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Re: HP's Proposal for W3C Standards
I. HP's Position on the Proposed W3C Patent Policy Framework
Hewlett-Packard Company opposes the adoption of the proposed W3C Patent Policy Framework in its current form and recommends that it be replaced by a policy with the goal of producing W3C standards that are all royalty free.
Free, open, technically excellent standards have been the foundation for the Web's success in the past, and HP believes that they will be equally fundamental in the future. In particular, we feel that the ability to use W3C Recommendations (standards) without charge will be essential to their quick acceptance and to their universal acceptance.
Over two thousand comments from both W3C members and the public concerning the current patent policy proposal show a clear consensus that the time is ripe for the W3C to take a firm position that its goal is royalty free standards.
We commend the excellence of the legal work in the proposed Patent Policy, and thank its authors for the significant effort that document represents. We believe that this document can provide the base document for a far better policy.
The authors of the proposed Patent Policy hold widely varying viewpoints on key issues, and their draft represents a compromise. Dictionaries give several definitions of "compromise". One is "a settlement of issues in which each side makes concessions". Another is "a concession to something detrimental". In our view, the proposed Patent Policy fits both definitions.
From our perspective the major flaw in the Patent Policy proposal flows from the lack of an adequately definitive guiding principle. The authors therefore stretched to accommodate too wide a range of viewpoints, including undesirable as well as desirable licensing alternatives.
Our proposed prescription follows directly from the diagnosis: the first step in drafting a W3C Patent Policy document should be for the W3C community to reach agreement on the patent policy's guiding principle.
II. HP's Alternative Proposal for a W3C Patent Policy Framework
We respectfully request that the discussion of the disposition of the current draft Patent Policy by the W3C Advisory Committee and Team include consideration of the following proposition:
W3C Royalty Free Standards Policy
1. In light of W3C's mission to lead the Web to its full potential,
the W3C will only endorse Recommendations which it believes
can be used free of royalties and free of other harmful licensing
2. The W3C Patent Policy Working Group is hereby directed to
modify its draft policy to be consistent with this principle.
III. Why not also allow "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" (RAND) licensing?
Our proposal that W3C standards be royalty free intentionally excludes the possibility of standards based on "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" (RAND) patent licensing.
Proponents of RAND licensing frequently offer the specious argument that RAND licensing removes the influence of financial and legal considerations so that standards decisions can be made on a purely technical basis. The truth is quite different. RAND licensing does not remove the influence of financial and legal considerations, but amplifies that influence by delaying it. After the technical work of a standard is done, the lawyers and accountants can radically alter the meaning and effect of the standard since they get the last word. In actuality, it is royalty free licensing not RAND licensing that minimizes the role of financial and legal considerations and maximizes the role of technical merit.
More specifically, in the case of W3C we view the RAND licensing alternative in the draft proposal as fundamentally flawed for reasons including the following:
1. RAND distorts the standards selection process
Do you personally or does your company make selection decisions involving costs without taking price tags into account? Of course not, and neither should W3C Working Groups. The RAND approach can force a Working Group to choose between two approaches, one free and one expensive, without knowing which is which.
2. RAND allows users to be ambushed and exploited
RAND allows the price for essential patent rights to be set after their use is mandated by a W3C Recommendation. Users cannot predict their costs until too late, and can find themselves at the mercy of a patent holder.
3. RAND ignores the importance of Open Source
Open Source is one of the most powerful creative forces in computing today, and W3C patent policy should facilitate it rather than blocking it via RAND royalty fees. Incidentally, the phrasing in our alternative proposal, "free of royalties and free of other harmful licensing restrictions" is aimed directly at encouraging open source developers among others. We also feel that the Patent Policy Working Group should be expanded to include a representative of the Open Source community.
4. RAND's scope of applicability at W3C is undefinable or non-existent
Even advocates of RAND licensing concede that web infrastructure standards should be royalty free, and that RAND licensing at W3C should be applicable only to standards above the infrastructure level. But no one has been able to draw the dividing line separating the levels. And, in any case, such a dividing line would be steadily rising over time as formerly optional capabilities become standard parts of the infrastructure. With RAND licensing, this natural evolution could create royalty bearing infrastructure standards, a prospect universally agreed to be unacceptable. In fact, the imprecise and moving boundary for web infrastructure raises the question: are all W3C standards at least potentially part of the fundamental web infrastructure and therefore most appropriately royalty free?
5. RAND is burdensome to W3C and its Members
One of the greatest challenges to W3C is being able to move at a pace commensurate with its role in the industry and with the reasonable expectations of the broader community. Issues connected with RAND licensing at W3C undeniably have already proven themselves to be an immense source of delay and wasted effort. From arguments about "licensing mode" at the time of Working Group charter formation to arguments about the terms "reasonable" and "non-discriminatory" long after a standard is completed, offering the option of RAND licensing adds little value to W3C Recommendations but adds much complexity, cost, and delay.
IV. Would a royalty free policy for W3C standards harm innovative companies and destroy their intellectual property rights?
Some companies will see HP's proposal for royalty free W3C standards as harmful to those who have invested in research and unfair to those who own intellectual property. As one of the world's largest investors in research innovation and one of the world's largest owners of intellectual property, our viewpoint is different. Our philosophy is that the direct financial return on investment in research should come from building or licensing differentiating features of products rather than from attempting to levy a royalty tax on the fundamental standards needed for interoperability.
Of course other companies have the right to their own philosophies. A royalty free policy for W3C would still leave those companies wide latitude in how they choose to utilize their intellectual property. They can voluntarily choose on a case by case basis whether they want W3C to adopt a standard requiring licensing of a patent owned by them. Though royalty free, such a license would be for the minimal rights necessary to implement the standard, and only for that limited purpose. Adoption of the standard might well lead to other direct and indirect revenue opportunities for the patent owner. Of course the patent owner also has the option of attempting to create a royalty bearing standard outside of W3C. But the key point is that W3C's adoption of a royalty free patent policy would not preclude a W3C Member from pursuing its own preferred patent policy.
HP sees a royalty free W3C patent policy as fully consistent with innovation and with intellectual property rights.
V. Summary
In summary, Hewlett-Packard respectfully requests that the W3C community give serious consideration to our proposal: Now is the time for W3C to declare boldly that to lead the Web to its full potential, W3C will do everything in its power to insure that the use of W3C standards remains free both now and in the future.
Jim Bell
W3C Advisory Committee Representative
Director of Standards and Industry Initiatives
Hewlett-Packard Company


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By Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 17, 2010; A01
Congress approved the most significant tax bill in nearly a decade late Thursday, overcoming liberal resistance to continue for two more years tax breaks enacted under president George W. Bush and to provide a fresh boost of federal support to the tepid economic recovery.
The package, brokered by President Obama and Republican leaders in the wake of the November elections, angered many Democrats, who have long argued that the Bush tax cuts were skewed to benefit the wealthy. But their last-minute campaign to scale back the bill's benefits for taxpayers at the highest income levels failed, and the House passed the measure 277 to 148, with 112 Democrats and 36 Republicans voting "no."
"This bill, the president of the United States believes and I believe, will have a positive effect on the economy," said House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.). "I will vote for this bill because I don't want to see middle-income working people in America get a tax increase, because I think that will be a depressant on an economy that needs to be lifted up."
The $858 billion package now goes to the White House. With his signature, expected as soon as Friday, Obama will prevent taxes from rising on New Year's Day for virtually every American household. The measure also will guarantee unemployed workers in hard-hit states up to 99 weeks of jobless benefits through the end of next year. And it will create major new incentives for business and consumer spending in 2011, including a two-percentage-point reduction in the Social Security payroll tax that would let workers keep as much as $2,136.
The package breezed through the Senate earlier this week on a vote of 81 to 19, giving Obama his strongest bipartisan victory on a major initiative since he took office. Opposition in the House crumpled in the face of that overwhelming showing, though House liberals insisted on offering an alternative that would levy a higher tax on estates than the Obama-GOP compromise will impose. That effort failed shortly before midnight, 194 to 233.
Obama administration officials Thursday night hailed the bill's passage. "We had a responsibility to protect middle class families from a tax increase that would have hit their paychecks and harmed the recovery," Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said in a statement. "And while we do not agree on everything in this legislation . . . this legislation is good for growth, good for jobs, good for working and middle class families, and good for businesses looking to invest and expand their workforce."
Liberals opposed the deal in part because they believe the temporary extension of the Bush breaks would eventually become permanent, setting lower tax rates far into the future. That would increase pressure on lawmakers to cut spending as a way of reducing record federal budget deficits, placing a host of cherished social programs in jeopardy.
