Dienekes: Genetic variation in Native Americans consistent with archaeology, Scarcity of lactase persistence in medieval Hungarians
• The Audacious Epigone: Larger Than Life: Minorities in America, Non-whites, youths overwhelmingly support public sector unions in Wisconsin
• GNXP: Friday Face, How technology makes ideology irrelevant
• Global Guerrillas: Refugees from the Formerly Developed Countries
• Youth for Western Civilization: Seattle Dumbs Down for Diversity, A state-by-state view of recent immigration bills
• OneSTDV: Jewish Perspective on Israeli vs American Ethnocentrism
• View From the Right: The Trojan Horse in Europe, A Christian student at an American theological seminary was repeatedly told by Muslim students that he deserved to die for being an infidel—and the school did nothing
• The Spearhead: Lessons from the Fringe Left, Identity Politics and Conservativism Don’t Mix
• Information Processing: How the athletic shoe was born in Eugene, Oregon.
• Homestead Revival: Vermiculture: Getting Started
• Gornahoor: True Will and Spontaneity
• Larval Subjects: The Blue Mug Strikes Again: Powers, Attractors, and Local Manifestations
• Oriental Right: Aborting Retarded
• The Thinking Housewife: EU Bans Sex Differences, A few good men and their Mamma
• Steve Sailer: Chin stroking time, The Onion: “Community college overwhelmed by dumb students”, The Toyota War, David Foster Wallace
• Secular Right: Muslim denial about what being Muslim is about
• VDARE: Hugh McInnish’s Hate Facts, Disparate Impact, And The Law

News:

• NYT: Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software
• ABC Science: Brain efficiency comes from parents, ‘Niceness’ partly genetic, say scientists
• ABC: Neurological research on twins says that you can blame your parents for your not being a genius , “More women than men took up hunting in the United States in 2009”
• LA Times: Retail jobs are disappearing as shoppers adjust to self-service: Robots, vending machines and touch screen kiosks are increasingly replacing human workers.
• BMJ: Continued cannabis use and risk of incidence and persistence of psychotic symptoms: 10 year follow-up cohort study
• MSN: “Even among people who have no children at home the reported absence rate is higher among women than among men.”
• WSJ:
• The Onion: Open-Minded Man Grimly Realizes How Much Life He’s Wasted Listening To Bullshit
• UPI: Whites more anxious than blacks
• Ynet: Minister: Islam not part of Germany
• American Thinker: “Black presidential candidate Barack Obama receiving 96% of the black vote can be described only as an example of groupthink and racism.”
• Discover: “In the last decade, scientists have found that it takes active and unrelenting effort to keep our memories intact.”

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