tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6053108712384061670..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Norman Finkelstein's Amazing JawlineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81795000658690870362010-02-14T08:46:32.882-08:002010-02-14T08:46:32.882-08:00"in which OJ's old lawyer, secure in his ...<i>"in which OJ's old lawyer, secure in his Harvard tenure, pillories the pro-Palestinian Finkelstein from post to post."<br /><br />Wait, what?<br /><br />I'm not sure what you mean by this--it's true that Dershowitz attacks Finkelstein, but Finkelstein has crushed him on anything resembling an objective scorecard.</i><br /><br />True, however we don't use an objective scorecard in America. Thus, Dershowitz is a tenured professor at the #1 university in America, despite being stone cold busted committing plagiarism, which is the single worst offense in academia. Meanwhile, Dershowitz successfully blocked Finkelstein from getting tenure at a non-prestigious university.<br /><br />Israel rules American campuses, though Israel's grip on colleges is not nearly as tight as it is on the mainstream media.airtommynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53600764671452688102010-02-13T20:18:29.509-08:002010-02-13T20:18:29.509-08:00yea, i second that. not really a strong jawline, b...yea, i second that. not really a strong jawline, but a pointy chin. and hearing finkelstein speak, he kind of has a light and lispy voice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4354274705486874422010-02-12T21:48:38.929-08:002010-02-12T21:48:38.929-08:00he's got a long chin but his jaw is not what I...he's got a long chin but his jaw is not what I would call strongUdolpho.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976984423336975944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45180171227290855462010-02-12T18:54:21.150-08:002010-02-12T18:54:21.150-08:00David, I thought the same thing (other David). Ano...David, I thought the same thing (other David). Another curious thing is that Fink's writing is strikingly masculine - no, this isn't jock-sniffing - I mean it's dense, tone-deaf and uncompromising in a rather Aspergery way. In this sense he resembles the intellectual Marxists in their utterly humorless tracts. I have watched one of the Dersh-Fink interchanges (a debate somewhere on YouTube) and Fink never looked Dersh or the moderator in the eye - not out of shyness, but out of utter, radiating contempt. You got the sense he would prefer not to give them the time of day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36464581937162679282010-02-12T11:39:08.867-08:002010-02-12T11:39:08.867-08:00greenrivervalley, that's rather incoherent. KM...greenrivervalley, that's rather incoherent. KMac is talking movers and shakers much like HBDers talk averages. Zinn et al. are not movers and shakers any more than the lassie you cite is typical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91665279709444486072010-02-12T09:54:09.347-08:002010-02-12T09:54:09.347-08:00OK, explain to me: I thought "blond" and...OK, explain to me: I thought "blond" and "blonde" were both French in origin, hence the masculine and feminine forms corresponding to typical French orthography. And I've seen "blond(e)" in spoken and written French fairly often. So was it an English borrowing of a French term, or the other way around?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53872720387784496992010-02-12T08:26:23.580-08:002010-02-12T08:26:23.580-08:00Finkelstein is a provocateur who creates a lot of ...Finkelstein is a provocateur who creates a lot of his own troubles. It was his baseless yet tenaciously held charge of plagiarism that made a sworn enemy of Alan Dershowitz, and having Dershowitz as an enemy may well have been a big factor in his failure to get tenure. Dershowitz footnoted a Mark Twain quote that he apparently found in another book as being from Twain instead of the other book. Dershowitz claims he knew the quote before. Who knows which is true? Who cares? Norm Finkelstein, that's who.<br /><br />Besides looking like a raptor, Norman Finkelstein has a hairy back. Does that correlate with aggression? My effeminate gay uncle had a glorious mat of black hair on his back, and he was badger-like in a debate.<br /><br />Thanks for the pointer to the film, which I enjoyed and would otherwise have missed.robert61noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71549581599193616702010-02-11T23:16:33.049-08:002010-02-11T23:16:33.049-08:00Hammett's Spade was a 6'-3" blonde Sc...<i>Hammett's Spade was a 6'-3" <b>blonde</b> Scandinavian... <br /><br />For instance, Hammett writes: <br /><br />He looked rather pleasantly like a <b>blond</b> satan.