Paleo Retiree writes:
- A very vivid account of what it’s like to be left with folds of excess skin after losing lots of weight.
- Why can’t Australia manage to enroll more girls in engineering classes?
- Some exceptionally informative Sailer: Chinese DNA and Indian DNA, and what they might mean for the future. Lots of smart and provocative comments about the article have accumulated at Steve’s blog.
- Why do leftist ideologues struggle so much with biology?
- Science sez: Lower-class people are sharper about “interpersonal matters” than middle-class people are.
- Forty things you’ll never hear someone from the South say.
- Should the new “Roseanne” be even more deplorable than it is?
- An excellent piece on the problems with “the cult of the colossal” that the U.S. favors in agriculture.
- Question du jour.
- The Babylon Bee often does excellent satire.
Love the linkage posts.
Reading the 40 things list, I felt a bit wistful for the innocence of the 1990s, when Jeff Foxworthy was making a very good living with observations along this line. It was all clean fun, and there was a lot of guffawing. I read this list in amusement, but with a growing kernel of rage that we are the only ones with the enough cultural confidence to laugh at ourselves in this way, and it is the mission of every mainstream institution to erode that confidence. And they’re doing a pretty good job.
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Foxworthy’s “You Might be a Redneck” thing did sort of go on and on, but he could sometimes hit the nail upon the head.
“If you’ve ever brought a six-pack of beer to a job interview, you might be a redneck.”
I grew up in Georgia, and have known a few people for whom that wasn’t an impossibility.
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