tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4601977596747395612..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Performance-Enhanced PunditryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61960127848832206922011-01-17T11:52:52.942-08:002011-01-17T11:52:52.942-08:00i make an incredible, verifiable post about the ef...<i>i make an incredible, verifiable post about the effectiveness of non-drug methods for ADD and no one picks up on it? What kind of @%#$$# idiot takes ritlan - a pretty dangerous drug, instead of a little simple self-discipline.</i><br /><br />Incredible AND verifiable? Yep, someone here is the idiot all right...Christopher Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57651693912188153502011-01-16T11:23:51.271-08:002011-01-16T11:23:51.271-08:00"My complaint here was about the masses of as..."My complaint here was about the masses of asses whose every clever thought is just a canned recording that emanated from some amplified blowhard on the air railing to an army of losers but if you wanna lock up the kos kids and people who ignorantly misuse the word ignorant I have no quarrel with that."<br /><br />You DO realize that you plopped YER arse squarely in with the masses of asses who used "canned recordings emanating from some amplified blowhard" when you unimaginately parroted the slur "dittoheads" to describe Limbaugh fans, right?<br /><br />Since the Kos Kids rail about the "ignorant" "dittoheads," I do appreciate you understanding why I assume you are one. So, what kind of view would you enjoy looking at out your barred window?JSMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50474118414263470992011-01-15T17:36:12.896-08:002011-01-15T17:36:12.896-08:00I wouldn't be surprised if they are all on a w...I wouldn't be surprised if they are all on a whole bunch of prescription drugs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69614184879761294662011-01-15T17:35:10.974-08:002011-01-15T17:35:10.974-08:00"Right, Buckley and Vidal had quite similar s..."Right, Buckley and Vidal had quite similar speaking styles."<br /><br />Similar tones, different styles.adsfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26174943219467750342011-01-15T17:21:32.418-08:002011-01-15T17:21:32.418-08:00Sure, so long as we can lock up the Kos Kids and a...<i>Sure, so long as we can lock up the Kos Kids and anyone who has ever used the word "ignorant" when discussing race issues.<br />Deal?</i><br /><br />You'll get no argument from me. <br /><br />The fact that you assumed I might disagree though says something about the low quality of discussion that people have, wherein any disagreement with someone known as "right wing" is assumed to come from someone from the competing poilitical camp. I don't blame you for the assumption because in fact it's generally true, I'm just pissed off that it IS generally true. My complaint here was about the masses of asses whose every clever thought is just a canned recording that emanated from some amplified blowhard on the air railing to an army of losers but if you wanna lock up the kos kids and people who ignorantly misuse the word ignorant I have no quarrel with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30565046667911621352011-01-15T08:08:47.430-08:002011-01-15T08:08:47.430-08:00"can we please place the radioheads in a room..."can we please place the radioheads in a room somewhere...so that the rest of us can be surrounded by independant human beings rather than by ditto heads mindlessly repeating the clever lines of some other slightly-above-average dude?"<br /><br />Sure, so long as we can lock up the Kos Kids and anyone who has ever used the word "ignorant" when discussing race issues.<br />Deal?JSMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16849530163623710642011-01-15T04:41:15.301-08:002011-01-15T04:41:15.301-08:00Before his diet Rush was really fat -- over 300 po...Before his diet Rush was really fat -- over 300 pounds. Maybe his doctor prescribed insufficient pain relief for his compressed vertebra or whatever his problem was. Dosing can be a tricky thing -- also, one can quickly develop a tolerance for analgesics. Look, it wasn't like the guy was selling his pills on a street corner, nor was he being picked for driving under the influence or repeatedly ending up in an emergency room. People with chronic pain often hoard medication. In the end, he lost over a hundred pounds. No fat man does that unless motivated by a potentially fatal health condition or extreme pain.<br /><br />I'm not a dittohead, but I listened to Rush occasionally in the early 90's when I was upset over the advent of HillaryCare. I didn't begrudge him his new found popularity and wealth as a kind of everyman conservative. Effective political action and successful election campaigns are often driven by simplistic "talking points," and lets face it, his talking points resonate with the white middle class and help them to speak with unified voice just as NumbersUSA has helped millions of Americans speak with a unified voice against so-called immigration reform by crafting letters they can fax to their congressthings. While I admire the high editorial standards and brilliance of zines like Vdare and AmRen, their trickle down influence on the conformist intellectual elite remains somewhat limited.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39045572170611453272011-01-15T01:53:04.456-08:002011-01-15T01:53:04.456-08:00I want to vomit on you very very much.
