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Monthly Archives: June 2003

An African lament [Prospect]

“Liberal whites are emigrating from the African countries they call home. This can only mean further decline.”
This is a beautiful and very sad article, especially for a child of Africa like me.

Sea Seprpent? Nah…Oarfish!

Check out this ugly fish. [Site] [4mb Video .avi / .rm]

Superb Fred Reed this week

Whiteness Studies, Ethnic Purgation, Academic Collapse Clowns, Dancing Bears, Cotton Candy
Oh good. In the Washington Post,* the trade journal of the coming vacuum, I discover a story on “Whiteness Studies.” These, at what used to be the University of Massachusetts, are yet more un-courses that grow like mold on the wreckage of American education. They [...]

WHY AMERICANS WILL BELIEVE ALMOST ANYTHING by Tim O’Shea

“CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD PROPAGANDA:
As the science of mass control evolved, PR firms developed further guidelines for effective copy. Here are some of the gems:
* dehumanize the attacked party by labeling and name calling
* speak in glittering generalities using emotionally positive words
* when covering something up, don’t use plain English; stall for time; distract
* get [...]

Ultimate reality show…

Sperm-Wars:The Game
“What could be first manifestation in this new realm of sport? Taking into account such factors as: simplicity of contest design, ease of sample collection, lots of visible action, and abundant human male competitiveness, the most logical and economic choice would be a sperm competition. This new sporting event will combine the ‘to the [...]

Absurd new proposal from the EU Imperium

‘Sexist’ adverts under threat, Evening Standard:
“…advertising which uses women’s bodies to sell products could be banned under new European rules being described as one of the EU’s most ambitious pieces of social legislation.
The legislation banning sex discrimination in media, advertising and insurance is in the final stages of drafting by the European Commission.”
The newspapers [...]

The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century [HarperCollins]

Compiled by Philip Zaleski, editor of The Best Spiritual Writing series.

The sin of Onan

“Then came adolescenceóhalf of my waking life spent locked behind the bathroom door, firing my wad down the toilet bowl, or into the soiled clothes of the laundry hamper, or splat, up against the medicine-chest mirror, before which I stood in my dropped drawers so I could see how it looked coming out. Through a [...]

Only in Africa… [BBC]

…could someone just take off (literally) with an old 727.

Male Chromosome Seriously Weird [Wired]

“The Y chromosome is probably the weirdest chromosome in the human genome. Scientists already knew that it determines the male sex, but other than that it was considered a genetic junkyard. It contains very few actual genes — the rest is repetitious, random DNA.
But in two papers published in the June 19 issue of [...]