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Sunday, May 31. 2015‘Being Offended Is Not a Plus for You’Is The West's Loss Of Faith Terminal?
"...the wind of opinion in recent years appears to have begun to blow against those who insist that Western liberal societies owe nothing to the religion from which they arose. Partly because the more we become acquainted with other traditions, the harder it becomes to sustain. Indeed, although some people still hold out, it should be evident by now that the culture of human rights has more to do with the creed preached by Moses and Jesus of Nazareth than that of, say, Muhammad. Nevertheless, the question of whether this societal position is sustainable without reference to the beliefs that gave it birth remains deeply pregnant and troubling in the West."
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Desecularization
From today's Lectionary: Here I am, LordIsaiah 6:1-8
Saturday, May 30. 2015Great, pretty quick supper for 5 for about $5The way I make black bean soup - 4 cans of Goya black beans (make sure they are GMO black beans, much better) Cook the bacon. Remove it. Sautee the onion and garlic in the bacon grease a little. Chop up the bacon. Dump out most of the bacon grease, then dump in the beans (don't drain them), onions and garlic, bay leaf, chopped bacon, some chicken broth, salt, and a couple of dashes or so of the flavorings. (I hold the jalapeno in abeyance as not everybody likes it. Can be added as garnish when done) I don't use cilantro because I hate it. Cilantro - some like it, some do not. It's genetic. Simmer covered for an hour or so or toss it in a crock pot. Add more chicken broth it it's too thick. Then mash it in the pot with a potato masher. Some people just take half of it and run it thru the blender for a creamier result but I like to mash it. Scallions on top, +/- chopped jalapeno. I like it with a big dollop of mashed taters in the middle of each person's bowl, but some people prefer sour cream and salsa on it. Whatever. Salad on the side? If you are a rabbit, fine. Blueberry CakeMom used to send us kids out into the meadow edges in July and August with our blueberry cans on strings around our necks. Wild blueberries, the small ones. Now you can get blueberries year-round, but they are not the same. Big fat things mostly. Anyway, simple and delicious with Hard Sauce on the side (that sauce is good without the brandy). Blueberry Cake. Saturday Music: The Last WaltzThe Band - The Last Waltz (full album). The beginning is delightful:
Saturday Verse: Wallace Stevens
Somnambulisma HerreshoffNathanael Greene Hereshoff, engineer, yacht designer, inventor, and all-round genius. A couple of his favorites: The Herreshoff 12.5:
The New York 30:
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Friday, May 29. 2015Exercise pretty useless for weight loss
"A growing body of scientific evidence shows that exercise alone has almost no effect on weight loss..." A book, Gary Taubes: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It The Boy Scouts Continue To Devolve Into A Garden Club
When I was young, the Eagle Scouts were the guys all the kids admired. The Boy Scouts Continue To Devolve Into A Garden Club
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SittingThe human body was not meant for this. The Dangers of Sitting All Day and 5 Things To Do About It Where ‘Normal’ Is Defined as ‘Deviant’The Law of Unintended ConsquencesThe Law says that there always are some of those. People in business analyze them carefully, as do war-planners - in advance. Even so, many or most things do not work out as planned. When it comes to politicians and policy-makers, often-enough things that appear, in retrospect, as Unintended, were covertly intended.
Mapping the New York That Once WasAn addictive new interactive project marries a vast array of archival photos with a detailed map of the city.
A few Friday morning links
The day McSorley’s bar finally admitted women A sad day for NYC. Now the only all-guy pubs are gay bars. World's first' robot kitchen cooks for visitors at CES Asia in Shanghai Make your own hot pepper jelly The Underappreciated Architecture of Waffle House Climate Craziness of the Week – ‘climate change music’ How often do civil cases go to jury trials? Here’s the Data to Prove School Choice Is Working Nurses in the US: Is there a creeping deregulation of health care? Enough is Enough: ‘Mad Men’ and the Purpose of Consumption What does not appear to be in the study is the IQ of the parents. Chelsea Clinton: Lifestyles of the Rich and Mostly Useless Who-d a-thunk it? A $12,480 per year ‘tax’ per full-time employee ($15 minimum wage) hurts businesses? Walter Williams: liberals unintentionally treat me like a white person. Lifestyles of the Rich and Mostly Useless Lifestyles of the Rich and Mostly Useless Is there a creeping deregulation of health care?
Thursday, May 28. 2015Watermelon SaladThe most refreshing salad, especially with grilled meat. Watermelon, Feta, and chopped mint. Lots of mint. Recipe here. It doesn't need the olives. House
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Life Coaching and the Stigma of Psychiatry From the article:
The King James BibleWhy the King James Version of the Bible Remains the Best - The 400-year-old translation is denigrated because of its archaic language. That’s one of its greatest strengths. As it happens, I am reading this excellent book now: God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. How to BragHumblebragging doesn’t work. If you want to brag, just brag. Even better, just complain. I plain brag because I am just not smart enough to humblebrag.
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Thursday morning linksA Brief History of the Wristwatch - The military origins of wearable tech, a century before the Apple Watch Insane Mountain Goat Photos Markets know more than economists How to Use Up All of Those Fresh Herbs Throw them in salads The all-male feminist support group. The Perils of Paid Family Leave ...the real minimum wage is always and everywhere $0.00 an hour, as any unemployed person (or self-employed) can confirm for you. Why don't more colleges compete for students? "People are wasting valuable thinking time on meditation and mindfulness and should stop trying to clear their heads..." Clean energy killing birds by the millions The Civil Disobedience Charles Murray Wants Has Already Arrived The Next Time the Media Complains About High CEO Pay.... It May be Projection Republicans Push For Over-The-Counter Birth Control, Liberals Immediately Oppose The Plan ‘Massive Expansion of Federal Power’: EPA Issues New Rules Over Waters Near Rivers All your water is belong to us What is fascism? Rand: The Republican Brand ‘Sucks’ He's a breath of fresh air Clinton Foundation hit with racketeering lawsuit Before the crash that she blamed on speculators, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a bundle by flipping houses. Pray For Graccident—–It Will Trigger The Demise Of The ECB And The World’s Toxic Regime Of Keynesian Central Banking North Korea’s Real Life Hunger Games - What it's like to fight for your life in North Korea. Foreign aid scandal: UK money is 'STILL going to convicted Palestinian terrorists' Wednesday, May 27. 2015Real Sicilian food in NYCI love regional Italian cuisine - all except the Neapolitan (except for their world-class desserts). We have dined on local fare in Italy from the Alps and the Veneto down to the southern tip of Sicily. Sicilian fare is as different from Southern Italian as Southern Italian dialect is from Sicilian. Sicilian food was heavily influenced by the Greek invasion, the Moslem occupiers, then the French Norman occupiers, then by the real French, then the Spanish. Never was part of Italy until recent years and it still is not, really. Raisins, pignolis, wild boar, sardines, risotto, couscous, eggplant of course, Pecorino, lemons, mint, and blood oranges, pomegranites... and octopus. Generally, lots of seafood and grilled meat. I love that Sicilian food but the real thing is hard to find outside that island. You would be hard put to find this quality and variety of a Sicilian menu in a single restaurant in Sicily itself. Their Timballo looks amazing. Check out the menu just for fun. It's the real deal: Bar Eolo. 190 7th Ave.
Univ. of Wisconsin symposium to teach how to become ‘a thief in the university’An upcoming workshop scheduled to take place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to teach campus radicals and socialists how to manipulate campus resources to advance their agenda. What agenda? And do they call this education?
Bill Clinton is the problem
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