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AMERICAN DIGEST — ... Victor Davis Hanson: Works and Days - Ten Random, Politicially-incorrect Thoughts 5. California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. ...

VDH: young North American men are getting "gay-er"
five feet of fury. (global warming: the loch ness monster of weather.) — ... Something has happened to the generic American male accent. Maybe it is urbanization; perhaps it is now an affectation to sound precise and caring with a patina of intellectual authority; perhaps it is the fashion culture of the metrosexual; maybe it is the influence of the gay community in arts and popular culture. Maybe the ubiquitous new intonation comes from the scarcity of salty old jobs in construction, farming, or fishing. But increasingly to meet a young American male about 25 is to hear a particular nasal stress, a much higher tone than ...

Sunday morning links
Maggie's Farm — ... Why some people are lucky, and some are not. (h/t, YARGB) Parents of fat kids charged with abuse in Britain Why to be a well-dressed man What good is monasticism? Anchoress China's gruesome organ harvest Palin's gruesome turkey harvest Ten politically-incorrect thoughts. VDH Arianna Huffington: Online entrepreneur Dear Whole Foods: We're through... Insty: THE SHAM OF SEX HARASSMENT TRAINING: “It’s little more ...

Vero possumus
Power Line — Victor Davis Hanson formulates ten random, politically incorrect thoughts. As a one-time Latin teacher, I relish this one: Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education. In particular, such instruction would do more for minority youths than all the "role model" diversity sermons on Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Montezuma, and Caesar Chavez put together. Nothing so enriches the vocabulary, so instructs about English grammar and syntax, so creates a discipline of the mind, an elegance of expression, and serves ...

Catharsis
TigerHawk — By TigerHawk at 11/23/2008 08:40:00 PM Victor Davis Hanson uploads "ten random, politically incorrect thoughts." Every one of them deserves long discussion. Add your own in the comments (taking care, in your incorrectness, to be civil). CWCID: ...

Elegy
Neptunus Lex — VDH gives us ten reasons why the world is going to hell. Of course, being a classical scholar, he probably  understands that it always has been.

Linking Around
The Anchoress — ... I don’t think you’re actually allowed to call anyone a sissy, anymore. But Victor Davis Hanson, also in a politically correct mood reveals his 10 Politically Incorrect Thoughts, most which you’ve probably had, but this one was striking, to me: ...

Ten Politically Incorrect Thoughts
Commonsense & Wonder — Victor Davis Hanson offers 10 Politically Incorrect Thoughts. 1. Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education. In particular, such instruction would do more for minority youths than all the ‘role model’ diversity sermons on Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Montezuma, and Caesar Chavez put together. Nothing so enriches the vocabulary, so instructs about English grammar and syntax, so creates a discipline of the mind, an elegance of expression, and serves as a gateway to the thinking and values of Western civilization as ...

The Voice of the Neuter is Heard Throughout the Land
AMERICAN DIGEST — ... the influence of the gay community in arts and popular culture. Maybe the ubiquitous new intonation comes from the scarcity of salty old jobs in construction, farming, or fishing. But increasingly to meet a young American male about 25 is to hear a particular nasal stress, a much higher tone than one heard 40 years ago, and, to be frank, to listen to a precious voice often nearly indistinguishable from the female. -- Works and Days ｻ Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts ...

An entire American culture, the West itself, its ideas and experiences, have simply vanished on the altar of therapy
¡No Pasarán! — …increasingly to meet a young American male about 25 is to hear a particular nasal stress, a much higher tone than one heard 40 years ago, and, to be frank, to listen to a precious voice often nearly indistinguishable from the female. Victor Davis Hanson offers up Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts…