Hey, I thought you said White people don't want advocates? Yet Jared Taylor racks up huge likes with each post. Weird, huh? It's as if White people are human beings.

Unlike "above it all" CivNats who revel in their non-human aspirations.

Lol!

Looks like iSteve's been out Jewed!

Replies: @Bill Jones

I agree. My suggestion to have this fixed is to put a quick note in the latest Bugs & Suggestions thread. The yellow background will stand out, so probably Ron Unz will see it immediately and figure a way to clear this up on this, future, and even past iSteve Open Threads.

BTW, I watched both of your 8 min videos. You've already taught me all this stuff, but it is simple enough for a lot of people to learn from. The 1st half(?) of the 2nd one has you speaking pretty fast. Maybe the young people - who speed up videos and all - would be fine with it. I like a speed to where things can sink in.

At least it wasn't Paul Joseph Watson style, with editing that can give people seizures.

Replies: @MEH 0910, @Chrisnonymous

why are you posting your gripe here? i don't think most people give a shit about your proprietary squabble with unz. is he not answering your calls? frankly, i would find it amusing if you sued him over this as it would be a perfect illustration of the lack of virtue and integrity of the 21st century blogging intellectual elite.

and in response to Newman above, both of you were embarrassing, unthinking ninnies when it came to the covid thingy, and whatever positive reputations you both enjoy will forever be asterisked by this shame. you promoted the police state, when all you had to do was stay at home if you personally felt at risk. you're the wordsmith, so draft something with that sentiment in mind to put on your headstone.

Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Corvinus, @TWS

'I don’t mind Ron putting up these iSteve open threads, but he shouldn’t be using my name as posting them. Please just byline them as posted by “The Editor” and we’ll all be happy.'

So entitled, so utterly boomer 🙄

No one cares what Pfiser Steve 'minds.'

People will use Steve's name however they please. Viz: Steve Sailer is a disingenuous Pfizer shill.

No one cares about Steve's preferred byline.

Steve doesn't know that his suggested byline makes anyone happy.

No one cares if Steve is happy.

What an entitled, prissy, presumptuous narcissist is this fraud Pfiser Steve!

"I don’t mind Ron putting up these iSteve open threads, but he shouldn’t be using my name as posting them."

Absolutely. I know, I requested that Mr. Unz cease and desist. Seems to me your second protestation is falling upon deaf ears. Then again, you're no longer part of his operation, so why even sweat it?

Replies: @Anonymous

You do have a point, Mr. Sailer.

What I don't understand is why you aren't communicating directly with Mr. Unz instead of via your comments here. What gives?

BTW, we welcome any appearance by you here. We miss you, so thanks for giving us a little shot of dopamine with your yellow box.

How do you like those coordinated, organized, anti-American riots in your neighborhood?

Sincerely,
A Real Fan Who Sent You Adoring Shit.

PS: I really do feel sorry, and I regret how the typical outcome of my life "outcomed" with regard to you. You don't deserve it. I am the lost one. You are the great one. I am sorry.

I hope you read this.

Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

Speaking of Steve’s shrinking presence, I used to donate rather generously, but I stopped when Steve stopped writing essays and otherwise curating the blog. Was my stopping the moral thing to do? Did other prior donors likewise stop, or did they feel Steve still merits donations, as a kind of royalty? In any case, while I miss those engaging and informative contributions by Steve, I of course fully respect his decision to withdraw.

Replies: @bomag

I don’t mind Ron putting up these iSteve open threads, but he shouldn’t be using my name as posting them. Please just byline them as posted by “The Editor” and we’ll all be happy.
 

https://www.unz.com/author/isteve-community/

Thank you Ron Unz.

Replies: @Corvinus, @OilcanFloyd

Maybe you’ll read this. Then again, you’re dead to this blog. Here’s hoping you’ll agree that the rule of law and law and order do not mix with the Trump Administration.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lrvbsqa6bk2p

https://www.peakstupidity.com/images/Peak_Stupidity_Billboard.jpg

I’d appreciate if these were posts were attribute to the Editor rather than to me.
 

I’d appreciate if these were posts were attribute to the Editor rather than to me.
 

Hey, you said White people didn't want advocates for them. You implied Jared Taylor was trying to be an Al Sharpton (too déclassé!). Yet, his tweets are going viral.

A typical tweet from him has 12,000 likes in just a day. Meanwhile, yours typical get 100 to 300 likes. What's up? It's as if Whites are human like everybody else.

Replies: @MGB, @Corvinus

I'd appreciated if someone edit you're posts, you greasy lush. Your face is getting puffy from all the white wine F yeah! you chug on the daily.

Steve no doubt regrets that this ragtag
ménage includes that Brobdingnag-brag-
prone misuse of sperm
who denotes himself Germ
Theory, ex-(he says) SNL gag-fag.

No offense, Germ. I just go where the rhymes take me.

Wow, you’re back (briefly)! And this is the best you can do?

Unless, of course, your post is a fake, i.e. someone is impersonating you. Can’t rule that out.

Mr. Sailer, you had to have the vague impression when you left this fine opinion webzine for the greener (money) pastures of Substack, Mr. Unz, the shrewd (Jewish) businessman, would milk the remnants of your blog for all it’s worth. Hence, his lame insistence on these Open Threads to promote his own articles. Seems to me you and him need to have another conversation, rather than you weakly protest, regarding your legacy.

And since you’ve sadly departed, Achmed and Hail run roughshod here by promoting their own websites, Greta Handel still bitterly complains like an old scold about your alleged heavy handed whimming, and Loyalty… and MikeTre excitedly demand white racial fealty.

So, anything else on your mind?

Steve you have to come back. If not you full-time then please allow Hari, your Filipino manservant aka Comments Commissar to return to his former post in order to regulate your former Joint. It's degenerated into cliques and upperclass foodies making me envious with the details of their fancy lives. Corvinus is running roughshod over everybody except for me.

Why are you getting a gold box when you aren't even here anymore?

I'd appreciate if your posts were attribute to thee rather than to we.

This isn't your place anymore.

GOOD BYE

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5082/5337349122_f04a6e3d44_b.jpg

Replies: @Dmon

I’d appreciate if these were posts were attribute to the Editor rather than to me.
 

Sailer come back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmEyGiaqm7k

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fa4BECxUsAA7qSr.jpg

Replies: @Corvinus

Wut cha cummin back fer?

Looking at the responses it's not difficult to imagine why Sailer had enough with this place.

Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

Good to see you.

I can understand your reason for wanting to leave a lot of this behind you.

But the now exiled former iSteve commentators still have your inspiration in common.

Are your current fans as nutty as these here? More refined and restrained?

Some of us just like the Unz commentary set up and yours now is said to be inferior Substack stuff.

I wish you the best and hope you periodically visit.

Hey Steve, I just realized how little I miss your low-effort posts. Stupid shit about golf, or banal observations about negro crime. The comments have always been more interesting than your low efforts.

They started by making down laws.

OT — from a recent post on your Substack:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-nurture-assumption-by-judith

A friend who is a behavioral geneticist told me that he’s getting concerned that his side in the nature vs. nurture debate was getting excessively triumphalist lately.
 

That's a good line, but technically Marbury v. Madison was more the Supremes declaring that they get to invalidate Federal laws rather than make up new ones, as Ralph L's comment implied.

To answer dearieme's question, I dunno. There is, TBH, some wiggle room in defining what is "making up law" versus what is ordinary judicial review. The earliest notorious case after Marbury (1803) was probably Dredd Scott (1857), where in order to forestall a looming national schism, the Court mucked around with the definition of citizenship ... and ironically if unsurprisingly ended up provoking the Civil War it sought to avert. That seemed to chasten the Court for a few decades until...

