http://grdurand.com/blogger/ Refudiating liberalism in all its forms. en-us 16 May 2012 05:09:25 GMT 16 May 2012 05:09:25 GMT http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Zeta Woof's BlogWare grdurand@yahoo.com (Gordon R. Durand) grdurand@yahoo.com (Gordon R. Durand) http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/race-war-censored.html "What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettos launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of the races outnumbers the other several times over. It may be understandable that some people want to head off such a catastrophe, either by not reporting the attacks in this race war, or not identifying the race of those... 16 May 2012 04:15:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/race-war-censored.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/ridding-myself-of-day.html Derb remembers the recent past. "It's not as if we all sat around thinking Deep Thoughts before the Internet age. We read more, but not that much more.... What did we do? Watched TV. Went to bars and ball games. Played cards. Bickered with our spouses and kids. Got quietly sozzled in the Barcalounger. Human beings weren't made to work, or think much, or read much. Of our Paleolithic ancestors, Cochran and Harpending remark in The 10,000 Year Explosion that: "If they had full stomachs and... 14 May 2012 04:07:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/ridding-myself-of-day.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/wilderness-survival-armchair-style.html Like Garfield, I've been having great fun lately watching Dave and Cody out survivin' everywhere, eating snakes and alligators and grubs and things, making fire with sticks, sleeping on the ground, and generally having fun. 9 May 2012 04:32:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/wilderness-survival-armchair-style.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/milking-middle-class.html A lot of noise is being made lately about the Labor Force Participation Rate. Pretty much every graph starts in 1980, in order, I suppose, to illustrate that all the "gains" under Reagan-Clinton have been "erased" by Bush-Obama. The underlying assumption seems to be that the more people in the labor force, the better. I don't agree. This graph goes back to 1948 and illustrates that the normal and by normal I mean the way things were when I was a kid labor participation rate is closer to 59%.... 7 May 2012 03:06:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/milking-middle-class.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/tradgedy-in-twelve-acts.html "I confess I feel more than a twinge of sympathy for the stupid drone (or, more likely, committee of drones) who came up with this Julia thing. I've done a thousand crappy educational slideshows just like it. Everything looks fine in bullet point form on the memo, and nobody spots the flaws, unintended messages and double entendres until it goes live and singes everyone's eyebrows off." S. Weasel 5 May 2012 04:45:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/tradgedy-in-twelve-acts.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/they-treat-us-like-dogs.html You wish. "The positive aspects of the pet insurance market aren't trivial. For starters, it offers far more choices. Only three companies market individual health insurance in New Jersey, while at least 10 write policies for dogs and cats. And the pet insurance carriers offer plans with benefits to fit any budget. Almost all pet insurance policies provide the same coverage at any hospital or vet, whereas almost all human health policies have no or limited benefits for "out of network" care.... 4 May 2012 20:32:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/they-treat-us-like-dogs.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/quote-of-day.html "By the way, Mr. President, I caught your speech about Afghanistan tonight. It is EXACTLY the same as Nixon's speeches about Vietnamizing the Vietnam war some forty years ago. I suspect it will work out about as well. Can Mr. Obama really be that ignorant of history and reality? Yes, he can."Ben Stein. 2 May 2012 17:15:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/05/quote-of-day.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/04/our-house-in-1917.html The youngest person in this picture must be a hundred years old by now, if she still lives. Who is she? I don't know. Or rather, I don't remember. When we had the Gold Hill Historical Society copy this photo, they also photocopied the back, on which were handwritten notes naming most of the people. Logically, I would have inserted those notes into the frame behind the photo, but when I took the photo out of the frame the notes were not there, so I must have put the notes in a drawer, and... 30 Apr 2012 01:51:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/04/our-house-in-1917.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/04/anti-social.html There are three problems with this screen already. In the first place, nouns have gender; people have sex. Mine is none of your business. Secondly, I know nothing about Picasa and have no plans to learn, so what's to understand? Thirdly, Google will do as they please with my information, whether I like it or not. Sorry, Dave. No cookie. 28 Apr 2012 01:08:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/04/anti-social.html http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/04/tab-clearing.html If the big time bloggers like Tam can do it, so can I. The Mrs. McQueen stance. Cute. Not accurate, but cute. (Of course, it depends what your aim is.) Eating meat speeds reproduction. (Also very cute.) "If early humans had been vegans we might all still be living in caves..."Some, I think, would prefer that still. Which classical character are you? Odysseus, of course. I knew that before I took the quiz. Odysseus is the middle-aged hero. In the final scene he stands flanked by... 25 Apr 2012 04:30:00 GMT http://grdurand.com/blogger/2012/04/tab-clearing.html