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Book Review: Albion’s Seed | Slate Star Codex

“Albion’s Seed by David Fischer is a history professor’s nine-hundred-page treatise on patterns of early immigration to the Eastern United States. It’s not light reading and not…”

The review is full of interesting facts I assume are pulled from ‘Albion’s Seed’. One example:

“Virginian cavalier speech patterns sound a lot like modern African-American dialects. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out why, but it’s strange to think of a 17th century British lord speaking what a modern ear would clearly recognize as Ebonics.”

Source: Book Review: Albion’s Seed | Slate Star Codex

Kurt Schlichter – Liberals Want To Break You By Forcing You To Lie

“Look, we feel terrible about your very real feelings that you aren’t the sex you are, and we don’t want to add to your pain, but the truth is the truth and we are not cruel or terrible or inaccurate when we refuse to pretend a delusion is reality. You can dope yourself with chemicals and submit to surgical mutilation, but there are things called chromosomes and they make the call.”

Source: Kurt Schlichter – Liberals Want To Break You By Forcing You To Lie

18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year – AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas

Earth Day was founded by a man who killed and composted his girlfriend. But that’s not the only tragedy that surrounds it. Failed predictions of disaster is another one:

In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on th

Source: 18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year – AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas