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The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter–And How to Make the Most of Them Now
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Here are excerpts from this 2018 book:
* The company put off drafting an army of sales and marketing people until much later. Instead, in 1999 and 2000, Google staffed up with—what else?—brainiacs. Larry and Sergey hired software engineers, hardware engineers, network engineers, mathematicians, even neurosurgeons. Just as with every other facet of their company, Page and Brin wanted only the very best. They wanted Ph.D.’s and scientists. Google would become notorious for the rigorous way it interviewed and screened potential hires—and for its exacting selectiveness. For many years, every new employee was personally vetted by Brin and Page themselves, who expected candidates to measure up to their own intellectual standard. “We just hired people like us,” Page said.
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NYT: Jeffrey Hart, Influential and Iconoclastic Conservative, Is Dead at 88
I interviewed Jeffrey Hart in 2005.
Jeffrey: “I thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Then I supported [the American-led invasion]. Now I find that many of those claims were not only incorrect, but possibly fabricated.”
Luke: “What grade would you give the Bush administration?”
Jeffrey: “He’s the worst president in American history. I’ve been reading about James Buchanan. He wasn’t bad. He was just trapped in a situation where civil war was inevitable.”
Luke: “How do people at National Review and how do you view the chapter on race in the book The Bell Curve?”
Jeffrey: “The National Review had a symposium on that when the book came out. Psychometrically it’s a commonplace that blacks score 15 [IQ points behind (on the mean average) whites who are about 15 IQ points behind asians].
“No one is saying that this is immensely important in any sense. It’s a fact. If you lack five IQ points on somebody, it does not mean you will accomplish less.”
From the New York Times today:
Jeffrey Hart, Influential and Iconoclastic Conservative, Is Dead at 88
Jeffrey Hart, a defiant defender of the Western literary canon and a profusely credentialed but contrarian conservative who bolted the Republican Party to support John Kerry and Barack Obama for president, died on Sundayin Fairlee, Vt. He was 88.
The cause was complications of dementia, his wife, Nancy Hart, said.
Professor Hart, who taught English literature at Dartmouth for three decades, drafted speeches for Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon when they were presidential candidates; wrote copiously for William F. Buckley Jr.’s National Review, where he was also a senior editor; and was the author of books and a syndicated column.
He was also what Christopher Buckley, William’s son, called a Pied Piper for The Dartmouth Review, the acerbic, decidedly conservative, often inflammatory journal (not affiliated with the university) founded in Professor Hart’s living room in 1980 by four students, including his son, Ben. The Review became a proving ground for such vocal conservatives as the author Dinesh D’Souza and the talk-show host Laura Ingraham.
“Jeff Hart was one of the most influential conservative writers for approaching half a century,” Jack Fowler, the vice president of National Review, said in an email.
Professor Hart defected to the Democrats largely because of the war in Iraq, which he branded as “the greatest strategic blunder in American history.”
Claims by the Bush administration that the Iraqis were stockpiling weapons of mass destruction proved to be “dishonest,” he said, and without a strongman like Saddam Hussein, rivalry between religious sects rendered the region ungovernable.
Professor Hart was an iconoclastic conservative — some would say a political apostate — who supported stem cell research and criticized the Republican platform on the environment. He considered the crusade to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize abortion as impractical. “It is a very peculiar kind of conservatism that values life only in utero,” he said.
Professor Hart liked to flaunt his nonconformity, commuting to campus in a gas-guzzling Cadillac limousine that occupied two parking spaces; sporting an ankle-length raccoon coat at campus football games; coupling a meerschaum pipe with lumberjack boots and a Budweiser tie; seeking to restore the school’s American Indian symbol (Dartmouth was chartered in part to educate children of Indian tribes); and wearing mischievously provocative political buttons from his collection, like one that exhorted, “Soak the Poor.”
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Greco-Christianity
Bud says: I had a thought this week while I was clicking around on Wikipedia regarding Dante — I noticed more than ever how many references there are to Greek mythology in Inferno. I found myself reading about “the judgement of Paris,” which is a story from Greek mythology I had never heard of. On its Wikipedia page, at bottom, there are some 25 paintings of the scene imagined by different European (Christian) painters between 1400-1900. It’s interesting to think that, at least among the educated and artists, it was really a “Greco-Christianity” as much as a Judeo Christianity. But I regret to say that I received exactly zero education in the Greek classics and myths growing up as a kid in public school. It’s a real loss, and it makes accessing the Western canon that much more difficult. Did you study the Greek myths when you were growing up? My son knows all about Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass though, SO THAT’S NICE.
