Marriage

From Courtship to Courtroom: What Divorce Law Is Doing To Marriage by Jed Abraham. If you are male, and thinking about getting married, this book is the wisest fifteen bucks you will ever spend. The divorce courts rape men consistently and deliberately. You may think you know about this. I'll wager that you don't. Find out just what they can do to you. The most you can lose is fifteen bucks. You may save several hundred thousand and your children. (Jed, whom I know slightly, is a divorce lawyer of enormous experience.)

Race, Sex, Things Incorrect

La Griffe du Leon has fascinating statistical analyses of things you aren't supposed to analyze, such as measured intelligence in relation to sex and race. La Griffe du Leon is a pseudonym, probably because he is an academic in fear of being lynched. This presupposes that a mob of professors can tie a knot. Griffe is unmistakeably a first-rate statistician. He also writes graceful English, and so can't be a statistician, first-rate or otherwise. Maybe he's a pair of fraternal twins. Anyway, well worth reading.

The Myths That Divide Us by John Perazzo. A book about race relations, crime, and racial hucksters. It isn't pretty. My friends usually come away from it in a state of mild shock. The title is deceptively touch-feely, probably because his publisher forced the issue. I spent six years as a police reporter, and can testify that whenever Perazzo writes about things I know about, which is usually, he is deadly accurate. No ranting, just cold reporting. Take with Valium.

Steve Sailer Odd but intelligent site with thoughtful and incorrect analysis of, well, lots of things. It takes a little poking around, but repays the effort.

My mail often assumes that all American blacks are thoughtless followers of Jesse Jackson. Lashawn Barber might suggest rather more intellectual, hmmm, diversity. Will Powell, with whom I occasionally attach ribs when in Washington, also doesn't fit the Jacksonian mold.

Really Important Stuff

Great Comic Book Covers More Comic Book Covers Even More (Hey, I'm an American. Gimme break.)

Honky Tonk Confidential is my favorite country bar band as well as proof that at least somebody in Washington can do something worthwhile. I prefer the album Honky Tonk Confidential, though Your Trailer or Mine? is good. They write their own songs, and they are good at it. Very good at it, actually.

Expatriation

Chapala.com and MexConnect are useful for people who think they might like to check out the expat community around Lake Chapala, Mexico, an hour south of Guadalajara. Bear in mind that these sites often have commercial aims, such as selling overpriced real estate, and that they chiefly involve moneyed expats who have little real contact with Mexico. They can still be of use. The US Consulate in Guadalajara is useful, but remember that the State Department is highly politicized and frightened of everything. Mexico isn't dangerous. For any who would like a competent guide to the area of Lake Chapala, to see what they think of it, I recommend Ron Langley's Mexican Central Expats. For legal info on a variety of topics pertaining to immigration to Mexico, try Adriana Perez Flores, my attorney here.

Media

If you aren't enthusiastic about the war in Iraq, or just want to balance your sources, Antiwar.com is a good read.

For those interested in Asia, which we are all going to be interested in before too many years pass, Asia Times is one I like.

For kind of techy daily coverage of of the world of computers, The Register is fun. Characterized by a sense of humor and occasional lapses into English grammar.

Simply nuts is J. Orlin Grabbe . Make of it what you will. I refuse responsibility. I read it daily.

Lew Rockwell is a good site for libertarians.

Girls

Despite my reputation for misogyny, based entirely on North American feminists (the other several billion women are fine with me), I dislike porn sites because they make women look like such slatterns and doxies. DOMAI, which I think stands for Dirty Old Men's Association International, isn't that at all. The girls, though naked as jaybirds, are pretty and likeable. Works for me.