Did you make any effort to ascertain why people made the choices they did? 
 
I went to grad school. In grad school I noticed a lot my fellow students had family members with problems with drugs or alcohol. The people who did best in the programs were the people who had the most chaos at home. This type of chaos either strengthens you or kills you. At the level where we were at, it mostly strengthened us. School and work were where we devoted our time to get away from the problems at home. 
 
If my home life was less chaotic, I suspect I would have been less successful at school and work, but I probably would be contributing the gene pool.  
 
My point is that their could be other factors explaining this correlation other than the inference that it is pure raw intelligence itself that is leading to reduced breeding opportunities.

Sounds reasonable - but then I read sstuff like this: 
 
http://www.alternativescience.com/no_brainer.htm 
 
and I don't know what to think...

Hmmm, I found this on the summary:  
 
"After the kids go to daycare and school, Amber spends her day on the computer, surfing the Internet or obsessively playing computer games." 
 
So let me get this straight: she does nothing all day, and yet still send the kids to day care? Not wanting to be all condemnatory here, but, WTF? I'm trying to avoid "reality" shows, but I might have to check this one out...

I'm actually surprised that they seem to be so slavishly copying from the 70's Superman (Brando, the same kind of crystal spaceship, etc.) I mean, don't get me wrong - the orignal Superman is probably the best superhero film ever made, but you'd think they'd want to reimagine it...

"Stalin, Bin Laden, Darth Vader are totalitarians." 
 
Yeah, but so is John Paul II. Somehow I don't think he and Stalin would see eye to eye...

Social Conservative  
(28% permissive) 
 
Economic Liberal  
(25% permissive) 
 
Totalitarian

Mormon Romney is a much more acceptable to the liberal residents of Massachusetts than to conservative Christians.  
 
Well, of course - this place is basically pagan, and so just sees Mormonism a another denomination of those Christian weirdos. Since Romney doesn't wear his faith on his sleeve, is a good adminstrator, and is for low taxes, they (grudgingly) vote for him (they'd much rather have a democrat for idealogical reasons, but the democratic party is so corrupt here that they can't find one who can stay out of jail long enough to win...) Someone who actually beleives in Christianity and is moderately knowledgeable about both faiths, on the other hand, knows how different Mormonism from orthodox Christianity. 
 
Oddly, I think Joe Leiberman, an orthodox Jew, would gain more traction among evangelicals than Romney. But of course, Leiberman would never be nominated by the Democrats, so the point is moot... 
 
Also, Razib, I don't think things like the Mountain Meadow Massacre are that well known - I certainly didn't know about it, and I flatter myself that I know a lot more American history than the average Joe. I think most people have a generally positive if leery view of Mormons, but don't know much about them. Presidential campaigns have a way of bringing anything that can possible be used against someone to the surface. A Romney candiacy would bring a whole lot of scrutiny to Mormon beleifs that they've never had before...

Funny, I saw a show the History Channel last month about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and one of the things I thought was, "Y'know, if Romney makes a serious run for the Presidency, this stuff is gonna be talked about, and it won't be pretty." (Which might be due to the fact that I live in Massachusetts, or just because I am a political nerd who has no life...)

OK, call me stupid, but: how exactly is a chromosome abnormality that makes reproduction highly unlikely lead to the "improvement of the species"?

How anyone could apply any sort of "conservative" lable to Chomsky is beyond me...

And Jason, I would be careful about using that rather loaded term "purity" about the paleos. Opposing unrestricted immigration, free trade and favoring "traditional values" may not be your cup of tea, but it isn't some sort of neonazi program...

Of course, you have the old saying about the atheist who doesn't so much not beleive in God as personally dislike Him...

" Every discipline, sub-discipline, and research program claims to be the key to solving the riddle of the universe."

It's like Matt Groening's 7th kind of college professor: "The country that controls magnesium controls the world!"

I tend to agree with bbartlog on this one - and I speak as one who in his restless youth had knock-down, drag-out arguments with any creationists foolish enough to cross my path. But what does it matter? If your average civilian thinks the world was created 6000 years ago, does that have any effect on anything? Just how important is it for the average HS student to know about the mechanics of biology? This isn't some kind of "noble lie" thing, BTW - I just don't see the reason to get all worked up if some people want to beleive falsehoods that are irrelevant to their daily lives...

Duende -

Last I checked, Stallman was an American...

I just finished reading Gavin Wright's "Old South, New South", about the economic transformation of the old confederacy after WWII, and it seems to be apropos.

There were no trade barriers whatsoever between the South and the North since the founding of the republic. And yet the South remained stuck in a low-wage, low output state even while the North was undergoing it's industrial revolution. Wright asserts that it wasn't until the New Deal and WWII that federal minimum wages started to undermine the old system (mechanization of the cotton harvest, for example, had never been a big priority while there was a large pool of low-wage labor. When that went away, the pressure to develop picking machines became intense, and in a few decades virtually every acre of cotton was picked by machine)

The point is, economic harmonization followed political harmonization, not the other way around. NAFTA and other free trade pacts will not lead to economic development in the third world (or profitable trade opportunities for us in other than natural resource extraction of low-wage assembly) without a change in the politics of those countries.

And of course. health data was specifically carved out as an exception in prop. 54, so he was being even more disingenous...

Heh, heh... he said "touch wood"...

Not for long, if they elect the brown dude:

http://www.bobbyjindal.com

I think the issue is that there has yet to be a "superstar" black QB on the order of Joe Montana, and when you combine this with the fact that QB is (rightly or wrongly) considered to be the position that requires the most intelligence, you can see where the sensitivity would come from: the same old elephant that's in every room when race is brought up...

Pretty cute - shame about the libertarianism... ;-)

"Importing uteri"

Well, THAT image will rock me to sleep tonight, Mr. Zizka...

Duende -

Do you mean a surrogate for Jacqueline, or that Jacqueline should be a surrogate for someone else? "Cause it doesn't sound like she's all that keen on raising kids at all, so that wouldn't help. Maybe she should just sell her high-IQ eggs to a non-libertarian who gives a damn about the next generation. I here some people are paying thousands of dollars for 'em...