Daily Archives: August 28, 2014

The Alexander Technique is about waking up

If you want to learn something, I ask you to stand up and to walk around the room for 30 seconds juggling three imaginary balls while taking care not to bump into people or furniture. If you don’t want to … Continue reading

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The Decline Of The WASP

I have the next few days off work, so I’m sitting in my apartment wearing a yarmulke, vibrating my feet, listening to The Carpenters, checking Tinder for messages, sipping a five-calorie orange drink with an OU certification, and reading a … Continue reading

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Do You Want Doctors, Pilots And Air Traffic Controllers Benefitting From Affirmative Action?

When I find I unexpectedly have a black doctor, I get nervous because I know that seven out of eight blacks admitted to medical schools in the United States benefit from substantial affirmative action and that their test scores on … Continue reading

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Is Gay Parenting The Solution To Our Troubles?

Robert Lopez writes: Gay culture is not the same as other ways of life. It is highly specific and fraught with problems. As statistics attest, gay adults have higher rates of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS, … Continue reading

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The Coup by John Updike

Steve Sailer praises this book as Updike’s best. Here’s an excerpt: Mr. Cunningham, freshly reinforced by his bottled cohort, pursued his interesting question, which was, “What do you make of our American colored people?” I had already enough converse with … Continue reading

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