Well, unl...<i>I want to vomit on you very very much.</i><br /><br />Well, unlike you, I don't spend a quarter of my waking hours llistening to someone else blather on the radio but - from the four hours or so that I've heard these guys over the years - I'm gonna guess that bit of parroting came courtesy of Stern.<br /><br />You don't seem like the kind of man who can compose an original sentence on his own. Or <i>any</i> kind of man for that matter.<br /><br />Again, can we please place the radioheads in a room somewhere (with great radio reception, I'm not cruel you know) so that the rest of us can be surrounded by independant human beings rather than by ditto heads mindlessly repeating the clever lines of some other slightly-above-average dude? (And yeah, the most popular radio greats are only slightly above average. Phil Hendrie, Rabbi Rudner, Adam Corolla, Bill Handel, the popular talk guys in Toronto and other superiors are hard for some of the hoi polloi to wrap their minds around and would have to work harder than they'd care to in order to achieve the easy success that the "THOSE DEMOCRATS...!" guys have acheived by simply repeating the same exact thing over and over again for DECADES.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73281645132751544352011-01-15T00:25:32.029-08:002011-01-15T00:25:32.029-08:00"On Rush, has he dumped the Wall Street Journ..."On Rush, has he dumped the Wall Street Journal position on immigration?"<br /><br />Sometime around 2004 Rush announced his change of heart on this issue and is now against illegal immigration (his listeners being 99.9% anti-illegal alien made his former position untenable). Is he still pushing unilateral free trade and warning against protectionism? Many conservative talkers are now calling for tariffs against China and for US re-industrialization.Marc Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526121114466617234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26502146649536773462011-01-14T22:07:01.508-08:002011-01-14T22:07:01.508-08:00I wonder how much of history is shaped by the domi...<i>I wonder how much of history is shaped by the dominant ways of tweaking your mental state.</i> <br /><br />Well, I have the vaguest schoolboy-memories of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act" rel="nofollow">why it was</a> that Americans came to take their caffeine from coffee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44061584728143783542011-01-14T21:48:23.420-08:002011-01-14T21:48:23.420-08:00"Even the drugs that folks like you mischievo..."Even the drugs that folks like you mischievously represent as harmless do that - marijuana, for example, destroys short-term memory, which is highly correlated with g."<br /><br />Arguing for the legalization of drugs and saying drugs are harmless is not the same thing. Drugs can be very dangerous. We are wasting money on drug prohibition. We should be treating addicts or cleaning our water supply instead:<br /><br />http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-tap-water_N.htm<br /><br />Perhaps we should also do some investigating to make sure nobody is breaking any laws here:<br /><br />http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20080409/poll-scientists-use-brain-boosting-drugs<br /><br />Don't they know drugs will make them stupid! Lock em up before they do something useful like this guy did:<br /><br />http://www.miqel.com/entheogens/kary_mullis_lsd_dna.html<br /><br />"Not nearly high enough. If you think that too MANY people are in jail here now, then you're definitely smoking something."<br /><br />Ooops. I thought you were making serious arguments. Now I know you were just pulling my leg.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54990671821216603662011-01-14T21:23:59.341-08:002011-01-14T21:23:59.341-08:00Right, Buckley and Vidal had quite similar speakin...Right, Buckley and Vidal had quite similar speaking styles.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34673813111325947122011-01-14T21:09:51.406-08:002011-01-14T21:09:51.406-08:00i make an incredible, verifiable post about the ef...i make an incredible, verifiable post about the effectiveness of non-drug methods for ADD and no one picks up on it? What kind of @%#$$# idiot takes ritlan - a pretty dangerous drug, instead of a little simple self-discipline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34874226532530302942011-01-14T21:04:35.613-08:002011-01-14T21:04:35.613-08:00Patsy said...
Maybe if you ritalinize black kids, ...<i>Patsy said...<br />Maybe if you ritalinize black kids, they'll do much better. The problem among blacks isn't only lower IQ but wild temperament.</i><br /><br /><i>Anonymous said...<br />I take Ritalin. It got me through undergrad and law school, and it definitely helps me maintain my boring legal practice now. But it has sucked every last ounce of creativity and extroversion out of me.</i><br /><br />From watching the director's commentary on The Social Network, I got the impression that David Fincher cast Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker because Timberlake is about as black as a white guy can be. That is, if we define "black" as a wild and creative extrovert and "white" as a test-cramming, anxiety-ridden drone. But when did we start accepting those definitions?travisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52867083073952774702011-01-14T21:03:11.041-08:002011-01-14T21:03:11.041-08:00Steve said, "WFB felt he was handsomer, smart...Steve said, "WFB felt he was handsomer, smarter, and wittier than JFK, so why shouldn't he be President?"