This Week In Reaction (2016/05/29)

Well, it was Austria Elections Week this week in This Week in Reaction™. Nydwracu has the first volley of insight: Figli di proletari meridionali picchiati da figli di papà in vena di bravate. I’d say that Austrian men had ought do a better job of suppressing the votes of their women, if it weren’t for the fact that most of the women voting for the Green candidate were un-owned, feral city-dwellers.

In other news: Gawker pissed off the wrong guy. And no, we’re not talking about Hulk Hogan.

Oh, and almost forgot: This week was Pax and Chuck Open Up a Market on Hits Week; journalistic hits at any rate. Wesearchr. Nick Land says… “It’s Yuge“. Isegoria: “Crowdfund the Truth“.

Let’s see… What else?

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For Intellectual Detox, this was a short post: Stop citing statistical indicators that you do not understand. But a very good one. Indices for “Manufacturing Output” and (mostly by implication) “Productivity” come under scrutiny and suffer the fate of a harsh rejection. Everything you need to know about economics you learned in first semester physics. Well, just about:

There is no reasonable way to mash together numbers with different units, such as tons of steel forged, silicon chips fabricated, and automobiles assembled in order to get a single number that conveys meaning. The process of doing so actually destroys information. If I had the raw numbers about steel or car production, that would tell me something about the world. But if I combine them into one number – what does that number mean? What does it tell me about the world? What sort of numerical alchemy translated the number?

He advocates putting the science back in social science:

The entire process of figuring out how the world works is a process of refining complex data into simple understandable models, and then building more complex models on top of those simple models. If you start from a model that nobody understands and that has no predictive ability, then you have just destroyed your ability to think. You are starting from nonsense.

Nick Land spots the DAO. Also: There is no nectar like these tears. Despite accelerationist fist pumping, I happen to think the tears disingenuous, as well. Indeed, it has never been easier to broadcast ideas to the world. Therefore, the SNR has never been lower. Therefore, the mainstream narrative has never been controlled so tightly. In spite of the tears. I’d love to be wrong about that. Also an interesting Quote Note: newborn helplessness predicting extreme intelligence?

Nydwracu has more on his Mystery Model of Election Soothsayage. Some linquistics geekery.

He also introduces the (Dutch) concept of Pillarization into the #NRx lexicon. It’s a bit like Balkanization, except without the Slavs. Turns out political scientists in the 50s and 60s weren’t sanguine about democratic rule in ethnically, religiously diverse polities. How silly! “Pillarization” came to the rescue. Seems like it should work okay… until the two wolves vote on what’s for dinner. It is the supposed secret to Dutch “success”, which is just another way of saying that the Dutch are quite gifted in lying to themselves about the nature of their government. And here’s another big paste on pillarization.

Nydwracu also takes note of the pillarization of reddits, among other things.

[R]emember that Dutch pillarization was functional because of the strong tradition of cooperation among the elites of the different pillars.

No such tradition exists here.

Indeed, nothing in America but “the distinctive whining scream of the Puritan, speaking power to truth as is his usual fashion”.

Jim declares Mark Citadel’s statement on Church and State to be New Canon on Church and State. He even said “hereby” so you know it’s official.

The Church inevitably succumbs to the state religion. See the Pope kiss Harvard’s feet. And back when the Church arguably had some independence, and real earthly power, when the Holy Roman Empire had lost all power, but the Church had gained far too much earthly power, we got indulgences and Chaucer’s summoner. Henry the Eighth was doubtless a bad man, but you got no indulgences from his church, and his summoners were subject to discipline.

I’m not sure I’d formulate it precisely this way, but I share Jim’s disgust with summoners. Especially faggoty ones.

Now for something completely different… or maybe not… Jim turns his attention to Menstrual synchronization and cryptic ovulation. And here Jim takes a stab at Keeping up with PC—Pedophilia (approximately) Edition.

Alf has some Random rants. Some of them even in English…

Nrx is fascinating. I take Nrx to be a synonym for God. A definition few will probably share, but it is what it is (h/t Buddha lol). Anyways. The reactosphere per definition attracts the smartest men in the world. That sentence is as much me dick-riding other Nrx bloggers as it is a giant feather in my own ass. No doubt there are many types of intelligence. Nrx for the most part is political intelligence. I guess I respect political intelligence.