But for Obama, the two-year window represents an opportunity to tackle the ambitious task of overhauling the federal tax code. By sunsetting current policies immediately after the 2012 presidential election, lawmakers in both parties said the measure sets a natural timetable for developing a tax-reform plan - an essential step toward reining in the rising national debt.
Obama placed numerous calls to House Democrats this week to urge their support for the deal, and got an earful in return. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said he told the president that one of his concerns was that "these tax cuts would not end in 2012, because in an election year, I think it's very, very difficult" to raise taxes.
Obama replied that the fate of the Bush tax cuts "would be part of his platform when he ran," Cummings said. "So it should be very interesting."
Republicans, too, have been pressing for a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts as a bridge to tax reform. Like the last major tax overhaul in 1986, a new rewrite is likely to take years to draft and push through Congress. But White House officials have been encouraged by the level of engagement from Republicans, who will hold 47 seats in the Senate and take control of the House in January.
Key lawmakers in both parties have embraced a deficit-reduction plan produced by Obama's fiscal commission, which includes a tax overhaul that would lower rates across the board but raise additional revenue by closing dozens of long-standing loopholes, such as the mortgage-interest deduction claimed by many homeowners. Meanwhile, the relative ease with which Obama and the GOP were able to strike a deal over the Bush cuts has raised hopes on both sides for productive talks in the future.
"This is consensus on a very intractable issue: What do we do about expiring tax policy?" said Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), the incoming chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, who was party to the tax negotiations. Camp, who has made comprehensive tax reform a top priority, said the talks were significant not only because of the policy that emerged "but also because of the process of coming together and reaching an agreement."
"I am very encouraged by what the president has been saying publicly. They do want to begin," Camp said. "And that is a big thing."
The bipartisan tax talks had another benefit: Unlike the pork-laden, $1.2 trillion annual spending bill that was jettisoned in the Senate late Thursday, the tax bill is virtually free of unrelated add-ons. Negotiators, in fact, excluded more than 70 temporary programs from the bill, including federal subsidies for state and local borrowing known as Build America Bonds, a sales tax deduction for new cars and trucks, a property tax deduction for people who don't itemize on their tax returns and an exemption from taxes for the first $2,400 of unemployment benefits. All those provisions will be allowed to expire.
Although Democrats were unhappy with the deal, Obama negotiated with Republicans only after Democratic lawmakers refused for months to address the issue of the expiring Bush tax cuts, raising alarm at the White House. Economists said a partisan standoff could have wreaked havoc on the economy by increasing withholding in virtually every worker's paycheck, raising taxes by about $3,000 next year on a typical family, according to White House estimates.
The concern was so great that Obama ultimately decided to break his long-standing vow to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers. But with unemployment stuck near 10 percent, he was able to negotiate a big new dose of support for the economy, which Republicans had vowed to oppose.
In addition to the payroll tax holiday, Obama won a $57 billion extension of emergency unemployment benefits that will keep the program, which expired last month, alive through the end of next year. Republicans also agreed to support the largest temporary investment incentive in U.S. history, which permits businesses to deduct 100 percent of equipment purchases in the 2011 tax year.
For Democratic lawmakers, the most objectionable provision was a deal to reinstate the estate tax at 35 percent and to exempt estates worth as much as $5 million. Republicans have long argued that what some call the "death tax" is a threat to family farms and small businesses, though the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that only 100 family farms and small businesses paid the tax in 2009, when a more restrictive $3.5 million exemption was in effect.
The votes Thursday night were likely the final major legislative actions by the House Democratic majority, a low note following the party's landslide losses last month. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.) called the estate tax provision "an atrocious giveaway in a nation riddled with debt and unemployment." And Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), one of the defeated Democrats, delivered an impassioned speech before the vote, ending with the question "How much debt is enough?"
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NeoEugenics' web site
Eugenics, planned parenthood, neoeugenics, transhumanism, biotechnology, genomics--by whatever name it goes by, humans will continue to evolve and will eventually reach into human DNA and alter and/or enhance the human species.
www.neoeugenics.net Site author: Matt Nuenke (email: email@example.com)
Any of the following articles that I have written are free for redistribution or republication. This includes editing, shortening, or elaborating on articles as desired to accomplish eugenic goals. Nothing else matters but the future.
|I have reviewed several books that deal with diversity, multiculturalism, & education in America. The main theme in all of these issues is that the average intelligence in the United States is declining while the controlling elite continue to deny the relevance of innate intelligence. For example, with regards to education, we have had over sixty years of debate, studies and research about closing the White-Black gap in achievement with absolutely no progress. For any subject be investigated for that length of time without progress means the existing program is flawed--it rejects the scientific method for an equalitarian dogma that has become sacralized beyond the reach of rational debate. (June, 2013)
|In the book Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray, 2012, a strong case is made for a new eugenics--though it goes by other names: homogamy, assortative mating, transhumanism, etc. People are on the move, forming new castes that are based on cognitive ability, worldviews, and ascendancies that along with genetic engineering will lead to humans forming new races or even new human species. When molecular genetics finally locates the genes that contribute to human intelligence and personalities in next decade or two, eugenics will flourish once again. (Dec. 2012)
|I have copied excerpts from Of what value is intelligence? by Linda S. Gottfredson, 2008. It is a chapter in the book WISC-IV clinical assessment and intervention (2nd ed.). Her explanation of intelligence is concise and clearly written and addresses many of the same issues addressed by others, but in, what I think, is a clear and comprehensible manner. Intelligence has been studied for over 100 years and it is quite complex, as is the human brain.
I have copied excerpts from The Limits of Family Influence: Genes, Experience, and Behavior by David Rowe, 1993. It has a lot of good information regarding heritability, assortative mating, eugenics, and most importantly he explains how social scientists continue to correlate families rearing practices to a child's outcome, while ignoring any contributions from genes or the nonshared environment. Liberals claim that a families socioeconomic status (SES) determines many things such as school achievement. However, Rowe shows that SES itself is primarily genetic, and social programs like head-start, charter schools, and affirmative action will not close the gap between disparate racial groups.
This article looks at several books and my reflections on future developments showing that neoeugenics will lead to increased inequality. Whether this new technology being implemented is called eugenics, genetic engineering, neo-eugenics or neoeugenics, the result will be that some people will increasingly elect to apply any means available to produce the finest designer-baby possible. The egalitarian Left has claimed that eugenics is pseudoscience while with the same breath they want to assure that the underclass will have equal access to benefits. Unfortunately it will be a hard sell to get public funds for selecting fitter genes, when the egalitarian dogma has denied that genes matter. Once genes are understood to be the cause of the low average intelligence among many demographic groups, the public will have little interest in wasting money on trying to educate and employ people who just don't make the grade.
Following is a review of Dr. John Glad's latest book Jewish Eugenics, 2011. He is an advocate of eugenics and a universalist. He is concerned that intelligent Jews are not reproducing themselves and the high intelligence genes they carry are being lost. Though he will no doubt be attacked by other Jews, he makes a very good case in showing that in reality, most Jews do believe that their high intelligence is due to genes and not the environment. The document is in Microsoft Word.
http://MajorityRights.com/ This Blog, established October 2004, is where I am posting most of my reviews/essays. Stop in and browse. It is global in scope and hopefully it will grow into something to unite interested activists on the Right across Europe and European countries. I intend to post new--shorter articles--at this site.
In Eugenics and the Nature/Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century, 2007, I have selected some excerpts that I found interesting for various reasons. Unlike many books on eugenics, this book links eugenics with the earlier advances in sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. In particular it shows how from about 1930 to about 1970, human nature was suppressed by radical environmentalists. Now of course sociobiology/evolutionary psychology are alive and well in academia, but the taboo against racial differences in intelligence has been maintained within education, politics and mass media while it is challenged increasingly within the biological sciences. Within a few years, the genes that contribute to intelligence will be located and the lies about universal human equality will eventually be put to rest.
2010 will see the publication of John Glad's fundamental research volume Jewish Eugenics: A History and Contextual Timeline. Volunteer to help promote the volume; thanks to the Internet you can be located anywhere. If you are a native speaker of a language other than English, translate Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century (eleven foreign languages are already completed and can be downloaded free at (http://whatwemaybe.org). Or you may be more interested in translating Jewish Eugenics. Eugenics is human ecology. Join the cause and help future generations! John Glad nay be contacted at email@example.com
In Davenport's Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics, 2008, I have selected some excerpts that I found interesting for various reasons. The contributors have diverse perspectives on eugenics, but it is clear that while involuntary sterilization from 1900 to as late as the 1970s, has been almost universally condemned, today it is perfectly acceptable to abort fetuses that are judged to be defective or unfit. Has anything really changed? Eugenics then is coming back gradually as more and more people are using reproductive technology and genetic testing to give birth to the very best children possible.
