But alas, no protestor is volunteering to die, and no cop is volunteering to be the designated bad guy.
Herman Cain sticks it to political correctness
At 41 seconds into the ad, the speaker says: “We can do this, we can take this country back”, and takes a drag on a cigarette. So who are we taking it back from? We are taking it back from the scolds and self righteous naggers.
The lesson of Gaddafi
The brutal death of Gaddafi teachers all rulers a lesson: Emulate Syria, Iran, and Turkey. Obstinately continue to do bad things to Americans, do not give in. Do not imitate Gaddafi, who stopped doing terrorism, backed off and went on his best behavior after Ronald Reagan killed various members of Gaddafi’s family. Still less should you emulate Egypt, and be an American ally.
More astroturf riots in Greece.
At one minute fifty seconds in this you tube video, a man carrying a burning molotov cocktail rushes up to police. They don’t react. He hurls it onto the ground, not at them, but right in front of himself. There is a huge spectacular whoosh as burning petrol sprays everywhere. They react only slightly. He runs away. They don’t chase him. They act as if they knew in advance that …
Left political singularity
The French Red Terror, the Soviet Great Terror, the Cambodian autogenocide, and many others were all examples of what I call left political singularities. Left wing repression tends to make things lefter, which tends to worsen left wing repression, which makes things even lefter, which …  The process only stops when the latest despot starts to realize he is not left enough, he is being outflanked on the left, is …
Fun hate fact about the bell curve
Today’s hate fact is hyperexponential decay. The normal survival function (the number of cases in a normal distribution that are more than x, one minus the cumulative distribution) approaches zero as x increases hyperexponentially, which is to say, very fast. This often makes it possible, under many common circumstances, to draw conclusions about individual cases, to infer a particular person’s character and or ability from his race or sex, and …
Government hires protestors to demand more government
Powerline found an interesting job advertisement in Craigslist: Under the job category “new york craigslist > brooklyn > jobs > government jobsâ€, people looking for a government job are invited to: “ FIGHT TO HOLD WALL STREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW! MAKE A DIFFERENCE! GET PAID!†I knew they were getting paid to protest, but until now there was some deniability – students were being turned out to protest by their professors, employees …
The cause of the decline
Lately there as been a lot of concern about the increasingly visible decline of the west, notably Peter Thiel on “The End of the Futureâ€:
Short summary of “Fast and Furiousâ€
Many blogs have covered all this for a long time, in great depth, among them Human Events. I am not going to do so, but I need to mention such an important event, if only for my own records: