Monthly Archives: December 2012
A Tale of Two Gun Control Debates, and Rush Limbaugh’s Low-Information Voter
I wrote the top portion of this before the NRA gave its press conference Friday. The update was added after the press conference. Rush was talking about the Time Magazine writer who went on Charlie Rose and said Obama’s big … Continue reading
On Dopamine – Dekuyper Crave Minted Chocolate Liqueur
If you are a Conservative, chances are you have certain psychological traits. One of these traits is a genuine desire to see those around you happy. This site spends a lot of time on politics and complex ideas, but we … Continue reading
Some Thoughts for the NRA on Friday’s Press Conference
If anybody from the NRA reads this, I beg you, emphasize the following points. We’ve passed thousands of pages of gun laws, and we are still having this problem. We’ve had assault weapons bans with no effect, gun-free school laws … Continue reading
A Review of As I Walk These Broken Roads
I finished fellow alt-right blogger Aurini’s new novel, As I Walk These Broken Roads, and have found myself thinking about it a lot. I really enjoyed it, and I think a lot of the enjoyment came from it being set … Continue reading
Oxytocin, In-group Loyalty, and Ethnocentrism
Courtesy of Subrealism, a new study (abstract linked here, with lots of interesting related studies below) on how the caring hormone oxytocin promotes ethnocentrism. Liberals fell in love with oxytocin for a while. Give a guy a snort of it, … Continue reading
Thoughts on the Sandy Hook School Shooting
As most do, I look at this Connecticut shooting with horror. Yet again, we see amygdala dysfunction manifesting in the degradation of our societal fabric. There will be more of this mass shooter stuff in the years to come. For … Continue reading
An Interesting Article on Benghazi
This article is a must read. If correct, suddenly we see just what Obama may be hiding – a Syrian Gulf of Tonkin Incident, mixed with WMD proliferation, all by the US government. No wonder the media is AWOL. The … Continue reading
Escapism and the r/K Transition
When the Roman Empire collapsed, one of the causes cited by Gibbon was increasing religiosity, which Gibbon viewed as a tendency towards superstition. Under this theory, people become unduly absorbed in religion and superstition, and shirked the duties of life, … Continue reading
And So It Begins
Obviously, we make the case here that politics is just like r and K-selection in nature. Provide free resources to a population, and the best way to reproduce is the r-selected reproductive strategy, most easily seen in the bunny-rabbit. If … Continue reading