Linkathon

Paleo Retiree writes:

  • This Kevin Lamb mini-memoir of life at Newsweek parallels my own experience at the magazine almost exactly.
  • Steve Sailer wants to know, how real is “stereotype threat”?
  • Wheat has changed a lot since the 1960s. Paleo/Primal guru Mark Sisson explains why the changes have been for the worse.
  • Will S. notices that the PC crowd now has Halloween in its sights.
  • What becomes of a piano?
  • A helpful overview of the contemporary state of secession movements and sentiments in Europe.
  • An interesting interview about food and markets with Kara Newman. Good quote: “What’s important about shopping at farmers markets is that, to a degree, it allows people to opt out of the pricing set by commodities markets.”
  • I find false crime claims — false rape claims, false hate-crime claims — fascinating. A juicy one has just turned up.

About Paleo Retiree

Onetime media flunky and movie buff and very glad to have left that mess behind. Formerly Michael Blowhard of the cultureblog 2Blowhards.com. Now a rootless parasite and bon vivant on a quest to find the perfectly-crafted artisanal cocktail.
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4 Responses to Linkathon

  1. dearieme says:

    The idea that Scotland (for instance) could become independent by leaving the UK but remaining in the EU is self-contradictory. Independence would have to mean leaving both.

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  2. Will S. says:

    Thanks for the linkage, PR!

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  3. Will S. says:

    BTW, they’re back at war with Halloween again this year:

    Kline: Save Halloween! It isn’t school administrators jobs to take all of the fun out of growing up http://t.co/VVZavEGzN4— Will S.' Miscellany (@uilesmiselani) October 16, 2013

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