"I sometimes feel that today's youth would have a good case of self-defense for the extermination of their elders"

Would that be the elders who drilled for oil or the elders who prevented oil - and all other energy sources -from being exploited?

"After all, we human beings are uncreative, stupid beings, and as individuals, a country and a race, there is no possible way to solve these problems. Death is not only a release for the millions of us who will die, but it's a great vindication and a pleasure for the conspiracy nuts and apocalyptics out there."

The best solution is for those who believe that all is lost to join Hemlock Society or VHEMT. This assures that the optimists will inherit the Earth, and build whatever tech it takes to produce more energy and assure ongoing prosperity. If that means that the survivors will all be Asian, then so be it.

It doesn't have the resources. But if its existence is credibly threatened, it will go nuclear. That's what strategic nukes are for.

"Third, let's just say Israel nukes Iran. Leaving aside the horrible immorality of killing tens of millions of innocent civilians and children..."

If you don't want that to happen, then don't support tyrants. It's as simple as that.

...who include some of the crowned heads of Silicon Valley, to show the mullahs what the Internet can do. Can Tor and darknets route around official jamming of communications?

"For all we know the anonymous author is just as likely to be a CIA propagandist as opposed to whoever or whatever the author is supposed to be."

For the memory of those who died on 9/11, I certainly hope so. And now that the CIA is in Democrat hands, the Hollymedia won't raise a peep.

Go CIA!

...The lusty women are most certainly out there. Perhaps they're just too busy to write about it.

A situation which I took full advantage of. The memories still keep me warm on chilly nights.

The book being reviewed seems to have a silly focus on prostitution, which in my experience was totally unnecessary. The key factor on both sides is that little phrase 'sexual exoticism'. There is a universal attraction in being different from one's partner, Darwin's way of assuring genetic diversity in our species. As it is with blondes and basketball players, so it was in my day with Americans in Asia.

"Presumably this is because an Asian woman lacks the superior intelligence of a white one"

Clearly you have not spent any actual time in Asia.

This is what we get now that the Boomer batch of antinuclear-protesting English majors have grown up and gotten studio jobs. Hollywood Hates Science - see it soon at a theater near you!

"I admit I wanted to show off a bit with my studying and started asking questions about Dr. Tarter's work and brown dwarfs. I was then *soundly* and loudly rebuked and insulted, in front of a gathering of some 10-30 people, by someone who was likely a research associate or graduate student. "Brown dwarf?!? There's no such thing! How stupid! What kind of idiot are you?""

Scientists, being human beings, can be members of a herd, overopinionated, cowardly, arrogant partisans of fixed viewpoints (as in the case you cite), or even corrupt. The scientific method is a mill that assured, through organized skepticism and the cross-checking of peer review, that the truth always eventually comes out.

" planeloads of older, fat Chinese and Korean men descend on American cities to have lots of sex with young, cheap American prostitutes. One can only hope they will use condoms."

Actually, I hope they don't. Given today's news that the Administration is thinking of bulldozing several dozen of our older cities because of declining population, a new infusion of Chinese may be just what we need. Imagine all that fresh brainpower being putto work on our problems.

We keep being told by advocates of single payer that we would actually save net money by converting the health care system ("Americans pay more for health care than anyone else in the world!"). But of course we need a walloping tax increase because taxes are the leftist proof of manliness.

"The people of Zimbabwe must be feeling very slighted by the American media because when Mugabe rigged the election in his country earlier this year it really didn't cause much of a ripple in the "land of the free, home of the brave"."

Of course we right-wingers feel for the people of Zimbabwe. You can read reams of Zimbabwe coverage on our blogs, while leftists just shamefacedly ignore the subject. That 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could have gone to Morgan Tsvangirai, a Zimbabwean who risked his life for the cause of freedom in his country. Instead, it went to some American with a crackpot hypothesis about the weather.

But we have no dog in the Zimbabwe fight. We are, however, at war with the mullahs who have turned Iran from a modern industrial nation to a medieval hellhole. We overtly, and I'm sure covertly, support any movement that will destroy their death-angel theocracy.

It gives us a chance to fantasize about the players.

Yes, footage like the Neda and Pearl videos is horrible, but so long as we're at war in the region we have a duty to remind ourselves what sort of enemy we're fighting. Seeing these reminds me of what saw on a distant Tuesday morning when I came in from my run to see CNN running video of a big building with a hole in it.

I hope to one day see video of the last mullah dying in a fire.