Paleo Retiree writes:

• Friend-of-this-blog Polly Frost has been putting up some inspired and regular blog postings.
• Did alcohol and caffeine create civilization?
• Pack ’em in.
• Funny to see how conventional types react when they crack open “Camp of the Saints.”
• Milestone du jour: “23 percent of public school students live in a household with at least one immigrant parent. That is more than double the percentage in 1990 and up from 7 percent in 1980.”
• Matt Taibbi warns his fellow lefties not to go too far out on a limb with accusations about Trump, Russia and the elections.
• Michael Tracey is even more wary than Taibbi.
• Has the Alt-Right infected Silicon Valley?
• Should girls be urged to avoid reading books written by men?
• “The Outsiders” turns 50.
• Some interesting facts about the Japanese artist Hokusai.
• An excellent intro to the surfer/painter Hank Pitcher, a Santa Barbara art legend.
• A visit with De De Mollner, one of the best-known of the go-go dancers of the 1960s. I interviewed the wonderful De De for this blog too.
• How Jewish is the pussyhat?
• Steve Sailer wonders what George Soros’ standards are for “hate.”
• The latest visit with Camille Paglia.
• I never thought I see the day when The NYTimes would publish a piece by the British conservative Roger Scruton. I published an interview with Scruton, my favorite living stuffy con, back in 1999.