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Jussie Smollett Charged With Felony For Filing False Police Report
00:00 Betrayals: The Unpredictability of Human Relations
02:30 Kyle on IQ, previewing his JF Gariepy appearance tomorrow
25:00 JF Gariepy’s controversies
40:00 Betrayal
1:06:00 KMG arrives to discuss the National Review
1:21:00 Talk radio vs podcasts
1:40:00 Pierre Omidyar — How One of America’s Premier Data Monarchs is Funding a Global Information War and Shaping the Media Landscape
2:05:00 Nigerian brothers ‘tell police Jussie Smollett WAS behind the threatening letter he received a week before the “staged” attack’
2:09:00 Jussie Smollett charged with felony disorderly conduct for filing false police report
2:34:00 Work begins to replace steel-mesh layer of border wall in San Diego
2:36:00 ISIS bride Shamima Begum plans to get back with jihadi husband and make a new life in the Netherlands
2:38:00 ‘ISIS bride’ Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen, Sec. Pompeo says, despite lawyer’s assertions
2:40:00 Universities should be punished for giving black students lower grades
2:45:00 T-34: A feel-good movie about a successful daring escape from Nazi concentration camp
2:48:00 Kamala Harris’ Jamaican father rips her for pushing pot stereotype ‘in pursuit of identity politics’
2:51:00 Trump predicts the end of the media in 6 years as he encourages student suing the Washington Post over Covington coverage: ‘Go get them Nick. Fake News!’
2:52:00 Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was ‘never supposed to be a secret’
2:54:00 White Nationalist Coast Guard lieutenant compiled hit list of lawmakers
3:01:00 Z-Man: The End Of Atheism
3:09:00 Reihan Salam is new president of Manhattan Institute
3:13:14 KMG describes sex
3:15:00 Traditional Radio Faces a Grim Future
3:18:00 Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality
3:20:00 Elizabeth “Theranos” Holmes’ Trans-Species Pet
4:00:00 Betrayal
4:10:00 Punished Bob returns
4:12:00 Yesterday’s News Tomorrow: Inside American Jewish Journalism (2004) by Luke Ford
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/work-begins-to-replace-steel-mesh-layer-of-border-wall-in-san-diego
Z-Man on the end of atheism: http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=16520
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/19/kamala-harris-jamaican-father-donald-harris-rips-2/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6725093/Trump-predicts-end-media-6-years-encourages-Covington-student-suing-Washington-Post.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/final-version-eus-copyright-directive-worst-one-yet
https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8467376/shamima-begum-husband-british-citizenship-revoked-netherlands/
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/feb/20/universities-should-be-punished-for-giving-black-students-lower-grades
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6723325/Nigerian-brothers-say-Jussie-Smollett-faked-threatening-letter-week-hoax-attack.html
00:00 Tom Wolfe’s 1994 essay, Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died
20:00 Kyle Rowland discusses last night’s show
53:00 KMG on Jussie Smollett
1:11:00 Matt Forney on EU’s new copyright legislation and how it will shape the internet for years ahead worldwide
1:40:00 Baked Alaska has left the AR
1:45:00 J. Otto Pohl update from Kurdish Iraq
1:54:00 Will Trump close the southern border?