The modern era of judicial activism probably starts with the New Deal and especially Wickard v. Filburn (1942) where the Supreme Court essentially rewrote the Constitution's interstate commerce clause to mean intrastate non-commerce. But arguably the Justices were acting under the gun of the FDR admin threats, so this wasn't activism with full scienter.

The real golden age of judicial activism was the Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s when, feeling its oats, the Supreme Court just started remaking whatever it wanted about American society. Most of the heavy jurisprudential philosophizing since then has been about whether or how to trim the Warren Court's legacy, and mostly it hasn't happened.

Replies: @Ralph L

"In Marbury vs. Madison in 1803, the Supreme Court made up the law that they get to make up laws."

No, they issued a RULING. Congress created the courts (a law!), conferring it the power to review legislation and thus enforce the Constitution. The Supreme Court then exercised this authority in a famous and critical ruling that checks the power of the legislative and executive branches.

Get it right next time.

Replies: @Alden

If Marbury was so wrong why didn't anyone appeal it?

“Tyler Cowen stumps the NYT's genetics correspondent.”

You draw this conclusion without even presenting a shred of evidence. More importantly, Cowen begs the question when he states “Now to unimaginative people, that will sound impossible, but if you think about the equilibrium rolling itself out slowly” and “If I knew nothing about you, and I knew about the rest of your family, I’d be more inclined to let you into Yale, and that would’ve been a good decision”

Cower assumes that the use of DNA in education and employment is a desirable end, a welcomed part of the decision making process, without considering its ethical and legal quandaries.

“thus denying Trump a chance to take credit for the success of the vaccine before the election.”

Still passing off this outright lie?

I get this blog is on its last legs and you’re offering up softball questions to what Trump and Musk are doing on Substack. Maybe you will wake up and start NOTICING, but my vague impression is you want money for closet renovations and better dog food brands. I know this falls on deaf ears, but someone has to guide you toward truth.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-makes-aggressive-new-claim-of-executive-power-to-circumvent-the-senate

Replies: @anonymous

Speaking about posting on your Substack regarding science and data...

https://newrepublic.com/article/191563/trump-musk-war-information-data

https://newrepublic.com/article/192346/musk-doge-noaa-water-safety-algae

When are you going to wake up?

You said “It’s easy to rank states by their raw scores on the federal government’s National Assessment of Educational Progress test”

Well, your days of data analysis are numbered here. Thanks Trump.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/education-department-cuts-agency-compiles-nations-report-card/story?id=119735831

Celebrities tend to be celebrities because they tend to be... well.. I 'll let the group figure out the ending to that sentence.

There's also no such thing as an ex-felon, unless a pardon was granted.

And seeing as I lived in the SFV for 12 years I ran into at least 10 that I can recall and they all fell into 2 groups: Awkward, or jagoff. Watch an interview with Downey; he is the former.

Elvis was really nice to strangers. So was Ed Sullivan.

Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality

Certainly personality must be a variable that effects the outcome, but there could be others. Screen actors and performers have looks that are interesting on camera, for example.

Let's imagine paraphrasing David Lynch as John Ford:

"Okay kid, look at the actor in that picture. What do you see?"

"Uh, I see a man in a suit, saying something..."

"NO, NO, NO! The man has a tough-looking, unusual face, kind of scary and rough. Okay, look at the actor in that other picture. What do you see?"

"I see a man with blue eyes, smiling, wearing nice clothes."

"NO! He's extremely good-looking, unnaturally so! Even weirdly so!

"If an actor looks unusual, with pronounced features that are somehow strange, sharply defined on camera, he's INTERESTING!

"If an actor looks stunningly handsome unlike normal people, he's INTERESTING!

"If an actor looks normal, he's BORING as SHIT!"

Okay, that said, I speculate there is also a considerable about of confirmation bias when we meet celebrities. We assume they are going to be interesting, cool, charismatic because they are famous and we see them as such. With this bias, we do feel something about them when they "walk into the room."

I've met and interacted with a handful myself, and sometimes I didn't even know who they were at first. I don't believe they all have that magical charisma, but that they do excite people precisely because they are famous.

One time I even thought Paul Newman was just some grumpy-looking New England man in L.L. Bean clothes. My wife and I walked into a soup shop (imagine the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld but nicer and in a Connecticut town.) There was New England Man wearing tan corduroys looking at me. We nodded at each other. It wasn't until he and I were standing next to each other ladling soup into our cups that I realized who he was. (I also noticed that he went to and ladled out ALL of the white bean artichoke soup for himself after he heard me say to my wife, "Ooh, white bean artichoke. That sounds good." Then checking out ahead of me, he told the cashier, "You may find this hard to believe, be we DO cook at our house." Well duh! He started a food company with his salad dressing recipe, after all.

Celebrities tend to be celebrities because they have above average personalities.
 

It's interesting that the person partially Jewish Downey credits for saving his life is such a raging antisemite.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-15359434

Not surprisingly, lots of my schoolteachers were into New Age stuff into 1970-1979.

The inside joke about Slim Whitman was the coolest thing about that movie.

Apparently we have none today. I get it, you’re raking in the cash and doing Trump puff pieces, but how about NOTICING something that is iStevian here. Unless you are in on the grift as well.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-25/musk-warns-federal-workers-to-answer-next-email-or-be-fired?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/02/25/ominous-move-to-strip-americans-of-first-amendment-rights/

https://bsky.app/profile/davidcayjohnston.bsky.social

Here’s the song from the Pixies’ “Sub Rosa” album song “Where Is My Mind?” made famous by the movie “Fight Club:”
 

But did Orwell speak specifically about orange juice or was it just fruit juices?

I was born just after Orwell died, but in my youth the only kind of orange juice available in England came in cans and it wasn't very nice. (My father owned a grocery store and I don't remember any other kind of orange juice other than the government issued thick orange juice concentrate that was sold in bottles via clinics for children and pregnant mothers for its vitamin C content. There were not many fresh fruits available in those times.)

We usually used to get a fresh orange or a mandarin in a Christmas stocking. At that time, before Britain joined the EU, they were imported, usually from Israel, but usually an orange would be peeled at the table and shared between more than one person. I never heard of people making them into juice. And at that time electric juicers were not a thing.

There may also have been some kind of orange drinks available in bottles in pubs, but they were not fresh orange juice. There were also drinks like Kia Ora Orange squash or Robinsons Orange crush which were often sold in cinemas
and cafes.

My cousin did not like tea or milk and he grew up usually having a drink called Corona Orange which is meals which was a kind of soda. I tried it once or twice and didn't like it. People in England didn't drink soda much in those days although there was some drinks called Dandelion and Burdock or Tizer that people sometimes drink at picnics.

Orwell believed that working men drank beer or tea, and he may have been complaining about teetotalers in general.

Replies: @Lurker

OJ - Albert Lasker - SunKist - Marketing Magic in America!
 

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/sheriff-gene-hackman-wife-found-dead-in-santa-fe-home-no-foul-play-suspected/article_2ea8855a-f4b8-11ef-b501-73232a2b5213.html
https://archive.is/0ucbr

Sheriff: Gene Hackman, wife found dead in Santa Fe home; no foul play suspected
Feb 27, 2025

Legendary actor, two-time Oscar winner and author Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, were found dead Wednesday afternoon in their home in the Santa Fe Summit community northeast of the city.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed just after midnight Thursday the couple had died, along with their dog.

