PS: Greetings, Mr. Hail!

Taki is 87 years old. (88 in August.)

I have no idea who actually runs takimag.com or what it costs to pay the writers and other expenses, but I would imagine any revenue gained through subscriptions would be of little or no consequence to Taki or his webzine.

But what do I know...

☮️

PS

From Adam Smith's screenshot:

____________________

"Takimag is a subscription service.

YOU MAY ONLY VISIT FOR FREE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TIMES.

We kingly request the use of cookies for functional purposes.

Just click or tap to continue.

This message won't appear again.

SIGN UP HERE.

Enjoy Takimag!"
_____________________

Is Mr. Taki himself aware of this change? Mr. Taki is still sharp and spry now well into his eighties, I think, and I would be surprised if he'd approve this move.

Does Steve Sailer have legal control over his Takimag articles? He's published hundreds of thousands of words' worth of articles there.

PS: Good afternoon, Achmed, Mr. Hail and friends,

I saw it too! On Taki's. The semi-translucent flag looking subscription page. But only for a few seconds. I was going to screen shot it, but it disappeared before I could and everything is normal now...

--- ok ---

So, I loaded Taki's in a new clean browser, and I found the page...

https://i.ibb.co/dfYR5Br/Taki-s.jpg

Again, it was a fleeting thing. Gone in a few seconds. Everything is normal now. I don't know what that's about.

I have not seen this "buy my book" page that you speak of.

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I agree. Staying off the record books is a very good thing. 'Cash is king' applies here perhaps more than usual. I am an advocate of private, cash sales for everything, especially firearms and ammo.

Kinda off topic, kinda not...

https://www.newsweek.com/undocumented-immigrants-have-right-own-guns-judge-rules-1880806

I'd be curious to know if Judge Sharon Coleman believes this right to carry guns extends to the unfortunate souls who are citizens of the state of Illinois? or to citizens in general.

Also off topic, a little more catching up from last week...
https://i.ibb.co/595HqxM/12-Step-Program.jpg

Happy Friday! ☮️

PS: Mr. Hail, seeing as you have already become the middleman - that bit about TakiMag might be useful to people - just keep deleting the cookies... maybe that works - is part of this, but I'm referring to Buzz Mohawk.

Yeah, as the middleman, listen, you tell him ... haha, sorry, if you feel like it, as I really DON'T want to re-start commenting there, but it's the following:

I truly did not quit commenting out of any problem with anything. As I wrote to the crowd there, the posts and comments were very enjoyable, but then time-consuming. However, when I was in China this past summer, the ability to make un-moderated posts went away. Then, a few days later, it came back for that device.

Later, it went away and didn't come back. Still, during this period, right up through my cessation of commenting, the problem was only on the one device. On other computers, if I went ahead and filled in my fake info (excepting the PS URL), it was in normal mode, unmoderated. The problem was that one device, which I used most of the time.

Here's the problem, and Buzz Mohawk may want to see if it's his problem. I have to guess that the device of mine just couldn't hold onto the cookies due to my having nearly 200 tabs open. Yes, I know!! I gotta go through those. Some might be good for a blog post... like in '21 or something, though.

Again, just guessing, but either Ron Unz (though I made no complaint) or iSteve may have re-allowed me to be unmoderated, originally and then again, by using some software setting. Steve does not seem like much of a computer guy, so after it lost the deal the 2nd time - still in China - he may have figured "fuck it. I can't keep tweaking this guy's settings." That's understandable, and the problem would probably have not gone away until I cleaned up that device.

That lack of unmoderation on the one device may have put a slight damper on my enthusiasm, but it was really just that 4-day hiatus out of town at that hotel that had me think that I would quit (nearly) cold turkey and give myself more time in the day.

PS: UPDATE to the UPDATE re, TakiMag, though I'm sure you all have seen the same anyway. This time, when I reopened the browser (after all browser data had been removed, for reasons), I got that striped thing again, read it, and barely had time to capture the text, or maybe my capturing it was the click that got me to the site. Anyway:

Welcome to Taki's Magazine

Takimag is a subscription service.

You may only visit for free a limited number of times.

We kindly request the use of cookies for functional purposes.

Just click or tap to continue. This message won't appear again.

Enjoy Takimag!"

Yep, the people on unz.com were right, at least on the face of it. OTOH, look at what this says. "We kindly request the use of cookies..." Really? So what if I remove them? Does that mean the server does not have the info. on how many times I've visited?

I'll let you know what I find, and if you all do the same, it would be appreciated.