A review of Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression by Joe Feagin Joe R. Feagin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida in Gainesville was/is President of the American Sociological Association. This review of his book's diatribe against White males is the second--the first was a review of Racist America, 2000, available below. This is another example of the hate being spewed by the Marxists in academia. We can't see into their minds, but their systematic attack on Whites shows a well intentioned pattern of genocide by the left on Western peoples.
A review of "The Deadliest Lies" and "The Israel Lobby". John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, two scholars from the U. of Chicago and Harvard respectively, were commissioned by The Atlantic Monthly to write an article about the Israel Lobby. I review their book that followed their article (never published by TAM), and also Abraham Foxman's rebuttal to their work--The Deadliest Lies. It is an interesting contrast between scholarship and smear tactics to suppress debate of this explosive issue.
Why Social Justice Matters, by Brian Barry. This book, written in 2005, feels more like a book written in the 60s or 70s. Psychometrics, eugenics, mental ability, etc. have all catapulted ahead of environmental determinism, but Barry doesn't give up. Instead, he just uses specious arguments that he apparently hopes naive observers will believe. The only reason for reviewing such a poorly written book is to show that the egalitarians have no real arguments for their agendas. Their primary mission now is to just ignore empiricism and sink into emotional narratives. Barry however tries to use some pitiful logic, so it is reflective on how the battle is over. Genes matter, humans are not equal, and social justice is what anyone says it is.
Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century by Doctor John Glad, 2006. As the genetic revolution accelerates its pace, over the last few years, there have been numerous books written on eugenics. The majority of these books are intended to link eugenics with Hitler, White supremacy, or the terrible inhumanity of forced sterilizations. Doctor John Glad's recent book Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century, 2006, does an excellent job of placing past and present eugenics where it belongs—as an ongoing effort to improve the quality of life. His book is available bound or free on-line.
Making Sense of Heritability by Neven Sesardic, 2005. This book covers not only the genetics of heritability, it also highlights all of the sophistry and flaws of those academics who have tried to deny race as a factor in differences intelligence. Sesardic's book is quite different in that he clearly shows that the Left has only methodological criticisms to apply to Jensenism because they have depleted any empirical data to use. The era of genetics has returned. He also shows that when racial differences in intelligence is finally accepted by the public, egalitarianism is also severely limited as an argument for equality.
In Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our universal sense of right and wrong by Marc D. Hauser, 2006. Morality is like one's world view. Most of us has their own unique flavor, but in the end morality and ethics are merely mechanisms for one group trying to control another group for their advantage. This essay discusses how we can have a moral system for a eugenic community, yet put on a separate set of moral principles when dealing with others. The only rule is to have a moral system that promotes eugenics.
Two more book reviews on eugenics. A review of Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race and From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany. The first is pure propaganda, the second more unbiased.
After reading the book The Neoconservative Revolution by Murray Friedman, I reread Kevin MacDonald's book A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples. Observations made by Friedman seem to confirm MacDonald's summation of differences between Whites and Ashkenazi Jews. I discuss and compare portions of each book.
Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Approach: Richard Lynn's recent book is extremely thorough and well written. I chose not to review it because so many others already have. Besides, it is a book that anyone interested in the subject should own. But I will provide excerpts.
Linda S. Gottfredson has a wealth of articles available at her website with regards to intelligence, race, and what intelligence means in ordinary life, which is her specialty. She has almost single handedly dealt with this subject and with research and articles rivaling Arthur R. Jensen's. In addition, she has made available J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur R. Jensen's summation of 30 years of research on intelligence and the genetic component contributing to average differences between races. Doctor Gottfredson has one of the most complete collections of information on intelligence, and has been attacked for it and stood her ground in the face of extreme prejudice.
There are three book reviews that follow: Preaching Eugenic is fairly straight forward look at religious leaders supported eugenics and why. The second review is of two books: Eugenic Nation and Keeping America Sane. These two books contrasts how some books are pure distortion and propaganda, while the second is a rather fair reading of the eugenic movement.
Race, IQ and Heritability. I came across this interesting article by Neven Sesardic and I tried to condense it down to just four pages and simplify it. I hope I succeeded. It explains how it is very difficult to find any environmental causes for the Black-White gap in intelligence, and how strawman arguments are all the is left for the radical environmentalists to rely on.
Reviews of Better for All the World & Eugenic Design. Both reviews are short as these books are typical of the anti-eugenic hysteria that continues to surface. As eugenics returns, it is attacked from various perspectives, but is never wounded.
The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. Numerous books have been published lately linking White supremacy with the eugenics' movement leading to the Holocaust, along with other horrible things. This is the first book that chronicles how Jews have over the last few hundred years considered themselves primarily a race, and how they have and still do consider themselves the superior race. Excerpts from the book are available upon request.
The Baby Business. In this new book, the author describes the commercialization of making babies as the parents want them to be, not as nature and its randomness decides. She also freely uses the word eugenics because that's what it has always been. Baby making, using advanced tools for selecting the best genes, is back.
Eugenics and how to raise children. In this article I have addressed what I believe to be some practical means of raising children to be racial particularist in and economic and genetically viable manner. The world still believes that children can be molded by their families, and they will become what they have told to become. It is wrong, but there is just too much money to be had by too many people who will sell parents on simple regimens to develop the perfect baby.
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker. This is probably the best written book on evolutionary psychology yet. Pinker lays it all out, and does so in a thorough and entertaining way. My critique however takes issue with parts of the book that deny racial differences in intelligence and behavioral traits, as well as eugenics, morality, etc. (Revised 12/2005--it seems Pinker has changed his mind or has become more honest.)
A review of The Affirmative Action Hoax by Steven Farron, 2005, is a well studied and thorough examination of affirmative action in higher education. Much of the material equally applies to work place quotas, business set-asides, etc., as well as looking at the genetic causes racial differences along with the history racial group conflicts in the courts, politics, etc. Very well researched and documented.
A review of Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement, by Nicholas Agar, 2004. Agar takes on the bioethicists in his attempt to legitimize eugenics for the purpose of expanding reproductive rights. I have taken this opportunity not only to critique his and other's vision about the future, but also to suggest how a new species of human may be brought about.
A review of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, by David Plotz, 2005. Plotz tries not to promote sperm banks and eugenics, but even as a hostile skeptic, a close reading shows that eugenics is back in a big way.
A review of The Psychology of Hate, edited by Robert J. Sternberg. This book sheds little light on the evolutionary adaptation of hate, disgust, anger and fear. It does however prove to be an interesting insight into the phenomena of anti-White hatred masquerading as science. But I would not expect anything else from Sternberg.
A review of the book Hitler as Philosophe by Lawrence Birken, 1995. In this review of Birken's analysis of Hitler's worldview, I show that eugenics for Hitler was a very minor part of National Socialism. It seems that if he had truly embrace eugenics as it was applied in other countries, he could not have held the views that he did with regards to the German people, their need for more land, etc.
John Glad has just published his new book Future Human Evolution, free for downloading. John Glad is, if I understand him correctly, a universal eugenicist, unlike most of us in eugenics. He may indeed be correct, that eugenics is not for one race or the other, but in the end will consist of a new race of people -- hybrids or not -- so he brings an important perspective to the debate.
A review of The Origin of Mind. This new book expands upon Jensen's The g Factor, 1998, adding new data on how and why humans evolved such large and intelligent brains. David Geary makes the connection between Darwinism and the study of mental ability in a superb academic book.
An interview on my eugenic perspective published in Resistance magazine, Summer, 2005 .
A review of The God Gene. This book has some interesting points, but lacks scientific tone and coherence. I then review an empirical book by numerous researchers in Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, edited by Peter Hammerstein, that has greater insight into how humans behave as a social species. Religion must be seen as a complicated belief system that may or may not have been adaptive, but nevertheless most humans have some form of religion. How it came about in it its present day form is multifaceted, and falls between the cracks of psychological disciplines. More on religion later.
New research on Jewish intelligence suggests that Ashkenazim Jews have some recessive genes, unique to them, that boosts their average IQ to an average of 117. This new research vindicates eugenics for improving the average IQ of any population group that undertakes to improve their intelligence. It is becoming increasingly difficult to defend the assertion that intelligence is due to nurture rather than nature or genetics.
The Color of Crime: Race, Crime, and Violence in America published by the New Century Foundation.
