New on the roll:
Calculated Risk: “FDIC Bank Failure Update”
Yves Smith – “Bank of England Calls Bluff of Bankers Who Threaten to Depart UK to Avoid Taxes”
Broward Horne – “Shoot the Messenger”
Barry Ritholtz – “Updating the Misery Index (Global Version)”
Tyler Durden – “Cautionary Observations from a Chronological Analysis of the S&P 500 Balance Sheet”
Dmitry Orlov – “Predictions”
George Washington – “Scientists Considered Pouring Soot Over the Arctic in the 1970′s to Help Melt the Ice – in Order to Prevent Another Ice Age”
Michael Anissimov – “EEG with BCI is A-OK!”
Anthony Watts – “Deja Vu from the Met Office”
Everybody else:
Chuck Ross -Â ”The Dating Paradox of Urbanites“, “Out-Group Submission Versus In-Group Dominance“, “Check Please?”
Jack Donovan – “What Feminists Are Peddling“, “Folks, It’s Miller Time”
Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech – “If You’re Going to the Jersey Shore, Be Sure to Wear a Hazmat Suit”
Obsidian – “An Open Letter to My Sistas“, “Is Game “Deceitful”? – And Why Women Are So Concerned About It”
Prime – “So Civilization Collapses…Now What?”
Roissy – “How to Nail a Virgin”
Advocatus Diaboli – “Alternative View on Money – II“, “Escorts Are a Better Deal Than ‘Real’ Women – I“, “Escorts Are a Better Deal Than ‘Real’ Women – II“, “Escorts Are a Better Deal Than ‘Real’ Women – III”
Fawzia Sheikh – “Africa’s Increasing Importance in the Great Geopolitical Game”
Master Dogen – “The Regret Brought on by Feminism, in the Eyes of a 60 Year Old Woman”
Anakin Niceguy – “Prom King and Prom Queen Syndrome”
Anoukange – “It’s in His Kiss”
Assanova – “Women Fuck Novelties”
Ben Leonard – “HopeChange: Are We Past the Point of No Return?”
Bhanu Prasad – “Species of Liberals.”
Bob Belvedere – “The Way of the Leftist”
Alex Birch – “No Bitterness Left“, “A Libertarian Fallacy”
Bhetti – “Which Ponds Have Plenty of Fish“, “When Novices Are Better Than Experts”
Martin Regnen – “Selling a Tiny Little Piece of Your Soul”
Dennis Mangan – “Random Thought: Crime and Enforcement“, “The Campaign of Terror Against Afrikaners”
FeministX – “FeministX: The Origins: Part 1”
Max – “Lie Your Ass Off”
Genius – “Public Education”
Hermes – “Adventures in Gynecology”
Hestia – “Why You Should Store Food & Other Essentials“, “The Womanly Art of Cooking”
Hunter Huxley – “Hot and Bothered Nihilistic Rant (What’s New?)“, “Still a Geek“, “Weed Game”
J – “Tamil Ethnocentrics”
John Smith – “The Monkey Whorehouse and a Bag Fulla’ Bananas”
Kamal S. – “To Relax in Strength”
Krauser – “Mercy Fucking“, “Am I Becoming a Heartless Bastard?”
LILGRL – “Myths About LILGRL: Debunked!!!”
LovelySexyBeauty – “Girls Who Protect Their Territory”
Luvsic – “Beta Panic and Big Picture Game”
Mark Baachman – “7 Habits of Highly Effective Betas”
Omega Man – “Forget About Women“, “True Lies in the Mating Dance”
OneSTDV – “How Can You Fall in Love on TV?“, “Jamaica vs. Singapore”
Phoenixism – “Who’s Been Walking All Over You?“, “Falling Off the Grid”
Pons Seclorum – “The Case for the Crusades”
Professor Hale – “Me and Tiger”
RAMZPAUL – “Tiger Woods and the Crimean War”
Ray Sawhill – “Moi, Paleo Beast”
Robert Stacy McCain – “A Friendly Note to James Wolcott”
Roosh – “A Replacement for the 1-10 Scale“, “How to Tell Girls What You Do”
Alkibiades – “Lesser Beta, Thy Doom is Woman“, “Some Observations on Poker and Game“, “The Types of Asshole Game”
Talleyrand – “Inversion“, “Why Women Raise Betas“, “Renfield“, “Mating Strategies“, “What Do You Think is Going to Happen, Samson?”
Silas Reinagel – “Androgynous Nation – “The Prevalence of Jeans”
Sonic Charmer – “Heresy“, “The Smart People Crowd”
Sofia – “Guide to Drugs”
Sparks123 – “The Legacies of Ayn Rand and Ted Kennedy”
StrikeforceMorituri – “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You“, “Chasing Pavements……….”
The Fifth Horseman – “The Publishing Disruption”
Unfrozen Caveman – “I Love the Following Things”
Eric Disco – “Rejections are Precious”
G Manifesto – “Top Ten Reasons Why This Was the Worst Decade Ever”
Scott – “Awkward Cheek Kiss”
Guy White – “AIDS Research as Affirmative Action for Blacks and Gays?“, “Italian Contributions”
Richard Hoste – “The Arab Slave Trade”
Liberal Biorealist – “Biology and Justice: First Cut”
Matthew Inman – “Why We Should Be Eating Horses Instead of Riding Them”
Christopher Caldwell – “Belgium Waffles” (Hat tip: Denis Dutton.)
