Ace calmly brings a sense of proportion to a racialized IP controversy:
… let’s all take a deep breath: While Robin Thicke may have ripped off a single Marvin Gaye song, it’s not as if he dug up Marvin Gaye’s corpse, raped it, videotaped himself raping Marvin Gaye’s corpse, and then sold that rape-tape to the world and became a millionaire.
A new series begins, triggered by Dennis Mangan (on Syria):
No blood for democracy.
Don’t miss Christopher Orlet’s succinct observations on the subject, which sum to the conclusion: “We know what it takes to be successful in America. What we can never know is how to make people want to be successful.”
(Kevin Williamson has complementary points to make, at another scale.)
Worth waiting for, even without the triple word-play.
(Perhaps the master of the house could assist with a categorization problem: Is this long-awaited arrival a neoreactionary blog?)
This is pretty much a naked attempt to divert attention from this blog’s temporary impact with a rotary neural de-cultivator. (But that’s not a serious challenge for you guys, is it?)
Some time fragmentation is wholly predictable until Wednesday, in Ningbo (Zhejiang), due to an end of summer family break with berserk offspring. That was to have been compounded by computer crisis until the excellent IT guy at the hotel here sorted out what had seemed an insoluble connectivity problem. We’re at a beautiful Park Hyatt out at the edge of the town, done out in an aesthetic that mixes Jiangnan elements with the company’s cosmopolitan minimalism (rough textures, earth tones, and intricate landscaping seem to be consistent themes.) Our explorations of the city isn’t likely to amount to much, but there are a couple of cool things to report on over the next couple of days. My expectation is something like the Hong Kong activity slump, but on heavy tranquillizers, so I’m throwing in a Chaos Patch to keep the wolves at the door.
Is it conventional wisdom yet?
ADDED: Peter Bergen at CNN: “Doing nothing will not be treated kindly by future historians writing in the same vein as Power.” (Every time you read that sentence you’ll get more out of it.)
John Gray makes some telling observations about the debilitating practical paradoxes of the late-20th century right.
Summing up Thatcher’s outlook, [Charles] Moore writes of her “unusual mindset, which was both conservative and revolutionary.” It is a shrewd observation, but Thatcher’s reactionary nostalgia and revolutionary dynamism had something in common: the sturdy individualism to which she looked back was as much a fantasy as the renewed bourgeois life she projected into the future.
Once ‘sturdy individualism’ is dismissed as a fantasy, a horror story of some kind is the only imaginable outcome. If people are really too pathetic to take responsibility for their lives, what else could we possibly expect?
SPLC target and DHS infiltrator Ayo Kimathi (AKA The Irritated Genie of Soufeese) going seriously off-message on:
Barack Obama – The First Openly Gay President
Larry Sinclair’s story of his sexual affairs with the Magic Mulatto are finally beginning to resonate with our people. As such, the once deified figure known as Barack Obama is losing favor among Afrikans. We are beginning to see him for the warmongering, “homosexuality” in Afrika promoting, Black genocide in Libya causing, white-sex degenerate mulatto, enemy to the Black Race that he actually is. With our sobering view of this sexually degenerate homophilic, poor excuse for a mulatto, we are better able to see his wickedness and the danger associated with the current push for white-sex among Afrikan people worldwide. This is one of the primary reasons he was “selected” as president. One of his primary jobs is to usher in the most devastating eugenics (the science of racial genocide) breakthroughs in history – the cultural enforcement of white-sex anti-culture among Black people. If successful, the Black Race will be destroyed.
Selecting Barack Obama as president of the jewnited States of amerikkka was one of the most sophisticated and successful war moves that whites have made in the history of the world. Forget about the impact he had on the minds of the everyday Black people. I am ashamed to say that the “Black Nationalist” community was just as profoundly immersed in smiling Negro shine koonery as any slap-happy Negro on the corner. I know more than one Nationalist Brother and/or Sister who lost “lifetime” friendships because they didn’t support this flaming promosexual, “homosexual.” This was a true demonstration of who the real committed Racial Nationalists are and who the sympathizers are. The sympathizers are the ones of us who were duped. And now that the truth is staring us in the face, it’s time for our people to do the right thing and organize against white-sex.
Is this what the auto-cannibalization of the Cathedral looks like? It’s a riot (or something).