A review of What Is Thought. This book carries on where The Robot's Rebellion leaves us, hoping for a way out of our irrational behaviors. The book was a hard read at first, because the language is that of a computer scientist. The description however of how the mind became a model of the world, builds on other works that explain who we are as humans and why we do what we do - for many odd reasons. Reading this book, I have a firmer understanding of science, knowledge, and my own inner workings. I recommend reading and studying this book, as well as others like it, to peer inside of the mind.
A review of The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwinism. This remarkable book is based on the heuristics and biases research, and argues that humans must escape from being controlled by both genes and memes. It also takes another step forward in vindicating Jensen versus Sternberg and his IQ deniers.
A review of three books on the old eugenics: War Against the Weak, The Unfit, & American Eugenics. Modern moralizing continues to try and turn back eugenic/genetic considerations in improving the human condition by recognizing that nature and nurture are both important to the health of any society or nation. Edwin Black especially in War Against the Weak goes to great lengths to link old eugenics with Nordic supremacism and then the Holocaust. But a careful reading of his work and others shows otherwise--the Holocaust was the result of group evolutionary strategies that climaxed in warfare.
Critical Race Theory I was interested in the new legal studies called "Critical Race Theory" so I did a search and found books and journal articles that discusses the issue. It is a good way to get a glimpse of how anti-White hatred is promoted in academia.
Robert J. Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence Sternberg's theory of intelligence is the last one to have any credibility among psychometricians (but not much). Gardner's "Multiple Intelligences" or Goleman's "Emotional Intelligence" are dismissed as not having any theoretical basis. Because of this, the Left has been forced to resorting to denial that intelligence has meaning, or that races exist, etc. They have no more to say on how to raise people's intelligence so they just deny that there is such a thing. Sternberg comes dangerously close to following the same pattern, by trying to deny that intelligence has value.
Terrorism versus moral universalism from an evolutionary perspective or how to get into another world war by ignoring human nature and human racial differences.
Niche Construction This article addresses how to establish a eugenics community based on recent findings with regards to group evolutionary strategies, niche construction, and the interaction between genes and culture.
A review of the new book Race: The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele, 2004.
I came across the following article: The Myth of Intelligence, published in Psychological Record in 2003 with my comments. It is hard to believe that such transparently vacuous arguments are still finding their way into academic journals.
This book review is about 35 pages long, with a lot of excerpts from new material by authors that are not included in Jensen's The g Factor. Also, be sure to read Nyborg's entire chapter in a separate link on the academic left's "collective fraud." : The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen
In this eclectic article I look at the history of court cases that have shaped affirmative action hiring practices, racial conflict in general, and then review a new book on consciousness, Being No One, that sheds light on how our brains are not aware of our emotional self-representations, and thus our racial conflicts: From equal opportunity to equal outcomes: cognitive components in racial conflicts.
J. Philippe Rushton's short abridged book Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective is now available on line. This is a must read for anyone interested in racial differences on a host traits from testosterone to having twins, as well as intelligence.
Race and Medicine. A recent article in the journal SCIENCE details how racial differences can lead to different approaches in medical care. If human races differ in genes that impact health, they of course will be expected to differ in other areas as well, such as intelligence and behavioral traits.
Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley. I look at the latest book by Matt Ridley, with comments on two other books: Evolutionary Psychology and The Origins of Human Nature. Ridley's book is especially good and must be read, there is simply too much in it to cover in a review. I do however take Ridley to task for being politically correct, and denying the fundamentals of behavior genetics, after he supports those very tenets of evolution. About 20 pages long, I start with Ridley about half way through for those who want to jump to the politics of race denial.
Kevin MacDonald's latest research articles regarding group evolutionary
strategies are available on-line at The Occidental Quarterly:
A critique of the Marxist screed Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti. This book was so thoroughly Marxist and condemnatory against the West that all I could do was convert the book into a text file and comment on the outrages assertions paragraph by paragraph. Though long, I think reading Marxist screeds is very enlightening in trying to understand their motives.
Liars, Lovers and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are by S. R. Quartz and T. J. Sejnowski, 2002. My review of this otherwise well written book looks at these authors' attempt to once again sweep the importance of intelligence under the rug, as well as racial differences in intelligence. Their failure to do so shows how the Left has no arguments left, and the Jensenists have won the academic high-ground.
ADL's Survey of Anti-Semitism. This very short article on how survey's are distorted by social scientists, advocates, and academics with an ideological agenda, is a good example of how racism, antiracism, diversity, etc. are defined in such a way that the target group is always found to suffer some new pathological disorder.
Hate, Fear and Disgust: Evolutionary Emotions for Tribal Survival. In this article I discuss how these primitive emotions were fundamental for survival by activating self-transcending behaviors that could motivate members to "come together" in defensive coalitions. These emotions are the ones that lead humans into war, genocide, and political strategizing to promote the welfare of one group over another. Understanding these emotions allows us to focus our attention on effective ways to mobilize our people into action.
A review of the book World On Fire by Amy Chua, 2003. This excellent book on ethnic conflict around the world fails in one major way - Chua doesn't have a clue why some races are so successful. She fails to understand that races differ in intelligence as well as other behavioral traits, and that leads to hostilities in many cases.
Antiracism and moralizing gods. Right empiricists try to argue with Left empiricists using scientific methods, but the debates go in circles. No matter how many studies are supplied, the Left just calls the Right racist and ignores the data. This article tries to shed some light on how far the Left has slid into a religious dogma that makes debate meaningless - it has little to do with truth and everything to do with the Left's personal agenda to make society submit to new moralizing gods.
The United States Census is neither scientific nor very useful, according to the Office of Management and Budget's own data, when it comes to racial/ethnic classifications. This short article looks at some of the nonsense our government is willing to put up with to please racial and cultural minorities.
Ethnocentrism and the Semitic Mind. With war raging in the Middle East, the question must be asked: "are they different from us, and how?" This 80 page article uses several important books, with lengthy quotes, that shows how evolution has shaped the tribalistic Semitic mind different from the European individualist mind, how it must be genetic, and what it means for survival of the West. This article is also Chapter 4 of Shattering the Myth of Racism - Volume II, available for downloading free in Microsoft Word 2000 format. Feel free to pass it along, it is not copyrighted.
Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era. In this review of a recent book published by the American Psychological Association, I have tried to glean from the contributors their view with regards to racial differences in behavior, medicine and intelligence. Though they use the term "stratification" to designate gene differences between races, a careful reading of the book shows that race is real and racial differences are of great importance to behavioral geneticists.
Shattering the Myth of Racism: Volume I. (Click here for Adobe Acrobat Reader Format) This book is a collection of essays showing that racism does not exist. Instead, we should be using an empirical term such as "ethnocentrism" which is a part of our moral system from our evolutionary past and is present to differing degrees in all people and all races. The book's format is Microsoft Word 2000. A related site that I recommend reading before reading my book is the recent Preface to Kevin MacDonald's book "The Culture of Critique." This further elaborates WHY racism is used as a weapon against Western culture. The link below also has a review of all three of his books on group evolutionary strategies.
Shattering the Myth of Racism: Volume II. (Click here for Adobe Acrobat Reader Format) See above for downloading. Note, I discuss Lynn and Vanhanen's IQ and the Wealth of Nations, but from Richard Lynn's web site, the average IQs of 189 nations is now available. This book has just four chapters, but runs about 140 pages long.
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson. In this review of Wilson's book I take a look at specific statements he makes with regard to biodiversity, eugenics, the biosphere, etc. Most of the book is filled with stories about animals, but every so often Wilson makes philosophical or moral statements that need to be rebutted because they are simply too extreme.
Evolution and Human Behavior by John Cartwright. In this review of Cartwright's last chapter of a book targeted as a textbook for college students, I try to deconstruct his meaning. After eleven chapters of tight evolutionary theory, he seems to recant everything that a scientist or empiricist believes in, and drifts off into political correctness. This is very baffling, but is so common.
The g Factor: General Intelligence and its Implications (1996) by Christopher Brand. This book was published by John Wiley and then depublished by the thought police that attacked it for its empirical approach to intelligence, education, and the realities of the inheritance of intelligence. It is now free (2000 edition) above.
Judaism as an evolutionary strategy. [1998-99]. Jews more than any other ethnic group have been successful in using eugenics to promote their own self interest in the face of an inhospitable world. Kevin MacDonald has published three books that I review here, that deal with Judaism, starting with their eugenic past, their conflicts with gentile society, and their current involvement in shaping Western society. MacDonald's work has become a clarion call for action by those who want to emulate the Jewish eugenics program to promote a higher form of human genetic perfection.
A review of books on eugenics Reproductive Perspectives: A Review of Some Recent Books on the Ethics of Manipulating Human Genes. This article appeared in Mankind Quarterly (spring 2001).