I suppose an in-depth rabbit hole analysis for the purposes of nuking rabbit holes from orbit may seem an awful lot like a rabbit hole. But hey, we’re the good guys. And NRx is definitely not a synonym for God. Alf also suggests: Hestia society needs a prophet. I don’t think we need a Marx so much as we need a Lenin. At any rate, we’re working on it.

Atavisionary has some observations on notorious crime-hater, now Philippine President Duerte Harry to add to Jim’s.

Australian Ellyse Perry world class soccer player and cricketer. For a girl.

Duerte Harry’s plan has plenty of advantages beyond just the immediate lowering of the crime rate. It is actually a profoundly eugenic policy. The personality that makes for a risk-taking criminal also often generates lust in many women. A criminal has high time preference and given his natural seductive talents, is likely to father multiple children by multiple women. And to become scarce when it is time to actually raise them. Do all criminals have this ability? Probably not, but criminals probably have a higher proportion of this ability than the average of the general population. By killing a criminal, you prevent him from reproducing ever again. You actually prevent any number of criminals from ever being born. Fantastic. You also can reduce the rate of single motherhood by removing bad choices from her vicinity, and reducing single motherhood has all sorts of positive benefits itself. Killing violent criminals is a likely reason why the west is (or was) relatively more civilized than other places. Our ancestors really liked their executions.

Atavisionary goes on, in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀., to recount various anecdotes about the tyranny part of Western anarcho-tyranny, and finds Southeast Asia’s petty corruption approach to problems vastly superior.

Also at Atavisionary’s, some commentary on the not altogether surprising result: Women’s Olympic Soccer Team loses 0-7 playing teenage boys 14 years old. Even tho’ this sort of thing is both common and rather embarrassing to equalist advocacy, Atavisionary points out why they bother to set these matches up:

There are no women’s teams available who are at a high enough level to train with. If they want a chance of doing well at the Olympics they have to play against skilled opponents and the only ones available at a satisfactory level (not too high and not too low) are teams comprised of teenage boys. Though obviously even thirteen and fourteen year olds, properly trained and skilled, are more than a match for a top adult women’s team. Maybe they would have better luck if they played against ten year olds.

After having their asses served up like that, the Matildas should be in a strong position going into the next Women’s World Cup.

Butch Leghorn takes note of a stupendous Meme Tactic: Hot Trump Supporters. That popular politics is won in the affective domain is as unfortunate as it is unavoidable.

Sydney Trads have up another classic from @WrathOfGnon: Titus Livius Patavinus on the Nature of the Multitude. And also another, tho’ not one of my top ten Chesterton quotes.

Alrenous offers a compelling proof for the Basic Income Impossibility Theorem. But only without serfdom. If you allow for that, the system is probably workable.

Mark Citadel reminds us he actually is a full-time student, with all the responsibilities and responsibilities thereof.

Social Pathologist has been lately making a major study of disaffected conservatism. And making a slow history review of Sam Francis’ Beautiful Losers.

Francis’s proper positioning in the political spectrum is not within the Aryan Nation but within the Paleoconservative tradition, what Francis would call the Old Right. He was fiercely opposed to Neoconservatism and regarded most of the “official right” with some disdain. For him, the United States was a “concrete” thing; a geography, a nation, a people, a history. It most emphatically was not a “proposition”. However unlike most of the traditionalists, Francis understood that many of the changes wrought to U.S. society were very unlikely to be undone.

Reactionary Future appears to have liked Brannen’s “Inference With The Vampire”. So much so, he may just be volunteering for the job. In truth, he is by far the leading candidate. But watch your necks folks. And he really, really didn’t like That Macafee video—this one. Rarely have production values and a decent setup been wasted on such a dull message: “Kill politics… (yea!!)… by becoming Libertarian… (LOLWUT??!!)”

And from Cambria Will Not Yield: It Is Time—i.e., to kill.

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This Week in Social Matter

Ryan Landry kicks off the week with a nice bit of cathedranalysis: Unmentionable Nations. Case in point: Venezuela. During the oil boom, highly touted in English language media. Since the oil bust? Vene-what?? So goes the pattern.

