Category Archives: Linkathons

Linkathon

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Foseti enjoys a fellow reactionary’s book about cocktails and drinking. Supercommenter Jason Malloy is now stashing links here. Link thanks to Steve Sailer. Steve has some brainily ambivalent things to say about Quentin Tarantino, here and here. … Continue reading →

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Healthcare Linkage via Seth Roberts

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: A C-SPAN interview with Dr. Martin Makary, author of Unaccountable. Dr. Makary notes that medical errors are the #3 cause of death in America. When psychiatrists take money from drug companies, their diagnoses for things like depression increase. … Continue reading →

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Linkathon

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Steve Sailer interviewed: Part One, Part Two. Is there a widely-read writer in the U.S. who is less acknowledged than Steve? How is money made? The Harvard Business Review thinks that these days it’s bloggers who are shaping … Continue reading →

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Linkathon

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: A quick, informative look at the latest from James C. Scott, a very interesting anthropologist-historian. Camille Paglia dissects Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. John Derbyshire celebrates the “Dark Enlightenment.” It’s a great reading list, though I’d have … Continue reading →

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Linkathon

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Does the U.S. even have a conservative tradition? Bettina Arndt (bouncing off of Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs) takes a look at the state of today’s sexual marketplace. Should the British government be more frank about who’s sexually … Continue reading →

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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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Linkathon

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Fair to say that docs about food topics are one of the most vital cultureforms around these days? Is Apple going to hell? I wrote about some of my own misgivings about Apple’s direction here. “Birth tourism” … Continue reading →

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Linkathon

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Smart stuff from Lloyd Fonveille about the Marlene Dietrich / Josef von Sternberg films. Some great pix too. Jill Duffy reviews the food at the Berlin and Kiev airports. These days, are there still many people who … Continue reading →

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Linkathon

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Will S. shares a good link and a good joke. He also tries to make some sense of all the gal-teachers-having-sex-with-male-students stories that we’ve been seeing in the news recently. Interesting population-analysis guy Peter (“Cliodynamics”) Turchin is … Continue reading →

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Linkathon

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Don’t work such damn long hours. Ah, the benefits of the Arab Spring … Loving couple. (NSFW.) Read it, girl. (The visuals are innocuous but the audio is definitely NSFW.) Foseti is trying to make some sense of … Continue reading →

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