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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Diversity Musing
Paleo Retiree writes: I’m gobsmacked on a day-to-day basis by how completely the country has devoted itself to the cause of “diversity.” As though it’s automatically and everywhere a Good Thing, if not the one and only Magic Cure to … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Education, Personal reflections, Politics and Economics
Tagged diversity
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Of Violence and Violins
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In the wake of the latest school shooting, people are once again arguing about whether works of art can be blamed for inspiring violence. A lot of people scoff at the question. It seems crazy to them to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Personal reflections, Politics and Economics
Tagged art, Video Games, violence
4 Comments
Linkage
Paleo Retiree writes: An excellent intro by architect Christine Franck to a great American artform: the Shingle Style. Why should taxpayers be subsidizing our biggest banks? Meet Roberta Pedon, unbelievably busty hippie-chick pinup star of the ’70s. What’s become of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Food and health, Politics and Economics, Sex
Tagged banking, economics, finance, food, Pin-Ups, raw milk, roberta pedon
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“Flashman”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: I just finished the first volume of George MacDonald Fraser‘s high-spirited and rollicking The Flashman Papers series. For those new to the books, the series of 19th century historical novels chronicles the exploits of an English army officer and self-described … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing
Tagged 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Afghanistan, Allan Quartermain, alternative literary history, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aubrey-Maturin, boys' own adventures, Brigadier Gerard, British Empire, C.S. Forester, Don Quixote, Douglas Adams, East India Company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edward Said, Feminism, Flashman, Game, genre fiction, George MacDonald Fraser, H.R. Haggard, historical fiction, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Horatio Hornblower, Ian Fleming, India, indigenous warlords, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Bond, James Ellroy, Joseph Conrad, Kabul, Lord of the Rings, men's fiction, n-word, Orientalism, P.G. Wodehouse, Patrick O'Brian, Professor Challenger, public doman, publishing, Robinson Crusoe, sexy native girls, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan
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But What About the Ladies?
Brundle Guy writes: So today is the Oscars. I won’t be watching, as I haven’t been able to stomach an Oscar telecast in years. But for all the headache-inducing hoopla that goes up around Oscar-time, there’s a trend that’s really … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Sex, Women men and fashion
Tagged Antonia Bird, Catherine Hardwicke, Cloud Atlas, gender, Lana Wachowski, Mary Harron, Oscars, sexism, women
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Back to the Present
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This satirical video shows what might have happened had the Europeans arrived in the New World armed with some of the more effective devices in the modern ideological toolkit. It seems to me that the most … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Politics and Economics
Tagged Colonialism, Globalization, immigration, Nazis, racism, you're a racist!
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Plight of the Early Gentrifier
Fenster writes: Steve Sailer reports on gentrifying versus non-gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn here. Which causes me to think of the plight of the early gentrifier, someone who is always of two minds about the later gentrifier. The New York Times … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
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Heather MacDonald
Fenster writes: Heather MacDonald is a treasure.
Posted in Politics and Economics
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Bourdain on El Bulli
Paleo Retiree writes: Thanks to UR contributor epiminondas for calling my attention to this inspired episode of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” celebrating the Catalan restaurant El Bulli and its genius chef Ferran Adrià. It was made in 2011, on the … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health, Television
Tagged Anthony Bourdain, durian, El Bulli, Ferran Adrià, food, Game, restaurants
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Juxtaposin’: Tracking Shots, Literal and Metaphorical
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Posted in Movies
Tagged Billy Bitzer, Film, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Juxtaposin', Millennium Mambo, movies, New York Subway, Shu Qi
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