Venezuela is not alone. Nations spread throughout the American empire serve a purpose for domestic reasons. They are discarded the moment the purpose is served. If one watched movies about modern South Africa, one would think the rainbow nation was coming together and moving on from evil, icky apartheid. Roughly 70% of South Africans polled at year end 2015 think the nation is heading for a collapse. Rolling power outages only ended in South Africa because economic activity has declined. South Africa has seen its fortunes worsen, even as the commodity bull supercycle roared. This is a long decline, but one the American media will tap dance around.

Landry lands an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for this one.

David Grant asks: Whose Bathroom Is It Anyway? What’s really at stake?

As far as adults go, the battle of the bathrooms consists entirely of empty signaling. North Carolina has officially required people to use the facility corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificates, but they are not checking birth certificates at the door; Target has announced that they will allow anyone to use to facility corresponding to their gender identity, but they are likewise not checking gender identities at the door. All these organizations have done is plant their standards on one side or the other of WWT: those who consider trans people to be pathological cases vs. those who consider them completely normal.

The true targets in the latest pro-trans offensive are the children. President Obama’s strong suggestion to schools that they make special accommodations for trans students as well as moves by a variety of localities and activist groups specifically seek both to inculcate trans acceptance in the most intellectually vulnerable among us and to undermine parental authority.

And I’d have to say, given the fact that so few people are or will ever be (non-passing) trans (who insist upon using wrong bathrooms), undermining parental authority must really be most of game. And that’s not anything the Cathedral hasn’t been about for hundreds of years now. Meet the new Parental Authority Override, just the same as the old Parental Authority Override. For the depth of this analysis, David Grant takes home the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀. Don’t spend that all in one place, David!

Mark Yuray discusses the recent Austrian elections, near-president Hofer, and the state of the far right in Europe in Austria Is Now The Flashpoint For Yet Another Clash of Civilizations.

It seems to me that Austria is not 100% like Britain, Germany or France. Instead, I would say Austria is 50% like Hungary and 50% like Germany. The Western influence will certainly keep Austria trailing Poland and Hungary in any endeavours to establish sovereignty from the DC-Brussels axis, but whatever remnants of Mitteleuropa remain in Austria are going to be expressed through right-wing politics and affinity for Eastern neighbors.

Austria may not have gotten its fair share of denazification back in the 40s and 50s. A lot of those country-side dwellers may not even speak good English. Yuray predicts fireworks—contingent fireworks, but fireworks just the same—for Austria in the coming years. We’ll keep an eye on her.

Wednesday is for Weimerica Weekly—all about about pets and ersatz parenthood edition. Ryan Landry scoops out the dog chow certified organic, humanely raised and slaughtered, farm-to-table, gourmet pet cuisine on that subject.

In a very exciting development, Porter (of Kakistocracy fame) graces the virtual pages of Social Matter with Pardon Me, Ze. He’s at his sardonic best. (And even at his worst, Porter out-sardons the nearest competitors by a substantial margin). Center stage in NYC Mayor DeBlasio’s edict thou shalt use preferred pronouns, which is of course only generally relevant for people who aren’t “passing”… as their preferred pronoun; so then, generally, just a way to for the insufficiently disgusted to rub insufficiently progressive noses and sociological dog shit:

All of which being the sort of flamboyant frivolity that assures liberals of their virtue. That is not to say that such gestures don’t bear consequences to non-animatronic human beings. In Washington, D.C., a female security guard recently removed a man from the women’s restroom. The police were subsequently called and an arrest was made. Would you care to guess which party was cuffed and stuffed? That would be the female security guard, naturally. An action her refusal to perform only months ago would have resulted in firing for dereliction. Times move fast, and the future always arrives early.

And if reality doesn’t line up with what Justice Kennedy penned into existence: “the right to define one’s own concept of existence”, then so much the worse for reality.

Yuray is back on Thursday Humanity Is In The Details. This is a deep meditation on the ways automation and efficiency conspire to snatch beauty, and thus a sense of proportion and humanity, from the ordinary objects of modern life.

Soviet era apartment block in Chechnya

Who loves these modern horrors? Who feels comfortable in them, around them? Who were they built for? In ye olden times, we built our own desks and chairs, our own forks and plates, our own homes and churches and workplaces. We painted our own art, sculpted our own people. We made it for us and imbued with our own history, religion, beliefs, mores, habits, tics, customs, jokes, language, script, folkways, values, likenesses, hopes, dreams and culture. I took the same things and taped them to my drab desk, but I would’ve been better off with a desk made by my people in the first place.