I rewrote the introduction of Dershowitz's 1997 book The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century. I added some introductory text, but for the most part I just changed the argument for continuing Jewish particularism to that of an Aryan particularism or racial identity. It is followed by a short review of the book and an explanation. If it reads like some White racial supremacist's tome, then I have succeeded in showing how accusations of racism serve as a weapon against Western culture. If you would like to get this article in a Word 2000 format for printing or distribution, just email me and I will send you a copy.
Eugenics: A Reassessment by Richard Lynn. This is a short review of this incredibly timely book. This is a must read for anyone interested in genetic engineering, cloning or eugenics. And following the review is a table of the average intelligence of populations from 81 countries from Mankind Quarterly, Summer 2001 edition by Lynn and Vanhanen. The book is now available based on this data entitled: IQ and the Wealth of Nations.
A review of Race & IQ edited by Ashley Montagu, 1999. This very sophomoric attempt by Montagu et al. to try and stop intelligence research with yet another book blasting The Bell Curve clearly shows that they have run out of rebuttals. The review is about 25 pages long, and it digs into some of the motives of the egalitarian/Marxist left. For a more recent version of this article see my book on racism above that includes this article.
Click here to download an MS Excel 2000 spreadsheet for comparing group IQs. I developed a spreadsheet for those who have Excel 2000 for comparing up to five groups with different IQ means, percentages, and how many can be expected in the IQ range selected. These are worksheets' "input" and "results." There are two more spreadsheets that show the USA distribution in IQ groups for information only. You can use this spreadsheet to calculate expected numbers of people in an IQ range based on the average IQ of different groups and their numbers in the community. I would appreciate any feedback on mistakes from the statistical wiz kids. Its been fifteen years since I developed a significant spreadsheet model. Change the input data for your own town, country, etc. for any ethnic group. To alter the spreadsheet design just "unprotect" any of the sheets.
A review of Racist America by Joe Feagin Joe R. Feagin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida in Gainesville and is currently President of the American Sociological Association. This 30+ page review of his book's diatribe against White males is a clear example of the hate being spewed by the Marxists in academia. In this review I respond to his arguments but I also look at the underlying reason such hatred is common among too many of these Anglophobes. We can't see into their minds, but their systematic attack on Whites shows a well intentioned pattern of genocide by the left on Western peoples. For a more recent version of this article see my book on racism above that includes this article.
Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution Christopher Wills, a biology professor, tries to equate the loss of all racial types with the acceleration of evolution. There are many problems with his proposal, including its underlying intent. I fear this book is really nothing more than another attempt by the left to destroy national sovereignty and/or ethnicity. This book review is about ten pages long.
From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice In this new book I expose the totalitarian nature of four authors, all academic philosophers, who are advocating an egalitarian/socialist eugenics' program. In another attempt to make everyone equal, these new body snatchers want to steal genes from the rich and give to the . . . well let us just say those who nature would have eliminated naturally anyway. This book reveals how the totalitarian left is firmly in control of our educational system.
Reproduction and the Nationalist Eugenic State In this short article I try to address some of the concerns with regards to low birth rates in Western countries, and what can be done to change this trend, IF it needs to be changed at all.
Maladaptive Altruism In this article I use Richard Dawkins' concept of the extended phenotype to look at the host and parasite relations between races. As different races come together, there is opportunity for a parasitic race to manipulate other races to act in such a way as to improve their inclusive fitness. These relations are flexible, and any one race can be a host or a parasite in different ecological niches.
Phenomenon of the Jews This is a short review of the book The Phenomenon of the Jews: Seven Keys to the Enduring Wealth of a People by Steven Silbiger, 2000. Following the review are a few pages of data from the book that clearly shows who owns and controls America.
Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection This book review looks at the implications that Sarah Hrdy puts forth and connects what she has said with a eugenics' program to help free us from the cultural biases and distortions we hold with regard to children's needs, infanticide, abortion, care taking, surrogate mothers, and the guilt that the eugenics' movement has often tried to lay at women's' feet for not producing enough high quality children. A brilliant book by an unbiased neo-Darwinist from the feminine perspective.
Evolution's Arrow: The direction of evolution and the future of humanity This short review of an on-line book shows how totalitarianism is alive and well.
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond This short review of a national bestseller invalidates its arguments on the first page. By ignoring or rejecting humans as part of the animals' world with an evolutionary history, and postulating that we are free of our genetic heritage, he makes the same mistake as other radical environmentalists or cultural determinists.
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and why we're Afraid to Talk About It by Jon Entine. Finally a book that deals with black athletic ability in the same manner as intelligence has been approached. Of course, intelligence has far more serious implications for a nations prosperity and well-being. But since television has brought sports to everyone, it has been asked by most intelligent observers "is it genes or is it training and environment." Finally, this book like "The Bell Curve" opens up the debate.
Chart from the Human Genome Diversity Project This chart shows the genetic distances of 42 population groups as tabulated by Cavalli-Sforza in The History and Geography of Human Genes. This project is paralleling the Human Genome Project.
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel A new book provides a peak inside Israel that can give nationalists a justification for setting up nations based on racial purity and eugenics practices. Judaism I believe is the best example of a successful breeding program that can provide an understanding of breeding for intelligence and developing group solidarity. But much of the new nation of Israel provides a warning with regards to mixing fundamentalism with racialist policies and the hatred it breeds. From an opposing view, you may want to look at Bronner's A Rumor About the Jews.
Jensenism A special issue of the academic journal INTELLIGENCE has been devoted to Arthur Jensen and his work. A man vilified, harassed, threatened and shunned because he dared to tell the truth about intelligence and genetics has now been vindicated by his colleagues as one of the most profound thinkers of our time. I have included some of the less mathematical discussions in the issue to share with those who are unaware of the viciousness and hate this scholar has had to endure because of Marxist control of our universities. I have a review of his latest book below: The g Factor: the science of mental ability. But knowing the human side of this renowned scholar is as insightful as the theories about intelligence he has produced. I have provided most of Chapter 12 of his latest book that shows how racial differences must be genetic and not environmental.
Indoctrination and group evolutionary strategies: The Case of Judaism. This chapter by Kevin MacDonald is from the book Indoctrinability, Ideology and Warfare: Evolutionary Perspectives. MacDonald is one of the leading evolutionary theorists looking at group evolutionary selection as it actually occurs, by studying one of the most successful groups. He has become in a just a short time one of the most sought after theoreticians who have been able to look past our humanness to explain why groupishness drives to us to conflict in warfare, genocide, and resource acquisition.
Human Biodiversity by Jonathan Marks This book, written by a Berkeley University anthropology professor, shows how modern day socialists try to use the old eugenics as examples of pseudoscience, while in fact they have adopted the same methods for their own political agendas and Marxist propaganda. I hope that this review will be as entertaining as it is enlightening. Following in Gould's footsteps, this book is a good example of neo-totalitarianism at work.
The Rising Curve: Long-Term Gains in IQ and Related Measures This book was published in 1998 by the American Psychological Association to review the Flynn effect, the closing IQ gap between Blacks and Whites, and whether Americans are getting smarter or dumber. The conclusions are contrary to what the press often reports: we are not getting smarter, the gap between Whites and Blacks is not closing, and nobody really knows if we are in a dysgenic or eugenic trend in America, but there is good reason to be concerned.
Genocide, according to the popular press, is usually attributed to Nazis, and then to lesser evils. But Communism we now know since the opening of the archives slaughtered far more people with less cause than any other system. I discuss some of the evolutionary causes of genocide, then I have pasted excerpts from The Black Book of Communism, and then excerpts from several other books on the Soviet Union, and finally MacDonald's chapter on how Nazism was a mirror reflection of Judaism.
Biophilia vs. Human Evolution: Insurmountable Constraints. Though I admire the sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson, his linking of humans' need for nature with a call for environmental extremism is without merit. The need for biodiversity is not linked to the well-being of the planet, and in this article I take apart piece by piece the specious argument the authors of this movement provide. Man must not place constraints on his own survival and future. He did however provide me with the term "genophilia," the desire to be with people like oneself. This need is much more pronounced and innate than biophilia.
Human Behavior and Evolution Society home page has a listing of very good recent books on evolution for those specializing in a specific area of evolution and want to see the latest releases.
Eugenics is Back! Will the next 100 years bring about new super-human species with the rest of mankind enslaved or dead? [Mar '99]. In this short article, I discuss how eugenics is linked to nationalism, multiculturalism, Chinese and Indian policies in eugenics, etc. I try to throw some light on eugenics as a secular religion, using it as the basis for human homeostasis and as a replacement for religion or ideology in making mankind whole again.
