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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
November 20, 2009
Diversity Is Our..."Strategic Imperative"?
A reader who shall be nameless, but who I happen to know was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, writes
Predicting Baseball Performance
In the 1970s and 1980s, Bill James put a lot of effort into predicting how well young players would do. In 1988, he summed up 15 things he'd learned, and three of them related to forecasting young players' development:
- Minor league batting statistics will predict major league batting performance with essentially the same reliability as previous major league statistics.
A Reader in Singapore Says Nancy Pelosi Already Lives Among The Marxists
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11/19/09 - An Alabama Teacher Says His Illegal Alien Students Are Better Off Financially Than He Is
Somali Gangsters in St. Paul Commit Crimes to Entertain Their YouTube Fans
When young Somali immigrants aren't pursuing jihad in the dear homeland, some of the tribe think it's a big yuck to assault people and put it on YouTube. Several self-appointed "stars" recently mugged it up with their real names, then knocked down old people and children--the Somali Tubers were too cowardly to pick victims strong enough to fight back.
Ny Times Publishes Gladwell's Letter And Pinker's Response
You've already seen Malcolm Gladwell's letter, with his ad hominem attack on me as a crimethinker. I'd half-assumed that the NYT would cut that part out in the interests of saving space, but they left it in.
From the NYT:
Steven Pinker replies: