Over at my iSteve blog's new host, The Unz Review, I respond to Henry Louis Gates' review in the WSJ of Nicholas Wade's "A Troublesome Inheritance."
June 6, 2014
Feminist theory is stuck in "Groundhog Day"
Over at my iSteve blog's new home at The Unz Review, I point out that the latest faddish feminist theories were tried and failed over 40 years ago.
My depressing Peyton Manning-style prediction
Over at The Unz Review, I blog:
http://www.unz.com/isteve/my-depressing-peyton-manning-style-prediction/
June 5, 2014
What's the last major new recreational drug?
I ask that question over at my iSteve blog's new host, The Unz Review:
http://www.unz.com/isteve/have-there-been-any-new-recreational-drugs/
What Links should I add on unz.com/iSteve?
Over at this blog's new main site, The Unz Review, I ask for your advice:
What Links should I add here?
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"
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:
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.
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.
NOT tax-deductible.
Click the drop down menus above each button to find the right amount for you.
NOT tax-deductible.
Click the drop down menus above each button to find the right amount for you.
May 30, 2014
"X-Men: Days of Future Past"
X-Men movies exemplify the dominant Minority Supremacist ideology of our age. Mutant superheroes are oppressed by the boring normals, except for the few enlightened members of the uncool majority. Not surprisingly, Bryan Singer's X-Men movies are vastly popular with the teenage masses, who of course are all members of a talented minority, right? I mean, if you can't trust Bryan Singer, boys, who can you trust?
The latest X-Men comic book movie Days of Future Past is a time travel flick set in 1973, much like 2011's pretty good X-Men: First Class was set in in 1962. And I liked X-Men: First Class quite a bit because it was a reboot after Brett Ratner had trashed the continuity in 2006's X-Men: Last Stand, so it stood alone better than most. This new one devotes a lot of effort to patching over problems in the continuity, so it puts the franchise back in good shape, although it may not make for the most scintillating stand-alone flick. And whenever it runs into a problem it just throws some more movie stars at it, such as Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen, which is not the worst strategy.
X-Men movies wouldn't have worked well as a franchise before the Web era since you really need to look up online before you go what all happened in the last movie and who all the teeming mutant freaks are again. I'm not really into doing my homework before a movie so I enjoyed the first one back in 2000 the most.
Also, I, personally, I find 1962 cooler than 1973. And the previous film let Michael Fassbender as the vengeful Magneto, a mutant supremacist, hog tie and stomp James McAvoy as the nice Dr. Charles Xavier.
In this one, McAvoy gets more emphasis and he's somewhat cooler -- he's supposed to resemble a 1973 British rock star fighting his heroin addiction in his country estate -- than in First Class. Unfortunately, Fassbender, who may be the top male star to emerge in this decade (although Andrew Garfield is terrific in the otherwise pointless Spider-Man reboot), doesn't get much to do other than to wave his hands around, although at the end he gets to deliver a rousing speech to Richard Nixon on the necessity of Mutant Supremacism.
A message from Mrs. Sailer
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| My father and I, Cabo San Lucas, 1986 |
Today was a very good day in the first iSteve fundraising drive of 2014. I want to thank everybody who has made a sacrifice to help me out.
My wife got home from work about 8PM tonight and I gave her the encouraging news as we ate dinner off paper plates. The reason we've been eating all our meals off paper plates for the last year or so is that the old dishwasher died and they don't make dishwashers anymore small enough to fit under our kitchen counters. The kitchen counters and cabinets are 63 years old. Dishwashers hadn't been invented yet in 1951, much less standardized in size at one inch larger than our counters can contain.
On the other hand, the linoleum is only, I believe, 34 years old. Indeed, the kitchen floor seemed to be back in style around 2005, but at that rate won't come back into fashion again until maybe 2030.
Unfortunately, even a good day of fundraising doesn't put much of a dent in the fact that I owe my frugal, hardworking, and patient wife a kitchen that can accommodate a dishwasher so we don't have to drink solely out of Big Red Cups like some kind of frat house or perpetual Toby Keith video. (The neighbors are wondering how many kegs we go through per week).
She's made a lot of sacrifices so I can write for you full time for the last 14 years. (For instance, she never complains about driving a 16 year old car with 237,000 miles on it.) Now that I think about it, I never mentioned to her when we got married in 1987 that when it came to all that "for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health" stuff, that I was going to spend 1998 fighting cancer and then, when that was over, decide to spend the 21st Century as an unpopular writer.
As usual with my money transfer method attempts, something has stopped working: in this case the VDARE link as of the wee hours of Friday morning. I have hopes it will be fixed soon, and will let you know.
Once again, let me thank everybody who has donated so far.
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