Archives for the 'western civilization' Category
Stand In The Place Where You Work
Published on 8 Mar 2010 at 10:42 am.
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Filed under medicine, science, western civilization.
It was the title of an REM song (back when REM was still producing catchy tunes with somewhat thought-provoking lyrics that sometimes even rocked, before they switched over to whiny ballads.) And it is what I’m doing now, as if I needed to be any more eccentric …
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Good, Tough … And Even Cheaper
Published on 4 Mar 2010 at 11:34 am.
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Filed under shameless opportunism, western civilization.
Amazon’s pushing Casio sport watches. As I mentioned before, I’m a huge fan. Sport watches? Heck, more like adventure and war watches.
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Apocalypto Ahora
Published on 3 Feb 2010 at 10:05 am.
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Filed under America, Canada, conservatism, deep thot, history, warmalism, western civilization.
In thrall to dark forces, afoot in an other world, turns out to be a good way to contemplate Mesoamerican civilization, which while astonishing accomplished in many ways was also astonishingly weird, in many ways defying logic and conventional wisdom on the emergence of civilizations and still withholding many of its secrets.
The Future Of Newspapers
Published on 27 Jan 2010 at 6:00 am.
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Filed under Internet, dummkopf!, impending doom!, money, western civilization.
OK, we’ve pinned it down to the exact time and place where it happened. Where the future of newspapers was decided, the fateful technology set in motion. San Francisco, 1981:
OK, here’s what needs to happen. We go back to this future, this “San Francisco, 1981.” We find these people, and we terminate their editorships.
You know what I’m talking [...]
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Remorseless, Incremental Surrender
Published on 13 Jan 2010 at 9:51 am.
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Filed under GWOT, western civilization.
Mark Steyn at NRO, “Darkness Falls,” notes it’s bad enough that even the American Association of University Professors is alarmed about the anticipatory accedence to Islamic extremism. As a result of academia’s pre-emptive self-goring of its own academic freedom ox.
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Retro-Moonbattery
Published on 14 Dec 2009 at 11:10 am.
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Filed under America, ancient mysteries, cars, moronocy, warmalism, western civilization.
Moonbattery digs deep into the archives to the ”last time the Progressive Left had the level of political and cultural dominance it enjoys today … the early to mid-1970s.” That’s a debatable point, but the wackiness of the rebordered 38 United States isn’t.
Bad News For Bad Ideas
Published on 14 Dec 2009 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under China, money, pols, warmalism, western civilization.
Starts in Copenhagen but comes back home. UK Guardian: Poor nations in shakedown bid threaten to shut down Copenhagen deal. Wall Street Journal: Copenhagen shapes up as a China vs. U.S. power play. BBC, breaking, talks suspended! Good lord, don’t these people understand it’s about saving life itself?
Good, Cheap, Tough, Built To Last
Published on 29 Nov 2009 at 9:56 am.
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Filed under ancient mysteries, engineering, explosives, impending doom!, western civilization.
Checking in at Amazon, I noticed they are pushing Casio G-Shocks. Two thumbs up. I’ve been wearing G-Shocks for about 20 years. From the bottom of the North Atlantic, through blizzards high in the mountains of New England. (Through blizzards on the North Atlantic, now that I think of it, with mountainous 15-foot seas crashing on [...]
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Carbon Footprint Diminishment Advocated
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 10:02 pm.
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Filed under moronocy, warmalism, western civilization.
By Rush Limbaugh, who suggests a New York Times enviro-columnist who advocates birth control for Gaia engage in a higher degree of planet-saving action and off himself. Lefties are scandalized.
It’s more “Do as we say, not as we have any intention of doing ourselves.” As in “disappear, humans.”
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Anthropocene
Published on 24 Sep 2009 at 12:36 pm.
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Filed under science, warmalism, western civilization.
It’s the latest geological era and we’re it.
A group of pointy-headed European, Australian and American scientists hold that we’ve evolved ito a force of nature, and that the collective activities of all 6 billion of us render us a world-changing geo-physical phenomenon worthy of our own era. The Anthropocene. UPI:
Earth Treason
Published on 30 Jun 2009 at 9:39 am.
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Filed under media, warmalism, western civilization.
They have betrayed the planet, and they must suffer the fate of traitors!
Paul Krugman at NYT, on warmalism deniers:
So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.
But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the [...]
The Week Pop Culture Died
Published on 29 Jun 2009 at 7:58 am.
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Filed under America, money, sex, western civilization.
