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Friday, March 2. 2012

Breitbart's book: Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!

OVERFISHING LEAVES SWATHS OF MEDITERRANEAN BARREN (h/t Jungle Trader)

Prostitution Attractive Option for Med Students with Debt

New blood test offers early cancer detection

Dalrymple on clothing:

When I was young I affected to believe that to look a mess was a sign of inner profundity. I made the mistake of supposing that if the wise are bearded, the bearded are wise. If I adopted the supposed manner of an artist, therefore, I too would be an artist, or at least artistic. And, conveniently enough, the sloppiness of inner profundity required no effort on my part. As everyone knows, a lot of human history consists of man’s attempt to escape effort.

Above all, die safely

Divorce is immature and selfish. Don't do it. (h/t Clayton Cramer)

Is bullying the new racism?

Now you're going to be forced to buy two Snickers bars

Authorities Warn Against Even Fruit Juice

Talk Sixties, Act Fifties: The Ice Storm

The slope has slipped … when infanticide is presented as a “reasoned” argument

It is rational. Also, monstrous. Pure reason is often monstrous.

Rahm Takes on the Blue Model

Speaking of Blue Models, President Obama’s health care law is unraveling

And here's Mead's latest Blue Model essay: Beyond Blue 6: The Great Divorce

Ten Indications That Obama Is Scared

Excessive Bureaucracy: Choking Greece's Economy

The Latest Sad Protests at Duke

Two sides of Obama's federal takeover of education

Hubris

The American Left’s Two Europes Problem

What You’re Paying for Your Child to Learn at College

Barone: Why Liberals Like Taxing the Wealthy

Taking Down Assad Will Not Save Syria

Requiring voter ID is racism

Knish: Dying to be Green

Spengler: Iran’s ‘Rational’ Suicide

Act of Valor; or, A War Without a Narrative…

The multicultural morass - On Western assimilation and the dangers of multiculturalism

Arctic Ocean drilling: Shell launches preemptive legal strike

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Penelope Trunk. That blog is almost surreal. Good to express ones self, but people are different and handle their lives in different ways. Can you relate to situations of "You never talk to me?" Hi dear, how was your day? "Good." (Then Nothing, before they spend the next hour on the phone to someone else.)
Or You can't talk about your work, its confidential. Well then you shouldn't be surprised when you say something about work, and the response is "I'm sorry, I wasn't listening, You were talking about work, so I don't listen for fear of hearing something I shouldn't."

#1 Jerry on 2012-03-02 08:24 (Reply)

She, PT, likes to talk endlessly. He, The Farmer, doesn't. They are incompatible, but she marries him anyway. Then he gets annoyed because she, PT, turns out to be a clinging, needy person, so eventually he hits her. She decides to stay--but don't abused wives always stay and tolerate more abuse even when they know it's the wrong choice? So now PT, on at least her second marriage, writes that divorce is selfish. Pardon me, but isn't she the absolutely wrong person to be giving love/life advice to anyone? She sounds totally screwed up to me. Perhaps she should fix up her own life first before offering advice to others. Nothing succeeds like success, my dear PT.

#1.1 Agent Cooper on 2012-03-03 03:25 (Reply)

@ Act of Valor - I just saw it, and its very good.

The reviews do it no justice - for anybody whom served, they will find kinship with the SEALS. The conversation is said to be dry; it makes perfect sense to anybody whom has worn BDUs or been a soldier\sailor.

For a film that cost $12mil to make, its done very well.

#2 Fred Zeppelin on 2012-03-02 09:42 (Reply)

Funny that two of your topics would seem incompatable (barren swaths in the Mediterranean and Greece's excessive bureacracy) but the irony is Greece has many regulations but most of them are not enforced. From our house in Greece we hear them throwing dynamite in the sea to fish but we know it's pointless to report it. Lucky if you can get the coast guard to come rescue you much less a fish. And the sad thing is they could really use that resource now when they are starving-literally.

#3 Linda S on 2012-03-02 10:47 (Reply)

Multiculturalism is a morass all right, partly because it's based on a false premise, which most of the intelligent maggiesfarmers have already acknowledged ... that all cultures on the globe are not equally valuable to the progress of the human race.
Some cultures are indeed extraordinarily evolved and certainly a credit to those who participate. Other cultures are so-so. Some aspects of them are admirable, and other aspects of them are antithetical to progress. They could evolve, but they deserve to be viewed with caution. The third group of cultures are toxic. Those need to be viewed as actively hostile to the principles and attitudes of civilized folk, and a wholesale acceptance by more civilized cultures will simply delay the evolution of these suspect cultures and endanger the progress of more benign societies.
Wars happen because of these differences. Because liberals stubbornly advocate undiscriminating acceptance of all cultures regardless of their negative qualities, they place us in the position of imperiling our own standards and achievements.

These conclusions are among the reasons why I gave up my struggle to accept multiculturalism. It simply doesn't make sense, and it's an invitation to exploiters. I love our country to dearly to endanger it.

Marianne

#4 Marianne Matthews on 2012-03-02 13:44 (Reply)

O/T: James Q. Wilson has died of leukemia. Huge throngs of people noted the recent passing of Whitney Houston. Despite the much greater loss to society, too few will note the passing of James Q. Wilson.

#5 Agent Cooper on 2012-03-02 14:28 (Reply)

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