Mendoza said in an interview Wednesday evening there was no immediate indication of foul play. He did not provide a cause of death or say when the couple might have died.

Hackman, 95, had lived in Santa Fe since the 1980s and married Arakawa, 63, in 1991.

Sheriff's deputies arrived at the couple's home on Old Sunset Trail, in a gated community off Hyde Park Road just north of Ten Thousands Waves, on Wednesday afternoon to investigate the deaths of two elderly people and a dog.
 

Replies: @MEH 0910

Here’s something to NOTICE. Seems to me that a post by you on this topic is warranted.

https://bsky.app/profile/sethabramson.bsky.social/post/3lj4rmw3xks2o

“I’d guess that Nolan Ryan was using PEDs during his astonishing 1990s in his mid-40s.”

A wild guess.

Speaking of which, well, more like gaslighting, on your Substack you posted a doozy— It’s striking how little resistance there has been in the press to Trump’s war on DEI

Except a simple Google Search—media coverage of Trump’s war on DEI—shows, well, you’re wrong.

“So far, there seems to have been more media focus on comic examples of incompetence ensuing from DOGE’s move fast and break things approach”

Wow, so brave to mention it. Maybe you’re a bit worried that federal government statistics will no longer be available to help you craft your narratives?

That's all I've ever been saying, and yet the woo woo's simply don't get it. Perhaps that amount of reading comprehension is above their pay grade.

Ty Cobb a Cokehead?

Babe Ruth a PED fiend because he overbinged on Pepsi?

Asinine, simply and purely asinine.

I'm beginning to think the Millennials and Zoomers simply didn't pay much attention in reading comprehension back in elementary school, which is why for the blind dumb slow and stupid it has to be constantly and consistently slowly repeated until it penetrates their skulls.

Speaking about drug use, having you been attention to Alexandra Beynon and her link to Elon Musk?

https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

Also consider this, Steve.

Most of the players directly named by Canseco in his first memoir (2005), were later proven to have used PEDS. He didn't lie about that. In his second book, he directly named AROD. A few yrs later, AROD was involved in controversy regarding steroid usage and is unlikely to be inducted into the HOF anytime soon.

That's why lately I do believe that Jose Canseco is the one ex-player to know IF Nolan Ryan did or did not use PEDS, and his opinion on whether or not he did use PEDS sometime during his career would be quite relevant to the whole topic.

If there was one player who had a direct reason to try PEDS in the early 70's (practical, since he had just been traded to, which wasn't seen as a great career move, had been sent down to the minors a few yrs earlier, etc) and maintain a career in MLB, it would've been Nolan Ryan. Pulitzer Prize winning investigative sportswriter Mark Fainaru-Wada, when writing Game of Shadows, quoted extensively from Canseco's first book, as he considered him to be a legitimate source on PED usage in MLB for that period of time.

And where was Nolan Ryan traded to? Anaheim, in Southern California, home to Muscle Beach, weightlifting culture, and, unfortunately, where quite a bit of the whole Steroids/PED culture pretty much originated in the US. Because he wasn't a superstar at the time of the 72 trade to the Angels, Ryan would've slipped under the radar and could've used PEDS on the qt.

I don't say that Ryan used PEDS; I DO say that if one person would know the answer...it's Jose Canseco.

Replies: @Steve Sailer

I remember reading at the time that in addition to weight lifting, Nolan Ryan had a routine of which he soaked his pitching hand in pickle brine.

With the recent understanding that he knew Tom House, the pickle brine seems more like a rouse, to distract people's attention away from a possibility that something else was going on.

As the 70's song goes, "how long has this been going on?" Probably longer than people expect.

Weight lifting by itself may help improve performance, but its silly to think that that and pickle brine was all that Ryan did to help increase his performance to become the game's most dominant SO pitcher ever.

Again, it would be very informative to talk with Jose Canseco regarding what he thinks of Nolan Ryan as he was his teammate for the final 1.5 yrs of Ryan's career in TX (which became around that time a known place for PED useage, Rafael Palmiero also played there alongside Canseco, and Jose already named him in his first book).

Definitely curious now about Nolan Ryan; Jose Canseco is the one person who could help to settle the matter one way or the other if he would agree to talk about it.

Ryan left Anaheim after 79. Downing lifted a lot in the off-season with Tigers C Lance Parrish. Both would have been PED candidates before Canseco and McGwire.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/10/Tiger-Catcher-Thrives-On-Weightlift-Program/2618416120400/
According to Sparky, they were trained by a guy "who knows what he is doing."
Downing by the way was with TX to end his career (91-92).

Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

Exactly, this jibes with Canseco's telling in his book. But he also mentioned that right before he went to TX, there were players in MLB from other teams who quietly approached him regarding PEDS, what they could do for them, how to obtain them, etc.

Canseco, unlike these few nameless shadowy C or D-list players from the 70's, was an MVP winner, the first 40-40 player in MLB. He was an A-list player, so whatever he was doing, other players would definitely be interested in emulating as well so they too could achieve results.

I also believe that PED usage in MLB is still ongoing, it's just that its more subtle, and nowhere near as obvious. Suppose it comes out that the top players, including Ohtani have taken PEDS?

If anything it would be fairly easy for him to take PEDS in Japan, where the MLB media isn't following him around and the Japanese media would probably protect him.

You can bet that on the day of Ichiro's induction into the HOF this summer, it will be heavily watched live throughout all of Japan.

I never said widespread and agree that they weren't. But you're fooling yourself if you think PED's and specifically steroids were totally absent from pro sports in the 70's.

And when you say you PED's, you are saying steroids. There are other PED's like amphetamines, pain meds, and high doses of caffeine.

Patrick Flanagan’s firm Source of Innergy was headquartered at
4315 Woodman Ave in Sherman Oaks, just north of Ventura Blvd. The building
still stands. Out of curiosity I visited the place in the mid-‘70s. The ground floor
looked like a car dealership showroom but inside were countless pyramids,
typically made of metal rods, of various sizes, some big enough to place over
your bed. The selling point was that they would improve the quality of your
sleep (or your meditation) and help you have Technicolor dreams. I now regret
I didn’t take a picture of the showroom. It would’ve been a perfect symbol of
the New Age craze that exploded in the 1970s.

The obsession with pyramid power was partly due to the runaway success of
the book “Chariots of the Gods?” (1968) by Erich von Däniken, which was
turned into a movie released in the U.S. in 1973.

In response to someone who mentioned the story of the Maharishi and the
Beatles. Purely accidentally I have two degrees of separation from Mia Farrow
(i.e. I knew someone who knew Mia) so I know the story well.

Replies: @Steve Sailer

Speaking of cracking us all up, what say you as a data guy?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/trump-science-data-gender-dei/681698/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo

—Recently, that “we pay; you do” mutualism has grown shakier and, since January, fractured into all-out antagonism. In less than a month, the Trump administration has frozen research funds, halted health communications and publications, vanished decades of health and behavior data from its websites, terminated federally funded studies, and prompted researchers to scrub extensive lists of terms from manuscripts and grant proposals.—

Replies: @Kaganovitch

You say you’re a rule of law type of guy. What’s your reaction?

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law—Donald Trump

But various metrics, he's better than Nolan Ryan.

Carlton's 1977 Cy Young winning season wasn't shabby.

23-10, 2.64 ERA 198 SO 283 IP

Carlton's 1982 Cy Young winning season is pretty good as well, at age 38.

23-11, 3.10 ERA 286 SO 295.2 IP

He was fairly healthy up until about 40, which was par for the course in MLB back then, actually, it was above average for the course as many players, even great ones, tended to peter out around age 35 or so.

