It has been a heck of a week. Selfish “revolutions” continue worldwide as masses of people living pointless lives, whipped into a frenzy by big media and political maneuvering, turn on the tyrants that their unstable countries require. Japan struggles with the mother and father of all earthquakes, a tsunami and a burning nuclear power complex. And in the blog-o-sphere, people have been saying some interesting stuff.
- Counter Currents: Geldings, The Rivkin Project: How Globalism Uses Multiculturalism to Subvert Sovereign Nations, Part 2
- Bruce Charlton’s Miscellany: The unsuccessful mystic as ideal, The decline of medicine refutes modernity, The nonsense of ‘enlightenment values’
- The Thinking Housewife: Equality Leads to Coercion, The Ultimate Fashion Accessory, A Question from a Reader
- The Spearhead: How Dare They Say That!, A Tale of Two Earthquakes, Transactional Relationship Value and Bell Curves, Sex and the City of Mean Girls
- New-Antaios: The End of Philosophy
- Gornahoor: Essence and Existence, Defending the Defensible, The Creative Power of the Individual, Builder of Worlds
- Home Living: Women at home in paintings of the 1800s
- Homestead Revival: Guiding your child toward their homesteading interest
- Race/History/Evolution Notes: Ethnic background of the British Royal family, A few links
- The Scientific Fundamentalist: Criminals Look Different From Noncriminals
- Victor Davis Hanson: Why wait? Why not deal with the budget imbalance right now?, Put Up or Shut Up
- Secular Right: Gov. versus God, Walker and Wisconsin: A Coming Moment of Clarity, “The left likes to flatter itself for standing up to evil Republicans, but on terror porn, it is in lock-step with the right.”, Literal reductiveness, angelic and demonic
- Steve Sailer: “Sailer suggested that the relative costliness of owning a home in America’s large coastal cities, such as Los Angeles, led to later family formation, which partially explained the greater support for Democratic politicians in those cities and regions.”, The “2001: A Space Odyssey” theory of human evolution, CNN: Republicans cause post-disaster looting in America, Can you guess the real story behind the story?
- In Mala Fide: The Other 800 Pound Gorilla in the Room…, Why You Should Distrust Anything Popular
- Information Processing: Tigers, cubs, and elite clubs, Social Animals, ,
- Larval Subjects: Of Individuals, Ontology, and Politics
- View From the Right: The crucial difference between Western and non-Western debaters, to which Westerners are blind, Liberals who can’t stand living with conservatives, Mob rule in America, UCLA student expresses mild, humorous exasperation about certain behaviors of Asians, and gets death threats
- Man Sized Target: Tough News Week
- Oriental Right: No academia for this blogger
- Marginal Revolution: The Big Society just got smaller
- The Audacious Epigone: Girls more virginal than they’ve been in at least a generation, Reason 3,441 why NPR should lose federal funding, The size of the secular right, As diversity increases, the levels of trust people have for others continues its steady decline
- Vox Day: The divorce domino, The libertarian Plato, ,
- Newsweek: Far-right European politicians find love—and common cause—in Israel., The Totalitarian State of America
- OKCupid: What If There Weren’t So Many White People?
- Human Stupidity: Human Stupidity: irrational brainwashed dogmatism in otherwise intelligent people
- Confederate Colonel: From Boys To Men
- Financial Armageddon: Negativity…or Reality?
- Dienekes: The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica, Out of South Africa? Out of Anywhere?, Celto-Germans versus Balto-Slavs
- Darwinian Conservatism: The Rationalist Strikes Back: Thomas Nagel on David Brooks’ Moral Biology
- National Review: Dead Jews Is No News
- Thoughts Against Time: Huxley vs. Orwell – Amusing Ourselves to Death, “Naming The Jew” — or Not?
- Youth For Western Civilization: “Leyden was reasonable and stated that although he works with the SPLC, he is not a leftist and does not agree with their assessments for what constitutes a Hate Group. “, Top Democrat Hangs Out With Hate Group Leader, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Moves to Eliminate ‘In-State Tuition’ for Illegals
News
- The Copenhagen Post: New immigration minister: become like us or stay away
- The Guardian: While the UK and US increasingly relied on the financial sector, Germany concentrated on manufacturing
- New York Times: Supremacy of a Social Network, A Place on the Right for a Few Godless Conservatives
- WSJ: Buoyed by Recovery, Migrants Send Home More Money
- The Independent: America’s secret plan to arm Libya’s rebels
- Newsweek: , Far-right European politicians find love—and common cause—in Israel.
- Adbusters: What happens to a society that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion?
- Wired: Sperm Whales May Have Names, Why People-Powered Projects Are Ruled by Tyrants
- Network World: Cell phones are ‘Stalin’s dream,’ says free software movement founder
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What could happen next, in Japan?
A nuclear explosion, soon.
People will say the reactor blew up. No. It will be a missile.
The US has positioned a carrier group to the west of Honshu. There is an air exclusion zone over the reactors.
People are being cleared out. The coast is becoming clear.
With fallout approaching US territory, it is a Clear And Present Danger.
Nuking the nukes will disperse the reactor cores, and criticality will be stopped.
The radioactivity will remain, but not as a breeding, everlasting problem.
It is an elegant solution, although drastic.
People will not understand, and so it will be forever denied.
This does not make it wrong.
There are no more good solutions, only a very few, very difficult ones.
Stallman on purely free software version of Android:
“By now, maybe it works. Maybe it doesn’t. I don’t know.”
That’s a great summary of most ideologically driven free/open software projects.
reality has yet thumped him on the head hard enough to pierce his grossly misguided views. you could lay out reasoned arguments all day long, but he’ll always seek to repeat the same unproductive question. i feel for the guy though. it must be tough being stuck in that feedback loop of his.
Thanks kindly Brett for the link to my article at In Mala Fide.
“Selfish “revolutions” continue worldwide as masses of people [...] turn on the tyrants that their unstable countries require.”
Go with that thought.