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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
August 5, 2008
No Country for Old Satirists
... because the Serious People are too funny for a parodist to compete with. I can't make up stuff as good as this tiff between the Wall Street Journal and Slate over whether it's racist to mention Obama's skinniness.
Greyhound Killer Bore Canada's Most Common Surname: "Li"
Several blog entries about the gruesome decapitation on the Canadian bus have already been posted, more will likely follow.
I'd just like to point out that the murderer, Vince Weiguang Li, already bears Canada's most common surname.
That's right. The most common Canadian surname in Canada is no longer Smith, nor is it Johnson, nor Brown, nor even a French surname such as Gagnon or Tremblay.
Sportscaster Julie Donaldson's Brutal, Raceless Boyfriend Finally ID'd
Last Thursday, a reader wrote me:
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Matthew Richer On George Putnam Show Discussing VDARE.com Tuesday 1:05 PM PST
Matthew Richer will be discussing Deval Patrick and Governor Deval Patrick: "Together We Can"...Have Racial Preferences on with Chuck Wilder on the George Putnam Show, Tuesday 1:05 PM Pacific Time. Listen here.
The Power of Two: A Game Show for PBS or NPR
Here's a website called FreeRice.com, where they ask you vocabulary questions and the sponsors (e.g., UniLever) donate 20 grains of rice to hungry people somewhere or other for each word you get right. Many of the words are highly obscure, but if you know your Greek and Latin prefixes and suffixes, you'll do okay.
I got the first 31 in a row right for 620 grains of rice, so, morally speaking, I now get to go kick a cat or something.
A Reality TV Show I'd Watch
A reader writes:
"Hey, why not suggest that the governator & his school board take this algebra test? In public and the results for public consumption?"
I suspect Arnold could walk in and ace the first semester Algebra I questions (he made a lot of money as a contractor and developer before his movie career took off), but would run into some tough sledding on the second semester Algebra I stuff, unless he took time off to bone up on it.
A Reader Describes Hispanic Linguistic Profiling
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The Fulford File, By James Fulford | Does Immigration Cause Madness? (We Know The Answer For Christian Clergy).
Lawrence Auster in his View From The Right blog has done some good work ferreting out evidence that Vince Weiguang Li, the Chinese immigrant Greyhound Bus Killer, may have been a Muslim—which is not unlikely when you consider that the killer cut the victim's head off, a well-known feature of Muslim culture.