1:57:00 KMG’s relationship w the late Lawrence Auster
2:01:00 Steve Sailer’s praise for KMG
2:06:00 Mike Judge’s TV show King of the Hill
2:21:00 KMG hates soccer
2:27:00 Brundle vs Kyle
2:36:00 Christian minister Mattvei remembers his three Christian missions to India and one mission to Russia and being ejected from those two countries
3:07:00 Bloomberg Op-Ed: Immigrant Soldiers, Workers Needed for Geopolitical Power
3:10:00 Barbara Bush no longer a Republican
3:12:00 Jews vs Rashia Tlaib
3:15:00 As Russia collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton emerges
3:17:00 Ocasio-Cortez slams Republicans as ‘climate delayers’ after Green New Deal defeat
3:27:00 Monica Lewinsky: ‘If f–king only’ Clinton scandal was handled like Mueller report
3:30:00 Theater Thursday: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
4:40:00 American Muslim graduate student from Libya who voted Trump
Twitter considering labeling Trump tweets that violate rules
https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/trump-confirms-fbi-doj-will-probe-outrageous-jussie-smollett-case/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6860231/Fantasist-jailed-falsely-accusing-15-men-rape-sexual-assault-appeals-conviction.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6860535/Rosie-ODonnell-jokes-Elisabeth-Hasselbeck-praying-learning-castmates-crush.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6860095/Jussie-Smolletts-lawyer-says-thought-brothers-white-wearing-make-up.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6858049/Piers-Morgan-accuses-Meghan-Markle-fake-social-climber.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6859219/Chairman-New-Zealands-biggest-mosque-says-Mossad-Christchurch-massacre.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbcs-trump-russia-ratings-juggernaut-fizzles-time-to-pivot-to-2020?ref=home
http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/9308/ Jussie
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/03/27/kim-foxx-never-formally-recused-herself-from-jussie-smollett-case/
https://sports.yahoo.com/kliff-kingsbury-installing-phone-breaks-at-cardinals-meetings-to-get-that-social-media-fix-032901233.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/housing-market-2019-americans-cant-afford-a-home-in-70-percent-of-the-country/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/google-snubbed-the-pentagonbut-not-the-chinese-military?ref=home
00:00 Nazis, Satanism, and Shared Reality
1:00:00 KMG arrives on Jussie Smollett hate hoax
1:21:00 Facebook Bans Conservative Articles on Jussie Smollett Hate Hoax
1:24:00 CBS’s Lara Logan Calls Media ‘Mostly Liberal’ in Scorched Earth Interview: I’m Committing ‘Professional Suicide’
1:26:00 Facebook labelled ‘digital gangsters’ by report on fake news
1:28:00 Scott Pelley Commits Career Suicide
1:40:00 The under-endowed asian male
1:49:00 The vicious media ‘boys club’ trying to shut women up is as prevalent in Britain as it is in France
1:52:00 How Does a Straight White Male Democrat Run for President?
1:57:00 Russia’s RT fumes after Facebook blocks ‘wildly popular’ page
2:00:00 A Rhinestone Cowboy Who Grabbed Cars by the Horns
2:04:00 Duped: Compulsive Liars And How They Can Deceive You
2:10:00 Oxford shoes
2:17:00 Canada PM’s chief secretary resigns amid SNC-Lavalin controversy
2:20:00 BLACK MAN NOW RUNNING AMERICA’S MAIN NEO-NAZI GROUP
2:24:00 BIDEN IN EUROPE: AMERICA TODAY IS ‘AN EMBARRASSMENT’
2:27:00 Salon: Trump Has ‘Wrecked Our Sex Life’
2:38:00 Matt Forney
2:51:00 Autopsy of a Dead Coup on Trump
2:57:00 2020 Candidate Kirsten Gillibrand Supports ‘X’ as a Third Gender
3:00:00 How the cult of victimhood took hold of the British royal family
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/18/jussie-smollet-motive-staged-attack/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6708821/Lawyer-two-black-Empire-extras-detained-Jussie-Smollett-attack-says-innocent.html
https://pjmedia.com/trending/censored-facebook-bans-conservative-articles-on-jussie-smollett-hate-hoax/
http://www.newnownext.com/dave-chappelle-jussie-smollett-attack-joke/02/2019/?xrs=synd_twitter_nnn
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/02/18/smollett-story-unravels-abc-defends-robin-roberts-softball
Harris Freezes, Laughs Awkwardly When Asked About Calling Smollett Incident a ‘Modern-Day Lynching’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/16/2020-candidate-kirsten-gillibrand-backs-x-third-federal-gender/
https://spectator.us/cult-victimhood-british-royal-family/
https://nypost.com/2019/02/17/dont-expect-apologies-from-the-left-over-jussie-smollett-attack-fraud/
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/17/pelosi-deletes-tweet-jussie-smollett/
https://www.infowars.com/black-civil-rights-activist-says-jussie-smollet-could-have-started-race-war/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ralph-northam-to-jussie-smollett-how-black-history-month-2019-has-been-a-total-disaster?ref=home
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ligue-du-lol-metoo-france-media-sexism-women-britain-facebook-a8783461.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudie_Cohn#Clothing_business
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/17/white-male-democrats-2020-225101
https://www.france24.com/en/20190218-russias-rt-fumes-after-facebook-blocks-wildly-popular-page
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-6674519/Abby-Ellins-Duped-best-book-liars-believe-youll-believe-anything.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/16/salon-trump-has-wrecked-our-sex-life/
https://news.grabien.com/story-biden-europe-america-today-embarrassment
00:00 Security Guard Shoots Youtube livestreamer Furry Potato at Chabad School in Los Angeles
13:00 Kyle talks about white genocide
52:00 KMG arrives, talks about a possible State of Emergency
55:00 Jussie Smollett staged attack with help of others, allegedly being written off ‘Empire’
1:02:00 Removing the stigma of mental illness
1:04:00 White House says Trump will sign spending bill to avoid shutdown but will declare border emergency TOO
1:08:00 McCabe: There were 25th Amendment discussions at DOJ to remove Trump from office
1:16:00 Trump Looks to Uproot Numbers-Only Bias Test Widely Used in U.S.