Funny how Ryan managed to post very low ERA's at the tail end of his career. Almost as if he was taking...

Someone should really ask Jose Canseco what he thinks about Nolan Ryan, especially as he's been proven correct about a number of players he's named that were connected to PEDS usage.

Replies: @Ron Mexico

"Speaking about today's pitch counts, Carlton added, "I wasn't raised in this environment, so I think differently. These guys don't know anything but pitch counts. I would balk at it because I don't agree with it, but they can't go up against it because that's all they know. Philosophically I don't agree with it because I think these guys are not really in shape because they don't throw enough. You need to throw so much so the tendons, ligaments, the muscle and bone get bigger, denser, stronger to be able to handle the stress of throwing. I don't think they throw enough. 100 pitches is not a lot. You warm up with 100 pitches. Then you throw your 200. We threw 185 pitches in a game."

--Joyce, Greg (May 12, 2017). "Hall of Famer Steve Carlton returns to baseball for a night with IronPigs". lehighvalleylive.com.

Does anybody want to pay me to go to Northern California to speak?
 

Doesn’t your publisher know Peter Theil? Have him bankroll your barnstorming tour of Stockton and Eureka.

Then, when Trump orders the U.S. to take over Gaza, you can headline at one of the posh resorts—it will take a couple of years to build, but you’ve got time. You will never have to think of remodeling closets or buying dog food ever again.

Replies: @Je Suis Omar Mateen

Ha, a while ago someone speculated on your earnings based on the P.S. rate being 100%, and you also LOLed. (You think money's funny?) So, it's somewhere between 2% and 100%. Now we're making progress!

Anyway, for your sake I hope it is a number like 20% or higher.

It is a fact. SubStack officially says that at $50/yr, 5% of subscribers pay.

Hence, at Steve's $100/yr, it is safe to say that 2% of the 7000 are paid subscribers.

Steve is unable to dispute that.

And 7000 is a low number given how many years of full-time work Steve has put into his writing.

The people I mentioned started much later, and yet :

Richard Hanania has 30,000 Substack subscribers.
Noah Smith has 328,000 Substack subscribers.

Replies: @res

Is that “higher brow” a natural trait or nurtured?

Replies: @kaganovitch, @Pierre de Craon

“ higher brow readers”

Code for sycophants.

Speaking of higher BROs, aka the Incel Clown Posse, what are your thoughts?

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-doge-running-highly-sensitive-government-data-through-ai-report-2000560381

Steve, why is everyone assuming you'll stop posting here? Did I miss something?

“until 2024 when I finally had a chance to meet them in person and most of them turned out to be a generation younger”

Not according to one of my friends whom you signed their book.

So, is this your last post here? Is this post your cagey way of saying goodbye on this site? How does Andrew Anglin feel about it?

My vague impression is no, but I think you owe it to your fanboys and fangirls to say directly if it is.

Replies: @ScarletNumber, @tomv, @Patrick in SC

I’d assumed until last year that most of my readers were old fogeys my age who’d soon be dropping dead, until 2024 when I finally had a chance to meet them in person and most of them turned out to be a generation younger.
 

Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Anonymous, @Anon

Will you have any events in Northern California this year?

Replies: @Steve Sailer

Steven Ernest Sailer
born December 20, 1958 (age 66)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer
 

Age at death

Enrico Fermi 53
John von Neumann 53
G.K. Chesterton 62
Christopher Hitchens 62
Evelyn Waugh 62
Bob Ross 52
Vince Lombardi 57
Pierre de Fermat 57
Steve McQueen 50
Rene Descartes 53
Blaise Pascal 39
Ludwig Wittgenstein 62
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 61
Saint Thomas Aquinas 49
Dorothy Sayers 64
C.S. Lewis 64
James Gandolfini 51
Steve Jobs 56
Frank Zappa 52
Bernhard Riemann 39
Joseph Fourier 62
Abraham Lincoln 56
Patrick Swayze 57
Benito Mussolini 61
Adolf Hitler 56
Jane Austen 41
Charles Dickens 58
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 59
Nathaniel Hawthorne 59
William Shakespeare 51 or 52
Ernie Pyle 44
George Eliot 61
J. Robert Oppenheimer 62
Wolfgang Pauli 58
Edgar Allan Poe 40
John Gotti 61
Al Capone 48
Louisa May Alcott 55
F. Scott Fitzgerald 44
Edna St. Vincent Millay 58
Henry David Thoreau 44
Friedrich Nietzsche 55
Ernest Hemingway 61
George Orwell 46
James Fenimore Cooper 61
Kate Chopin 53
Emily Dickinson 55
Jerry Garcia 53
Babe Ruth 53
Humphrey Bogart 57
O. Henry 47
Jack London 40
William Faulkner 64
Margaret Mitchell 48
Flannery O’Connor 39
Aristotle 61 or 62

 

Steroid use in MLB most likely began in the 1970's, just like it did in the NFL. (Reggie Jackson, anyone?) The difference is it was a relatively brand new "drug" and users were likely more cautious, not knowing how to maximize the benefits and minimize risks. Amphetamine use was common going back to the 40's/50's and maybe earlier, and the ability to hyper focus might have been a bigger advantage than just pure strength. It's interesting how one is literally the worst thing ever, and the other is just well, you know um, look! A squirrel is running through center field! The who/whom of sports. But narratives have to be reinforced.

Heck, even the use of chewing tobacco probably produced a mild edge in performance, but er, um, uh Tony Gwynn!

These days, there are so many newer performance enhancing products available that are impossible to detect that it's naive to suggest it's less widespread than during the McGuire/Bonds years. All of these guys, to include your newest hero Ohtani are using products to enhance performance. They have just learned that blowing up to look like a power lifter is probably going to attract a lot more attention and get you suspended.

Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

One of the people who would know, or at least be able to make an educated guess would be Jose Canseco. Most of the charges he made vs specific players juicing have proven to be correct, and he would certainly know about other players. In his first book he specifically mentioned that many, many players in the early to mid 90's were quietly asking him how to obtain steroids, what PEDS could do for their individual performances, etc.

Canseco played with 3 standout HOFers: Wade Boggs, Rickey Henderson and Nolan Ryan. When Jose stated that he had a HOF teammate who juiced, and that the name would surprise many people. Henderson I don't think would surprise people if you look at his physique in the 90's, like "Yeah, Rickey may have juiced a little bit" (e.g. leadoff dominant base stealer suddenly increasing his HR totals around and after age 30...hm type of thing). Wade Boggs? He was Canseco's teammate in 98-99, at the very tail end of his career, so not very likely (not to say that Wade didn't juice, just that he probably didn't get them from Jose. But then again, who's to say? Perhaps he could've earlier just not as a teammate).

But Canseco specifically stated that he was a teammate of a well known, dominant player, and he was a teammate of Nolan Ryan (again at the end of Ryan's career in TX).

Also, to be blunt, for the first five seasons of his career in NY, Ryan wasn't considered to be all that. He sometimes had to pitch in relief or as a spot reliever (and was sent down to the minors). He had control issues and walked too many batters (which he continued to do throughout his career as he set the all time walk record). Suddenly he's traded to the Angels out in Anaheim in 72, and lights up the AL. Especially with his connection to Tom House.

Example: In his book, Canseco devotes a paragraph to Roger Clemens with a disclaimer that he doesnt know for certain IF Roger did PEDS, but then goes on to give info that belies that sentence. And, Clemens has yet to be inducted into HOF. In his second book, Canseco specifically names AROD. And AROD has yet to be inducted into HOF.