PS

Buzz Mohawk wishes to extend his best regards to the proprietor of Peak Stupidity, and to the wider community of excellent individuals associated with Peak Stupidity as readers, well-wishers, and commenters.

"I don’t understand what happened to Achmed E. Newman," writes Buzz Mohawk. He seems to be under the impression that Achmed E. Newman was put under heavy moderation by Steve Sailer or one acting in the latter's name. He said that he too has had this happen but thinks the best of it, given his habit of commenting after downing a few "cold ones".

PS: UPDATE to my previous comment of a couple of minutes back:

When I went to the tab in the browser where that TakiMag "Buy my Book" page sits, I saw this red/white translucent flag-looking foreground that DID say something about a subscription. However, as soon as I hovered - or maybe it was one click - it just disappeared, and everything is normal.

Now that I think of it, I saw this once or twice before. As my mind does with all kinds of website ads, I paid no attention besides thinking "I got to get this crap off of the screen so I can read." Is that all this was, an ad, or WAS it trying to tell me something?

Well, if they don't want me to read, I won't read. The internet is pretty big now...

PS: Sorry for the late reply, Adam.

"I think it would be pretty great if Jason Alexander narrated Steve's book." Haha, I think I will just read then. I have never been into audiobooks anyway though.

Yes, I've definitely heard of Palmetto State Armory. I appreciate the links. There will be gun shows too... staying off the record books is a good thing.

About TakiMag website: I just went to the site on a completely different computer (not mine), and it shows up fine. Steve's "Buy my Book" page came up too - just checking in case there was something odd with that page. Nope.

They eliminated commenting a good while ago, my guess being about 3-4 years ago. The comments, though intelligent, would go pretty piddly a lot, so I didn't go through them like I would on iSteve.

PS: Top o' the evenin', everyone,

I think it would be pretty great if Jason Alexander narrated Steve's book.

Mr. Hail, I have not encountered any trouble at Taki's. (I just pulled up about 15 articles and there was no mention of any sort of subscription, limited numbers of page views or articles cut off part way through.)

As far as I know, the subscription for Taki's allows you to post comments. (Not sure if this is still a thing over there.)

“The publishing-company has said it opposes e-books and digital-copies, and will never 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 one.”

But they do ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 one. (Perhaps someone at Passage Press will leak a digi-copy one day?)

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Mr. Moderator... Yeah, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I saved that Hornady-410.jpg file to my PS folder like a week ago. I guess today's the day I'm catching up.

https://www.opticsplanet.com/aguila-ammunition-aguila-ammo-22lr-high-vel-1280fps-38gr-plated-hp-500pk.html

I bought some .22 at 6.3¢ while I was stocking up. Like you say, .22 is great for practice. I hear a .22 pistol is nice for practice too. And a whole lot of fun!

I don't know what kind(s) of ammo you're looking for, but Palmetto State Armory, in beautiful Columbia South Carolina, has some pretty good deals...

https://palmettostatearmory.com/ammo.html
https://palmettostatearmory.com/aac-5-56-nato-55gr-fmj-ammunition-20rd-box.html

They had the best price (that I found) on .45acp and moon clips.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/aac-45-acp-ammo-230-grain-fmj-50rd-box.html

Palmetto is not too far away so they delivered to Dahlonega pretty quick.

And in case you're looking for a few of these...
(So handy for so many things.)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325380481340
https://www.ebay.com/itm/296286651598

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Regarding voice-over work, firstly, that Buzz Mohawk has really done all kinds of things. (He noted that he'd done this work, but is not into it anymore. Too bad.)

Also, the Lionel Shriver book I read and reviewed, "The Motion of the Body Through Space" -

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=2120

the woman narrator/character has a part-time, but lucrative job doing that. I should say she DID. She got ousted because the D.I.E. folks in NYC where she worked in this business did not want a anyone but authentic voices with "lived experience"* doing any work that wasn't speaking the voice of a White person, and I guess they weren't publishing/recording many White people audio books.

The AA bit plays a part in that book. I read from Lionel Shriver that she was doing her part to fight the Wokeness with that (including her husband getting ousted from her job and replaced by an African who had no business doing the job). However, I will have to say that Mrs. Shriver really punted on this at the end. She had a conversation, as she does in her novels to make points, in which all of a sudden, the narrator is just OK with it all. WTF??

Now, I remember Mr. Hail's comment on indexes. Yes, they WERE a thing. I was thinking of novels too, maybe more so than non-fiction. "I remember this name, but ..." I'm no JoeTatoe, but then, I sometimes put books down for weeks or months and pick them back up.