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Wrangham and Peterson [Feb '99]. This book documents the behavior of the great apes, our closest relatives, and shows how the closest of these, the chimpanzees, can help explain why humans are genocidal. Human behavior grew out of an arms race between competing tribes of our primate ancestors, giving us a warfare type of social structure that we will act upon if the opportunities present themselves. This book is extremely readable, fascinating and insightful as to how we became the killer ape. And provides hope how we can keep that blood lust in check.
Stephen Jay Gould is a Marxist who more than anyone else has tried to sabotage science. As an ethnophobe and Marxist, Gould et al. has more than anyone else promoted pseudoscience by embracing naive environmentalism in the face of overwhelming evidence that we are at least partly a product of our genes. Gould has been caught with his pants down in distortion after subterfuge, after outright lying; he has become the symbol of anti-empiricism. The following are just of few of the quotes I have collected from books that I have read exposing Gould for the fraud that he is. Others may be able to find many more.
Love They Neighbor Several essays by Dr. John Hartung available at his web site deal with the evolution of in-group morality, Judaism, and Christianity as well as an essay on morality and genetic engineering. This profoundly rational thinker and exceptional writer exposes the sham behind religion as well as other dogmas including naive environmentalism, morality, etc.
The immorality of morals and the future of amorality under a secular eugenics religion that will replace Christianity [Aug '98]I argue in this essay that morality as we have come to understand it does not exist. As an integral part of ape society, enforcing conformity to social rules and regulations, morality is nothing more than an aspect of human nature that makes us want to conform with the prevailing rules of the society around us. That includes the rules of gangs, terrorists, nationalists, communists, and any other ideology one can think of. Morality existed long before religion, and will be with us in its many perverse forms as long as we fail to recognize its ephemeral nature.
Intelligence & social policy: The journal INTELLIGENCE discusses genetic behavior & race differences in intelligence [Jan '97].The journal INTELLIGENCE deals almost exclusively with research, but this special issue deals with the outfall from "The Bell Curve" and shows the current research now going on that sheds light on how the races differ in a numerous ways. Jews are the most intelligent with Asians, then Whites, Hispanics and Blacks at the bottom. What does this mean for society and for the future? In this no nonsense issue by the most respected academics in the field, we are finally coming to grips with our evolutionary past and the genes that we carry from that humble beginning.
The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability. Jensen discusses intelligence, race IQ, dysgenics, cognition, and heritability. Arthur Jensen is recognized as the most influential researcher in differential psychology and almost single handedly reversed the Marxist dogma that prevented real research into intelligence after World War II. The dictionary now includes the word Jensenism, so profound is this man's contributions to genetics and and the study of racial differences. The culmination of his life's work is contained in this one book, published in 1999, and will be the defining text on the subject for the millennium to come. Anyone who wants to understand this subject need go no farther than this internationally acclaimed book, a summation of 45 years of research.
Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean. Levin's latest book looks at intelligence, racism, cognition, and racial diversity. Michael Levin more than any other single author makes sense of what race means, how intelligence impacts our multiculturalism, what it means for the future, and why it is absolutely mandatory that Whites stand up and yell foul in the face of charges of racism and intolerance. Levin has a way of putting together the philosophical side of the race debate that makes him fun to read and a resource book for those needing ammunition against Marxists and naive environmentalists.
Pie Charts Showing Ethnic Representation by Low, Average and High Intelligence. It is of course true that there is more variation in intelligence within races than between races. But what does that really mean in terms of how many people from each race are going to be represented on the welfare roles or in academics or the professions? The following graphical representation shows why some races do so well and others struggle just to survive. It shows why any race that wants to survive must make it their fundamental goal not only to be intelligent but to be more intelligent than other competing groups. The next millennium will see the beginning of the eugenics arms for intelligence.
Canine intelligence and how we humans should copy the success of breeding dogs. When The Bell Curve was published it was followed by a book on the intelligence of dogs. I did a search for reviews of the book to find that not one reviewer found this book a racist book out to divide the canine community, leading to canine oppression by smart canines over dumb canines. Virtually every book reviewer thought it was a brilliant book, a best seller.
Mainstream Science on Intelligence: A '94 Wall Street Journal Editorial w/ 52 Scientists discusses what scientists know but the media denies. After the publication of The Bell Curve a group of scientists published what was known about intelligence, as a rebuttal to the hysteria created by the radical environmentalists' frothing at the mouth over TBC's publication. This is the complete article and the list of scientists who signed the statement. In "Intelligence and Social Policy" above, Linda S. Gottfredson discusses how she rallied the scientific community to rebut the Marxists' hysteria.
Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns. The American Psychological Association shows that The Bell Curve was correct all along! Again, because of The Bell Curve, the American Psychological Association felt it had to deal with the issue of intelligence and racial differences. It set up a task force to prepare a position paper that could be agreed to by all of the contributors. Though it is timid, not wanting to address the issue of genetic differences between races, it does go a long way in vindicating Jensenism and the findings in The Bell Curve.
The Pioneer Fund, the Behavioral Sciences, and the Media's False Stories This interesting article dealing with the media's attack on science, on behalf of Marxist's like Gould, Kamin, Lewontin, etc. shows clearly how Communism is alive and well in America, trying to suppress any attempt to understand human nature when it threatens their global vision for an egalitarian utopia.
Eugenics Watch This is a short rebuttal to an anti-eugenics web site.
Historic preservation. This is an old article that attacks the land-grab by socialists of historically significant buildings. I personally love architecture, but I do not make a religion of it by deifying its creators. Let the market economy judge what is best.


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Women: Before and After
Lynn Hershman Leeson is historic. Some of the most exciting moments of her recent documentary on feminist art, !W.A.R., or !Women Art Revolution, 2010, were shot on her own living room couch. She and her alter-ego, Roberta Breitmore, are synonymous with an era of women's art to which all artists (especially—but not exclusively—women) owe a great debt. But we are no longer in the seventies. […..]


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Santa Barbara, Calif- The UC Santa Barbara Track and Field teams will head to UC San Diego Friday April 4 and Saturday April 5 for the Cal Nevada Championships. Last season the Gauchos took third and fourth respectively in the men's and women's team scoring. The Gaucho men won the meet in 2012. The multi-team competition consists of collegiate teams in the state of California and Nevada. There will be a variety of conferences and divisions in attendance ranging from the Pac-12, Big West, NCAA D2 & 3 to the NAIA. Entry into the meet is based on qualification marks set so far this indoor and outdoor season.
Gaucho Men on A Roll
The UCSB men's track and field team has compiled a dual meet record of 15-0 to start the 2014 outdoor season. They took top honors in each competition this spring including the Gaucho Round Up (vs. Pepperdine and Westmont), the All-UC Championship (vs. UC Irvine, UC San Diego & UC Riverside), UC Riverside Dual Meet and the UC Riverside Spring Break Invitational (vs. Southern Utah, Cal State Northridge, Cal State Fullerton, Cornell, UC Riverside, UC Riverside, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado and Wyoming).
Women's Update
The UCSB women's track and field team has compiled a record of 9-6 to start the year in dual meet scoring. The women's record includes a narrow win against UC Riverside in their annual dual meet.
Mid-Distance Fire
Shyan Vaziri leads a talented group of mid-distance runners for the Gauchos. Vaziri was named the Big West Track Athlete of The Week after his 1500m win at the UC Riverside Spring Break Invitational. Vaziri dropped a time of 3:44.62 which currently leads the Big West and sits #6 Nationally. Seven Gaucho men have hit 1:55 or faster so far this spring in the 800m, showing the depth Head Coach Pete Dolan has assembled in his storied distance squad. Vaziri will head to the Stanford Invitational this weekend along with Tyler Brady to toe the line with the best runners in the country in what has become the premier distance showcase of the regular season.
Keeping up With Walker
Senior Evan Walker is currently sittign in fourth on the Big West Conference list at the mid way point in the year with a 10.55w in the 100m. Walker's time if wind legal would eclipse the UCSB school record of 10.56 set in 1987 by Sandy Combs. Sprint Coach Travis Anderson looks for a big weekend from Walker, "I think Evan is ready to roll. We are at the stage of the season where he is locked and ready to roll. He is excited about the two day competition and thrives on prelims and finals. The past several weeks, I've primed him to run fast down in San Diego. He is focused on his senior season and has done all the little things right."
