Just as progressivism, (by which I mean anglosphere mainstream leftism) descends from the Puritans, via the infamous and conspiratorial Exeter Hall, the Acorn of its day, and “super protestantism”, looks like Nazism is descended from Lutheranism. The apple does not fall far from the tree. Lutherans hated Jews, Puritans hated Christmas and men having sex with women.
Not the cognitive elite
The immensely well paid staff of the World Bank issued a pile of nonsense about European financial problems in which they kept calling a positive feedback loop a negative feedback loop. Obama’s speechwriters issued an equally stupid speech to their black mascot in which they called the Falkland Islands the Maldives.
Monsters among us
One curious and difficult to explain aspect of the left, is the tendency to hate what is good and true and to love monstrous evil and barefaced lies. Thus, for example, compare the worshipful treatment of China from 1956 to 1972, with the high pitched moral outrage directed at China when the Chinese government ended mass murder and artificial famine in the late seventies, and set to replacing slave labor …
Racism and Deskism
What is “racism”? Why is the belief that the appearance and origin of a desk has a good correlation with the desk’s value and usefulness not known as “deskism”, and why is “deskism” unlikely to to destroy one’s career, whereas the belief that the appearance and origin of a human has a good correlation with various desirable or undesirable characteristics is a horrid and unthinkable sin.
Left wing tells
Every time you twit a leftist with the Trayvon Martin incident, he will list how the evil racist George Zimmerman provoked Martin by the horrible racism of suspecting Martin of criminality – which implicitly admits what is explicitly denied, that the six foot one black Martin attacked the five foot seven mestizo Zimmerman, which in turn implicitly admits that leftists approve of the black racist attacks on whites that they …
conservatives are not the only people losing faith in official science
Amgen, the worlds largest independent biotech firm, ran a replication survey on fifty three widely cited landmark cancer research papers. Only six were replicable. If conservatives are losing faith in official science, maybe that is an indicator that conservatives are in contact with reality.
Conservatives distrust official science
Lately leftists have been moaning that conservatives have lost faith in the scientific community. Conservatives distrust official science, because official scientist do not practice actual science, instead manufacturing official truth.
Photoshopping Trayvon
The mainstream media have applied the magic of photoshop to convert Trayvon Martin from a menacing thug who needed killing to a sweet innocent child. Eyes enlarged to reduce apparent age. Nose reduced for cuteness. Chinline on viewer right of image altered to reduce apparent age. Hairline raised for larger forehead, to reduce apparent age and give a more intelligent and gentle appearance. Facial hair reduction to reduce apparent age. …
George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin
According to George Zimmerman, he turned his back on Trayvon Martin and was walking away, whereupon Trayvon Martin chimped out and attacked him from rear left. Circumstantial evidence supports this story, (for starters, there is no way a man like George Zimmerman is going to physically attack a man like Trayvon Martin with his fists) and there are no eyewitnesses contradicting it. According to George Zimmerman and eyewitnesses, Zimmerman wound up …
The ancestral environment of females
The collagen in old bones of humans shows stable isotope levels similar to that of the old bones of wolves and hyenas, indicating that humans ate at the same trophic level as wolves and hyenas or higher, that is to say, the same position in the food chain or higher, which implies that almost all the food was meat, which implies hunting mattered and gathering did not matter, which in …