* Not her writing, but I put that in quotes for other, obvious reasons.

PS: From J1234: "Not a great idea, in my humble opinion. He has acknowledged his shortcomings in this regard before, so I'm a little surprised he would entertain the notion." Yeah, he mentioned that he'd be able to put the appropriate tones for sarcasm and such that might be hard for the voice-over guy to do. That's a valid point, but then, I suppose he could just give the first edition a listen and get the guy to correct it in the appropriate spots. (Guy? Hmmm, what would happen if he got some sexy porn star - I like the "nurse" on The Office, who appeared a couple of times. Would that help, or would that just sound silly? Probably the latter...)

I'm glad you supported Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. I went the opposite way out of cheapness re Ann Coulter on "Adios America" It was also 90% preaching to the choir, the copy that I got from the library, that is. I was just being cheap, but I did know she's doing A-OK on money, and the book was already way up on amazon. BTW, I put in a comment there BEFORE I'd read it, haha. Amazon has "certified buyers" or whatever, which was not a bad idea. At least, even if the review is just a political rant and the reviewer didn't read the book, he put his money down.

That comment, and one from way way back on the bogus research on gun use/ownership of the Founders by one Professor Michael Bellisiles are still on amazon. I like that.

PS: It was good that 1/2 the TakiMag article was about the trouble it was for Mr. Sailer to publish books, have meetings in person, etc., and I'm glad he mentioned VDare and the castle.

OK, I broke down and read the comments on iSteve under that post, and I skimmed a couple of other threads. I'm backsliding, but no commenting*. First off, I saw about 5 complaints, but I see no problem with TakiMag. It loads fine, and I saw no warning message.

About the column too, Mr. Sailer does seem to realize the way things are going regarding what's left of our rights. I don't think he understands how purposeful that is and how it's part of a program that's a long way down that slippery slope already.

About the e-books. After I'd already thought about it, Steve brought up the very important point that books can't be revised remotely in real-time. Here's the thing (which deserves a post too): If it's a downloadable .pdf or even just ASCII text, then one really HAS the material too, as with a book.** Amazon's Kindle and the other real e-books are subject to that revisionism that the people in the Ministry of Truth in the book 1984 couldn't imagine, or Orwell couldn't imagine them imagining this ...

The problem is that, for convenience as usual, lots of people don't put these digital forms of media on any physical things that they have in their actual possession. I have disk drives, but even I don't copy onto anything resembling a CD, DVD-RW, much less a floppy disk anymore. I have a few "thumb" or "jump" drives around. (Can one still get these?) So, there's that Cloud crap. That's what the Globalist controllers really want people to use, you know, for ultimate convenience. I'm not sure how one could possibly keep anything safe from revisionism or outright removal due to WrongThink when it's all on The Cloud. OK, now see, there's a Peak Stupidity post, right there, man.


* Yes, thanks very much for inserting that George Castanza clip - it seemed to fit. I saw that Mr. Mohawk like that. Regarding that guy, he lives in Connecticut, and he's given out so much info (such as on his wife's work) that I think it's too much if someone wanted to go after him... but why? (Do they really want to shut down the commenters? I think they'd rather shut down the sites themselves - it's a lot easier, when you have the whole Regime on your side.)

Thanks for other plugs too, for this site. I've gone to your site - nothing new, what gives? - and I go to that link on HailToYou to see your unz comments on occasion.

** Some would say not as durable, but others would say more easily backed up in safe places. I say the latter is probably more important. Fire destroys all media, but one can spread that media all over digitally.

PS-
Mr. Moderator said:

"Along, with this, when I read Mr. Sailer's statement that he could (but may not) do the voice were there an audio book, I felt the strong urge to insert the following clip from "Seinfeld" into unz comments. Someone else would have to do it, but it's perfect. It's not that Mr. Sailer sounds like George Castanza - far from it - but this is just hilarious...

Steve Sailer toots his own horn too much. He's not the only guy who sees these things going on in American society...comments from reviewers, Tucker, and other writers was fine with me. His tooting of his own horn directly bugs me."

Valid observations and comments. I don't think it's wrong to bring up a public figure's shortcomings, even if the public figure is heroic and not all that public (aka underappreciated, not widely acknowledged.)

I've mentioned Steve's lack of public speaking skills before. It's not a fatal flaw - Thomas Jefferson wasn't a very good public speaker, either. Steve narrating his own audio book? Not a great idea, in my humble opinion. He has acknowledged his shortcomings in this regard before, so I'm a little surprised he would entertain the notion.