At the UC Riverside Spring Break Invitational several Gaucho throwers made an impression. Sophomore Melissa Rake unleashed a 144'3 toss in the women's javelin, a mark which currently leads the Big West. Junior Albert Hughes continued to show his consistency in the men's hammer with another PR toss of 184'6, a marck which sits in fourth in the Big West. Junior Hanna Person continues to up her PR in the women's hammer, last weekend hitting 167'11 for her third consecutive PR weekend in a row. Junior Heather Hawes broke into the UCSB All-Time lists last week with her 148'1 PR in the womens discus. In the men's javelin three Gauchos are in the Big West top 8 led by freshman Jerrick Zhang's mark of 183'2 putting him in second. Freshman Matthew Kuskey is in fifth with a 176'11 and Junior Spencer Neste in sixth with 174'4.
Associate Head Coach and Throws Coach Cody Fleming on his throws squad:
"We've seen some nice marks so far this season and we have to remember to stay with the process. To keep training hard each day, doing the little things that add up when the big meets come around. We have a large group that feeds off each other so igniting momentum is only one throw away."
Trumbull and SeanJohn
Short hurdlers Shannon Trumbull and Sean Johnson have continued to impress. Both will be in action this weekend running in the 100m and 110HH respectively. Trumbull will start in the fourth heat of four in the women's hurdles and Sean Johnson will be in the second heat of four in the men's prelims which go off on Friday afternoon.
Breaking Through the Wall
The Gauchos have continued their success in the 400m into this spring. Jessica Johnson broke out in her first race of the year, hitting a 55.34 time which puts her in fourth on the Big West list. On the men's side the power trio of Eric Severiano, Winton Ngyuen and Karlon Johnson are all poised to break into PR territory coming off another solid Coach Travis Anderson training block. Anderson, a former Oregon 400m specialist (Coach Fleming was also an Oregon Duck), has rewritten the UCSB record books since his arrival in Santa Barbara. Last season Jennifer Carey shattered the UCSB school record with a 52.29 400m time and Jordan Scott captured the men's 400m title with a 46.44 effort- both in the final of the Big West Championships. Anderson's 4 x 400m relays last season both qualified for the NCAA Preliminary Round where the women went on to record a time of 3:38.86, the current school record.
Multi-Event Update
Tori Usgaard completed her first heptathlon of the season last week at the UC Riverside Spring Break Invitational and compiled a score of 4773. Sophomore Ike Okpara also competed in the mens decathlon and hit a new best mark of 6254 to lead a young group of Gauchos.
Coach Dolan's Take
"The middle of the season is rich with tradition; many big marks get set this time of year. I am always excited to watch these mysteries unfold."


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Sentai Filmworks has been carving a name for themselves in the anime world. They've picked up several popular licenses and have been given them a solid treatment (despite the lack of an English voice dub). With complete series broken down into two halves, they are following a trend set by FUNimation and with their strong licenses they are giving the anime giant a run for their money.
The Skull Man is the latest release from Sentai Filmworks. The show originally came out in Japan in 2007, but the series actually has ties dating back to a one-shot manga from 1970 by the late Shotaro Ishinomori (more recently a manga ran from 1998 to 2001). This 13 episode anime is certainly a little on the darker side. One could tell that by a quick glance at the awesome cover, but then again you never judge an anime by its cover. With that in mind, how does this one stack up?
The Skull Man is a mystery/horror anime that follows the exploits of a journalist named Hayato Mikogami who is really just looking for a big scoop. Hayato desires nothing more than making a name for himself so with his eyes on the prize he leaves the hustle and bustle of Tokyo to head for his hometown of Otomo in order to find out more about the mysterious "Skull Man". Apparently there has been a string of murders that nobody is talking about, but rumors persist about a guy with a skull for a face stalking the night and killing people. Naturally that prize is nearly too sweet for Hayato to resist.
When he arrives it's quite clear that there's something is going on in Otomo. There's a heightened military presence, a curfew in place, and all around there's a sense that something's just not right. Could this be because of the Skull Man? Or because of something more nefarious? Hayato's determined to get to the bottom of it, but along the way he finds that he's not going to be working alone.
A young photographer named Kiriko decides to tag along with Hayato upon his arrival in Otomo. He seems like a nice enough guy and Kiriko knows nobody else (they met on the train) so naturally she dogs him at every turn. Their characters play off each other quite nicely throughout the show. Whereas Hayato is mostly serious with a strong conviction, Kiriko offers more levity and comedic value thanks to her bubbly personality. There's a fine contrast at work there and it certainly helps with the grim focus of the series.
Once the story gets going who Hayato can trust becomes a big question mark as he begins to investigate. There's a young cop who is out for him, a mysterious woman on a motorcycle who breaks curfew, an older cop who keeps bumping into him, and an old family friend that is well-connected. This is all just the interpersonal drama though, since the main plot in the series is the investigation of Skull Man and just who and what he is.
The reveal for Skull Man doesn't happen until quite later and I'll refrain from spoiling anything for you. Basically all you really need to know is that he's something of an antihero and not a bad guy in the general sense. He's more or less doing dark things to protect the people, though one would think there could be another way to go about it.
From start to finish The Skull Man is an engaging mystery series with a refreshingly dark, adult tone. The fact that the series focuses on events through the perspective of Hayato helps the atmosphere quite a bit and it leaves you tagging along trying to figure things out. It's a shame that this series is only 13 episodes because it feels robust enough to support more. The ending kind of leaves the door open, but I'm not entirely certain if the series was popular enough in Japan to warrant a sequel.
No matter how you slice it The Skull Man is a unique kind of anime that really harkens back to shows of old. Ishinomori's original concept from 1970 feels similar to some of his other works, though considering it inspired Kamen Rider I suppose that's the best comparison. Whether you're a fan of other works by Ishinomori or not, The Skull Man is definitely worth checking out and ultimately I'd say this series is strongly recommended.
The Skull Man is presented on DVD with a 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio. The show looks pretty solid and maintains a clean image overall with some nice contrast and vibrant colors when need be. There's no aliasing of any kind and really the only drawback to this transfer is a light amount of grain and some blocking that occurs during some darker shadows. Considering there's a lot of black used in this show it happens more often than it should, but overall it's not really enough to detract from the experience.
If Sentai Filmworks releases have one Achilles heel it's the audio presentation. While the sound in The Skull Man is clean and crisp enough, the fact that it hits with only a Japanese 2.0 track is a source of disappointment. Granted the dubbing cast is very good and I typically prefer Japanese dubs to English ones, but the lack of an English 5.1 track is a disappointing omission. I suppose if this helps with the licensing and release of shows such as The Skull Man I can live, but as it stands this 2.0 is just a bit too on the flat side.
Some trailers and original Japanese Promos for the show are included for bonus features.
The Skull Man is an engaging, dark show that will keep you on the edge of your seat for most all of the 13 episodes. The tale about an antihero who stalks the night killing people is quite entertaining and watching these events unfold through Hayato's eyes leaves a strong impression. One can only hope that a second series will come out at some point, but until then this is about as good as you'll get. Consider it strongly recommended and another solid license for Sentai Filmworks.
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We've had a chance to read and to digest the terms of the settlement announced Thursday in the ongoing concussion litigation. The most important things to know are listed below.
1. The settlement applies to all players who are retired as of the day Judge Anita Brody gives preliminary approval to the settlement.
2. The settlement will be subject to a formal approval process, with retired players having the opportunity to oppose the settlement and/or to "opt out" and file or continue to pursue their own claims.
3. The $765 million payment by the NFL does not include attorneys' fees, which will be determined separately.
4. Of the settlement amount, $675 million will be available for retired players "who present medical evidence of severe cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer's, ALS, or to their families." The compensation for each player will be based on his diagnosis, his age, the length of his NFL career, and other factors. The decisions as to compensation will be made by independent doctors working with settlement administrators appointed by the court.
