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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
July 1, 2010
Norman Rockwell, Steven Spielberg, And George Lucas
Norman Rockwell, painter of hundreds of Saturday Evening Post covers, was long derided as an artistic dead end because he had so little influence on subsequent celebrity painters. But that always struck me as stupid because Rockwell was hugely influential on one of the most influential cultural figures of the later 20th Century, Steven Spielberg, who mostly paid for the Rockwell museum in Massachusetts.
How To Live To Be 100
From the Washington Post:
Perls and his colleagues analyzed the genes of participants in the New England Centenarian Study, which is the largest study of centenarians and their families in the world. The study involves about 1,600 centenarians and has been ongoing since 1995.
Hereditary Privilege through Rights and Complexity
America doesn't have as much social class mobility as we might think. People who do well now generally have kids who do pretty well. There are a lot of reasons for this, but one that's kind of obscure is the increasing complexity of the meritocratic ladder, often justified in the name of Rights. The result is that kids with smart, hard-working, married parents can get an edge on the system in multiple ways.
Rush Limbaugh On The Statue Of Liberty
Rush Limbaugh explains the Statue Of Liberty, and that stupid poem.
<font color=black>Requiem for Senator Robert Byrd</font>
Sadly, a few days ago we lost a great statesman when Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) passed away at the age of 92.
Portrait Of A Hate Criminal
Keith Phoenix, the man pictured right, was, according to the SPLC's Hatewatch, a "Man Guilty of Murder as Hate Crime."
They say
"A 30-year-old man accused of beating an Ecuadorean immigrant to death on a Brooklyn street was convicted on Monday of murder as a hate crime."
Police Checkpoint Nets 21 Illegal Aliens
In an effort to cut down on drunk driving and unlicensed drivers, the city of Santa Maria, California, runs an intermittent checkpoint. The checkpoint on Sunday night was near the main intersection in town, Broadway and Main, and it netted two folks for driving under the influence and 22 vehicles driven by folks without licenses.
Guardian: Lower IQs Found In Disease-Rife Countries, Scientists Claim
From The Guardian:
Lower IQs found in disease-rife countries, scientists claim
Energy can be diverted away from brain development to fight infection, explaining 'lower intelligence in warmer countries'
People who live in countries where disease is rife may have lower IQs because they have to divert energy away from brain development to fight infections, scientists in the US claim.
Affirmative Action In France: Ideology Doesn't Matter
The French have always had an ideological aversion to affirmative action, but, in the long run, ideology doesn't much matter, so the French government is imposing quotas on its elite virtually free tuition public colleges. The funny thing is that it's all playing out along the same exact lines as it has in America. Principles turn out to be less important than demography.
Return on Investment by College
Business Week has a big table attempting to calculate return on investment for different colleges based on the PayScale database of salaries (assuming you pay full fare with no financial aid). Private colleges with high graduation percentages benefit in this calculation.