Steve Sailer: iSteve
August 9, 2008
How is South Ossetia not like Kosovo?
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Nine years ago, the U.S. and its NATO allies bombed heck out of Yugoslavia (i.e., Serbia) in order to liberate Kosovo, an ethnically distinc...
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Was the 2001 anthrax "weaponized" or not?
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As Testing99 has commented, the idea that a lone mad scientist could have pulled off the 2001 anthrax attacks is, in one way, much scarier t...
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Rielle Hunter as the Alma Mahler of our Age of Brass
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Rielle Hunter , the 44-year-old mother of former VP candidate John Edward's presumed love child, was the inspiration for "Alison Po...
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August 8, 2008
"Elegy"
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An excerpt from my review in The American Conservative of the new film "Elegy," which is an adaptation of Philip Roth's short...
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UPDATED: McCainonomics
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A long time ago in Chicago, I used to work with a guy named Karl Denninger, who was the company's Internet wizard -- this was around 199...
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August 7, 2008
The Alternative History Olympics
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My favorite part of David Wallechinsky's quadrennially indispensable The Complete Book of the Olympics are the discontinued sports and e...
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Occam's Butterknife always more popular
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The unmasking of Bruce E. Ivins as a mad scientist who, with a high degree of likelihood, carried out the 2001 anthrax attacks, most likely ...
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Happy Birthday
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Happy birthday to Jerry Pournelle . My published articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer
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Anthrax: The mad scientist did it
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The weight of evidence is rapidly approaching the threshold of "beyond a reasonable doubt" that government bioweapons defense res...
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August 6, 2008
September 2001: The Month of Comic Book Bad Guys
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In September 2001, America was first terrorized by a rich supervillain who lives in a cave, then by a genuine mad scientist . My published a...
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The anthrax lag
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We now know that the FBI learned in early 2005 from state-of-the-art gene sequencing that terrorist anthrax had to come from one of ten peop...
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Confirmation of my Cochran blog from yesterday
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As I've been pointing out , the hero in this investigation is the advance in genome sequencing technology over the last seven years. The...
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Anthrax evidence
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First take on evidence against Dr. Bruce Ivins, as revealed to victims' families. CNN reports : "At the time of the attacks, he was...
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Running tribes of Kenya and Mexico
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When I was a kid, you heard more about the Tarahumara Indian runners of Copper Canyon in Mexico than you heard about the Kalenjin of Kenya....
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August 5, 2008
Greg Cochran on anthrax
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Greg Cochran says, in defense of the much maligned FBI, that in 2001 the technology didn't really exist to sequence the anthrax found in...
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No Country for Old Satirists
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... because the Serious People are too funny for a parodist to compete with. I can't make up stuff as good as this tiff between the Wall...
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August 4, 2008
The Power of Two: A game show for PBS or NPR
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Here's a website called FreeRice.com , where they ask you vocabulary questions and the sponsors (e.g., UniLever) donate 20 grains of ric...
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A reality TV show I'd watch
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A reader writes: "Hey, why not suggest that the governator & his school board take this algebra test? In public and the results for...
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