Also, good point about buying the book. I bought Ann Coutler's "Adios America" several years ago but never read it because...well, "the choir knows the hymns." Same with Michelle Malkin's book. Financial support and number of copies sold mean something.

Thanks for the good comments. I was going to mention some of these things, but didn't know how well they'd be received.

PS: Mr. Hail, I had forgotten to read your last (at the time) comment on that Sailer thread (about 9-10 hours ago now) in which you gave your 3 points regarding what "The Sailer Strategy" should have in it. I see now your point (3) has what I would have recommended to, a "strategy" on how we can go forward.

I will say that giving these kinds of solutions is not Mr. Sailer's thing. Let me put it this way, they WOULD BE were this 1984 - and not the book 1984. I am very glad Mr. Sailer's work* is getting attention. His work helps get those who just have no clue more clued in.

However, his solutions involve getting the enemy to go ahead and read his charts, graphs, explanations, and exhortations, so, you know, they will understand and change their ways. HAAAA! They are the enemy. Even those who understand and agree with the logic would be like those Red Russians who understood the plight of the White Russians, but hey, we're out to kill them, so... you know?

Most of the strategy we need, IMO, can't be written down to to ... honestly, the Feds. More in another comment.


* I do hope Tucker Carlson will interview him. It might happen, as Tucker has been branching out in various directions. (The Lydia Brimelow interview was, unfortunately, more of a demonstration that Trump is not the only one being lawfared with his rights being trampled. That's all good, but I wish Tucker would have asked her about, or let her talk about, invasion questions. She did try to get some of that in.)

PS: Thanks, Adam, for answering my question on the .410 shells. Hornady is indeed a premium brand. I have found for .22 LR too though, that the fancy plastic boxes cost more per round than those bricks (of 10 boxes of 50 rounds) or the milk cartons (usually with 550 rounds inside). I think .22 is still cheap enough to where that box is a significant portion of the expense.

Just over 7 cents a round is what I paid recently, but I bought some pretty large quantities and made a deal with the guy. It's great for rifle practice, for kids especially.

I need more of the bigger stuff though. I was stocking up on some, but I should have bought twice as much, nay, 5 times!

PS

-- Sailer and Costanza, audio-book update --

Mr. Cornelius Orville Buztradius Mohawk III, of New York (a.k.a. Buzz Mohawk), has given indication that he approves of, and appreciates very much, the George Costanza audio-book narration clip that you helpfully provided.

PS

I also think it may have been a mistake to make this one volume cover a fifty-year period. Why not make several volumes focused on different eras?

"Noticing: Selected Works of Steve Sailer, in fifteen volumes"

Vol. 1: The early years, 1970s-1980s;
Vol. 2: The 1990s, newspaper columnist era;
Vol. 3: The 2000s, power-blogging era;
Vol. 4: Political writings: late 2000s to early 2010s;
Vol. 5: Cultural writings: late 2000s to early 2010s
Vol. 6: Political writings: 2010s, tracing the rise of Trump and aggressive Wokeness;
vol. 7: Cultural writings: 2010s;
Vol. 8: Sailer on social media, 2010s to mid-2020s;
Vol. 9: Sailer's role during the Corona-Panic of 2020-2022.
Vol. 10: Political writings, late 2010s to mid-2020s
Vol. 11: Political writings, late 2010s to mid-2020s
Vol. 12: The Sailer commentariat, selected discussions, 2000s;
Vol. 13; Sailer commentariat, selected discussions, early 2010s;
Vol. 14: Sailer commentariat, selected discussions, late 2010s;
Vol. 15: Sailer commentariat, selected discussions, early 2020s (including Corona-Panic).

No single volume would be overly long. Steep discounts to those who pre-order all together.

PS

I just noticed, the official title as sit appears on Amazon is:

"Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023)"

The words "Steve" and "Sailer" are NOT IN THE TITLE! The title simply says that it's "an essential reader" about, apparently, "Noticing."

A casual passer-by might think the tome aims to help an understanding the concept "noticing" itself. In fact, of course, it's a compendium of Steve Sailer's essays and things. Noticing is just a clever little one-liner he made up. The point is that it's Steve Sailer's selected work.

It was a big mistake to not title put the man's name in the title itself: "Noticing: An Essential Steve Sailer reader, 1973-2023" or "Noticing: A Steve Sailer Anthology, 1973-2023";

PS

Is is true that Taki-Mag is now "subscription only"?

