I was gonna write something..but the desire disappeared….
~MRDA~
Attack the System- Joe Biden’s Silence on Ending the Drone Wars 23rd November 2020By Elise Swan, The Intercept President-elect Joe Biden has maintained silence for years on the controversial and continued use of so-called targeted killings — lethal strikes by drones, cruise missiles, and occasionally military special operations raids. Biden has never publicly disavowed or criticized former President Barack Obama’s legacy of expanding the use of drones, nor […]Keith Preston
- Regrowing Indigenous Agriculture Could Nourish People, Cultures and the Land 23rd November 2020By Christina Gish Hill, In These Times Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. And traditional Native American farming practices tell us that squash and beans likely were part of that 1621 dinner too. For centuries before […]Keith Preston
- Death by racism 23rd November 2020The SJWish terminology and rhetoric in this aside, this is actually a very good discussion of the class disparities associated with the impact of the pandemic. The impact of the responses to the pandemic has largely been to allow the upper-middle and upper classes to go on a sabbatical of working remotely while being served […]Keith Preston
- Joe Biden’s Silence on Ending the Drone Wars 23rd November 2020
- Samizdata
- Are incentives better than commands – when the goal is fraud? 22nd November 2020In the old days, Mayor Daley commanded his goons to “vote early, vote often” and Lyndon B. Johnson ordered his fixers to write down the vote tally required.. Etc. I think incentives work better than commands, in general. I also think that these days, when there’s a non-zero risk that even the thickest goon just […]Niall Kilmartin (Stirling)
- Cheap electricity should be a noble cause, not something to be embarrassed about 22nd November 2020I was watching this interview with “lukewarmer” Matt Ridley, who agrees that global warming is a problem but who thinks technology and market-driven solutions are a way to address it, not State dictats. He was being asked about the UK government’s proposals (I have no great confidence this will be remotely achievable) to ban sales […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- How does this ban fit with that rename? 22nd November 2020It can be hard to keep the narrative consistent. It appears that BLM enthusiasts love anti-police murals but just hate the idea of a mural claiming that ‘Black preborn lives matter’. Evidently the limit on whose lives can be said to matter is strictly defined indeed. So why is the Marie Stopes clinic renaming itself? […]Niall Kilmartin (Stirling)
- Are incentives better than commands – when the goal is fraud? 22nd November 2020
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- CREDO 29th April 2020by John Grauerholz I need no gods; I worship myself. I need no church; my ego is powerful enough. I need no faith; I am confident in myself. I need no scriptures; my own presence is inspiration enough. I need no savior; I can handle things myself. I need no government; I […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- PARABLE OF THE COMMUTER TRAIN 21st November 2019by John Grauerholz Let me make this simple for you. Maybe I need to make it easy for you. Perhaps I have to reduce it to a parable in order for you to understand. It is like this …. You have timed it perfectly. You have walked the selfsame streets so many times before that you […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- RAW LAND 11th November 2019by John GrauerholzI love the lonely landscapes, the empty places, the solitary spaces. I am beguiled by the barren scenery that is not quite desert, yet a geography that is still too unforgiving to be farmland. A soil that is not devoid of vegetation, but an earth where all the plants have already turned brown. […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- CREDO 29th April 2020
- The Hoover Hog
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...chipsmith
- In Memoriam! Adam Parfrey 19th May 2018A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...chipsmith
- Book Journal – "How to Judge People by What They Look Like" 19th May 2018The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...chipsmith
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019
- Wandewring Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Wisdom Dancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continuedThis post is a follow up to my previous post, Knowledge Matters, Too: Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race, which introduced the dispositive role that power plays, specifically the overlapping institutions of the police state and militarism. I … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Knowledge Matters, Too (Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race)With all due respect to the intentions behind #blackouttuesday and other online hashtag campaigns, a lot of online activism is most effective at making people feel good for participating, and showing “solidarity.” It’s low in cost (of time and effort) to post … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Fear is the CrisisFor many years now, my conviction has been that the great undeveloped area of human education is a suitable understanding and appreciation of human nature, especially commonalities of the mind—the ways in which we habitually think, and what each of … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continued
