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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.

Hurricane Wellies

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: After a week of Hurricane Sandy-caused inconvenience, the Question Lady and I are enjoying a return to normal life. Seldom have dependable electricity and running water (let alone wi-fi) struck us as so wonderful. During the adventure, … Continue reading →

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Linkathon

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Gregory Cochran on how quickly evolution can act on human populations. Dennis Mangan, a blogging pioneer as well as my favorite reactionary blogger, is, after a hiatus, blogging once again. Fascinating cultural history from F. Roger Devlin … Continue reading →

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Body Hair, Photoshop, These Kids These Days …

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Young people today seem entirely grossed-out by body hair. My old-codger mind makes sense of the phenomenon this way: Either (for whatever reasons) today’s young adults have remained developmentally at the level of 12 year olds; or … Continue reading →

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Butt World

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Butts are a big, big part of contempo popular culture. How, why and when did that happen?

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Linkathon

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: The latest from “Idiocracy”‘s Mike Judge. A survey of the state of secessionist movements in today’s world. The Catalonia movement seems like one of the most serious of them. So who exactly was the victim? How trustworthy is … Continue reading →

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“Frog Song”

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: A truly oddball 2007 Japanese “pink” movie from director Shinji Imaoka, who also made “Underwater Love,” another memorably peculiar entertainment. It’s a slow-moving, low-budget and quickly-shot, ultra-lowkey kitchen-sink-type drama (with some touches of whimsy) about a pair … Continue reading →

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“An American Affair”

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I bought the DVD of this 2009 movie because Gretchen Mol is in it. It turns out to be a small historical suspense fantasia, set in 1963 in Georgetown, about a teenage boy from an uptight family … Continue reading →

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Linkathon

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

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 … Continue reading →

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Greece and Econ

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: A fun snapshot of how things really go down in Greece. Link tks to the wonderful HBD Chick. Did I ever mention one of my biggest misgivings about how econ is usually done? If it were up … Continue reading →

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Jim Kalb on the 1960s

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Jim Kalb’s recent piece about the 1960s is an enlightening one, even for a reader with no interest in the Catholic angle. Great passage: The ‘60s claimed to be about liberation. In fact, they were much more about the … Continue reading →

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