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Weekend Linkage

Paleo Retiree writes: In praise of 360 degree cameras. I’m tempted to get one myself … but would I use it more than once? Traffic circles, yay or nay? Dutch doors are awesome. Speaking of which, why isn’t more of … Continue reading

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Weekend Linkage

Paleo Retiree writes: If diversity is so great, why do old-timers do better when living among people who are ethnically like themselves? If multiculturalism is so great, how well has it in practice ever worked? A good talk by (and … Continue reading

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Weekend Linkage

Paleo Retiree writes: A nice visit with the quirky French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who has just turned 90. Gregory Cochran wants to see a psychology and a sociology that are more rooted in nature than in nurture. Given the way … Continue reading

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Linkage: The Other Side of Russiagate

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Former intelligence pros believe the Dems’ data was leaked, not hacked. Ray McGovern and Bill Binney do a nice job of filling in the details of a believable counter-narrative. More from McGovern and Binney. “[N]o intelligence … Continue reading

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Linkage

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 … Continue reading

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Linkage

Paleo Retiree writes: A level-headed look at science and equality, boys and girls. Some sense about that transgender-or-not? teen case in Ohio. Steve Sailer wonders how woke Broadway will make the stage version of “Pretty Woman.” In England, a teacher … Continue reading

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Our Favorite Things in 2017

Blowhard, Esq. writes: As you will quickly notice, we’re a grouchy, grumpy lot, all of whom are too old to keep up with new things, so this list consists of our favorite things we encountered this year whether or not … Continue reading

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Linkage

Paleo Retiree writes: Salon, of all places, thinks it’s time for the left to give up on identity politics. The Spectator: “The terrific thing about our day and age is that everyone feels much freer to be who they are. … Continue reading

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Architecture Linkage

Paleo Retiree writes: Might the New Traditionalists in architecture have a point after all? I was peddling pretty much exactly this piece to editors back in the 1990s and got precisely nowhere with it. NOT THAT I’M BITTER OR ANTHING. Trad … Continue reading

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Linkage

Paleo Retiree writes: Stop building residential towers! Martin Von Creveld takes a look back at the prescient Enoch Powell. “Berlin is lost.” Some Dems are finally trying to find their way out of the corner they’ve painted themselves into. Will … Continue reading

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