Dissonant Hum

V-Dare. Pure vanilla.

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:15:38 -0400

V-Dare. Pure vanilla.

“Memories of you.” - John Copeland 2010.

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:10:49 -0400

“Memories of you.” - John Copeland 2010.

Video

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:17:42 -0400

NYT: People around globe lose faith in political class, democracy.

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:30:41 -0400

NYT: People around globe lose faith in political class, democracy.

Rather like this window. KASK, Portlandia.

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:51:13 -0400

Rather like this window. KASK, Portlandia.

The German Method.

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:50:00 -0400

The German Method.

Crema H2O

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:23:00 -0400

“We’re out of half and half.”

“Can’t we just pour water in whipping cream.”

“No.”

“That will only work if we call it something foreign and pretentious.”

“Call it CremaH2O, put it in a fancy bottle and tell people it is local, organic, green and manufactured by African immigrant women with AIDS.”

Turkish league bans male spectators, allows only women at matches.

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:59:53 -0400

Turkish league bans male spectators, allows only women at matches.

Is Public Opinion Turning Against Elite Over Globalization?

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:11:05 -0400

Is Public Opinion Turning Against Elite Over Globalization?:

“The feeling is that internationalism has really arrived at a price that’s too high”

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Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:40:31 -0400

Video

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:11:05 -0400

"Reflective apologists for war at the present day all take it religiously. It is a sort of sacrament...."

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:10:05 -0400

“Reflective apologists for war at the present day all take it religiously. It is a sort of sacrament. It’s profits are to the vanquished as well as to the victor; and quite apart from any question of profit, it is an absolute good, we are told, for it is human nature at its highest dynamic. Its “horrors” are a cheap price to pay for rescue from the only alternative supposed, of a world of clerks and teachers, of co-education and zo-ophily, of “consumer’s leagues” and “associated charities,” of industrialism unlimited, and feminism unabashed. No scorn, no hardness, no valor any more! Fie upon such a cattleyard of a planet!”

- William James, The Moral Equivalent of War

Andy Nowicki on "The Scarlett Letter"

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:22:07 -0400

Andy Nowicki on "The Scarlett Letter" :

“…a dark question lingers ominously: how many more will be threatened with dismissal from our professions for the offense of expressing un-kosher opinions in our private time? How safe are any of us confessed and incorrigible thought-criminals, really? How stout are our supposed allies, who may not agree with us, but think we should have the right to say what we speak out without forfeiting our ability to feed ourselves and our families?

Hope springs eternal: surely, it’s not that bad, we reflect. We tell ourselves that people don’t really like the type of heavy-handed, ideological browbeating on display in cases like this, that even liberals are discomfited by such grinding totalitarian tendencies found among some in their own ranks.

But… we can never be sure. We hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and try to find a way to behave prudently without lapsing into obsequious cravenness, to be bold without being foolish. And we pray, if we feel so inclined, as we wait patiently for the guillotine blade to drop on our necks. ”

"The earlier men were hunting men, and to hunt a neighboring tribe, kill the males, loot the village..."

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:13:17 -0400

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The earlier men were hunting men, and to hunt a neighboring tribe, kill the males, loot the village and possess the females, was the most profitable, as well as the most exciting, way of living.

Thus were the more martial tribes selected, and in chiefs and peoples a pure pugnacity and love of glory came to mingle with the more fundamental appetite for plunder. Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors. Showing war’s irrationality and horror is of no effect on him. The horrors make the fascination. War is the strong life; it is life in extremis; war taxes are the only ones men never hesitate to pay, as the budgets of all nations show us.

”

- William James, The Moral Equivalent of War

Feminism : The Noble Lie.

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:56:21 -0400

Feminism : The Noble Lie.:

Well written summary of some of the problems with feminist ideology—I cover a lot of the same ground in my upcoming book.

The people who hassle you at the airport waste your time and your money and achieve nothing.

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:42:36 -0400

The people who hassle you at the airport waste your time and your money and achieve nothing.

Photo

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:52:18 -0400

sugarmeows: “Which is Manly?” Educational poster...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:10:06 -0400

sugarmeows:

“Which is Manly?”

Educational poster (1930s)

Passive vs. aggressive, competent (masterful) vs. sloppy/out of control.

"America developed a liberalism—a political left—that took issue with our exceptionalism. It is a..."

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:51:00 -0400

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America developed a liberalism—a political left—that took issue with our exceptionalism. It is a left that has no more fervent mission than to recast our greatness as the product of racism, imperialism and unbridled capitalism.

But this leaves the left mired in an absurdity: It seeks to trade the burdens of greatness for the relief of mediocrity. When greatness fades, when a nation contracts to a middling place in the world, then the world in fact no longer knocks on its door. (Think of England or France after empire.) To civilize America, to redeem the nation from its supposed avarice and hubris, the American left effectively makes a virtue of decline—as if we can redeem America only by making her indistinguishable from lesser nations.

”

- Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal 9/1/2011

Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism

Post-’60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline

[…or, NationFAIL.]

OneSTDV on race and patriotism.

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:06:23 -0400

OneSTDV on race and patriotism.