</i><br /><br />Hammett writes right. The short, crisp, Anglo-Saxon "blond" (or "brunet") is analogous to the strong jawline. It was the only spelling used by two-fisted writers like Carleton Coon, John Baker, Lothrop Stoddard, Madison Grant, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, etc., even when writing about women.<br /><br />So how come so many of my favorite two-fisted modern writers, like Scott Trask, James Fulford, and, well, Steve, keep making the same schoolboy mistake of adding that faggoty French "e"?<br /><br />I hope it's not a sign that evolcons and paleos themselves are going epicene. Then all hope is lost!Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20927650915633674642010-02-11T22:00:02.961-08:002010-02-11T22:00:02.961-08:00"Not being terribly interested in the Israel-..."Not being terribly interested in the Israel-Palestine conflict"<br /><br />Not that it has any impact on American foreign policy, numerous wars (both current and soon-to-be) or my g**d**m tax money.<br /><br />Uh oh...<br /><br />Finkelstein is a great, funny guy, and from what I've seen a GREAT thinker and someone I would have a beer with (unlike a faux cowboy), but his view on the Israeli lobby in the USA is just dead wrong.AmericanGoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00865892490752172185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92057305152310491652010-02-11T18:45:45.965-08:002010-02-11T18:45:45.965-08:00"How much research been done on questions of ..."How much research been done on questions of the correlation of looks and personality?"<br /><br />Satoshi Kanazawa, who is to Steve what Pat B was to google - an unperson - has written a little about this on his blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69439673379972676862010-02-11T18:42:00.558-08:002010-02-11T18:42:00.558-08:00"Novelists used to be obsessed with the corre..."Novelists used to be obsessed with the correlation between looks and personality."<br /><br />Looks solely as physical features or looks as the whole man (physical features, facial expressions and bodily stance)?<br /><br />It makes a difference, I think. Daniel Day Lewis also has an amazing jawline but I find the sum total of his appearance unpleasantly effete. <br /><br />http://socialitelife.celebuzz.com/images/2007/12/there_will_be_blood_121107_0001.jpg<br /><br />Left-leaning white men have become increasingly epicene, as you can see from this website: <br /><br />http://menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com/<br /><br />They tend to smile with their lips closed (evidently to minimize the appearance of being threatening) or grin broadly (apparently for the same reason). Instead of looking head on, they now often tilt their heads in a manner once referred to as "coquettish". The rimless glasses, scarves, earrings and other accessories they affect also serve either to obscure or to neutralize their masculinity. Even their facial hair, invariably wispy and/or scraggly, resembles less the robust beards of old than a baby's peach fuzz.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48883702101821255772010-02-11T15:31:58.639-08:002010-02-11T15:31:58.639-08:00Dear Matra:
Good call.
Not consciously, but now...Dear Matra:<br /><br />Good call. <br /><br />Not consciously, but now that you mention it, no doubt about it.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55909185891135561432010-02-11T15:27:10.319-08:002010-02-11T15:27:10.319-08:00could be credibly cast as the colonel of an elite ...<i>could be credibly cast as the colonel of an elite commando squad in a big budget war movie</i><br /><br />Were you thinking of <a href="http://codedvariable.com/archives/124" rel="nofollow">Colonel Mathieu</a> (Jean Martin) in <i>The Battle of Algiers</i> when you wrote the above?Matranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88389693174502642752010-02-11T13:50:38.735-08:002010-02-11T13:50:38.735-08:00I'd say Ursula got it right and PatrickH is ju...I'd say Ursula got it right and PatrickH is just shilling for the usual suspects.headachenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33257684152204226942010-02-11T12:17:20.465-08:002010-02-11T12:17:20.465-08:00Illuminating background on how Chomsky became Fink...Illuminating background on how Chomsky became Finkelstein's ally in the jihad against Israel qua Dershowitz <br /><br />http://www.chomsky.info/books/power01.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35108383643398777022010-02-11T12:14:28.822-08:002010-02-11T12:14:28.822-08:00Based on my experiences, I've also come to bel...<i>Based on my experiences, I've also come to believe that masculine men tend to have significantly larger urinary bladders compared to effeminate men.</i><br /><br />Real men have big used-beer storage tanks?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33294440401197194812010-02-11T11:34:38.066-08:002010-02-11T11:34:38.066-08:00Norm MacDonald doing the SNL fakenews:
