Barrel Strength

The authors of the Bell Curve , Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, were right. Intelligence corelates most effectively with  a wide range of apparently unrelated behaviours and outcomes, and more effectively than all other supposed explanations.

From Reuters:

The MRC study, which analysed data from 1,145 men and women aged around 55 and followed up for 20 years, rated the top five heart disease risk factors as cigarette smoking, IQ, low income, high blood pressure, and low physical activity.

If you have not yet read Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment, you must.  It is that simple. You should not be allowed to talk about human accomplishments without having done so.

It shows what you would expect it to show, that of the world’s great accomplishments, most of them, in fact, by far the largest proportion of them, the ones that change not merely their own culture but the world’s possibilities, were accomplished by white men. Repeat: white….men. It will drive any politically correct person to writhing agony.

Foreign Policy blog informs us of this.

Despite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, and everything to do with his name — which, in Arabic, translates to “biggest dick”:

In Saudi Arabia, size does count.

A high level Pakistani diplomat has been rejected as Ambassador of Saudi Arabia because his name, Akbar Zib, equates to “Biggest Dick” in Arabic. Saudi officials, apparently overwhelmed by the idea of the name, put their foot down and gave the idea of his being posted there, the kibosh.

According to this Arabic-language article in the Arab Times, Pakistan had previously floated Zeb’s name as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, only to have him rejected for the same reason. One can only assume that submitting Zeb’s name to a number of Arabic-speaking countries is some unique form of punishment designed by the Pakistani Foreign Ministry — or the result of a particularly egregious cockup.

Addendum
by Glendronach

Always look back to history for guidance, even in this matter: