A commentator at Sailer’s blog writes of a recent episode of The Late Show that “9 out of 10 of the Marines on Letterman’s Top 10 were minorities, and half were women.”

I went out and found the video:

Although school prayer became illegal in the early 1960s, by 1990, 92 percent of Americans still identified with a major religion. Ten years later, only 86 percet did, making secularists the fastest growing group in America. According to a 2007 poll cited in the Washington Post, among those 18-22 one in four is atheist/agnostic/secular.

Among the opinion making class, the percentage of nonbelievers is most certainly at least a few times higher than it is in the general population. Nature abhors a vacuum, and we’ve seen that the diversity cult has grown at about the rate the traditional belief has been sinking. There was never an exact date when the Christian era ended and the diversity one began, but historians may use Obama’s election as the convenient dividing point between the two. 

I was on a college campus during the Obama campaign, and something had changed. Supporting him and thus showing your openness to the other went from being one marker of social status among many to being the main thing dividing the enlightened and ignorant.  To test my theory, I dug up another Letterman Top Ten list involving military personnel from before Obama’s victory so I could see the demographic composition. 

In this video posted in April of 08, whites are 40 percent of the personnel instead of 10.
A white male still reads number one in both segments, for whatever it’s worth.

Although I was unable to find any videos to verify this, I would bet that ten members of the armed forces picked for a Letterman Top Ten list in the 1990s would’ve been majority white while such a skit from the 1980s would have had no more than one or two token blacks, if any.

Why couldn’t society have kept its Christian character while descending into ant-white insanity?  I propose that it’s because adherence to one set of beliefs will often temper keeping up with the practices of another. Evangelical Christians don’t avoid being obsessed with diversity because their creed is incompatible with it, but because their minds are too focused on other measures of status and morality. After all, it takes a lot of thought and effort to find blacks, Hispanics and women in suitable numbers for every single public display an organization partakes in.  Only people who have been stripped of all racial pride, sense of traditional morality and faith are desperate enough for some kind of meaning in life to bother with it. 

Despite my best efforts to embrace all God’s creatures with my loving spirit, Jon and Kate Gosselin are impossible to esteem. I simply cannot understand why two people would ever contemplate having sextuplets. They say they were unable to select one embryo from the six their doctor created for them through in vitro fertilization. But why not? Did they actually want six babies at the same time? Did they imagine they were being unfair to the discarded embryos?  Was it for some sort of guilt or religious fear? Were they hoping to use these children for shekels, and dare I say, stardom? 

Whatever the reasons, they had eight kids, and decided to go on television. They sold their souls, and their children’s souls, in the process. We all know what happens to people who sell their souls now don’t we.  But I wonder, have they figured it out yet?  Or are they too stupid?

That these people have been shamelessly promoted by demonic trash hounds, who ought to rot in hell for their sins against humanity, is not entirely their fault (though, I am certain, they do little to curb the publicity the demonic trash hounds provide them with on TV and in print.) The Gosselins have become the most popular freak show around, and everyone has something to say about them. I recently read on Page Six that the Suzie Wong Sake Lounge is planning an “Anti-Gosselin” fundraiser for Planned Parenthood to make “a point of thinking of the victims, the children of their loveless marriage.”

Every day, there’s more news about that bloated bum calling himself a father, and his bank balance. When will it stop? The situation is totally egregious. The Gosselins should be out of the spotlight immediately. Someone must have the sense to help them out of this atrocious mess. Where is Dr Phil when he is needed? 

Why isn’t there some sort of legislation limiting the number of babies one woman can have via in vitro fertilization? People concerned with the rights of unborn fetuses should be more concerned with the needs of children. No child could possibly get what he or she needs in a two parent family with seven other siblings. Oh yes, did I forget to mention the Gosselins already had twins. Since we’re on the subject, lets talk about that other monster, Octomom. She should have an orphanage instead of a womb. I wonder how Octomom and the Gosselins justify their actions simply because science allows them to. There are so many children waiting to be adopted.  And,what kind of a world makes it impossible for homosexuals to adopt children when the alternative for these children is so much worse than the Birdcage?  Furthermore, when did the ability to screw, or buy an embryo, make anyone fit to parent?  I just don’t understand people sometimes. Fuck you I say to those righteous simpletons who haven’t the slightest clue when it come to being a good Christian.

This past weekend, a friend of mine recounted a visit he paid to his wife’s family in Arkansas around the time McCain had scheduled his much-awaited announcement of who his running-mate would be. Watching the coverage on TV, my friend was struck by just how quickly his Southern in-laws empathized with the then-unknown governor of Alaska. She was their gal, even though they weren’t yet sure how to pronounce her last name. 

