Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

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    http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/theactofkilling/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-25 03:18:00 UTC

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    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-25 02:31:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : COFFEE FILTERS I can’t find paper coffee filters in the

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : COFFEE FILTERS

    I can’t find paper coffee filters in the coffee shops or the local grocery stores. It seems everyone I talk to just uses paper towels, if they have a drip machine. Even though most people seem to have espresso machines at home.

    Feels a little gauche when I use paper towels to make Nepalese dark roast in a Russell Hobbes coffee machine… lol

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-23 05:41:00 UTC

  • MAINSTREAM?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/people-getting-dumber-human-intelligence-victoria-era_n_3293846.html?ncid=webmail31GOING MAINSTREAM?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-23 02:05:00 UTC

  • WE ARE DUMBER THAN THE VICTORIANS I’ve been writing about the decline in our IQ

    http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/were-dumber-than-the-victorians/HOW WE ARE DUMBER THAN THE VICTORIANS

    I’ve been writing about the decline in our IQ for the past two years as the data accumulates. This article discusses REACTION TIMES, since reaction time correlates with (g) – general intelligence.

    Now, we’re not certain about this, but we’re building a good set of data that shows that dysgenic reproduction is the culprit.

    The woman who hosts the web site that I’m pointing to is interested in the effect of mating patterns on genetics. Of course, we know that TAX POLICY today penalizes the middle class and upper middle class reproduction in order to fund lower class reproduction.

    We (Englishmen) should have been at parity with the Ashkenazim in the 1880’s but our distribution has skewed left. So those of us who are still up in the high numbers are a smaller part of the population today than we were 150 years ago at the hight of western civilization.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-22 09:21:00 UTC

  • PROGRESS … IF IT ISN”T ONE THING ITS ANOTHER THING. 🙂 I haven’t written much

    PROGRESS … IF IT ISN”T ONE THING ITS ANOTHER THING. 🙂

    I haven’t written much on libertarianism in the past few weeks because the business has required quite a bit of attention.

    First, we had a key developer that it turned out has an alcohol problem. And slowly he degenerated into a disaster and I had to let him go. I was pretty worried about the impact but it’s actually been the opposite – a dramatic improvement. Progress is faster, the office is more peaceful and relaxed, and the quality of work is much better. I don’t like to play project manager on customer gigs because I don’t have the gift, but on products it’s something I enjoy. So, I’ve taken us all ‘Kanban’ which is a nice name for how we used to develop software with yellow pads of paper, a white board and index cards. 🙂 We have a nice organized backlog, and we’re shutting down issues as fast as we can. It’s great. In the past week we’ve gotten features and work done that I’ve been frustrated about for months.

    Today I have to pay a ton of bills both business and personal. Sigh. 🙂

    So I’ll have to get the business back on track in order to get my writing back on track.

    One book I hadn’t read before is the Age of Fracture by Daniel Rogers. Quite good. Vague. As a participant in that revolution I’m kind of curious why Rogers describes these movements as less directed, and less of a combat to kill socialism and postmodernism than they were.

    We made intentional decisions to take conservatism and libertarianism the directions that we did, just as the postmodernists did. We had the good fortune to do the world a favor and kill off communism and socialism, but postmodernism is the vampire that we can’t seem to put a stake through.

    WE DID IT ON PURPOSE WITH FORETHOUGHT.

    I don’t know about the other side. But I was writing pamphlets all over the place in the 80’s and 90’s and we were discussing strategy and acting on it. What we didn’t expect was immigration, nor the rate of the fall of the nuclear family, and the emergence of single women and single mothers as the policy determining force in the electorate.

    But our financial strategy worked. That was the interesting part.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-21 12:07:00 UTC

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    http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/13/0956797612466415.abstracthttp://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/13/0956797612466415.abstract

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-20 14:04:00 UTC

  • JEALOUS? Ok. So. Apparently I’ve been chosen to be one of the judges at the fina

    JEALOUS?

    Ok. So. Apparently I’ve been chosen to be one of the judges at the finals of the Ukrainian amateur stripping competition. I did not volunteer. I did not know such a thing existed. It just happened. (‘Cause I can work a room.)

    Seriously. I’m not making this up. Who could?

    My life. Is. Utterly. Insane.

    Pinch me.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-19 19:10:00 UTC

  • THINGS I MISS Not much. Starbucks and Tullys. Italian food. Rainier. Sitting on

    THINGS I MISS

    Not much. Starbucks and Tullys. Italian food. Rainier. Sitting on the Colby’s deck at sunset. Driving my porsche with the top down in the sun.

    I dont miss “things”. And american life is permeated with stimulation from things instead of people.

    I meet and enjoy new people every week in Kiev. Its awesome.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-19 04:55:00 UTC

  • Classes are the product of genetic distribution, constantly regressing toward th

    Classes are the product of genetic distribution, constantly regressing toward the mean. And prevented only by class inbreeding.

    Imagine a city, populated largely by the lower middle, middle and upper middle classes, where the very wealthy signal with hedonic crassness, and the remainder, signal with good dress, good taste, and good behavior.

    That is kiev.

    That is Milan.

    Credit systems have produced ills that redistributive systems do not. Redistributive systems have produced ills that credit systems do not. But fiat systems that attempt to create employment in the puritanical model appear to produce the worst ends of all.

    That is not a conclusion that i expected to come to.

    But if we understand that the lower classes lack the ability to do better than they do, the anglo model, as the germans argued from the beginning, is wrong.

    If we avoid the draconian, it seems wiser to pay them for public service, and for controlling their reproduction, rather than constantly distorting the economy with fiat money and credit.

    This constitutes is a voluntary exchange and therefore not contradictory with theory.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-19 03:48:00 UTC