American Peace Activist Shocked Back To Reality (from Para Pundit). Also check out See men shredded, then say you don’t back war. Now, I’m not going to say that the US government is invading Iraq for humanitarian reasons-how stupid do you think I am, George Bush the elder famously stood by and shut his eyes […]

It is not well known, but the Shia of southern Iraq and Iran belong to different sub-sects of the Twelver Shia sub-sect. With that in mind, from The Economist: Top theologians, even inside Iran, prefer aloofness from worldly affairs to the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s doctrine of placing worldly power in the hands of a single […]

Charles Murtaugh comments on the “Moron Majority”: It is interesting that Rall, a liberal, is willing to be so open with his contempt for the average American. (Or, as a politico would put it, America’s working men and women.) It raises a more generally-interesting question, of what obligation the non-moron elite owes to the moron […]

Whenever I look to in the MOVABLE TYPE activity log I end up seeing search terms-and it seems that someone is always looking for a picture of me (not the same person, I check the IP addresses). Look to the left now, my baby and non-baby picture linked up there. I’ll replace the non-baby one […]

Fall 1996: “Show me the money!”Spring 2003: “Shock & awe” If I hear those words paired one more time, I’m going to tear someone’s throat out.

Dr. Greg Cochran on the possibility of gene frequencies shifting in populations leading to changes in phenotype (eg; IQs going up and down yo-yo style over thousands of years): Look, _nobody_ thinks about this. I’m not just talking about people who want to celebrate their ancestors’ real or imagined achievements. If you really want to […]

David Frum slams paleos. He mentions The Occidental Quarterly. First, Steve Sailer, and now the TOQ? Some little boy has been really naughty, reading up on verboten materials….

Brown person Zack Ajmal is working on a series on marriage in the Muslim world. See here, here and here. Good complement to the ParaPundit post titled Consanguinity prevents Middle Eastern political development (all related articles here). Add to this a recent Ann Marlowe piece on the importance of the circle-of-cousins in Afghan culture. She […]

From Pontikos exposed: “3. Pontikos says that race-mixing is actually a good thing and has very positive effects!;” Kristin Kreuk, Sino-Dutch Canadian.

Dienekes deconstructs pan-European racialists. He points out the problems caused by centers of reference and drawing lines on an arbitrary basis (or being influenced by non-anthropological criteria). To be mislabelled is a common occurance for many people, and if an individual of group A can confuse someone of group B as one of their own […]

An observation-it seems that the idea of writing has appeared many times. The Maya, and likely the Near Easterners & Chinese stumbled upon the concept without outside input (there is a possibility that the Chinese were influenced by western Eurasia). Chinese writing comes from oracle bones & Near Eastern writing from the clay token accounting […]

Catallaxy Files points me to this research: Men whose ring fingers are much longer than their index fingers tend to have irregular, masculine features, such as the singer Lyle Lovett. But men whose index and ring fingers are roughly the same length are more likely to have symmetrical faces, such as the even-featured Brad Pitt. […]

Is it just a coincidence that Bush announced his intention to send us to off on a holy war on St. Patrick’s Day? Maybe W sees himself as an inspired missionary to drive the snakes out of the Middle East. God save us from the squalor of war.

Many updates on SARS from Randall Parker. NOT-TODO:Sex with Cantonese women…. Posted by razib at 04:04 AM

Marc Miyake of the blog Amritas (on our permalinks) had an article up on FrontPage yesterday blasting Chomsky’s Universal Grammar. His thesis is that UG is just another intellectual virus of the post-modern left. In it he quotes another of our favorite bloggers, Joanne Jacobs, who relates her school-day dissatisfaction with old Noam as well: […]

You gotta check this out. This girl is insane!

Seems like the Quebecky-Frenchies are going Protestant [1] and dabbling with eugenics: Quebecers who have a child, within five years of finishing college or university, would be eligible for a 50-per-cent refund of their student loans if the Parti Québécois is re-elected April 14, Premier Bernard Landry announced yesterday. The Parti Québécois, for those of […]

I visit the Brainboard 3 fairly regularly as it sometimes has quite fascinating discussion on cognitive science and IQ-related issues. It’s one of the few sites besides GNXP which takes a lively interest in such matters, though without the HBD aspect. However, there appears to be some quite knowledgeable people there and I’ve noticed that […]

The_Alpha_Male emailed me today about something we had been talking about earlier-why are some groups more hirsute then others? He watched the ice age documentary on human evolution on The Discovery Channel (standard PC pap masquarading the more realist implications) and it mentioned that hair might have been detrimental when it became wet and frozen […]

I hear people talking about “International Law,” all the time, they should change it to Civilized Norms-because no one bleats about “International Law” where savagery reigns-to whom much is given, much is required…. Posted by razib at 02:22 PM