So if Canseco were to name Nolan Ryan, THAT would be considered to be a major shock throughout MLB, especially with Ryan's publicly squeaky clean image. Jose may be waiting for Ryan to pass before making any public comment, should he ever decide to do so.

“I’m guessing the everybody who put up huge numbers around 2000 was on something.”

Guessing, right. You don’t know.

“Some may have been doing more than others and perhaps they tended to get caught.”

Speaking of getting caught. I thought privacy and doxxing were a big deal to you. You know, law/order and the rule of law stuff.

—A federal judge issued an emergency order early Saturday prohibiting Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm.

…

The ruling came hours after attorneys general from 19 states sued to stop Musk’s team from dealing with sensitive files during its review of federal payment systems — an unprecedented effort that skirted firm security measures that permitted access to systems only to trained Treasury employees.

In a four-page order, Engelmayer said the states that sued the Trump administration “will face irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief.”

“That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking,” Engelmayer wrote.

He adopted arguments by the states that Treasury records from the agency’s Bureau of Fiscal Services can only legally be accessed by specialized civil servants “with a need for access to perform their job duties.”—

Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

Speaking about writing fur Taki’s, so you post on your Substack an article from that publication offering insight into how Musk runs his business, but without any of the necessary connections to directly what is going on now in Washington.

In other words, you punted. Go figure.

Speaking of indeed, you should.

“Cancel Culture is still alive”

Patently false, Mr. Sailer. The WSJ published public comments made previously by a supposed government employee. He chose to resign as a result of the fallout. Then said person was brought back to his “job”.

“edgy wisecracks”

False characterization, Mr. Sailer. “Normalize Indian hate”. “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool” and “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.

It’s a grown ass man, not some “kid” engaging in "stupid social media activity". Rather, he is a raptor testing fences, a man purposely seeing if he can make those comments without reprisal. He has been emboldened by yourself and others on the Interwebs to say whatever the hell he wants.

But reality doesn’t work that way. You know that, Mr. Sailer. Free speech is never free. There are positive and negative consequences to one’s words. But your snark here gets in the way of common decency. I suppose you figure if the current target was Indians (dot, not feather), rather than the old standby Jews, it’s no big deal.

So JD Vance the cuck further opens the Overton Window. “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” is a direct shot at him. Yet, it’s only out of political necessity that Vance and his hot piece of ass Indian wife give the white dude a free pass. I’m certain that his kids will look forward to the future when some f—-head goes up to them and says his father is race traitor. Then Vance can intervene and meekly say “well, you made a mistake”, rather than punch the guy in the face in response to his wife and family being dishonored.

What would your buddy Andrew Anglin say?

Anyways, the bigger issue, of course, and one you dare not openly.and critically address, is how this guy, who just got reinstated, is one of two temporary appointees at Treasury connected to DOGE who was granted access to a highly sensitive Treasury system that processes trillions of dollars in payments every year. I thought you were a rule of law and law/order type of guy. If this was George Soros who installed members of Antifa to engage in similar conduct, and not Musk and his loyal band of sycophants called the Incel Clown Posse, you’d be NOTICING.

So why not delve deeper into how “ [as] critics highlight legal and ethical issues surrounding DOGE's seemingly unchecked pursuit of government austerity, Democrats in Congress are running into obstacles. A Democratic-led attempt to subpoena Musk about possible conflicts of interest over juggling his DOGE role with the six companies he operates was blocked by Republicans on Wednesday. Democratic Senators are issuing blistering statements, and writing letters to Musk's companies demanding answers, but such moves are unlikely to result in testimony in Washington, as long as Republicans hold a majority in both chambers.”

Answer—you’ve got closets to remodel and dog food to buy.

Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Old Prude, @TWS, @muggles, @MEH 0910

Which is why you’ve gone stale here.

From last August:

It didn’t take long after his arrival here at TUR to see that Mr. Sailer isn’t so much a dissident as a copium denmother for disaffected white guys who skew 40+ in age. In practically all other respects — and, thus, effectively in that one — he narrates or stands silent on behalf of the Establishment.

This was obscured by the first few years of padding the HBD posts with sportsball, Hollywood, and pop music culture (anchored in his youth), which resonated with many of the target audience. When he got serious about the COVID dempanic and Ukraine warball commentary and adopted pets like Jack D, though, more than a few of the fellows noticed. And now, maybe so has he. Isn’t this

Right now his finger is in the air to see which way the Twitter winds are blowing and what is the permissible bound of Conventioal Wisdom/Establishment narrative. My guess is that he will just ignore them.
 

true in general?

I keep seeing allusions to Mr. Sailer moving again, a fresh start on another platform. Deciding to appear at the Berkeley Castle and likewise joining the Diffident Right in shying away from topics like Palestine might be seen from a marketing perspective as great ways to reset the brand.
 

Replies: @Old Prude, @Nicholas Stix, @Hypnotoad666

Something I really respect about you is that you don’t try too hard to be popular.

You know better than I do that a grifter in your position would change their blog to, “HoLoCAusT is FaKE! CoViD is FaKE! GAzA is FaKE! ThE DoLLaR is FaKE! FLouRiDE is FaKE! ANtarCTicA is FaKE! BUY MY LIVER DEFENDER VITAMINS! INVEST IN MY CRYPTO ASSET PORTFOLIO AI SPAC!” And be a lot more popular, wealthy, and with much less hate mail.

"Won-Loss record should matter more for Most Valuable Player award and ERA for Cy Young Award."

But in practice, very few pitchers win the MVP.

Traditionally, dominant pitchers who had an excellent even great ERA tended to also have a solid strong even excellent W stat for the season as well.

I mean, if a pitcher has an ERA below 2.00 or 3.00 for the season, it seems likely that he should also have 20 or so wins for the season as well (or at least close to 20).

Ryan's 87 ERA was 2.77, which is awesome, but again, it doesn't make sense that he didn't go 16-8, not the other way round. But then, winning games per season wasn't what Ryan really focused on, when compared to strikeouts.

Somehow Steve Carlton managed to do both: Win games and have exceptional ERAs.

In his 72 Cy Young season, Carlton went 27-10, with an ERA of 1.97, the best in the National League. He also lead the league in SO's...and complete games (So he won the Triple Crown of pitching--ERA SO W) Carlton won 45.8% of the Phillies' games that season, which is a record in modern major league history.
*Carlton had 30 Complete Games in 72 (and his arm didn't fall off). Some MLB pitchers today won't have 30 CG's for their entire careers. Shame.

So just like Vida Blue in 71 w/OAK, Carlton should've been seriously considered for the MVP. But how would that have looked, awarding the NL MVP to a player on a last place team?

I'm sorry, I still think that W's is one of the defining stats for starting pitchers. ERA's change throughout the decades, and so do SO's. But the W stat remains the one constant stat for starting pitchers, and for the most part in MLB's history they can be compared across eras--are they winning the majority of their starts?

