Recommended Reading
The Hudson Institute –Global Tribunals V. U.S. Values
The Claremont Institute –Boys to Men
Slate – Cormac McCarthy Cuts to the Bone (hat tip to Feral Jundi)
RAND –Do Targeted Killings Work?
RECOMMENDED VIEWING:
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Madhu:
October 8th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
The Cormac McCarthy article is fantastic, although, I like the Henry James, Proust “in your head” brand of fiction. A variety is nice, I’d be bored if it was all McCarthy-like or all James-like….
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On the Claremont Insitute article:
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I’ve told this story many times before, but it belongs here again:
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Some years ago, after giving a lecture on the pathology of the male genital tract, two young medical students approached me and said, “Thanks for talking about men’s issues for a change. It’s refreshing.”I was floored. I had no idea it was like that, or felt like that, or anything….
Madhu:
October 8th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
I mean, it’s a pathology lecture. In pathology, we will discuss all the pathology in sequence, male and female too. How did that become “issues”? What is going on out there in the education and cultural world of young people?
Madhu:
October 12th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Did this Hoover piece on drones get posted around here already?
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http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/128461
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Hey, you know, my whole digital makeup as an armor and protective device idea is looking pretty good, speculative fiction-wise!
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I’m just saying, maybe I should hang around Steven Pressfield’s writing Wednesday posts.
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So, on this site called GeekSugar, I once read about this device you can buy that will help you tell if there is a hidden camera in a hotel room or bathroom. This is something women’s magazines sometimes obsess about, it’s very Dateline NBC, Lifetime Channel-ish. Basically, you’d get the same effect using a flashlight and turning it on and off to look for the flash-back from a camera eye, I guess.
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It’s like, there is some message in there on drone usage and surveillance technology and business opportunities for the paranoid and not-so-paranoid….
Madhu:
October 12th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
https://zenpundit.com/?p=11901#comment-69637
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My digital makeup commentary which goes with my comment above.
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PS: I wish I could find the Downton Abbey review (a dud of a show as it went on unfortunately, but the commentary on it is very interesting) where a young man, probably early twenties, was talking about how appealing the men were in that show – like, it’s interesting as a young man to consider restraint as an option. Too young to be a boring old culture warrior, so it seems an untutored and natural response. Found it very interesting. Most of the teen and early twenty commentary on that show is fresh….think what they’ve seen pop culture-wise in the West. Garbage and garbage and garbage….