- Razib Khan
- Open Thread – 11/22/2020 – Gene Expression 22nd November 2020New Virgina Postrel book, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World. I did an AMA and set a record for responses on the subreddit for AMAs. probably won’t […]Razib Khan
- Unsupervised Learning Update 22nd November 2020Just a quick update. I’ve put up a few podcasts at the substack for subscribers. I’ll be “front-loading” the podcasts before getting into a ~1 week groove. I will ungate […]Razib Khan
- How much “steppe” ancestry is there in South Asia? (Indian subcontinent) 22nd November 2020Since this question always comes up at some point, I decided to do a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation of the % steppe across the Indian subcontinent. The way I did it was by taking Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, and estimating the average percentage from the caste breakdowns (e.g., UP is 20% “upper caste” and 20% “Dalit” […]Razib Khan
- Open Thread – 11/22/2020 – Gene Expression 22nd November 2020
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Two book reviews from Handle 11th October 2020I often point people to William Stuntz’ “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice” via my review. There are a lot of details in that book I regret not being able to include, but I just found this review (which pre-dates mine by years) from Handle (who I mostly remember as a commenter years ago rather […]teageegeepea
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020Bryan Caplan has been blogging the recent book “Escaping Paternalism” and noted that he wished they had discussed opioids in detail. Jubal Harshaw of the blog GrokInFullness sent him a response, noting a number of posts in which he critiqued “the usual view” that Caplan brought up to contrast with the book. I myself have […]teageegeepea
- Two responses to responses to an open letter about discourse 14th July 2020T. Greer of Scholars Stage, whose writing about the unfortunate decline of the blogosphere in the face of social media I have linked before, notes a reaction to the Harper’s letter which grants no credence to the idea of “good faith debate”. Greer calls this The World That Twitter Made, giving the reasons why it […]teageegeepea
- Two book reviews from Handle 11th October 2020
- Instead of a Blog
- Christopher Dorner Dindu Nuffin' Wrong 15th March 2018I have at various times expressed my complete contempt for the police and military branches of the United States government (as well as foreign governments, though they don't pose as much of a direct threat to me). The bourgeoisie nerds in the libertarian movement (much less the boot-licking 2nd Amendment queers) are often at pains […]Unknown
- Real Talk on Guns 9th March 2018It is a good idea to both own and be proficient with at least one firearm. The most important factor is that you are comfortable shooting it, and that you practice a lot. Do not buy into bullshit like 'stopping power', 'hydrostatic shock' or cults of particular weapons. It is important that your weapon and […]Unknown
- Death Wish's Yankee Homo Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves with a Knife 8th March 2018Death Wish was generally panned by film critics - who are almost all a bunch of weak faggots that are scared of guns. That, and not its content, is the main reason it suffered in the reviews. While Death Wish is nowhere near as cool as the original, it's certainly not bad as far as […]Unknown
- Christopher Dorner Dindu Nuffin' Wrong 15th March 2018
- Evolutionist X
- Masks 17th October 2020One of the interesting effects of the pandemic has been the opportunity to watch formerly neutral, unpolitical things get marked as “political” and people who formerly had no opinion on them at all throw themselves onto one side or the other as though they had deep, long-standing commitments on the issue. (We have always been […]evolutiontheorist
- Color Wheel Frustration 20th September 2020Remember the color wheel? When you were a kid, your art teacher probably taught you the standard color wheel: If you have red, blue, and yellow paint, you can combine them to make any color (except black, white, gold, silver, magenta, neon anything…) Okay, almost any color. Red + Blue = Purple, Blue + Yellow […]evolutiontheorist