<br /><br />Surely he must have had some inkling that to the general public he came off as faggy? I mean compared to WFB, Adlai Stevenson was John Wayne and Gore Vidal was....well, Vidal and Buckley would have been rated similarly on the masculinity scale that exists in every viewer's head, with Buckley only one point or so higher than GV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45333329088771819292011-01-14T20:40:27.501-08:002011-01-14T20:40:27.501-08:00I read Sullivan's blog fairly often. He's...I read Sullivan's blog fairly often. He's uneven as hell, but amidst the Palin-hate and occasional bursts of pettiness, he tries to address some big ideas, and there are occasional real insights there. In general, I think the Atlantic has done better than most old media organs at getting pretty good bloggers. <br /><br />I think the important thing is to understand, for any source of information or commentary, where they're coming from and what their limitations are. In many ways, that's easier if you have some fundamental disagreements with them. Reading opinions from someone who thinks just like you do, it's too easy to mistake his blind spots for simple good sense. <br /><br />Worse, if he's trying to spin you on some issue, he'll be much more effective at it if you're working from about the same beliefs as him. (It's often hard to distinguish intentional spinning of an issue from a bad case of self-deception on the part of the pundit, especially when his financial or social well-being depends on keeping the self-deception going. But whether intentional or not, it's better if you notice it.)none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7941674953040521092011-01-14T20:28:50.905-08:002011-01-14T20:28:50.905-08:00I'm sure people have been using drugs to manag...I'm sure people have been using drugs to manage their mental states (along with exercise, meditation, prayer, routine, sleep deprivation, fasting, music, etc.) for as long as there've been people, and longer than there've been homo sapiens. <br /><br />At some fundamental level, controlling your mental state is about the most interesting thing you can do for yourself. Your mind is your most basic tool, right? Figuring out how to tweak it so that you can focus on one narrow problem for longer, or so that you can just spill out ideas and words quickly, that's enormously powerful. <br /><br />I wonder how much of history is shaped by the dominant ways of tweaking your mental state. There might be the seeds of an interesting research study here--look at societies where smoking fell off at different times, and see whether there's some related change in the economy or literary output or whatever.none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18724900327654854092011-01-14T20:25:53.100-08:002011-01-14T20:25:53.100-08:00One more comment for the drug enthusiast here:
Dr...One more comment for the drug enthusiast here:<br /><br />Drugs destroy a human's most precious possession: his mind. Even the drugs that folks like you mischievously represent as harmless do that - marijuana, for example, destroys short-term memory, which is highly correlated with g. It also saps motivation, destroying tons of human potential, turning talented kids into life-long slackers. <br /><br />Think of it as a plague. Responsible governments get involved in fighting avian flu, right? The war on drugs is kind of like that, but with guns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78940179588498084232011-01-14T20:12:52.361-08:002011-01-14T20:12:52.361-08:00"A much better system is to have the US polic..."A much better system is to have the US policing the world for enforcement of drug laws."<br /><br />Sure.<br /><br />"It costs billions and kills tens if not hundreds of thousands."<br /><br />Drugs would kill a lot more if they were dirt cheap. See, making something illegal increases its price. <br /><br />"For the citizens of a bankrupt country with the highest incarceration rate in the world..."<br /><br />Not nearly high enough. If you think that too MANY people are in jail here now, then you're definitely smoking something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49413950572965388092011-01-14T18:29:29.941-08:002011-01-14T18:29:29.941-08:00"Rush, of course, has his own very personal a..."Rush, of course, has his own very personal aids to enhanced performance."<br /><br />Thanks for catching that. I've now changed "has" to "had," which is what I meant in the first place. I don't have any knowledge of these individuals other than what is in the public record.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35191298919127782932011-01-14T18:27:25.755-08:002011-01-14T18:27:25.755-08:00"It's well-documented---he mentions it hi..."It's well-documented---he mentions it himself in Cruising Speed or Overdrive---that William F. Buckley used Ritalin."<br /><br />WFB burned out pretty young. <br /><br />Peter Brimelow believes it was more disappointment that he couldn't get enough conservative backing for a run for President. WFB felt he was handsomer, smarter, and wittier than JFK, so why shouldn't he be President?Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64133813512569433642011-01-14T18:22:59.466-08:002011-01-14T18:22:59.466-08:00People who spend hours a day listening to Stern or...<i>People who spend hours a day listening to Stern or Rush or Beck, etc should be forever muted (nonviolently of course) for the benefit of huyman beings with thoughts of their own.</i><br /><br />I want to vomit on you very very much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80044503608226062732011-01-14T17:28:59.846-08:002011-01-14T17:28:59.846-08:00I take Ritalin. It got me through undergrad and l...I take Ritalin. It got me through undergrad and law school, and it definitely helps me maintain my boring legal practice now. But it has sucked every last ounce of creativity and extroversion out of me. It also causes me to over-analyze arguments to a point where my confidence in any position I hold is lost, even though I know 99% of people that disagree with my understanding of the world haven't really thought about it. Ritalin wouldn't help a pundit like Sullivan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32618865156688702442011-01-14T17:10:19.288-08:002011-01-14T17:10:19.288-08:00It's pathetic to see so many ditto heads here....It's pathetic to see so many ditto heads here. People who spend hours a day listening to Stern or Rush or Beck, etc should be forever muted (nonviolently of course) for the benefit of huyman beings with thoughts of their own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89074281505646466002011-01-14T16:54:22.524-08:002011-01-14T16:54:22.524-08:00"Anyone taking a testosterone supplement is c..."Anyone taking a testosterone supplement is cruising for cancer or a heart attack. Anybody taking Ritalin is cruising just for the heart attack.<br /><br />Want a safer way to enhance your literary or journalistic performance? Follow Joyce Carole Oates' example: take up jogging."<br /><br />The guy has AIDS, he's probably not to concerned with getting cancer down the road.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com