Sarah Palin is, put simply, the goddess of implicit whiteness. She represents the “Real America” as it’s understood, most often tacitly, by the founding stock of the country from Juno, Alaska, to Jasper, Texas. This is, of course, a dangerous thing in many ways, for so far her powers have been used to mobilize white Christian support for John McCain. But even the man who think he’s Palin’s handler and eminence grise must realize that the woman represents a force he cannot totally control, and that someday she might really “go rogue,” as it were.       

Or maybe not. No one as of yet has been able to capture her inner personality. And I certainly haven’t learned anything watching her recent television interviews, in which Oprah and Barbara have been fishing for headline quotes about how mad she was at McCain for not letting her make a concession speech yadayadayada... My guess is that Sarah is probably a profound narcissist, most beauty pageant contestants are, but then she also has a flexibility and openness of mind that allows her to embrace, at one time or another, Buchananism, Zionism, Kenyan anti-witchcraft, and the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle. 

I should read her book and write something about it. At the very least, one can make do with its many tales from the campaign trail, like this one about GOP operative Nicolle Wallace‘s ingenious idea of booking Sarah for an interview with Katie Couric, Wallace’s one-time colleague at CBS News. 

From the beginning, Nicolle [Wallace] pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News. The campaign’s general strategy involved coming out with a network anchor, someone they felt had treated John well on the trail thus far. My suggestion was that we be consistent with that strategy and start talking to outlets like FOX and the Wall Street Journal. I really didn’t have a say in which press I was going to talk to, but for some reason Nicolle seemed compelled to get me on the Katie bandwagon.

“Katie really likes you,” she said to me one day. “she’s a working mom and admires you as a working mom. She has teenage daughter like you. She just relates to you,” Nicolle said. “believe me, I know her very well. I’ve worked with her.” Nicolle had left her gig at CBS just a few months earlier to hook up with the McCain campaign. I had to trust her experience, as she had dealt with national politics more than I had. But something always struck me as peculiar about the way she recalled her days in the White House, when she was speaking on behalf of President George W. Bush. She didn’t have much to say that was positive about her former boss or the job in general. Whenever I wanted to give a shout-out to the White House’s homeland security efforts after 9/11, we were told we couldn’t do it. I didn’t know if that was Nicolle’s call.

Nicolle went on to explain that Katie really needed a career boost. “She just has such low self-esteem,” Nicolle said. She added that Katie was going through a tough time. “She just feels she can’t trust anybody.”

I was thinking, And this has to do with John McCain’s campaign how?

Nicolle said. “She wants you to like her.”

Hearing all that, I almost started to feel sorry for her. Katie had tried to make a bold move from lively morning gal to serious anchor, but the new assignment wasn’t going very well.

“You know what? We’ll schedule a segment with her,” Nicolle said. “If it doesn’t go well, if there’s no chemistry, we won’t do any others.”

Don’t you love how Palinese translates to the page!  What I also find interesting is that while the media would depict the McCain camp as a mean old gathering of cantankerous blackshirts, in reality it was staffed by third-wave feminists who made Oprah-style evocations of female solidarity and you-go-girl spirit.  According to Wallace, it was a good idea to be interviewed by Katie because “she’s a working mom and admires you as a working mom”; “She just has such low self-esteem”; “She just feels she can’t trust anybody.” All that was lacking was my favorite therapy cliché, “Katie’s in a bad place right now.” 

As we know, the interview turned into a catastrophe, with Katie questioning Sarah in a cold, contemptuous, almost sarcastic manner that made the governor produce responses that were even more convoluted than usual. Working-mom solidarity was easily trumped by Katie’s snootiness towards a non-east coast, pro-life Christian. In many ways, Wallace reminds me a lot of Marcia Clark, the prosecuting attorney in the OJ Simpson trial who worked hard to select a mostly female jury, hoping that women would empathize with Nicole Brown Simpson and lock up the abusive OJ. The sly Jonny Cochrian went along with the scheme, but made sure that they were all black women. The final composition was 10 women, 2 men; 9 blacks, 1 hispanic, and 2 whites. As it turns out, the battle between “sisterhood” and black racial ideology is no contest.

And as Katie’s interview with Sarah shows, women are meaner, pettier, more jealous and unfair around other women than they are around men.

But then, this isn’t exactly a shocking revelation for anyone who’s ever attended high school.     

Following years of wilting revenue and waning stature, Playboy is rumored to be on the chopping block. Known for its centerfolds, its on-again, off-again status as both public menace and free speech icon, and the well-worn joke about it being popular for its articles (which have often exceeded the quality of supposedly respectable publications. Remember that Playboy once published folks like Wodehouse, Nabokov, and Lenny Bruce), the magazine has been in the news following discussions about it potentially passing into new hands.

Deal or no deal, one has to marvel that the magazine even remains in existence. With all the free, easily accessed Internet naughtiness out there, I can’t understand how Playboy is still drawing breath. The days of centerfolds transitioning into greater fame seem quaint and yellowed, and the last time the magazine snagged a buzzworthy celeb, she was a literal blue hair.

