Thanks for the number crunching, Snodog. As expected, mine was a more aggressive and volatile portfolio that did better in good years and worse in bad. But not necessarily better. Interesting.
Scanner, if you'll notice, the idea behind his asset allocation was to try to evenly spread among the non-correlated asset classes, which does include negative beta (or contrarian) stuff.
In other words, balance is the key, not a certain favoritism towards any particular class, as that is exactly the kind of investor risk that he wanted people to avoid.
I've mentioned this already, but here's the link again for what
several people have proposed (called "lazy portfolios") based on Harry Browne's ideas... which if you think about it, is pretty ubiquitous nowadays. Mr Browne just doesn't always get the credit he deserves for his work in this area.