Paul Bignell – “The Beckoning Silence: Why Half of the World’s Languages Are in Serious Danger of Dying Out” (Hat tip: Denis Dutton.)
Kassia Krozser – “The Unicorn Will Not Save Publishing”
Benjamin Wachs, Joe Eskenazi – “The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.” (Hat tip: David Nishimura.)
Judy Dempsey – “Sign Over Auschwitz Gate is Stolen” (Hat tip:Â David Nishimura.)
Agnostic – “Is Our Culture Going Through a Decline in Sincerity / Rise in Self-Consciousness?”
Robin Hanson – “Status Honesty“, “Doubling Down on U.S. Status”
Snark  - “Just One More Thing Before I Go…”
Mike Shedlock – “China Faces Crash Scenario”
Brett Stevens – “Heresies”
Frank Azzurro – “Why the Bad Economy is Good for Productive People”
Raul Singh – “Third World USA”
Emach – “Why All Men Should Read PUA Blogs”
Larry Arnhart – “Do Human Rights Require Religious Beliefs?”
John Robb – “The Food Game”
John Batchelor – “Violent Cosmos”
William Lind – “On War #326 – Finis”
Mark Richardson – “How Existentialism Made Women the Second Sex”
Randall Parker – “Geeks Repel Women from Computer Science”
Steve Sailer – “The Jews of Bentonville, Arkansas”
Fjordman – “Avatar – The Latest Anti-Western Movie from Hollywood”
Takuan Seiyo – “From Meccania to Atlantis – Part 13 (2): Harpo, Gekko, Barko, Sarko”
Yasha Levine – “NASA Satellites Can See California’s Wealth Transfer All the Way from Space”
Peter Frost – “The Montreal Massacre, Part II”
Razib Khan – “How Argentina Became White”
Kevin Marshall – “Ten Years Older and Three Years Sober, Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut”“
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FB,
Thanks for linking my article. You seem to spend many hours surfing the blogosphere.
Bhanu:
That is unbelievably easy when you have a do-nothing job.
That is unbelievably easy when you have a do-nothing job.
So your “employer” doesn’t filter or monitor your internet connection? In contrast, at my dad’s “employer”, that kind of stuff would have been discovered during an audit with the employee being disciplined or fired.
Regardless, I’d kill for a (white collar) state job right now even with Tier V…
There are times but none recently where I can surf for hours. No one checks up on me – another benefit to being the big boss. heh
Thanks for the linkage Ferdinand!
Many thanks as always FB! I always find some interesting links to read thanks to your regularly roundup posts. I appreciate the linkage as well. :-)
About surfing blogs, I also struggle with sneaking that in during work hours DA. I work for the man… he keeps me darn busy usually too. So I sometimes end up peek at blogs on my phone, or take formal breaks to do so.
By policy we allowed limited use of company resources for personal matters (I consider my personal forays into “contemporary social and gender relations issues” a community service project in a way, hehe.) And I’m also doing informal research using social media sources, getting up to speed on the latest media platforms, kinda sorta. I think it all depends… employment law is pretty tricky, and litigation for something that’s not clear cut (a blog on PUA vs. straight up erotica) would be cumbersome too probably.
Thanks again for your linkage and keep up your fantastic work!
A red meat post… HBDers and randists may not like the idea.
Alternative View on Money- III
http://dissention.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/alternative-view-on-money-03/
“This post suggests a heretical idea, namely paying people to consume and thereby maintain a functional economy. While the concept sounds like another keynesian idea, it is much more radical. In some ways, it takes off from minksy’s ideas on the government assuming the role of lender and employer of last resort.”
My employer explicitly states that blogging is not allowed on workstations. So I don’t. I do read, however, on my breaks if I’m eating at my desk which I try not to because it just sucks.
Besides, I’ve already been disciplined once for sending emails trashing my then-manager.
And thanks for the linkage. The death edition is something very special.
David Alexander:
Are you kidding? You can do everything short of downloading kiddie porn on a state computer so long as you keep your mouth shut and make like you’re doing work. Anything less and the streets of Albany would run red with the blood of the bosses.
Dude, just apply. There are literally countless positions throughout New York. The government is the only employer in America that will hire people for $40,000 a year jobs requiring nothing more than 60 college credit hours.
Are you kidding?
Nope. My dad was an employee in NYC civil service, and they had disciplined and fired workers for playing games online, watching porn, and sending sexist or “racist” e-mails. It seems that NYS employment is employment is a magical candy land compared to NYC employment…
Dude, just apply.
Amazingly, even with an associates degree (68 credits), I don’t qualify for anything since I lack work experience. Everything either requires a bachelor’s degree or several years of related work experience. That’s true of both NYC, NYS, and county positions.
As always: a hearty thanks FB.
Kristen Bell is very hot. Too bad she didn’t get enough acting gigs in the prime of her looks.
You have a job? I remember what that’s like, sorta. It’s been a long unemployment…