Another year, another post. There's a whole lot going on in this big ol' world these days, and The Quintonian has been taking it all in, like a fat, sassy lizard on a rock. But how does The Quintonian manage to stay so well-informed? you may ask. With the information technology of our modern era, how can you not be well-informed! retorts The Quintonian. But there are certain web-sites that we consider must-visits, because of their factual content and/or shared anarcho-Christian-eco-communitarian-libertarian ideologies. So, as a public service to all 7.5 (average daily) loyal readers/spam search engines, here is what keeps one logging on to the www. each day. The following is an annotated list of my daily roundup, that I implore you to check out.
Updated daily, and "unabashedly anti-state, anti-war and pro-market". A daily compendium of essays and articles put together by the eponymous Mr. Lew Rockwell, the site includes a strong roster of regular contributors writing on such topics as economics, culture, health and militarism. What is especially refreshing is how this site shows the idiocy of describing people as being "left-wing" or "right wing". Most of Lew's contributors are what the commercial media would be described as "right wing" in certain areas, i.e. in opposition to international global warming treaties. Yet their strident anti-war, anti-military stance would put the doltish commercial media's stock character of "tree hugging left wing hippie peacenik" to shame. Definitely the place to be if you happen to like Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX).
James Howard Kunstler is a master polemicist, whose weekly Monday morning rants are not to be missed. One of the major voices of doom concerning the peak oil problem, JHK has a very obvious disdain for present-day American pop culture (i.e. repeatedly referring to his countrymen as a nation of overfed clowns and tattooed morons), while also providing very entertaining diatribes against the entire social-economic apparatus.
http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com
A collection of articles and commentary collected by a chap with the pen name "Ilargi". Takes the editorial position that the global economy is a house of cards built on a foundation of ruinous debt and environmental destruction. Ilargi and his website are quite sure this house of cards will be collapsing shortly, resulting in a long-term period of depression, penury and upheaval. A bracing antidote to the happy, ad revenue-generating talk of The Quintonian's favourite whipping boy, the aforesaid commercial media. Are we headed for economic recovery and growth, or an epic day of reckoning? If you believe the latter, this site offers choice front row seats.
Former MP and business pundit Garth Turner's blog. Garth is a bit of a cocky egotist, but in a good way, in the best tradition of Snoopy, or Chad Ochocinco. His daily, Canadian-specific advice on financial planning and investing is always welcome, but we mostly enjoy his mockery of the present-day conventional wisdom of the business press.
If you love sports, and also subscribe to the belief that sports is entertainment, and a rather trashy form entertainment at that, you will love this site. A daily clearing-house of the latest outrages, peccadilloes and general wackiness from the world of sport.
(Got to put a quarter in the meter. More to come).
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