June 18, 2014

Latest iSteve posts at The Unz Review

Just an update for those who haven't yet bookmarked my iSteve blog at The Unz Review:

The NYT notices something I've harped on for about a dozen years:

DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT
Latinos Onscreen, Conspicuously Few
Anna Bahr JUNE 18, 2014
If you went to the movies in 1946, when Latinos constituted barely 3 percent of the American population, you might have caught Carmen Miranda, reportedly the highest-paid woman in the world at [MORE]

Lloyd Green points out in The Daily Beast that Hillary's big advantage in 2016 might be that she is white.

POLITICS 06.09.14
GOP’s Biggest 2016 Problem: Clinton’s Numbers Among White Voters
Hillary Clinton’s strength among white voters is the key to 2016—and it spells nearly certain defeat and disaster for Republicans. Culture will likely shape [MORE]

As I've mentioned before, my favorite of the new web journalism startups is turning out to be Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, but precisely for the reasons that it's likely not making much money: it's not very partisan, ideological, or trendy, just pleasantly data-dweeby. In contrast, Ezra Klein's Vox hasn't done much of anything for me: didactic, [MORE]

From my review of Thomas Piketty in Taki's Magazine:

One of the surprises in Thomas Piketty’s best seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century is how grating the Frenchman’s prose style turns out to be. Granted, Piketty has valid reasons for being perpetually outraged at his fellow economists’ ignorance and cupidity. .. [MORE]

From The Daily Mail: 

'Send them back': Hillary says wave of illegal immigrant children should be 'reunited with their families'
Hillary Clinton stunned a CNN audience on Tuesday by saying that the US should deport thousands of unaccompanied minors who have flooded the American border  [MORE]
    

June 17, 2014

I'm blogging at The Unz Review

I'm now blogging full time at The Unz Review, so please go there and bookmark my blog.

My giant archives of my blog posts and your comments will be maintained both there and here.

Thanks,
Steve
 

June 12, 2014

The missing link between golf and evolutionary theory: Robert Chambers

The links of St. Andrews
At The Unz Review, I've posted an essay outlining a previously unnoticed historical link between golf and evolutionary theory.
      

Kids These Days: Permanent Record Paranoia

Over at The Unz Review, I reflect upon a scene out of a Philip K. Dick story.
   

Brat's Weberianism Denounced as Low Brow

Biden demands Congress pass urination reform now!

As I've been mentioning, I'm blogging now at The Unz Review -- please bookmark my new site.

I've got a post up on the wonderful new Joe Biden speech on immigration:
Biden: Amnesty Skepticism Is the Enlarged Prostate Blocking the "Constant, Unrelenting Streams" and "Not Dribbling" But "Significant Flows" of Prosperity

 
Ron just finished updating the Mobile version of The Unz Review, so check out my blog there on your smartphone or tablet and let me know in the comments how it's working.
   

June 10, 2014

Eric Cantor Loses

You can discuss House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's defeat in the GOP primary over in my comments at The Unz Review.
 

College loans make family formation unaffordable

Over at iSteve's new home The Unz Review, I discuss how the high cost of college and of college loans is a machine for creating future Democratic voters by reducing affordable family formation.



Donald Sterling makes the same mistake twice

Over at The Unz Review, I look into how Shelley Sterling asserted legal control of the Clippers.
 

June 9, 2014

Kon-Tiki vindicated?

Over at iSteve on The Unz Review, lots of new posts today, including one on whether a genome study has supported Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 theory/adventure.
   

A reader asks: Should I stop being a Republican?

Over at The Unz Review, a reader back from the Texas state convention asks "Should I remain a Republican?"

Try out the even more convenient commenting system over there.
 

Software upgrades over at Unz.com/iSteve

Please see 

June 7, 2014

Bitcoin seems to be working

Thanks to those who paid overnight via Coinbase. It seems to be working well.

For those who want to avail themselves of my latest media for fundraising, see the post below.

Thanks!

Panhandling ... now with Bitcoin!

I want to thank everybody who has participated in the first 2014 iSteve fundraiser so far.
Due to popular demand, I'm going to try out accepting Bitcoins. I'm using Coinbase as a sort of Paypal for Bitcoins.
This Coinbase startup is backed by the prestigious venture capital firm of Andreesen Horowitz so it has been checked out by people who understand this stuff a lot better than I do.
I've been leery about accepting Bitcoins in the past because I've long been tracked by extremely deep-pocketed organizations out to get me for ideological reasons. (Hi, Heidi! Hi, David!)
But now the IRS has issued instructions regarding Bitcoins. I'm having Coinbase immediately turn all Bitcoins I receive into U.S. dollars and deposit them in my bank account. At the end of the year, Coinbase will presumably send me a 1099 form for filing my taxes.
Payments are not tax deductible.
Below are links to two Coinbase pages of mine. This first is if you want to enter a U.S. dollar-denominated amount to pay me.
This second is if you want to enter a Bitcoin-denominated amount. (Remember one Bitcoin is currently worth many U.S. dollars.)
Thanks for your support.