Rounding out the week: What began as a private lark in response to this elegantly formatted bit of nonsense, “newcomer” Flint Hill delivers a comedic masterpiece: F— You, Make Me A Sandwich. If yer gonna do the “extreme misogyny” time, ya might as well do the “extreme misogyny” crime. Mr. Hill curmudges his way to an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

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This Week in 28 Sherman

Over on the home blog Landry builds on builds on his unmentionable nations theme by compiling A List of Unmentionable Nations . Or if we are allowed to mention them, what exactly we are allowed to say about them. He invites others to share nominees in the combox, and many do just that.

On Tuesday, Landry has a good-natured roasting our favorite congenital nay-sayer Reactionary Future in The Pope of Moldbuggians. I trust it was received in the spirit in which it was intended.

SoBL makes the hardest sell for the Social Matter Patreon: “For just $25/month, you could fund a kid in Kenya or for $25/month, you could fund shitlord research and journalism.” Obviously, if you care at all about that kid in Kenya, send the bucks to SM; fixing altruism is our speciality!

This Week in WW1 Pics is a Russian Fighter Pilot In Color. Which reminded me of this collection.

Friday brings a quick question: Why no Venezuelan Opportunities? Opportunities, that is to say, in the private security business, aka. sovereignty, aka. government. SoBL knows better than to ask a question like that without knowing the answer.

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This Week in Kakistocracy

Porter kicks off the week considering Diversity in Social Justice and the untimely death of Canadian good-doer John Ridsdel. If your vision of social justice excludes beheadings, well that’s not very diverse of you, is it? And quibbling over whether it was “unnecessary” smacks heavily of White Privilege: Canada Style.

The natural human fight or flight response is examined in Austria Whistles. It loses out to Neither… but only by a hair:

Though you can understand how instinct is overcome by the occasion. Most of us are (relatively) safe, comfortable, well-fed, and offered an abundance of ball-bouncing africans for our weekend amusement. It is only when they are bouncing our own skulls that we briefly reconsider the social primacy of anti-racism. And the dead don’t testify to the dilemma. For the rest, our secular religion compels we keep attention focused on liturgy rather than its carnage through the sanctuary.

Four more years of browbeating and finger-shaking about “look what you almost did” awaits right-inclined Austrians. Better luck next time, guys.

Next, Porter has: Your Name is HUD along with its vaguely mestizo current big chief: Julian Castro. HUD is the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in case you didn’t know. Obviously, it is essential…

Oh, I see. Promote home ownership and support community development. That’s important. Can you imagine what people did before HUD was created in 1965? With no public servants encouraging them to live in a house, I suspect most families resided in a drainage ditch. What with this department and the Hart-Cellar immigration act, ’65 was truly an auspicious year.

Integration 2.0 is, as you know, supposed coming soon to a Whiteopia Near You. Of note: the minuscule distances GOP senators will not be bothered to go to defund HUDs plans.

Here, he has a list of his most popular posts—no word on whether they are, in his mind, among his best. And a gentleman never tells.

Porter seems to have a slight pattern of delivering his best stuff on Saturdays. Perhaps it is the heavy Friday drinking. In any case, he does it again with An Inconvenient Appendage. The right kind of white people sticking it too the wrong kind of white people is a delicate business. And getting delicater:

Boots made for walkin’. Sorta.

It’s not that Western leaders want to live under fear of violence in a third-world shithole. That’s strictly for the racists who pay their salaries. And as long as there’s enough of those to keep the lights on and the limos moving we’re all copacetic. The lesson being to import enough brown people to swamp native votes and satisfy donors, but not so many that whitey can’t pull the cart. Learning to navigate this slalom is what Harvard teaches foreign countries’ finest young minds.

And so it seems some wrong kind of Western Europeans are deciding to vote with their feet to places where the wrong kind of Europeans remain sufficiently unfashionable to look out for their own interests. Kennedy School of Government may have forgotten that vast swathes of Eastern Europe really aren’t all that Eastern, and not at all as ugly as the old anti-Soviet propaganda made out. Porter takes home an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

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This Week in Evolutionist X

Evolutionist X has tries a thought experiment: Do small families lead to higher IQ? The answer is not quite clear.

Next, some thoughts On overlapping bell curves and the irony of being an outsider. Or why outliers in some groups fit a lot better in other groups.