5. If the $675 million is exhausted, the NFL will make a one-time additional payment of up to $37.5 million.
6. Of the settlement amount, a maximum of $75 million will be used for baseline medical exams of retired players.
7. Of the settlement amount, $10 million will go to a separate research and education fund.
8. Of the settlement amount, $6 million will be devoted to administrative costs.
9. The settlement will have no impact on benefits provided under the labor deal between the NFL and the NFLPA.
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text: Fundraising Events Before you start planning a fundraising event, please consider the time you and your friends may need to invest against the amount of revenue it will generate. Training is time consuming. In some cases your friends may prefer to cut you a check for $100 rather than volunteering 20 hours to raise $1,000. Each situation is unique and we recommend that you carefully analyze everything first. Some people have a network of friends who are well experienced and love doing these things. Pros - Community connection - Fun and interactive - Raise awareness - Potential funding source Cons - Time consuming - Need friends to help - May need seed money - Evaluate fundraising potential Percentage of Sales Be wary of percentage of sales promotions with businesses. Many times, it doesn't add up (alcohol is not included), everyone needs to have a flyer, and past team members have had poor experiences with these types of promotions. ------- Tips for Planning an Event If you do decide to move forward with a fundraising event, here are a few tips. There are all kinds of interesting themes you can choose (Wine tasting party, poker tournament, neighborhood yard sale – with all proceeds benefitting your run, Sunday brunch, trivia night, or a home party with in-home sales company) First Things First Choose a date, location, time, and theme - please send us a quick note with this information. Location Do you know someone that owns an area restaurant or venue? Would they be willing to donate the space for your event (and possible some appetizers as well)? Many restaurants are willing to do this. Theme There are all kinds of interesting themes that you can choose. Some ideas that have been successful for Team Eye and Ear members in the past include: wine tasting party poker tournament neighborhood yard sale (with all the proceeds benefitting your fundraising) Sunday brunch trivia night home party with an in-home sales company (ex. Cash4Gold or Lia Sophia) Raffles & Auctions Setting up a live (or silent) auction at your party is a fun way to build excitement and boost your fundraising. Approach local business for auction donations - many are willing to donate. Please let us know if they require a 501(c)3 form and/or letter from Mass. Eye and Ear. We are happy to provide these to you. Do you know anyone with vacation homes in a fun location? Approach them to see if they would be willing to allow you to auction or raffle off a weekend stay at their vacation home. A raffle is a great way boost your fundraising as well. Also, 50/50 raffles usually work well. Fun (and profitable) Ideas & Details Request a 'cover charge' at the door as a donation for attending the event. We suggest this amount be $25 or more. Ask your local wine shop if they would be willng to donate a couple cases of wine for your party. Have a loud, enthusiastic friend act as the emcee for the evening Set up a laptop (or two) at your party with your Crowdrise page uploaded. This gives the attendees another opportunity to donate. Contact Us Today! 617-523-7900


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I'm currently in Atlanta, heading to Florida as soon as I finish writing this.
Here are the stores with signed Kilborn and Konrath books:
Waldenbooks Outer Loop Louisville KY
Walden Shelbyville Louisville KY
B&N Hurstbourne Louisville KY
B&N The Summit Louisville KY
Borders 4th St. Louisville KY
Borders Shelbyville Louisville KY
Borders Hurstbourne Louisville KY
Borders Bardstown Louisville KY
B&N Elizabethtown KY
B&N Bowling Green KY
B&N Opry Mills Nashville TN
B&N Brentwood TN
Davis Kidd Nashville TN
Borders Nashville TN
Borders Brentwood TN
Borders Franklin TN
Borders Ponce de Leon Atlanta GA
Borders Brookwood Atlanta GA
Borders Buckhead Atlanta GA
Borders Parkway Pointe Atlanta GA
B&N Alpharetta GA
B&N West Cobb Marietta GA
B&N Barrett Pkwy Marietta GA
B&N Georgia Tech GA
B&N Edgewood Atlanta GA
B&N Buckhead Atlanta GA
B&N East Point GA
B&N Cumberland Atlanta GA
B&N Perimeter Atlanta GA
B&N Morrow GA
B&N Norcross GA
Borders Northlake Mall Atlanta GA
Borders Dunwoody GA
Borders Marietta GA
Borders Douglasville GA
Borders Kennesaw GA
Walden Kennesaw GA
Walden Aplharetta GA
That brings my total up to 94 stores so far. I'll roll up a few more today.
Big thanks to William Berger (and his wife) for allowing me to stay in their lovely home. Bill has the most impressive book collection I've ever seen. As I write this, I'm tempted to empty out my suitcase and fill it with signed first editions...
To answer a previous question, booksellers have only asked to see ID when I come into a store on three or four occassions out of the thousands of stores I've dropped in. I usually travel with books and coasters, which proves who I am. Once or twice I actually did show an ID. If someone asks for Jack Kilborn ID, I'll simply tell them: "If I were lying to sign some books don't you think I'd pretend to be someone more famous?"
On to FL. I have limited email access, so I won't be able to fully respond for a few days.
As for my reaction to the tour; so far, so good. :)
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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Thomas Maier is the author of
"Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of
William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the
Couple Who Taught America How to Love,"
which is being reissued next week by Basic
Books to coincide with the September 29
debut of Showtime's "Masters of Sex," based
on the book and starring Lizzy Caplan and
Michael Sheen.
(CNN) -- Virginia Johnson once told me
something surprising about her famous
partnership with Dr. William Masters, which
helped revolutionize America's understanding
of human sexuality.
Despite Masters and Johnson's worldwide
fame, "We were absolutely the two most
secretive people on the face of the Earth,"
she said. "There's simply no one who knew
us well. People have a lot of speculation, but
they don't know."
On Thursday, as I read the obituaries about
Johnson's death at age 88, I was reminded of
Virginia's words. There's a sense of marvel
about her life story and how she managed to
affect the lives and happiness of so many
people, especially independent-minded
women like herself who wanted to make their
own decisions about sex outside the dictates
of men.
Johnson's life seems like a
modern-day Pygmalion story.
Down on her luck, a twice-
divorced women and with two
kids, she went back to
Washington University at age
32 looking for a degree. She
was working as a secretary at
the university-affiliated
hospital in St. Louis when she
met Masters, the top ob-gyn
and fertility expert in town.
A hard-driving, ambitious physician, Masters
wanted very much to win a Nobel Prize for
documenting clinically just how the human
body responded during sex, so that medicine
could come up with effective treatments for
married couples having troubles in the
bedroom. Bill realized he needed a female
partner for such a risky venture. The few
female doctors around in the 1950s didn't
want to go near his potentially explosive
experiment that could bring career ruin. Not
even Masters' wife -- with two young
children at home in the suburbs -- wanted to
get involved.
Virginia changed everything. Almost
immediately she showed a native genius for
what made men and women tick, sexually
and in matters of the heart. First as a dutiful
associate and eventually as the full-fledged
partner to Masters, Johnson convinced dozens
of women and men -- nurses, residents,
graduate students and various people around
St. Louis -- to become part of their secretive
decade-long study, the biggest sex
experiment in U.S. history.
Their work was published in 1966 in "Human
Sexual Response," which outlined, in its own
obtuse medicalese, just how the body worked
during sex. Like cartographers, they mapped
how each body part vibrated, sweated and
became aroused during lovemaking. Without
Virginia Johnson's extraordinary zeal and
persuasiveness, Masters conceded their study
would have failed. To his everlasting credit,
Bill gave "Gini" credit for her remarkable
contributions, far more than any male doctor
in the 1950s would have done, sharing his
byline with her on their first book.
Time would underline Johnson's impact even
more. Despite their guarded language, the
first book documented the power of female
sexuality, showing that women were capable
of multiple orgasms -- a veritable fireworks
display -- compared to most men's single
Their clinical evidence became
part of the spark for America's
so-called sexual revolution of
the 1960s and 1970s, reflected
in everything from key feminist
writings to Hugh Hefner's
Playboy magazine. Even the
rosy women's magazines, filled
with recipes and homey
bromides, began writing about
sex, using the same clinical
phrases that Masters and Johnson made
acceptable in polite society.
But Virginia's impact became particularly
evident in the duo's second book, 1970's
"Human Sexual Inadequacy," which landed
them on the cover of Time magazine and
television talk shows. It was Virginia who
largely developed the team's "sensate"
therapy from a hodgepodge of influences --
including behaviorism, Freudian talking
methods and even urology studies from other
medical researchers -- that soon had couples
flocking to their clinic for a cure for their
sexual difficulties.
That a woman without a degree had come up
with such an effective approach heralding a
quintessentially America quick-fix -- an 80%
success rate within a mere two weeks (as
opposed to years on a Viennese analysts'
couch talking about your feelings about poor
old Mother!) -- was galling to the medical
establishment. Yet Masters and Johnson's
pioneering work created the modern sex
therapy industry, with clinics around the
world relying on their methods and wisdom to
this day.
Later in life, Virginia would say her 24/7
devotion to her research and their patients
hurt both her relationship with her children
and her marriage with Masters (they divorced
in the 1990s shortly before their clinic
closed) --expressing this with the same
regret some women today share in balancing
work and family life. She was also concerned
that their pioneering work on sex might be
used by libertines to avoid the necessity of
caring for their partners as real, loving
human beings, rather than pornographic
holograms in the bedroom.
But mostly, Johnson became aware that many
younger women today had adopted her
independent-mindedness about sex, once so
verboten in 1950s America. Only they, and
not some fatherly figure in a white lab coat,
would rule their bodies and set the terms for
when, how and with whom they would share
Johnson's remarkable personal and
professional adventures make her one of the
most extraordinary American women of the
20th century. Her passing should remind us
of just how great an impact her life had on
all of us.


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