"In a...Norm MacDonald doing the SNL fakenews:<br /><br />"In a highly unusual ruling, the California State Supreme Court declared this week that O.J. Simpson attorney Alan Dershowitz is 'One ugly bastard'." <br /><br />http://snltranscripts.jt.org/95/95rupdate.phtmlDahlianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79693664928902757582010-02-11T11:27:20.073-08:002010-02-11T11:27:20.073-08:00This should (if people were intellectually serious...This should (if people were intellectually serious) put to rest any Kevin McDonald-like notions of Jewish liberalism as a Trojan Horse for ethnic chauvinism. Because as the example of Finkelstein (and Noam Chomsky, and Howard Zinn, and countless others) show, liberal Jews do take their liberalism seriously, up to and including support for the effective destruction of Israel. Anglo-American historian Tony Judt was once a nice, moderate-Zionist <i>New Republic</i>-style liberal til the horror of the 2nd Intifada so cracked his mind he became a conspicuous advocate of the "1 State Solution" (i.e. Bosnia-izing Israel by letting all the Palestinians in). And if you read the <i>Washington Post</i> consistently every several months you'll run across yet another story of IDF enlistees mutinying over some "harsh" policy their anguished Jewish souls just simply cannot brook (the last one I heard of was 100 reservists refusing to do house-to-house searches because they could no longer bear frightening Palestinian grandmothers).<br /><br />Extreme liberalism, humanitarianism, and go-gooderism is a mental disease to which Jews are particularly susceptible:<br /><br /><i><br />From [his mother] Maryla, Mr. Finkelstein says that he inherited the conviction that Jews have a special obligation to ease the suffering of humanity because of what was done to them, and that it is not enough to pay lip service to one’s convictions; they must be acted on. A childhood friend remembers <b>her emotional investment in left-wing humanitarian causes as bordering on hysteria.</b><br /></i><br /><br />Yet this is a disease to which all Westerners are prone, from <a href="http://www.loc.gov/shop/index.php?action=cCatalog.showItem&cid=19&scid=101&iid=2931" rel="nofollow">religiously-fervent Protestant abolitionists</a> of the 19th century, to anti-war Vietnam-era Quakers, to those Catholic nuns who'd find ICBM silos out in the middle of Nebraska to try and shut down. And let's not forget Obama-pal and major fruitcake Samantha Power, who called Hilary Clinton a "monster" because she apparently did not share Power's conviction that America's primary national security interest consisted in open-ended involvement in the Third World to prevent "genocide". Power is now married to someone named Sunstein, but she is as Irish as a 4-leaf clover.greenrivervalleymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10800061625385072407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8607541996796408042010-02-11T11:22:19.383-08:002010-02-11T11:22:19.383-08:00"in which OJ's old lawyer, secure in his ..."in which OJ's old lawyer, secure in his Harvard tenure, pillories the pro-Palestinian Finkelstein from post to post."<br /><br /><br />Wait, what?<br /><br /><br />I'm not sure what you mean by this--it's true that Dershowitz attacks Finkelstein, but Finkelstein has crushed him on anything resembling an objective scorecard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69537146049918959062010-02-11T11:07:40.379-08:002010-02-11T11:07:40.379-08:00Finkelstein supports two-state solution and insist...Finkelstein supports two-state solution and insists Israel's right to exist. I don't think that's unpopular stance in the I-P conflict.<br /><br />Norm Chomsky is his ally, so was the late Raul Hilberg, who was a republican. What makes him a "radical" is his style and tone in calling out the bad behaviors committed by Jews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28277119544478188582010-02-11T10:39:23.168-08:002010-02-11T10:39:23.168-08:00That robust jawline probably suggests significant ...That robust jawline probably suggests significant Aryan ancestry which obviously explains his extreme anti-Semitism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1041955417044451062010-02-11T10:17:43.874-08:002010-02-11T10:17:43.874-08:00There are at least a couple areas where male looks...There are at least a couple areas where male looks matter. The first is in the military. Groups beat individuals so the ability to create and lead a group in the mark of a winner. Leaders tend to be taller and more masculine looking. Height, muscularity and a square jaw line are all signs of higher levels of testosterone.