A message blocked my way from viewing the recent Sailer article at first, and implied that after a few freebies the site would block access.

PS

Moderator writes that Steve Sailer "didn't mention some of the advantages" of e-books, "such as ctrl-f. For some of what I read, I wish I had that so badly for a paper book. 'Where did this guy come into the story again?', etc."

What you describe was achieved in olden times by well-produced paper-books by making use of an ancient and mysterious technology. It was, once upon a time, known as... "the Index"!

(Seriously, though, as I'm sure you too have noticed, many books now lack any kind of Index. Most older non-fiction books, well-edited, have indexes that are even BETTER, more useful for the purposes you allude to, than Control-F. In my experience.)

PS

RE: Adam Smith

The publishing-company has said it opposes e-books and digital-copies, and will never release one.

Sailer and his publisher have explained that this is really a moral stance on the value of paper-books, not an attempt to protect the "I.P." After all, the large-majority of NOTICING is available on the open Internet for free, without even need for Adamsmithian magic in acquiring it.

PS: Good afternoon, everyone,

I'm going to use this comment space to follow up on a few comments from about a week ago.

RE: 410 ammo...

On Wednesday March 20th, 2024 at 5:36PM MST (post 2916) Achmed asked “How many shells are in each of these [Hornady Critical Defense 410] boxes (sounds like a standard "box")...”

Boxes of Hornady 410 have 20 shells per box.
https://i.ibb.co/hYgPjTX/Hornady-410.jpg

A “standard” box of 410 ammo has 25 shells...
https://i.ibb.co/9vMn7Bs/410-box.jpg

(“Premium ammo” is usually packaged in those little plastic trays while regular ammo is just packed in the box. Practice and/or surplus ammo is often just loose in a box or a bucket.)

https://i.ibb.co/n0WN47W/22-bucket.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/QD9Mt8Q/556.jpg

A few hours later (at 11:10PM MST)(post 2917), Mr. Hail answered my question(s) about where we'd find 410 ammo in the days before the internet. While quoting Mr. Blanc, Mr. Hail mentioned (indirectly) that the Sears catalog was one of those go to resources for just about everything.

Here's a page from a 1975 Sears catalog...
https://i.ibb.co/LxZMCQK/1975-Sears.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/ZfNbqzr/1975-Sears-410.jpg

“Not as spiffy as the things we have now, but things got done. And I believe that you’d find that just about everyone was more content.” - Mr. Blanc

Many thanks.

I also noticed that Remington finally has some 4 pellet 000 buck in stock. It's not cheap at $2/shell, but you can buy it here...

https://www.remington.com/shotshell/29-20697.html

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Dieter, while reading your last comment under the motor law post (2922) I realized that when you say Alfa Romeo Barchetta, you might just be talking about the Alfa Romeo Spider...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Spider

Which would make plenty of sense. The short story that inspired the lyrics for Red Barchetta was written about the MGB convertible...

http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19731100roadandtrack.htm

The Alfa Romeo Spider and the MGB are quite similar.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/315189091605
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335314883302

But honestly, if I was in the market for something like that I would probably buy a Mazda Miata. Yeah, it's a girl's car, but they are known to be very reliable and low maintenance. And I hear they are a whole lot of fun to drive.

More realistically yet, I would buy something like this...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166666289666

About Steve Sailer's new book...

I have not yet found a digital copy to share, and I don't know if I ever will. If I want to read it I may have to buy a copy. (Or go looking through the LittleFreeLibraries! in Achmed's neighborhood in a couple weeks.)

And while I didn't find a digi-copy of Sailer's Noticing, I did find a few books on Golf Course Architecture...

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=golf+course+architecture

And here's a copy of the Half-Blood Prince, (in case anyone is interested...)
https://tinyurl.com/273u4yda

Anyway...

Happy Thursday! ☮️

PS: I just read the TakiMag column, Mr. Hail. I don't agree on a couple of things.

1) Is it true that people are going away from e-books? Mr. Sailer says people appreciate real books. I do most of the time. He didn't mention some of the advantages, such as ctrl-f. For some of what I read, I wish I had that so badly for a paper book. "Where did this guy come into the story again?", etc.