Evolutionist X takes a look at The hominin braid. This is a very good and frank discussion of the guess-work involved in paleo-biology.

The dominant model of human (and other) evolution has long been the tree (just as we model our own families.) Trees are easy to draw and easy to understand. The only drawback is that it’s not always clear exactly clear where a particular skull should be placed on our trees (or if the skull we have is even representative of their species–the first Neanderthal bones we uncovered actually hailed from an individual who had suffered from arthritis, resulting in decades of misunderstanding of Neanderthal morphology. (Consider, for sympathy, the difficulties of an alien anthropologist if they were handed a modern pygmy skeleton, 4’11”, and a Dinka skeleton, 5’11”, and asked to sort them by species.)

And that’s hardly the end of it. Small numbers of skeletal samples, and the probability of cross-species breeding muddies the map even more.

And Evolutionist X has another of her patented and invaluable Cathedral Round-Ups. In this edition, she brings an extensive sampling of academic capitulation (or occasionally not) to hysterical, occasionally Orwellian, BLM demands.

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This Week in West Coast Reactionaries

Adam Wallace has a nice primer on Chanernative Right: The Alternative Right and Imageboards.

P. T. Carlo is back at WCR with another gem: America Beneath the Asphalt. If Rousseau’s ideas hadn’t had an America of seemingly endless room and resources to take root in, he’d have been forgotten long ago:

The uncommonly lovely Diana Dors (before years of sluttery turned her into a homely chubster).

The United States itself was founded as an ideological laboratory experiment. The North American Continent, after its original inhabitants had been exterminated, served as the ideal blank canvas upon which to impress the violent fantasies of the European intelligentsia. Its endless natural resources and geographic impregnability served as a kind of blank check to the utopia builders of the Enlightenment, a Zion for the Godless.

Carlo thinks this American Spirit finds its quintessential expression, not without a heavy dose of irony, in Mormonism:

[I]s it indeed a coincidence that the only truly and fully “American” form of “Christianity” is not the faith of Martin Luther, John Calvin or the other Reformers, but rather that of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young? Mormonism’s ultimate Telos isn’t salvation through Christ and unification with the Holy Trinity (which itself is united through bonds of self-giving love), but rather the exaltation of each individual into their own personal and isolated divinity. The eschatological hope of Mormonism is the transformation of each individual entity into an individual divinity, a divinity which knows no limits. In this strict sense, the faith held by the Mormon people explicitly is identical to the one maintained implicitly by the American people.

The irony is: No large American demographic is better situated to weather the storms of liberalism (having evolved entirely within its milieu) better than the Mormons. No stranger to the podium, Carlo snags another ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

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This Week around The Orthosphere

Chris Gale reports on Another regulatory SSRI fail. Or how the FDA is not really your friend (or anyone else’s for that matter). Here has concerns about the coming Zombie Civil War—especially if it’s a white on white one. Those are the worst kind. Also, a bit surprising, risk of attempted suicide appears to be worse for never-deployed soldiers than for other categories.

Gale also delivers this insight: “academics only consider the apex“.

Liberal academia, you see, has a role. It is to preserve the class system.

Matt Briggs goes all magisterial here: Quantum Mechanics, Potentiality, Ontology, Epistemology, & Probability. This Week in Dooooom makes it onto The WM Briggs Show—Boogie Check Edition.

Briggs goes to The Stream for When Doctors Kill Patients to Harvest Their Organs. Doctors in the Low Countries are adopting that old American Indian principle of wasting no part of the kill. It may or may not have been true of American Indians, but Northwestern Europeans don’t do anything half-heartedly. Also: Why Is Economics Plagued By Math? The bit about “mathiness” is quite apropos.

This was quite good: Thoughts On The Foreseeable Rise Of ‘White Supremacists’. Once you outlaw intolerable whiteness, the only whites will be intolerable. When people stop believing in God, they won’t believe in nothing, they’ll slavishly devote themselves to any intellectual trend less than 15 minutes old.

This was good: Donal Graeme’s Tuesday Tips—The Inflation Has to Go Somewhere Edition.

Cato the Younger returns after a brief hiatus with a discussion of Progressive Corruption: Altruism. A nice construction here:

Leftism is the ideological embodiment of cancer. Like cancer, which is a disordered mutation of a cell, leftism is the disordering of, among many things, goodness or virtue.

