January 2012

The Sad State of Mainstream Economic Analysis

by Simon Grey 01.31.2012

Here’s a perfect example: This would seem to jibe with popular laments about why Apple can’t make its products domestically. There are a lot of reasons, but a significant one is the lack of necessary skills for higher-end manufacturing. This is in no small part because American students shy away from the training necessary to [...]

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How the Rise of Newt Gingrich Proves That CONservatism is for the Proles

by Ferdinand Bardamu 01.31.2012
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A few people have been coming around to the thesis that CONservatives are motivated mostly by spite and hatred of LIEbrals, and not by any ideological or moral principles. And when I say “a few people,” I really mean “Chuck Rudd,” because his post was the only one I bothered to bookmark. Following Newt Gingrich’s [...]

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The Lulz Just Write Themselves

by Kievsky 01.30.2012
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Found at this site, and started making lulz:       Here are a couple of past masterpieces of trolling:     Apparently, liberalism isn’t just a political ideology, it’s also an alternative lifestyle where men are subordinated to women. I have seen examples of this at Crooks & Liars and Democratic Underground as well.

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Staring Down Failure: Life Lessons from Genghis Khan

by Maximus 01.30.2012
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This is a personal post. I have reached a stage in my life where I am face-to-face with total and complete failure. No job. No career. No money. According to many a Western mind, if you add in no car, no smartphone and no wife or children, I would be the textbook definition of a [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: January 29th, 2012 Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 01.29.2012
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From here. ANUS – “The Genius of Tradition” Brett Stevens – “Global Concreting“, “Jobs Are Jails“, “Eudaemonia“, “City Lights“, “Educating for Virtue, by Joseph Baldacchino” Forest Johnson – “Take Me to Your Leader” Nicholas Marville – “Appeal” Frost – “This is Not Who We Want to Be” Keoni Galt – “Finding Your Freedom“, “Paleo Cult [...]

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The History of Vibrators, Part 2: 2,500 Years of Medical Orgasm Therapy for Hysteria

by Human-Stupidity.com 01.28.2012
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For over 2,500 years, the medical profession helped the large percentage of (well off) women suffering from hysteria by regularly inducing “hysterical paroxysm,” aka orgasm. A lone university professor wrote the book about vibrators, manual massage by physicians and midwifes, and promptly lost her job. Be sure to read part one of this series before [...]

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Sexual Revolution Launched! (Phase 1)

by J J Roberts 01.27.2012

I’m in Bulgaria right now and it’s time for Phase 1 of the launch of my new book, Sex 3.0. I have to do it in phases because I will probably be spending different parts of 2012 focusing on the four largest markets for English-language books — the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia. (If you [...]

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Bardamu’s Bookbag: Men versus the Man

by Ferdinand Bardamu 01.27.2012
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Obligatory reminder: all my book reviews are archived here. Send me review copies of your book(s) by going here. *** Men versus the Man by H.L. Mencken and Robert Rives La Monte Most of you will recognize the name H.L. Mencken, if not from his cutting, witty books and various snide observations on American culture and [...]

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The History of Vibrators, Part 1: Orgasms as Medical Therapy for Hysteria

by Human-Stupidity.com 01.26.2012
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Vibrators Replaced Power Douches and Finger Stimulation as Treatment for Female Hysteria For millennia, women were brought to “hysterical paroxysm” by a physician’s pelvic massage or by water jets. The vibrator made such treatment much more efficient — so efficient that women can cheaply buy their own vibrators to get orgasmic release. Pelvic Massage By [...]

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Inconsistencies in Defining Crime and Criminality

by Advocatus Diaboli 01.26.2012

One of the most frequent claims of right-wingers, alt-righters, CONservative, LIEbertarians and other assorted morons is that “blacks” are somehow more likely to commit “crime” because of “lower IQ” and “low future time orientation.” Let me start exposing the bullshit inherent in such beliefs by asking a simple question: Do we define crime and criminality [...]

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The Paradox of Civilization

by Lost Historian 01.25.2012

At its core, civilization is about the control of sexual impulses: the principal difference between ‘civilized society’ and the ‘state of nature’ is the amount of energy devoted to acquiring and maintaining access to sexual partners. In the state of nature, all of the central pillars of modern society ― technology, education, rule of law, [...]

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Why Cohabitation is (Generally) for Chumps

by Ferdinand Bardamu 01.25.2012
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The blogger formerly known as Roissy muses on how cohabitation provides the same benefits as marriage, for men at least: The reasoning is simple: the pro-marriage studies are conflating the benefit of living with someone under marital contract with freely living with someone who loves you. Sex, love and affectionate companionship don’t feel any more [...]

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Mall Girls (Galerianki): Polish Teens Who Exchange Sex for Smartphones

by Human-Stupidity.com 01.24.2012
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Mall Girls: teens who sell sex in Poland, and their sponsors (Galerianki) Japan’s enjo kosai are the most famous teenagers who have sex with older men in order to buy stylish goods, but research reveals this relationship around the world. What seems to signal a loss of morals (for many commentators) is that the teenagers [...]

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Thoughts on Strength

by Raliv 01.24.2012
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Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general. Mark Rippetoe I am not the only reader of the loosely connected manosphere blogs who follows the strength training barbell routine known as Starting Strength. Written by Olympic weight-lifting coach Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength has gained a cult-like following among online [...]

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The Problem with America

by Alpha 01.23.2012

Note: Alpha sent this letter to me and three other writers with the purpose of “get[ting] people thinking” and giving us permission to post it on our blogs, which is what I am doing. — Ferdinand Do you know what the problem with America is? Our politicians looked at Kim Jong Il while he was [...]

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Is Callista Gingrich a Heroin Addict?

by Ferdinand Bardamu 01.23.2012
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“Hey, doesn’t she kinda look like John McCain’s wife?” our bassist blurted out as we lay on the couch drinking and watching Newt Gingrich’s post-New Hampshire speech. We were taking a break from working on new songs and our frontman/singer’s wife (and the band’s violist) had flipped on CNN in the meantime. He was hardly [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: Blank Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 01.22.2012
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From here. Brett Stevens – “Economic Censorship“, “Next Revolution, Don’t Put the Extroverts in Charge“, “Turnabout“, “The NPR Style“, “SOPA a Distraction“, “Being a Fan” Ted Swanson – “The Immune System” Bronan the Barbarian! – “Drunk Munchies Hall of Fame: The Fat Shack” Frost – “The Hierarchy of Self-Improvement” Max – “Kandahar; 13.JAN.2012” Matt Parrott – “The [...]

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Don’t Fight Too Hard — You Might Win

by Ace of Spades 01.21.2012

A while back, a woman expressed her disagreement with me saying: “I think men like a challenge.” Now, I’m going to pick this apart. Not out of any maliciousness or spite. Simply to shatter yet another delusion that permeates modern inter-gender (romantic) relationships. Men do not like a challenge. Think of love as food (which [...]

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