<br /><br />Before someone starts blathering on about Napoleon let me hasten to point out that he was not short - for a Frenchman. In the early part of the nineteenth century the French were the shortest men in Europe. This changed rapidly but at the time the average Frenchman was only about five three or five four. Napoleon's height was missmeasured at death and this was reported in the British papers initiating the legend. Napoleon was five six and a half, not a big man like Peter the Great or Gustavus Adolphus perhaps, but not a midget either. Napoleon was like George Bush - taller than the average man but still a bit shorter than what people expect in a leader. This phenomenon supports the notion that we expect leaders to be tall.<br /><br />Hollywood tends to favor small neotenous looking men like Cruise or Redford. Such men appear pretty on camera but they would not be spo attractive on stage. Classically on the opera stage we expect the Don to look like Ezio Pinza (<a href="http://homedir-b.libsyn.com/podcasts/6f7dc5b5882eba84c3c061cdc1e4abbc/4b744753/handelmania/images/pinzagiovanni.jpg" rel="nofollow">See here</a>) and the Leporello to look like Salvatore Baccalone (<a href="http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/stockphoto.asp?imageid=529499" rel="nofollow">See here</a>) Serious and sexy means tall and handsome. Short and fat means comic.albertosaurushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209465319904999278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32518669084773072872010-02-11T09:41:19.419-08:002010-02-11T09:41:19.419-08:00Dershowitz takes chances on the unpopular when mon...Dershowitz takes chances on the unpopular when money or Israel is involved.DKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03266121991724292663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42786633040648341392010-02-11T09:38:27.057-08:002010-02-11T09:38:27.057-08:00Dienekes' blog and some of the other blogs and...Dienekes' blog and some of the other blogs and sites he links to have some interesting studies which link personality and looks. <br /><br />Among certain tidbits I remember:<br /><br />Men with wide, roundish skulls tend to be more aggressive than men with long, narrow skulls.<br /><br />Large, prominent jaws tend to be associated with higher testosterone levels and aggressive tendencies, along with prominent brow ridges. This also seems to be the case with large noses and having a lot of body hair. <br /><br />Many women half-seriously believe that a man's nose size strongly correlates with his penis size. There may be some truth to this.<br /><br />As an extension of that never-ending "alpha" male versus "beta" male debate, I dare say we can often tell who the alphas are just by looking. The alpha will tend to look more masculine and aggressive(on average), while the beta will tend to look somewhat less masculine(less jaw, less muscle, narrow shoulders, less body hair, longer skull) and more effeminate. Most men are of course a mixture(some short men can be very masculine while some tall men can be effeminate) and we shouldn't even take this alpha and beta types too seriously. Masculine men tend to have more oily skin, due to their hormones. <br /><br />Height is important, but not too important when reading personality. Tallness is basically symbolic of good health and virility in males, which is why almost all women prefer tall men, or at least men who are taller than them. <br /><br />Tallness is somewhat associated with higher testosterone levels and masculinity, but in isolation doesn't mean all that much. There are plenty of tall men who are narrow-shouldered, effeminate weaklings for instance.<br /><br />Based on my experiences, I've also come to believe that masculine men tend to have significantly larger urinary bladders compared to effeminate men. Just about all the men I've known over the years with overactive/undersized bladders tended to be very effeminate looking(and their personalities were usually effeminate), and bladder size is closely linked with penis size as well. <br /><br />Because of how complex the human animal is, its always possible for very aggressive, masculine men to look like wimps, and for masculine, tough-guy-looking men to be unassertive wimps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34893324556734692952010-02-11T09:16:23.450-08:002010-02-11T09:16:23.450-08:00Listen to Finkelstein's voice, though. He sou...Listen to Finkelstein's voice, though. He sounds like the parrot from Aladdin.ben gnoreply@blogger.com