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Linkfest 2017-07-14

The Last Barfighter: An Arcade Game That Pours You A Beer If You Win. Genius. Utilities fighting against rooftop solar are only hastening their own doom This is an interesting article. I have two primary questions: do all utilities make money the same way? This article claims they only make

The Long View: The Holy Grail

A nice overview of the grail stories, and how they fit into European history. This was part of my background reading for Tim Powers' The Drawing of the Dark and Last Call. The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief By Richard Barber Harvard University Press, 2004 463 Pages, US$17.

Linkfest 2017-07-07

Jacob Rees-Mogg announces baby Sixtus Initially, I was sure this was a joke. Then I saw this on BBC. Should Tyler Cowen Believe in God? Yes. But he needs to be convinced. Why a record number of university places might not be a good thing Ed West cites Peter Turchin

The Long View 2005-05-24: Manicheanism & World Order

Ed West noted recently that progressives have been becoming more and more globalist as times goes on, since this is seen as nationalism, the root of all evil. I call it globalism instead of pro-empire, because the the Empire is a socially conservative place, but I know what Ed means.

Earthquake Weather Book Review

Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers Orb Books 2007 $15.95; 414 pages ISBN 0765318229 Earthquake Weather is Tim Powers' third book in the Fault Lines trilogy. Powers wraps up all the weirdness of the first two into something even stranger than either. In much the same way Last Call

The Long View 2005-05-13: Exculturation and Pure Stupidity

In 2005 there wasn't much to make it look like Catholicism was withering in France, but twelve years later, it stubbornly refuses to die, and even shows unexpected signs of vitality. Exculturation and Pure Stupidity Here is a new buzzword for you: exculturate. The opposite of "inculturate,

The Long View 2005-05-10: The Great Pruning

There is an element of truth in this: Since I go to these services, I obviously approve of them, but I wonder whether the election of Benedict XVI might have the paradoxical effect of ending the traditionalist liturgical movement. Traditionalists have spent the last 35 years fighting official hostility to