- Conspiracy Theory Theory 7th September 2020Our ancestors–probably long before they were even human–had to differentiate between living and non-living things. Living things can be eaten (and, importantly, can eat you back); non-living generally taste bad, can’t be eaten, and won’t try to eat you. This is a task of such essential importance that I think it is basically an innate […]evolutiontheorist
- Masks 17th October 2020
- Human Stupidity
- #Biblical: Is it a sin of omission to cover up instances of Black crime, to hide its pervasiveness? 11th September 2020Does the Bible allow to misinform the population in order to avoid “prejudice”? Does the Bible consider humans too immature to be told the truth? What if omitting the truth causes homicides, death, hate, and rape? Who is the sinner, if naïve uninformed people get in harm’s way, because of media cover-ups; if students are […]Programmer
- We know that media are wrong in our field of expertise; yet on other topics we trust them [Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect] 3rd September 2020Experts forget how badly their own subject is treated in media and believe that subjects they don’t know much about are treated more competently by the same media. [Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.] “You turn the page, and forget what you know.” Lies by media, police, politicians are treated as “isolated incidents” of misinformation, not of wholesale […]Programmer
- Postmodernism: Denial of Objective Reality and of Facts is Dishonest 18th August 2020Postmodernism denies facts and objective reality. The truth is based not on agreed upon facts and evidence, but is contingent on narrative and point of view. Reprinted with permission from SINCERITY.net Shameless postmodernist lying utterly corrupted Social Sciences. Postmodernist dogmatism in social sciences and politics causes mayhem and death, even for the “disadvantaged minorities” which […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- #Biblical: Is it a sin of omission to cover up instances of Black crime, to hide its pervasiveness? 11th September 2020
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Two book reviews from Handle 11th October 2020I often point people to William Stuntz’ “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice” via my review. There are a lot of details in that book I regret not being able to include, but I just found this review (which pre-dates mine by years) from Handle (who I mostly remember as a commenter years ago rather […]teageegeepea
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020Bryan Caplan has been blogging the recent book “Escaping Paternalism” and noted that he wished they had discussed opioids in detail. Jubal Harshaw of the blog GrokInFullness sent him a response, noting a number of posts in which he critiqued “the usual view” that Caplan brought up to contrast with the book. I myself have […]teageegeepea
- Two responses to responses to an open letter about discourse 14th July 2020T. Greer of Scholars Stage, whose writing about the unfortunate decline of the blogosphere in the face of social media I have linked before, notes a reaction to the Harper’s letter which grants no credence to the idea of “good faith debate”. Greer calls this The World That Twitter Made, giving the reasons why it […]teageegeepea
- Two book reviews from Handle 11th October 2020
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- Max Stirner in Den Gulden Winckel 28th October 2020GODSDIENST, WIJSBEGEERTE MAX STIRNER. – Het Kersouwken van Ant- M werpen geeft tans Stirner’s werk uit in het Nederlands. Eerst verscheen zijn hoofdwerk: “De Eenige en z’n Eigendom”. Hier hebben we één van zijn kleinere werken: “Het Leugenachtig Princiep onzer opvoeding of ‘t Humanisme en Realisme”. – De vertalingen zijn van Jaak Lansen. Het […]Trevor Blake
- SA1170 | “MIGHT IS RIGHT” Lapel Pin 16th October 2020This lapel pin, the size and shape of a .32 S&W round, is emblazoned with the egoist motto “Might is Right.” It is issued as part of the multi-format journal “Stand Alone”. Available from UNDERWORLD AMUSEMENTS It was in 1845 that Max Stirner wrote: “Meine Freiheit wird erst vollkommen, wenn sie meine – Gewalt ist; durch diese aber […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- SA1160 | Dora Marsden: Vida y obra | León Darío (Spanish) 18th September 2020Escritora, editora de varias publicaciones, literata, filósofa, activista sufragista, luego reinventada como anarquista individualista—egoísta, anarco-feminista! Dora Marsden: Vida y obra” by León Darío (editor of individualist-anarchist journal “El errante”). Spanish-language introduction to British suffragette, egoist and philosopher Dora Marsden (1882-1960). First time in print. Illustrated, 20 pages. Este folleto impreso en una edición de sesenta y […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Max Stirner in Den Gulden Winckel 28th October 2020
damn. hate when that happens.
you must master “the desire” like a well-paid servant! learn to summon it at will and let your bidding be done!