June 6, 2014

June 4, 2014

The Milli Vanilli World Cup Team

Over at my iSteve blog's new home, The Unz Review, I have a new post on an interesting nature/nurture experiment being carried out with the U.S. World Cup soccer team:
http://www.unz.com/isteve/americas-milli-vanilli-world-cup-team/

C'mon over and check it out.
     


Obama Admin: "C'Mon Up, Undocumented Breeders!"

Over at the new host for my iSteve blog, The Unz Review:
Obama Admin: "C'Mon Up, Undocumented Breeders!"
By the way, a few tips on commenting over there.

Your privacy is a major priority.

You can comment under your real name, a long term pseudonym, or some one-time characters you randomly jab on the keyboard: e.g., "dsfvaewds" -- the latter two protect your privacy while allowing other commenters to respond coherently:

-- I was awestruck by dsfvaewds' brilliant distinction between ...

-- Indeed, but dsfvaewds still overlooks the impact of Godel's most subtle paradox ...

And so forth ...

As for emails, which won't be publicly displayed, feel free to make up a fake one. I'm told that the usefulness of this is that it serves as an impediment to somebody posting comments under your usual handle since the impostor won't know the email, real or fake. (So far, that hasn't been a problem.)

Thanks.

Currently at Unz.com/iSteve

Over at my iSteve blog's new host, http://www.Unz.com/iSteve, I have a few new posts up for you to read:


June 3, 2014

The Amish and Nicholas Wade

I have a new column up at Taki's Magazine on the Amish as offering a new perspective on the controversy over Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance.
    

Bryan Caplan: "Why Sailer Scares"

Over at my iSteve blog's new host, The Unz Review (www.Unz.com/iSteve), I discuss Bryan Caplan's latest strawmonster argument:
"Why Sailer Scares"
   

The Decline of the Heiress

Check out my new post at iSteve's new home:

iSteve at The Unz Review

I’m happy to say I'm teaming up with my old friend and fellow 1970s Valley Dude Ron Unz to publish my long-running iSteve blog on Ron’s relatively new Unz Review at:


My long-time readers should make sure to check out all the other interesting stuff on The Unz Review while you are there. 

Like they used to say at MBA school in 1980: Synergy!

I’ve been doing a “soft opening” for several days there, and you’ll find 13 new posts that haven’t appeared on my old iSteve.blogspot.com site. There is so much new material for you to read that it doesn’t all fit on the front page there. You’ll have to hit “Older Items” at the bottom left of the page. Here are the last few days' new posts:

Attn. Dr. Piketty: Two Ways Old Money Dwindles

Old White Men: Who? Whom? Chapter MLXVII

Why Is Hamlet Tall and/or Thin?

Piketty's Reclusive Billionaires v. Howard Hughes

World War HIV

Pretty Fly for a White-Ified Guy

Welcome to ISteve on the Unz Review

Pinker on Genealogy

The Atlantic Discovers the Real Racism

Race and the Roads Not Taken

The Bonfire of the Inanities

IQ, the Death Penalty, and Witness-Murdering

On the Possible Extinction of the United Kingdom

The Tedium of American Cultural Dominance


Commenting seems to work pretty well over there, but it will of course be subject to the usual unpredictable lags in when I get to my desk and start moderating. (Note: I sleep largely on Transylvanian Time.) Check out how it works for you.

One thing I don’t like anymore at my age is changing platforms often. I used to love playing around with the latest computer technology, but it’s not 1996 anymore. (The switch to Blogger about six or eight years ago was stressful for me). I’d rather write new blog posts for you than fiddle with the pipes under my blog (or, come to think of it, do my dishes). But this modern WordPress system offers a lot of new capabilities that I intend to utilize over the coming weeks.

Of course, there will be glitches and transition issues. For example, hyper-aggressive spell-checking: in the title of the similar post on the new site, it’s supposed to be “iSteve” (of course), not "ISteve," but so far the new system insists upon capitalizing the “i” no matter how many times I correct it. No doubt, if I were 25 I would have already found the keystroke combo or whatever that temporarily subdues the raging WordPress spellchecker, but at my age, I'd rather compose rueful blogposts about my ineffectuality at dealing with new tech than study up on what to do about it. But we’ll get there …

More substantively, we will add a low bandwidth and small screen-friendly mobile option, which will probably take the rest of the week. Until then, you might want to set it to not show images.

I’m told that the little orange rss button on the top blue bar over there will give you your RSS feed. If you have a Reader, you can reset to the new address for blog activity:


And, of course, I’m having difficulty getting my Paypal buttons for my ongoing fundraising drive to show up over there. It wouldn't be iSteve without panhandling technical troubles. (The new Paypal Buttons are still working fine here on the old site, hint hint.)

Your hardcoded links to old posts on iSteve.blogspot.com should continue to work.

Anyway, take a look around and let me know what else you’d need or want. 

Thanks for your patience over the weekend and I think you’ll like what we will be putting together here.

  

June 1, 2014

Paypal for Panhandling

Welcome to the PayPal page for Steve Sailer's iSteve fundraising campaign.

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