I’d actually go further than that. Not “among many things”, but in itself leftism is a disorder of virtue. It is to put being seen as virtuous (like the Pharisees) ahead of actual virtue. Loss of any meaningful, grounded sense of virtue may almost be seen as a symptom of this primordial failure.

Lest anyone think Reactionaries unconcerned about the moral malaise represented by modern architecture, Kristor considers The Modern Pox Upon the Old City. Ironically, in New Haven as elsewhere, the civi-scapes least marred by modernism are the very seminaries of modernism themselves. Perhaps this is not so surprising, since they have some power to resist their own poisons.

Cologero considers Napoleon Hill’s 1925 The Law of Success. Excellence is excellence, even when motivated by potential earthly gains.

Over at Imaginative Conservative, Birzer has an interesting take on The Family versus That Hideous Strength. He focuses on the the scandal that resurrected Merlin finds in the Murdocks’ contraception.

It’s a hard lesson for those of us who think so fondly of Christianity and the Christian tradition to know that even the barbarian pagans knew more and practiced marriage better than we. And, yet, if we are to believe the recorders of the ancient West, they most certainly did.

Also there a timeless speech: Patrick Henry’s 1788 speech in opposition to: The Constitution: Squinting Toward Monarchy. Breathtaking equally in its erudition as in its whiggery.

Bonald has More evidence that democracy destroys Catholicism. And also energizes Sunni (i.e., low church protestant) Islam. Yup. Also some wisdom from the Laws of Manu.

This was important: Bonald discusses Authority in Church and State. He takes some issue with Mark Citadel’s characterization last week (and my hearty “Amen”) of the Church’s feminine nature with respect to the temporal sovereign. It is a topic worthy of more discussion.

Also from Bonald: Can belief be commanded? Certainly not now he thinks.

Individual bishops used to expound their own views on non-settled doctrine until pope or council made a definitive resolution. For the past century or so, the papacy has been routinely issuing official, magisterial statements which clearly establish official beliefs for the entire Church but do not meet the conditions for infallibility. Thus, we have teachings which, in addition to being official and of questionable connection to the deposit of infallible revelation, are quite novel: that everyone has a right to immigrate, that the death penalty can only be imposed when societal self-defense requires it, that the Church has a duty to ecumenism, that the Old Covenant has not been superseded, that in-vitro fertilization is immoral, that racial discrimination is immoral, and now that adulterers have a duty to render the adultery debt.

Such was a danger of Vatican I. Introducing the dogma of infallible teaching introduces the idea of non-infallible teaching. This prompts the faithful to wonder what of the teachings they’ve been given falls into this category, which is bad enough, but when the pope gets it into his head that he needn’t always be right, he gets careless. He thinks he is exercising restraint by leaving his pronouncements fallible, but he is really over-using his authority. The pre-Vatican I Church had many infallible dogmas, but few commanded beliefs, while we now have many.

I myself have lost the ability to extend any credit at all to the non-infallible Magisterium, especially with the lewd old heretic currently occupying Peter’s chair.

Bonald gets a well-earned ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for this one.

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This Week… Elsewhere

Heartiste finds Joseph Goebbels being unfashionably correct on Sex Role Swapping. Must’ve been something he picked up from the Weimar experience. Also there: America, Then And Now—a story in two photos.

By way of Reactionary Tree, the EU Federalization: The Pan-European Manifesto. Notable in that it’s over 20 years before Harvard remade Europe in America’s image.

Roman Dmowski has a big paste from Ace of Spades on The Preening Morality of #NeverTrump.

Al Fin discusses Deliberate Practise and the Dangerous Child. Related (I think): Boot Camps, Mormon Missionaries, and Academic Lobotomy: Rites of Passage II. The “academic lobotomy” is, he’s careful to note, a strictly faux rite of passage, BTW.

You think things are tough on whites these days? Just remember: women and minorities are always hit hardest! Afro-Fogey has an interesting (and thorough) historical discussion on Third Way – Black Nationalism.

Greg Cochran points to some recent work pointing toward a pathogenic cause of Alzheimers.

William Scott has a Nationalist Public Radio-style discussion on Anglo-Catholicism as Identity.

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Welp… that’s it for now. A slightly lighter week than recent usual. Again go Donate some shekels if you like what we do and can afford it. Keep on reactin’! Til next week… NBS, over and out!!