Perhaps cultural conservatives should take solace from the fact that there are still fuddy-duddies who need their smut classed up a bit. Maybe it is a good sign that Playboy didn’t immediately fold amidst the onslaught of gratis, more hardcore fare. The survival of a guilty pleasure that actually does have articles and emphasizes frivolity over creepiness may even be a harbinger of tradition making a comeback. Besides, attending a party at the Barely Legal Mansion just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

In today’s peeping tom media maelstrom, even Hef himself comes off a tad old-fashioned. In the end, his real legacy might not be his bathrobe, but his pipe.

With all this talk of Black Metal, I hope we don’t lose sight of another truly conservative popular art form.

Note that Steve Sailer’s new book makes an appearance around minute two. And you say that conservatives ain’t cool? 

When I was growing up, there was a grave perception that Japan was going to conquer the world. Not with bombs, but with its thought to be unstoppable economy. Then the Nikkei popped, Japanese property values curtsied to the ground, and the country entered its Lost Decade(s). Suddenly, Japan didn’t seem so formidable, and the idea of a Mothra-like economic threat from the East subsided.

Then came the noughties and China’s real leap forward. Now the Middle Kingdom is probably more feared than Japan ever was, not only due to its manufacturing muscle and huge population; but also thanks to its massive holdings of U.S. debt.

Last week Ambrose Evans-Pritchard made the case that Japan may actually be a bigger global risk right now than Uncle Sam. The problem is Japan’s ability to keep managing its preternatural debt levels. The fear is that it would only take a modest rise in Japanese bond yields to incapacitate Japan’s debt servicing and send the nation over the brink.

How might Japan raise funds to fight this off? If they try raising taxes, the horror film scenario is that their aging citizens would then sell their JGBs, forcing bond yields even higher and making Japan’s debt problem all the more calamitous. This could affect Japan’s ability to keep giving America loans to nowhere and leave us in our own debt service abyss.

All decade long we’ve been hearing that China was about to “foreclose on America.” How many times has the specter of China pulling the plug on our debt and sending us back to the Stone Age been invoked? Who would have guessed that Japan might be the U.S. creditor to blink first, not because of some maniacal strategy, but because of, well, a lack of strategy. How perverse would it be if the long forgotten fear of a Japanese takeover of the global economy finally did come to pass, only in the absolute wrong direction. There is a lesson here that America has refused to learn for itself, so it may be up to the Japanese to learn it for us. Deficits do matter.

The recent discussion of the intellectual depth (or lack thereof) of heavy metal music gives me the excuse to do something I always enjoy doing, referring to the great Canadian comedy troop of SCTV.  In 1983, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, and the late John Candy took on another genre of popular music that has garnered academic attention, British punk music.  The result was the Queenhaters performing “I Hate the Bloody Queen,” a song which the editors of Reason magazine could sing with relish, since it both decries taxes and praises marijuana.  Those who are interested in watching this fine example of satire may do so here.

Yesterday morning, I was scheduled for a 40-minute-ish appearance on Sirius/XM’s The Mike Church Show.  Once the conversation began and the calls started to roll in, however, Mike asked me to stay through an hour, and then through two.  You can find the transcript of much of our discussion here, here, and here.

Even as Mike Church, his callers, and I conversed, I received an e-mail from Fox News TV’s The Glenn Beck Program.  Judge Andrew Napolitano was to be the guest host, and he would like for me to join him in a conversation about the ways that the Federal Government trashes the Constitution.  In the event, we also talked about the idea of a constitutional convention.  You can find our exchange, in which we were joined by my Who Killed the Constitution? co-author Tom Woods, here (transcript).  (There’s also video of that TV segment on YouTube.)

Reading the fulsome praise for diversity by General Casey, one is left wondering how such men as the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc and the Marines at Iwo Jima managed to do what they did without its many benefits, and how those men would have reacted if they had been told that safeguarding diversity was more important than safeguarding the lives of American fighting men.

Judge Andrew Napolitano will guest host Fox News’s Glenn Beck Program tonight.  I’ll be on right at the top of the show.  The topic will be the Federal Government’s trashing of the US Constitution.  I understand that Tom Woods will be on the show tonight as well, but I’m not sure when or about what.

Today on Sirius/XM’s The Mike Church Show, I was a guest for two hours.  The topic was the idea, floating around among state legislators in several states, of having a federal constitutional convention.  I favor it, strongly, and Mike gave me plenty of time to develop my reasoning.  My appearance was originally to be for one hour, but he asked me to stay for a second hour, and I happily obliged.  Callers asked all of the most common questions, which I flatter myself that I answered persuasively.  At least, I am persuaded.