Along, with this, when I read Mr. Sailer's statement that he could (but may not) do the voice were there an audio book, I felt the strong urge to insert the following clip from "Seinfeld" into unz comments. Someone else would have to do it, but it's perfect. It's not that Mr. Sailer sounds like George Castanza - far from it - but this is just hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKprX-HP94

2) Steve Sailer toots his own horn too much. He's not the only guy who sees these things going on in American society. He IS, a pretty good writer on these subjects. Nah, the inserting all the other comments from reviewers, Tucker, and other writers was fine with me. His tooting of his own horn directly bugs me.

PS: Mr. Hail, for US, who know him very well, yes, an anthology is a let-down. (As I've written, I bought copies mainly to support him, both money-wise and, maybe more importantly, numbers-wise*. Another anthology, as per your comments on The Unz Review, yes, to me that would be laziness.

However, for others, who've never read his blog, they might really enjoy that format. (Why not just go to his blog on UR and go through posts for the last 10 years, hence, nearly unlimited reading for said new fans of Mr. Sailer? That's another story. Some people just like real books.) I do agree that putting URLs in the paper books is not ideal at all.

Your "The Sailer Strategy" title might be a good one for policy wonk types. Would it include more than just the reams of data about election and his conclusions? I know there could be a lot to it, such as writing about the "marriage gap" vs the sex gap, etc. I'd rather have a book named that which covered his "strategy", basically advice to American society in general. That is perhaps what you mean too.

Gotta go, but I ran through your comments and will read the Takimag article later today.
'


* It's like my membership in the NRA. They can get lots more $$ elsewhere, but when the show they have 5 million members, Congressmen quake, or used to, anyway ...

PS

-- Urge Sailer, and co., to go forward with book "The Sailer Strategy" --

I've been trying to rally interest in pushing Steve Sailer to write a book entitled The Sailer Strategy (2025). Adam Smith and others have previously shown interest in this initiative.

See my comment here:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/new-in-takis-magazine-buy-my-book-an-faq/#comment-6489144

That was after Sailer made a direct appeal to readers for what his new book should be, once he completes the fast-approaching book tour (including his coming Tucker Carlson Interview appearance this spring).

-

A medium- or long-form book of new material would require Steve Sailer to cut out of his Twitter hobby (time-sink), for as much as much as a few months. How many books are wasted to feuds with nitwits like that excitable man, Willy Stancil?

PS

-- Preliminary thoughts on Sailer book: The Good and the Bad --

I haven't seen the book yet, but let me say something bold 9to keep the attention of you loyal Peak Stupidity patrons out there): I am already disappointed.

I am disappointed in the Noticing Anthology, in one sense. It is a sense also alluded to here in the main-entry: It's all old material.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that." I salute the effort and hope it sells well. And it is important to have any kind of serious-published book to your name, which helps Sailer look more like a real person.

Previously, the only Sailer book was the VDare-published, quickly-written book about Obama's family story from 2008. That book showed all hallmarks of not-quite being a serious publication. If published just ten years or so earlier, it might be expected to look like a "Xerox-copied and stapled-together diatribe" by a guy. By 2008 it was possible to make an amateur effort look slightly better. But the Halfblood Prince book was not subject to good editing and thoughtful revisions or scope. It was more like a series of extended blog-entries, not to mentioned crammed full of long-dead Internet URLs (do not put URLs in a printed book!)

It would be of more interest if Steve Sailer published something of entirely new material, a true book "as book," rather than a bound collection of essays over the 1990s to 2010s. (and re the unfortunate-so-far 2020s: I sincerely hope he or his editor(s) were wise enough to NOT include anything crowing about being an early Noticer of the horrific nature of the Wuhan Apocalypse Virus and the need for lockdowns and etc).

PS: Mr. Blanc, I wonder if that thought had Mr. Sailer a little cautious about which of his subjects and posts he featured. He's got plenty of extra material, so no problem filling a book

PS: Yeah, the signed hardcover version was just under four hundred dollars, J1234. I wouldn't have minded buying one if knew that a majority of it went to iSteve, as a donation. However, I asked in the iSteve threads and people told me that was a rude thing to ask.

OK, paperbacks it is. I did take advantage of the free shipping - 8 bucks saved on the 3 copies - due to that Stancil guy that Mr. Sailer was in some twitter-feud with. The publisher gave a "Stancil free shipping" discount.

PS Some of his pieces from the 70s and 80s might be of interest. Best hope that he doesn’t get to much exposure or he might be charged with hate crimes.

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Mr. Moderator, I look forward to your review and thanks for the reminder to order the book. I originally had a notion to buy it in hardcover, even though Steve warned us that the price was high. Then I actually saw the price...YIKES! Paperback will be fine. That way I'll be able to afford a second or third copy, too.