I’ve been neglectful of the blog this past week — it’s been five days since the last post. I’ve been busy, but that’s not all of it; there are times when the well just runs dry, and this has been one of them. It certainly isn’t as if there isn’t a lot going on that’s worth commenting on.
So while I’m waiting for the sap to rise, here’s a roundup of miscellaneous items.
‣ According to this item in the Wall Street Journal, the Earth has “lost half its wildlife in the past four decades”. This seems absurd, but I have done no digging into this whatsoever. You’re on your own.
‣ Here’s a clever little video: old footage of a long-ago war with Mars.
‣ Imagine this: the public schools fostering patriotism. Yes, that actually happened, and here’s how they did it.
‣ On the climate front, the sky still refuses to fall.
‣ It’s been twenty years since the publication of The Bell Curve. Charles Murray looks back, and sums up where thing have got to.
‣ In the wake of the witch-burning last spring of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, Molly Hemingway wrote an outstanding essay at The Federalist on same-sex marriage and the suppression of dissent. Read it here.
‣ You’ve probably heard about the giant butt-plug that an American “artist” erected in the Place VendÁ´me. It has now been destroyed by parties unknown. The whole affair is so distasteful in so many ways that I pass it along without comment.
‣ You’d better sit down for this one: an article at Slate explains that innate ability has a consequential effect on success. That the authors were dragged to this repugnant fact with all the moral revulsion appropriate to goodthinkful Progressives is evident throughout, particularly in their apotropaic paragraph regarding human groups, but to see the thing published at all is a welcome surprise. I should probably give it a post of its own, but for now, you can read it here.
‣ Oh, and of course there’s Ebola. Here are Six Reasons To Panic.
Back soon.
4 Comments
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That’s a lot of variety in the rook. I am in the city zones
other professions, like boom beach hack a state licensed aesthetician, a Fox Trot run? For boom beach hack
example, when we terminate a project, we find that
learning from failures is worth celebrating. Then by
another stroke of luck, I needed lava for something.
“Imagine this: the public schools fostering patriotism. Yes, that actually happened, and here’s how they did it.”
When I was a “youngish” kid (admitting Malcolm I didn’t read the whole book you’ve linked) I happened upon a box of photos and, what I now know to be tintypes, tucked beneath my GrandMother’s bed. All my Grandmother’s sons had both attended the same “one-room-school” — *not quite as the now torn down building had an upper floor where, the WWI generation American Legion met and, as was explained to me, instructed the children “in the propers” of how to be patriotic.
All three of GrandMother’s sons serving active during WWII.
(Somewhat complicated as, I suppose, the “box of records” being – at the time of my kidhood – safeguarded under GrandMother’s bed. Leading to, in my case I’m given to understand, [I alone live “remembering” apparently] things “best forgot.”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nawIXBuBrU
Eh, Boom Beech?
You could do with some mentoring. I suggest
http://www.tomwaits.com/songs/song/102/BurmaShave/
Earth hasn’t really “lost half its wildlife in the past four decades,” but I do agree that wild parties have declined since the end of the Sixties.
Jeffery Hodges
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