“Poor guy can’t catch a break…”
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Steve Sailer writes:
Liberals control the telling of the past, using each anniversary to recycle their myths and further distort what really happened. So Wolters’ careful chronicles are extremely valuable in providing an alternative history that accords far better with how I remember what went on than the conventional wisdom about the past typically extruded by young, historically illiterate journalists. (…)
Wolters’ second profile is of Howard Gardner, the Harvard polymath responsible for the Multiple Intelligences theory that is usually taken to imply that everybody is equally intelligent, just in seven (or, later, eight or maybe ten) ways.
That there are multiple intelligences is somewhat true, just as it’s also somewhat false. (Half-full glasses are also half empty.)
Gardner is a genuinely intelligent and cultured man. His discussions with the late IQ scholar Arthur Jensen, in which he admitted that his Multiple Intelligences theory doesn’t really kick in until above 120 IQ, were illuminating.
On the other hand, I’ve never seen much evidence that Gardner possesses scientific intelligence. His list of supposed multiple intelligences, such as musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, and bodily-kinesthetic (which implausibly includes both jocks and gearheads, two groups that nobody besides Gardner finds have much in common), always struck me as more that of an opinionated pundit than of a man of science carving nature at its joints.
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Can’t predict the comments this week, sorry… Most likely some bumpkinry about “I don’t own a TV!” and “Hollywood JOOOOOZ!”
We went back and forth like that for the rest of the film:
“That’s the suitcase from Kiss Me Deadly
.”
“That’s the ‘square gag’ from The Flintstones.”
Pulp Fiction’s “innovative” “playing with time”? Er, La Jetée
, anyone?
All those narratives coming together at the end? Uh, how’s about every horror omnibus ever, but Dead of Night in particular?
Years later, having married a World War II buff, I was matrimonially obligated to sit through Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Again, Tarantino’s ingenuity was applauded: Imagine! An alternative history in which Hitler is assassinated!
Yes, who would have conceived of such a thing—except, of course, the 35-odd folks who tried to kill the guy in real life, and the untold millions who’ve fantasized about it from around 1935 up until, hey, look: this week even?
So the cops can form a line behind me.
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[T]here’s my story on the cover, but Kyle Wyatt wrote it… They cheated on a story about cheating.”
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If Andrew Breitbart were still alive, this article wouldn’t have run. He could have explained it to you, sonny.
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Jim Goad writes:
It’s absurd that such infantile tyrants ever gained the power that they now wield. They need that power kicked out from under their feet. But it will take some fearless individuals to put the fear back where it belongs. Can’t do it with only 99 monkeys, though—you need that hundredth monkey to push it over the tipping point. Instead of a thousand points of light, what’s needed are a thousand people simultaneously saying, “I’m not afraid of whatever stupid words you choose to call me. Now go away and stop bothering people.”
Whereas James E. Miller says:
Conservatives can survive this storm if they hunker down and wait it out. The cult of liberalism is based on a rickety foundation, and liberals don’t have the lasting fortitude to sustain their own belief system. The left’s death grip on America will eventually loosen, either by economic catastrophe or birthrate diminution. Only then will sanity return.
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Enjoy FREE audio and video highlights from the week in American conservative talk radio, including:
PLUS:
Mark Steyn’s chats with Bill Bennett and Hugh Hewitt, with excellent insights into the last GOP debate debacle
EPIC CLASSIC Adam Carolla on #GamerGate and #SXSW — “Worry about what ISIS is doing to various cultures and women. Are we ever going to win another war?” Tells caller to get a husband and have some kids.
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