Example: during the Dead Ball Era, plenty of the dominant pitchers racked up season ERA's below 2.00, or around 2.00. Starting in the 1920's with the Lively Ball Era, that kind of low ERA's across the board for dominant pitchers wouldn't be seen again until the mid 60's, when MLB raised the strike zone. But, once MLB lowered or shrunk the strike zone back to it's pre-62 levels, once again, ERA's began to shoot up again. Whereas today it's getting fairly rare for a starting pitcher to post an ERA below 2.00, and even 2.75-2.90 is getting pretty rare as well. It does still happen on occasion, but across the board in MLB? If anything, MLB wants more offensive output and don't be surprised if over time, what's considered a dominant ERA for a pitcher is above 3.50, and above 4.00, and who knows, perhaps one day a dominant ERA will be around 5.00. [Grover Cleveland Alexander's career ERA 2.56 while certainly dominant today, wasn't as amazing as some of his Dead Ball counterparts, perhaps because he pitched into the Lively Ball era as offense production went up and thus so too did pitcher's ERA's]

But just as ERA's across the board were fairly low back in the Dead Ball Era (since MLB's games across the board were low scoring affairs), it evened out because few pitchers (aside from Walter Johnson and occasionally another pitcher) recorded 300 strikeouts per season. Even a pitcher recording 200-250 strikeouts was considered extraordinary, since most batters weren't striking out 100+ times per season. And of course, for most of the 20th century, starting pitchers tended to pitch more innings per season than they do during the 21st century. It's almost like, today's Cy Young award winners are winning awards by doing half the work (oftentimes not even pitching 200 innings per season) of their historical counterparts.

So both ERA's and SO's have changed across the eras and aren't always the most accurate stat to compare across eras. But with Wins for starting pitchers? We definitely can compare that stat.

For relief pitchers, absolutely, its definitely possible that several can rack up tons of Saves and yet "blow it" in extra innings, hence why several of them tend to lose more games than win during their season, even though their ERA might be very low.

But one could also make a case that for an ERA to be fully effective, only a starting pitcher's ERA should be considered for a Cy Young based on total innings pitched per season. After all, a starter tends to pitch more innings than a reliever in the course of a season (even though the reliever will pitch in more games per season, but yet pitch fewer innings). But at the same time, the idea that ERA is everything and Wins are nothing is baffling, when for over a century the W stat was the stat for starting pitchers.

Speaking about records and data, you’re a stats guy, right? Don’t you rely in part on government information? Any comment?

https://slate.com/business/2025/02/donald-trump-data-deletion-jobs-report-economy-public-health.html

Oh, no, they know exactly what they are doing. My vague impression is you enjoy this chaos. But if the shoe was on the other foot, you’d be crying foul.

—Elon Musk and his DOGE hackers are ransacking their way through the federal government, unlawfully gaining unfettered access to Americans’ private information and gutting programs people depend on,” said Reps. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calf., the top Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee and the House Space, Science and Technology Committees, respectively. “Now they have reached NOAA where they’re wreaking havoc on the scientific and regulatory systems that protect American families’ safety and jobs.” —

Replies: @Mr. Anon

Can anyone explain how that conclusion was drawn? This does not exactly sound like a denial.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1887334265886810303

In particular, what charitable trust? Who was funding Hanania?

It would be less than shocking to find out Hanania was astroturfed, but it would be good to know the truth.

Replies: @William Badwhite, @AnotherDad, @Almost Missouri, @Almost Missouri

The prime civilian needing to bug out from DC being Trump.
 

We have been told that the helicopter was on a COG training mission and also that it was on a proficiency flight? Which is it? Would those two things typically be combined? Reading between the lines, it seems that the female pilot has been some kind of decorative military aide at the White House for some time and now had to get back to flying because BOM (Bad Orange Man) was back. Given that it was a woman flying the helo, I don't expect we'll get a straight answer. It sure does look like she flew straight into the plane:

https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1885307091880915234

The prime civilian needing to bug out from DC being Trump.
 

Replies: @Almost Missouri

How about Trump ensuring that we don’t bug into Gaza? Do you want American troops there to remove by force Gazans? Do you want it developed into the next French Riveria?

If a Democrat made this pronouncement, you’d post how this is crazy. But you’re helping to normalize this and other nuttier things said by our current chief executive by claiming “who knows what his strategy is”, when clearly there is something on his mind—grift.

Or perhaps it depends upon the individual person, their health history etc.

I always did find it a bit odd that although his wins per season total seemed to remain constant, yet Ryan continued to mount 200 strikeouts per season into his mid 40’s. Granted, he played in an era where strikeouts were there for the taking (as they remain so in MKB today) but one would think that there’d have been a significant drop off in his final few seasons, much as there was a significant drop off in Carlton’s final seasons.

I saw both pitch several times during their primes and I’ll say this. If you wanted a pitcher to strikeout the side, or at least rack up tons of strikeouts in a game, no one was better than Nolan Ryan. If you wanted a pitcher to actually win the game vs the best rival, few were better than Steve Carlton.
Nolan Ryan also set the career MLB record for walks. In other words, a team could eventually get to Ryan and beat him in a game.


Why Mr Slider doesnt fully command the respect he should among MLB fans and aficionados is baffling.

Replies: @RadicalCenter

Are NFL team owners really NFL company men who don’t care about their own teams winning?
 

“Are NFL team owners really NFL company men who don’t care about their own teams winning?”

As a corollary, is the GOP really elitist company men who don’t care about their own team (see White Folks) winning and at the expense of law and order/the rule of law?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/president-elon-musk-trump/681558/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo

When are you going to NOTICE?

NFL owners, all pro-sportsball "officials & cartels", take orders from The Central Banksters. Betting revenue is all these demons care about, and, they are hanging by a thread, now. SB may be their last con game.

I predict this is the last year of Pro-Sportsball, at least in America. The entire sports-broadcasting racket must collapse in order to cleanse it and rebuild it. College sportsball will remain; some Bread & Circuses must remain for sanity's sake this year and next. However, many universities will lose their endowments due to their corruption (funding of bio-labs in China & Ukraine), so, the budgets for Div 1 football & basketball may crater. We are going back to basics: attend college/join the military/learn a trade/start a business/stay at home and raise children.

On a lighter side; now, with "no more jocks with cocks in women's locker rooms," we could be entering the age of Women's Sports, hahahhahhaahaaaa. I played Div 1 soccer in the Jurassic Age of sport, so I am fine with that! Plus, now, men like Rapinoe, may not be allowed on women's sport teams. and, we never have to witness a tranny almost beating a woman to death in a women's boxing match.

Regarding your post on why today do so many zillionaires like, say, Sergey Brin of Google want to be on Trump’s good side, it’s simple—Like most corporatist elites, they favor lower taxes, deregulation and access to cheap labor,

Furthermore…

—Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, captures this vision in his 2023 book “The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto.” Taplin outlines their dreams: Zuckerberg’s metaverse, the notion that people might spend something like seven hours a day wearing a virtual reality headset; Musk’s colonization of Mars; untraceable crypto wealth, which exists beyond the control of the state; and Thiel’s quest to reverse aging (or at least live to be 160).

The consequences of these ambitions could be profound. And while there’s not enough room here to unpack all of the potential implications, Taplin argues that they undermine foundational democratic principles, such as Thomas Jefferson’s ideal that “all men are created equal.”

In a world of transhumanism, where wealth determines lifespan and genetic advantages, equality could become meaningless.—

You’d think someone like yourself would come to NOTICE the obvious—the tech barons are in it for themselves at the expense of the regular guy and girl, and that includes you as well.

So much for family formation policies the natural way.

Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @Colin Wright

Oooo, doubles. Well, if he has 3k career HITS, then it should be a slam dunk.

"He projects out to be a pretty average Hall of Famer"

Woah, woah, woah, hold it, hold it, hold it.

AVERAGE for the HALL....OF FAME? Like, once you're inducted, that means that officially you're among the greatest to ever have played the game. And...we should be able to compare players by putting each name together in the same sentence.

Is Freeman as good as....Babe Ruth? Ted Williams? Rogers Hornsby?