First Ed McMahon. Then Farrah Fawcett. And wham, before anyone really had time to react to that news, Michael Jackson.
Now Billy Mays. Cut down in his prime by a freak overhead luggage bin accident. Allegedly. The black-bearded pitchman has sold his last tub of OxyClean.
It felt like the week pop culture died. So much of our weird, [...]
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French Achievement
Published on 4 May 2009 at 1:54 pm.
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Filed under Europe, France, Korea, Mexico, USA, western civilization.
The Frogs excel at eating and sleeping. via Boston Herald. Mexicans have less fun. Though chicos have more fun than chiquitas. Koreans are the skinniest. I’m pretty sure they aren’t including North Korea, because forced starvation is not fair.
All fascinating though it sounds to me like the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which conducted this study of [...]
Rapture
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 11:40 am.
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Filed under impending doom!, shameless opportunism, western civilization.
No, it’s not the lion laying down with the lamb, calf with two heads, nothing like that. Newsweek with the earthshaking news of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice and their long-awaited reunion, in Orem, Utah. You can call it a sign of the End Times if you like. I’m all about the hop. I’m calling it another miracle of [...]
Man Up
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 9:33 am.
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Filed under Obama, geekism, men, sexism, western civilization, women.
That’s the word from el Heraldo’s house feminist re Obama’s “Nerd Herd.” While cutting remarks about men’s manliness are … hurtful, Boston Herald’s Margery Eagan cuts to the essential point men and women have always known, even through the depths of 1960s bra-burning feminism. Leadership requires presence. People look to primeval, know-it-when-you-see-it evidence of authority.
Things You Won’t See In Gaza
Published on 12 Feb 2009 at 10:11 pm.
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Filed under Israel, supermodels, western civilization.
So we give Israel something like $4 billion a year. What’s Israel ever given us?
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Open Letter to Jello Biafra
Published on 17 Dec 2008 at 1:20 am.
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Filed under Guantanamo, clowns, moronocy, western civilization, yanqui imperialistas.
Dear Jello,
You’re an adult now. Not like when you ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979 and I cast my first vote for you, because I wasn’t quite an adult yet and neither were you, which is why your absurdist platform was so appealing.
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Putting On The Sitz
Published on 24 Nov 2008 at 9:07 am.
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Filed under ancient mysteries, assorted shit, butts, culture, deep thot, do-goodism, dummkopf!, elsewhere, engineering, explosives, ground views, law & order, moronocy, pot, science, shameless opportunism, song, taxes, western civilization.
Better late than never. It was World Toilet Day Nov. 19. I let it go at the time.* But now squatters are back in the news. The la-di-da loos of Times Square. AP via Boston Herald. I’m inspired:
Get Lost!
Published on 31 May 2008 at 8:59 am.
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Filed under Noble savages, elsewhere, western civilization.
“Uncontacted tribe” sounds mysterious and exotic until you read down a little and discover they already got the message about civilization and stamped it “return to sender.” Zoom in for the “Beware of poison darts” sign and “If this village’s rockin’, don’t come knockin’” bumper sticker. Here’s National Geographic, for all your red- and black-painted, uncontacted savage news:
God bless you, Mr. Brounwater
Published on 24 Apr 2008 at 8:08 pm.
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Filed under BS, Bums, Jihad, Nazis, Neanderthals, Taliban, al qaeda, anthronerdism, boobs, dummkopf!, hated Crusaders, human organs, incompetence, law & order, military, mockery, moronocy, nerds, nude, opportunity, pervs, porn, punishment, sex, transsexuals, western civilization.
Representative Paul Broun, R-Ga, wants to define nudity and ban government employees (specifically, military members) from spending their money on it. His Bill has 16 co-sponsors.
Up in heaven, Kurt Vonnegut laughs.
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Shame/Honor Dynamics
Published on 14 Apr 2008 at 9:32 am.
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Filed under Arabs, western civilization.
An embittered former IDF lieutenant examines Arabic shame/honor culture based on his experience in a Bedouin Scout company, draws conclusions for larger Western-Arab relations, and counsels greater understanding. Small Wars Journal:
Drinking Responsibly
Published on 30 Mar 2008 at 7:37 am.
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Filed under beer, booze, moronocy, western civilization, wine.
I always thought that sounded a little oxymoronic, but Tigerhawk holds forth on the subject, counseling people not to be moronic. I’ll hoist a frosty mug to that, but I’d just like to comment that it sounds like Tigerhawk drinks a lot more than me, yet less. On that ingrained in western history part, by [...]
