Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-18 07:14:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-18 07:12:00 UTC

  • follow The Sartorialist pretty religiously. And he has a great eye. But, serious

    http://www.thesartorialist.com/I follow The Sartorialist pretty religiously. And he has a great eye. But, seriously. Here in Kiev, women can have no money at all, yet they compose their own style, shop carefully, move gracefully, and they look like the just stepped off the runway. I don’t mean, like, a few of them. I mean, all but a few of them.

    Men have quite a bit of the soviet era fitness thing going on. So they just tend to look better in general. I’m sure that the t-shirt-wearing-fat-tv-gamer guys exist here but I don’t see any of them. We have the whole Goth and motorcycle and tattoo cults too, but none of it is so nihilistic.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-14 10:42:00 UTC

  • CURRENT RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST Every once in a while I put out a short list of m

    CURRENT RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST

    Every once in a while I put out a short list of my favorite books to recommend. I try to keep it short (The list on my web site is well over a thousand books now.)

    THIS LIST

    Morality = Family Model = Property Rights = Wealth = Fragile.

    INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS

    Alan Macfarlane: The Origins of English Individualism

    Emmanuell Todd: L’invention de l’Europe: (family and ideology)

    James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity

    Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

    MORALITY

    Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (evolutionary morality)

    Matt Ridley: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    Demonic Males: Apes and the Origin of Human Violence (co-authored by Richard Wrangham

    FORMAL INSTITUTIONS

    Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order

    Acemoglu: Why Nations Fail

    Colin Renfrew: The Collapse of Complex Societies

    Hans Hoppe: (post-bureaucracy for homogenous groups)

    POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

    Political Ideologies: An Introduction (introduction to ideology)

    Stephen Hicks: Explaining Postmodernism

    Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals and Society

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-13 11:19:00 UTC

  • You know, some of us spend all this time tilting at windmills. You can’t even te

    You know, some of us spend all this time tilting at windmills. You can’t even tell who is a crank or genius until well after he’s dead. WTH is the point? Really. 🙂

    I read up on a few ancestors who were fire breathing Puritans. If you met my Grandfather, you’d think no time had passed since the English civil war. Maybe since the middle ages. Except he knew physics and chemistry. But the personality was the same.

    I sit here obsessed with morality and ethics for no reason of my own choosing other than some strange mechanism drives me to.

    And you wonder how much of life is in our genes? I don’t.

    I don’t think I’m much different from that man 400 years ago. And I kind of doubt that he was much different from the man 400 years before him. Or the one two hundred years before him. A thousand years of genes doing the same thing. And if we met we’d recognize the same traits in one another.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-11 10:44:00 UTC

  • What Restaurants In Middletown, Ct Are Good For Eating Alone?

    Luce is best IMHO.  Although Cannoli’s at Illiano’s are the main reason I look forward to food in Middletown.  (I kind of love eating at restaurants alone – habit from traveling all the time.) 

    If you are really asking if any are good for dating, or meeting people then the answer is ‘none’. Middletown was devastated by the economic and political policies of the postwar era, and still cannot recover from the ‘slumification’ of the Great Society period – but because its’ far enough from Hartford, Meriden, New-haven, Bridgeport which are some of the poorest and most unpleasant parts of America, it has seen some revitalization as a bedroom community. 

    (Old-Middletown family.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-restaurants-in-Middletown-CT-are-good-for-eating-alone

  • What Restaurants In Middletown, Ct Are Good For Eating Alone?

    Luce is best IMHO.  Although Cannoli’s at Illiano’s are the main reason I look forward to food in Middletown.  (I kind of love eating at restaurants alone – habit from traveling all the time.) 

    If you are really asking if any are good for dating, or meeting people then the answer is ‘none’. Middletown was devastated by the economic and political policies of the postwar era, and still cannot recover from the ‘slumification’ of the Great Society period – but because its’ far enough from Hartford, Meriden, New-haven, Bridgeport which are some of the poorest and most unpleasant parts of America, it has seen some revitalization as a bedroom community. 

    (Old-Middletown family.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-restaurants-in-Middletown-CT-are-good-for-eating-alone

  • How does cancer change you? In many ways, for the good. Although, not everyone a

    How does cancer change you?

    In many ways, for the good. Although, not everyone around you might agree. It takes a while, and we all feel it differently, but something we all share is an increased appreciation for every day. And, frustratingly for others, a little more intolerance for wasting time on things we don’t want to.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-06 18:16:00 UTC

  • DEAR LIFE Thank you. For my friends. All of them. Always

    DEAR LIFE

    Thank you.

    For my friends.

    All of them.

    Always.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-30 15:39:00 UTC

  • In what world do trucks line up to pour concrete in a residential neighborhood a

    In what world do trucks line up to pour concrete in a residential neighborhood at midnight?

    I mean. This is Kiev. You cant get this kind of thing organized reliably at mid day. How did they pull it off at midnight?

    Bad enough that the subway is thee feet under the pavement. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-29 17:33:00 UTC