But see, Ohtani and Judge, IF they continue their prodigious stats, those two names WILL be placed in the same sentence. At present, I can definitely place Ohtani in the same sentence alongside Babe Ruth, and Ted Williams. And that's what most sportswriters have made the comparison. Same thing with Judge, IF they continue their trajectories, then they are definitely the greatest of their era.

I'm pretty sure you do know this, Steve. The ESPN interview that Deion Sanders gave is correct and it stands. The greatest of the greatest names, period. That's what the original standard was for Cooperstown. Why all of a sudden its become too hard to reach the standards that for decades most inductees were able to reach without a problem is baffling.


"which is a good thing to be."

'Here dude, here's your trophy for being average second rate.' 'Like, totally awesome dude! Just what I've always wanted, to be, what my whole career was aspired to, to be just average!'

I tend to think you're pulling the leg here.

Doubles are nice. Career Hits are even better. 600 2B's but only 2,1k H's ain't cutting it, unless there's like, 500 HR's to go with those doubles.

If we can now dumb down the HOF with mediocre players, who while they're in the top 1%, are nowhere near the greatest to have ever played the game...then by all means should be pushing Dave Kingman even more. Dave was in the top 1% in HR's during his career. If the precedent is being set for just average top 1%ers and not greatest ever to have played the game, then...Kingman by all means.

Actually, the tweets suggest that the Spanish actor's real personality could've been the premise for an interesting movie portraying what a Mexican drug lord who transitioned to female would actually be like. I'm thinking something closer to Dennis Hopper's character in Blue Velvet. Of course, the only screenwriter/director who could've done it justice just died.

Oops, they got that wrong!
 

I'm thinking that the fact that her body was not recovered played into the family's decision to delay identifying her.

Replies: @JMcG

Steve's been extra grumpy over people being mean to the Diversity hire. He's cross that people would "yell" on her on Twitter. Which pretty much proves he is a spiritual leftist. He's stuck in 1985.

He'll make some fake claim about caring about decorum. Yet he has been heartless with regard to the destruction of his own people.

Replies: @kaganovitch

Definitely not a trans ex-man, as some were rumoring.
 

E.g., Trump successfully uses the overshooting-claim tactic quite often, as you have noticed, and it also worked well recently in the UK when rightwingers, amid an intentional state info lockdown, publicly spread a rumor that a Muslim jihadi immigrant was the Southport killer. Turns out the the ‘far right agitators’ were closer to the truth than the treasonous authorities wanted the public to know:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62egy7pj7xo

Tensions over how Southport details went public

BBC News 22 January 2025
 

Rudakubana was charged with three counts of murder and 10 of attempted murder on 31 July, shortly after launching his attack which killed Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.

Within days, in early August, officers searching Rudakubana's home found ricin and a file entitled "Military Studies in the Jihad against the Tyrants, the al-Qaeda training manual".
 

Police rarely give details of an ongoing investigation without what they describe as a "policing purpose".

In this case, false rumours were spreading online about the killer, including that he had migrated to Britain.

Senior officers felt under pressure to reassure the public, and dispel some of the rumours about the suspect by making clear he was in fact British.

But after discovering the ricin and manual they did not immediately make this public.

The investigation continued, with searches taking weeks because of the need for teams to wear hazmat suits and take a break every 40 minutes.

As they prepared to announce the outcome to the investigation, senior police officers became frustrated that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was advising them to withhold many details they felt should be made public, due to false claims online.

The killer was not charged with production of a biological weapon, and possession of information likely to be useful for terrorism, until 29 October 2024.
 

Replies: @YetAnotherAnon

Not trans ex-man, but a real woman, known to have challenges in combat aviation due to depth perception skill difference. Would a man be incapable of judging 200 feet and 400 feet looking over Washington D.C.? Heck, I only have a Class C Driver License and even I can tell whether I am looking down 200 or 400 feet. This is definitely a DEI case of 'women in combat' at any cost.

Men, in contrast, tend to have better distance vision and depth perception. This may be linked to historical roles that required precise vision for activities like hunting, where focusing on distant objects was crucial. As a result, men are generally better at tasks that involve tracking moving objects or gauging distances.

Men and women also differ in their sensitivity to motion. Men are typically more sensitive to detecting movement within their field of vision, especially when it comes to tracking fast-moving objects. This difference is again linked to evolutionary roles where detecting and responding to movement was essential for hunting and survival.

When it comes to night vision, men often have the advantage. Men generally possess more rods in their retinas, the photoreceptor cells responsible for vision in low-light conditions. This gives them better night vision and makes them more adept at seeing in the dark.

https://www.shadygroveophthalmology.com/womens-and-mens-vision-understanding-the-differences/

 

Replies: @AnotherDad

So 60+ people died, most of them probably White. But what we really need to worry about is the feelings of the GirlBoss and her family? How many other Diversity Hires are lurking out there in dangerous positions?

It would be better to show we are no longer sympathetic to this silliness. That would save more lives in the long run. Quit celebrating this nonsense or making heroes out of them after they get a bunch of people killed.

iSteveish story from the Oscars where the Spanish ex-man star of “Emilia Perez” turns out to have predictably right-wing provocateur opinions and is promptly tanks the movie’s chances. You need to cast a straight man like Eddie Redmayne as a transwoman to rely on him to have NPR-friendly opinions.

Very dated. Metal. One of the problems with RoboCop being futuristic is all the wood paneling in the buildings. I remember being a kid in the 80s and everything was wood paneling, a TV was a huge wooden box with bevelled edges and a TV in the center.
On the other hand, enhacing the body horror of the Kafkaesque The Tenant, before plastic, a lot of medical instruments were either metal or glass, because that's all they had.
OT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IocRCDWB5k&pp=ygUaR2VycnkgbW9vcmUgb3ZlciB0aGUgaGlsbHM%3D

"A couple more decent seasons and he will be a lock for the Hall of Fame."

Decent? Seriously? That's all it takes for the HOF? I heard the first part of the sentence. Freeman's top five. My original point, that oftentimes some mediocre or mid players have awesome, even great postseasons remains.

For example:

Billy Martin had 12 H's in the 53 WS

Bobby Richardson won the MVP for the 60 WS (only time a player from the losing team in the WS to win MVP). Richardson had 13 H's in the 64 WS.

David Eckstein won the 06 MVP for STL.

These dudes aren't in the HOF by a long shot.

Also,

Ted Williams and Willie Mays had poor WS stats. Babe Ruth had a dreadful 1922 WS as well. Yet thankfully, they're not judged on a few games at the end of the season but for the entirety of their careers. That's how it works.

If Freeman's all that and then some, then it's reasonable to expect him to have some traditional stats before he retires, like say...500+ career HR's or 3,000 H's to go along with that WAR.

Replies: @Ron Mexico, @AceDeuce

"Probably"

is a guess, and does not directly bear either way on the facts. There's a reason that for the most part in MLB history, pitchers batted last. Aside from legitimate hitting pitchers, like Babe Ruth and Ohtani, the others are at best, decent, but certainly not great.

Johnson won because of his fastball, great control, and was a dominant strikeout pitcher in an era where SO's as a whole were very low (compared to today). Hitting is totally irrelevant for pitchers. Also, apparently Connie Mack ca.1905 wanted MLB to adopt an early form of the DH (because of his dominant pitchers poor hitting skills), MLB at the time turned his idea down. Even if Johnson was all that and then some with the bat, keep in mind that for most of his career he played for mediocre teams, so its a more reasonable guess that his pitching prowess kept WAS in the games and his pitching was the dominant factor in winning games.