1:20:00 When you think about it, in a way we are all Jussie’s attacker
1:42:00 The corruption of American intelligence agencies
1:45:00 BBC producer says the footage of the early April 2018
alleged chemical attack victims in Syria’s Douma “was staged”.
1:47:00 ‘Everyone is poly,’ no one is serious, and other reasons dating in San Francisco is awful
1:55:00 Amazon pulls out of $3 billion deal to bring HQ2 to NYC
1:57:00 Should Republicans donate to Ilhan Omar?
1:58:00 FROM THE NEW END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT TO PLAY “CIVILIZATION VI”
2:17:00 Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI
2:18:00 Loneliness
2:21:00 Matt Kuchar ‘not losing sleep’ over stiffing caddie of $1.3M win
2:24:00 Pregnant ISIS teen just wants to come home to quiet life in UK
2:26:00 Amazon will pay $0 in federal income taxes for the second year in a row
2:28:00 You may be disappointed by the Mueller report
2:29:00 Face tattoos: a trend that is here to stay?
2:38:00 Majority of California Residents Want to Leave
2:45:00 Theater Thursday: How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
3:30:00 Tom Luongo discusses Europe’s sovereign debt crisis
Panel: Tom Luongo: https://twitter.com/TFL1728
Brundlefly: https://twitter.com/Brundlefly14
Kyle Rowland: https://twitter.com/rowlandkyles
Furry Potato shot by security guard
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/andrew-mccabe-fbi-book-excerpt-the-threat/582748/
Theater Thursday: How to Murder Your Wife (1965) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058212/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/you-may-be-disappointed-mueller-report-n971601
https://theweek.com/speedreads/823590/amazon-pay-0-federal-income-taxes-second-year-row
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8420080/sex-robots-spying-government-crush-limbs/
https://www.abc15.com/news/state/fentanyl-deaths-from-mexican-oxy-pills-hit-arizona-hard
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/14/majority-of-california-residents-want-to-leave-poll/
https://news.yahoo.com/mccabe-25th-amendment-discussions-doj-remove-trump-office-140646145.html
https://www.france24.com/en/20190214-face-tattoos-trend-here-stay-0
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/8425004/brexit-vote-latest-theresa-may-brussels-eu-talks-valentines-day/
https://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/diet-coke-a-trump-problem/315055/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8425260/diet-coke-stroke-heart-attack-dying-young/
https://abcnews.go.com/news/story/exclusive-jussie-smollett-heartbroken-criticism-attack-truth-61062848
https://www.thewrap.com/jussie-smollett-doubters-supported-attacker-muslim-mexican-video/
https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/house-republicans-call-on-trump-to-use-executive-power-to-build-border-wall/
4 types of loneliness: http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=16461
https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/amazon-pulls-out-of-3-billion-deal-to-bring-hq2-to-queens/
https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/ocasio-cortez-cheers-as-amazon-scraps-nyc-headquarters/
https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/matt-kuchar-not-losing-sleep-over-stiffing-caddie-off-1-3m-win/
https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/trump-mccabe-was-a-puppet-for-leakin-james-comey/
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