Agronomist-inventor Jethro Tull increased carrying capacity by as much as a factor of 8 with, among others, his invention of the seed drill (seen here with his surname distribution during the cultivation of the US frontier):

The seed drill is a simple device, simple enough that it can be built by a competent yeoman farmer, which Jethro Tull was.

If I were King, I would replace Saint Patrick’s Day with Jethro Tull Day, in honor of this man to whom so many owe their very biological existence—born to his own biological existence as he was during March 1674 in Basildon, Berkshire, UK.  The Friday nearest Mid-March seems a good time for such a celebration since we don’t know his exact date of birth (he was christened March 30 according to Parish records), and Friday night is better for raising a glass of ale, (brewed from the fruit of the harvest made more bountiful by the seed drill) than some random day of the week.

Jethro Tull, rather than being properly honored, lost his land and was hounded by creditors.

If any of my cousins near Lower Basildon in Berkshire would be so kind as to drop some flowers on his grave at St Bartholomew’s church I would appreciate it. 

PS: Not to denigrate Chinese agricultural accomplishments—which are undoubtedly quite profound in their own right—to those who claim that Jethro Tull “adopted” the much earlier Chinese device which they call a “seed drill”, let them compare the drawing above with this drawing of the Chinese “seed drill” and keep in mind that Tull had to go through multiple generations of design before he arrived at a device which achieved the required multiple of crop yield with the above pictured device:

“The Political Compass”...

...has been used by sociologists and political scientists as the supposed be all and end all of mapping the primary dimensions of social and political sentiment into a space.  Supposedly all other dimensions are relatively insignificant when analyzing the dimensionality of political and social attitudes.

It is my hypothesis that the reason for this limited dimensionality is due to the fact that the questionnaires do not systematically include the scale of social organization to which the question applies.

For instance, take the statement “I oppose homosexual behavior.”

Let’s break this down into the following 3 statements:

“I prefer homosexual relations.”
“Homosexuality should be allowed within my nation.”
“I would tolerate the existence of a nation, somewhere in the world, that allowed homosexuality.”

A likely outcome of these statements for a great many people are:  “Strongly disagree”, “Disagree”, “Agree”

However, the questionnaires for “The Political Compass” rarely let people express their tolerance of diversity in any manner except what I have termed “heterosity” or novel, local diversity.

I further hypothesize that this is because the culture of sociologists and political scientists is dominated by vectorists—or people promoting heterosity as a means not only of transmitting more virulent genes and memes globally but evolving virulence via horizontal transmission.  The general unspoken assumption in designing their questionnaires is that if one is to be intolerant of some behavior or belief in your personal life, your family, your community, your county, your state or in your nation, that you must therefore be intolerant of the behavior globally.  Hence those subjected to these abusive questionnaires are put in a ridiculous position—the outcome of which fails to represent firewalling of cultures to discover what works and what fails in reality, as opposed to in the verbal bantering of academic sophists who nearly to the “person” promotes open borders and heterosity.

We will establish a network of experts, farsighted thinkers, political fora and discussion meetings.  We will thereby deepen and continually further develop the concept of the New Centre and the Third Way.  This is the priority for us.

From the Blair-Schroeder Third Way document issued 6th August 1999.

... the credibility of the EPA [US Environmental Protection Agency - Ed] is defeatable, but not on the basis of ETS [environmental tobacco smoke - Ed) alone.  It must be part of a larger mosaic that concentrates all the EPA’s enemies against it at one time.

From an internal memo leaked from Philip Morris during the “junk science” wars of the 80s and 90s.

Today I happened across a review at Amazon Books of Frank Salter’s On Genetic Interests.  It was posted by one J. P. Rushton “Prof”, and is one of a select group of reviews that he has posted.  I find that fact both surprising and heartening.  The MacDonald list aside, perhaps, precious little evangelism is undertaken by our own intellectuals.  Prof Rushton ranks high in the Euro-loyal elite, certainly on the empirical wing.  It is good to see him speaking to the humble nationalist bookworm.  I certainly could not object if he and our other leading thinkers deigned to speak to the occasional blogworm as well.

And yet, in my heart I know that that would not be the most productive use of their time.  In matters of elite communication, productivity is measured by weight not volume.  Speaking to power is the duty and privilege of an intellectual elite, and that is no less true of ours than of any other.

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Prior to the year 2000, the schools of thought for potential terrorist events timed around the turn of the millennium included the FBI’s and mine. 

With hindsight of 7 years, decide for yourself which was better intelligence.

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Many otherwise intelligent commentators believe state support of fertility of “citizens” is the solution the low fertility of the West.  They would have us hope that women, guided by desire for better babies, would choose higher IQ men or sires from sperm banks resulting in a “eugenics by choice”.

Here’s reality:

Ricky Lackey has been chosen ‘stud’ by 6 simultaneous women who are now expecting their 6 children to contribute to Western fertility between August and October of this year.

When asked if he was going to marry a woman who is having sextuplets, the Rickmeister said:

“No, I be concubining.”

I believe this is not an accurate news report.  I suspect the Fountainhead of Evolution actually left off the trailing “g” and replaced it with an apostrophe.  It is via such economy that we may hope future generations will conserve the planet’s resources.

A German American kid from Green Bay, Wisconsin directed a low-budget (by modern blockbuster standards), pro-Euroman, anti-multicultural movie that is now on track to enjoy the largest opening for the month of March in the history of cinema with the highest rate of return on investment of any major release:

“The 300”.

Here’s my review.

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James has recorded a second interview with Prof Fraser, now uploaded to the Radio page.  It is long (meaning highly informative): 92min 53 sec.  File size 85MB.