Grover Cleveland Alexander (373 W's) and Greg Maddux (355 W's), Eddie Plank (305 W's) were both considered poor hitters. Yet they're in the HOF.

Verlander, Scherzer, and Kershaw are obviously Hall of Fame Pitchers.
 

Jumbo Ozaki (and his 2,000 word posts) seems unaware of stats such as WAR, WPA, etc.

Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

"Scherzer, and Kershaw are obviously Hall of Fame Pitchers."

Have to be consistent. IF they are as dominant and can be compared to their historical counterparts, then winning 300 games shouldn't be so difficult for them to attain. They're very good, even excellent. Can they reach 300 W's? If not, why not? That's a fair question.

"I’d vote for Greinke too, who was an excellent hitter and fielder as well as pitcher."

Oh for goodness sakes, Steve.

Yeah, hitting and fielding, that's exactly the things one primarily expects from a dominant pitcher.

Replies: @Steve Sailer

Richards should donate his body to science. Ms Faithfull hasn't done too badly for someone who was an addict for 10 or 15 years.

I guess it helps being famous and pretty. I hadn't realised during the 70s/80s she was married to the bassist of the Vibrators, Ben Brierley.

Replies: @Mark G.

Dick Button, Olympic great and voice of skating, dies at 95.

Are these things "well said" by the other cranks and crackpots of the Trump Administration? Asking for a friend. They hope you will directly respond rather than be cagey, at best, or dodging, at worst.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281162/fcc-npr-pbs-investigation?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/29/elon-musk-opm-federal-workers-buyout-trump/

And speaking about DEI and the recent airplane crash in DC...

https://newrepublic.com/post/190964/faa-report-dc-plane-crash-staffing-indictment-trump

So a crackpot got through. What dies that make Senator Cassidy, a doctor?

Perhaps you will NOTICE.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/rfk-jr-opposition-folds/681567/

Indeed, and, pace Yojimbo's point, even Baines was more than twice as valuable as Dave Kingman.

Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

Greatest postseason pitcher ever? Greater than HOF Whitey Ford, who has the most WS wins, with 10? Yeah, okay.

Difficult personalities abound in the HOF so that can't be a major reason entirely.

Does it really come down to Schilling being a Trump supporter? If it's simply that then that's really petty to keep him out of the HOF.

Also, Schilling is nowhere near 300 career Wins. David Wells has more career Wins, for example, and he's not going into the HOF anytime soon. It might also have helped Schilling's case if he'd won a Cy Young Award during his career.

But then, I don't entirely understand why Mike Mussina was inducted into the HOF. Except there was a Baltimore Sun reporter who later found fame with FOX and is a HOF voter, who wrote many times that Mike was among his favorite pitchers.

So perhaps it really does come down to various sportswriters have their personal favorites and those that they can't stand. So borderline players had better find a way to be extra great, or else it'll be a long time coming until they receive the call from Cooperstown.

Replies: @Ron Mexico

I think the stat is that about 10% of pitchers who have Tommy John surgery come back and pitch well. Saying he would have come back is far from a certainty. Just a way to justify a below borderline pitcher getting in. There aren't any other 165 game winners in the hall, are there? If injury justifies letting a player in, where are Don Mattingly and David Wright? Great players who would have had even greater careers if a surgery for their back issues was invented.

Koufax was my first sports hero, and still the greatest.

A car accident in Orange County broke my right arm and made me a lefty, right when I was admiring Sandy.

I still have my kindergarten scrapbook, complete with an LA Times article I cut out: a photo of Sandy with his arm in a locker room sink after a game. That was when he retired; and I nearly cried!

I am happy to read, from you, Steve Sailer, that my first hero was indeed a good man, a fair player who did not try to hit batters.

Thank you.

The picture that broke my 6-year-old heart:

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CWAPNA/major-league-baseball-player-sandy-koufax-bathing-his-arm-in-ice-water-CWAPNA.jpg

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

"I’m vague on whether Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” is much influenced by David Lynch or not."

I've worked with Chris Isaak (and also Lynch).

It is not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febOhSEvF9Y

The Girl On Fire.

Nuff said.

Over and out.

Chris Isaak's song "Wicked Game" was inspired by a phone call from a woman who wanted to set up a hook-up. The song is about the consequences of having a strong attraction to someone who may not be good for you

He won't pitch on a staff where an, if healthy Kershaw, is the 5th or 6th starter.

Their front office could be dumb and they win the West by 10 games. Commissioner should not allow all that deferred money in best interest of baseball.

They should pitch him once a week, something he is familiar with since that is the Japanese system. Both his hitting and pitching would destract less from each other. The Dodgers have the arms to work around this and not go to a six man rotation, although considering the history of their starters a six man rotatation would make the most sense.

Speaking about not posting statistics, we eagerly await your next unz.com article regarding Trump’s blitzkrieg to dismantle government statistics. Certainly as our alleged pattern expert it is most disconcerting given that you rely on that data for your NOTICINGS.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/24/nx-s1-5250264/unemployment-rate-cpi-inflation-census-bureau-labor-statistics

“The duration of what, however, was never quite specified.”

Speaking about things not specified, perhaps it’s time for you to clearly and concisely define and provide examples of “anti-white”. I understand that’s the cagey narrative you spin, but after three decades, the public seems ready for a change.

Imagine that in 1965 the top HR hitter on the Dodgers only had 12 home runs, but Hank had 44? Bats .319 and doesn't win an mvp? In 1972 the Phillies won 59 games, Steve Carlton went 27-9, and he didn't get a sniff at mvp. Koufax was a media darling. He was a very good pitcher for a few years during the expansion era, but he's borderline hall of fame, at best. Unless there's a few other pitchers with only 165 wins that I missed.

Replies: @Nicholas Stix, @Ron Mexico

Very important observations, Steve. Take away Koufax, and the Dodgers were a mediocre team. Drysdale was himself most seasons a mediocre innings-eater (e.g., 19-17, 18-16).

Drysdale got into the HOF via an implicit package deal with Koufax. There was a package deal when they played, too. During the 1960s they would negotiate their respective contracts together, which had to hurt Koufax.

All of the great Dodgers, the "boys of summer," of those amazing teams when they were "the bums" who went to the World Series every year, and with one exception (1955) lost every year to the Yankees, were gone or over the hill by the early '60s. And yet, they won it all in '59, '63, and '65. Koufax carried the team during the '60s.

Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

"Babe Ruth was a great American because he didn’t listen to what other people told him he should do."

"I ran away from home at 16, lied about my age, and joined the Marines, because everybody told me not to."

-- my uncle, who later personally designed and built half of Agoura Hills and Thousand Oaks

"We are who we pretend to be; so we had better be very careful about who and what we pretend to be."

-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., preface to "Mother Night"

“Babe Ruth was a great American because he didn’t listen to what other people told him he should do.”

Just like Biden? How about Jordan Peterson? Or how about Jews?

Wait, it’s Trump in hot eyes. Although…

—A recent Wall Street Journal poll showed the public would prefer a more restrained Trump. Most voters say, for instance, that only undocumented immigrants with criminal records should be deported, and longtime residents who entered the U.S. illegally should be protected. Most voters in the poll expressed skepticism of Trump’s plans to replace career civil-service workers, and 57% opposed pardoning those convicted in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.—

Replies: @Ron Mexico, @Colin Wright

Compare Pedro Martinez best 5 consecutive years to Koufax. Closer than people realize. Clemens? Gibson? No pitcher ever has had only, a great 5,6 years and gotten into the HOF.