Maggie's Farm

Michelangelo's house for sale

I want it

Indian leopard injures six in Bangalore school

Something Slimy: The Signs of Bad Science

Check out how this health nut eats

3 mistakes to avoid in your first 3 years of retirement

The LGBT mob

UConn completely blows off civil rights group complaint

How the Leftist Monoculture Took Over the Campus

White liberals and black careerists vigorously reject the MLK ideal of a color-blind society.

New Hampshire serves democracy well

AVI in New Hampshire

Obama admin accused of forcing bank to pay baseless racial settlement

Why I Hope DeRay Mckesson Wins the Baltimore Mayoralty

Bernstein Finds White House 'Terrified' Clinton 'Blowing Up Own Campaign,' Invokes Nixon

Hillary's Voice Dooms Her Campaign

Hillary Not Truthful About Wall Street Speaking Fees

Lefty pressure building on Hillary to release transcripts of talks to Goldman Sachs

Krauthammer: Youth Attracted to Sanders Because Promise Of "Utopia Where Everything Is Free"

Williamson:  The real race is between Cruz and Rubio, and conservatives are asking themselves whether they can elect Cruz and whether they can trust
Rubio.

Dick Morris: Bill Clinton on Campaign Trail is 'Counterproductive'

FBI formally confirms its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server

Commenter at Surber:

For me, the point of greatest significance about all this is that the Democrat party kingmakers have known for years -- possibly decades -- that the Clintons are felonious scum, with Hillary being the lower of the two, and still felt that Mrs. Clinton was their best shot at extending their grip upon the Oval Office. They embraced criminality, probably under the assumption that the fatal facts about Mrs. Clinton could be effaced until she'd been firmly installed as president.

Every political party contains lowlifes. Power attracts that sort of person. But when a party's top managers consciously embrace the kind and degree of criminality Hillary Clinton represents, it's time for the entire nation to take note and reject it, whether or not the individual criminals in its ranks can be brought to justice.

Pentagon Forced To Prioritize ‘Climate Change’ In All Military Actions

"We Can Put Refugees On Buses": Leaked Memo Shows Erdogan Blackmailed Europe For Billions

Is Europe worth saving?

Students Who Didn’t Get Solos in Burlesque Show Claim Victimhood Status

There are many people one might not choose to see with minimal clothes on

Here Comes the ‘Cashless Society’

Zero privacy, just like the road cameras

Abortion Rights Group Attacks Doritos Super Bowl Ad for ‘Humanizing’ Fetus

In Defense of Football

Bravo. Gladiators must sometimes get injured.

Why is it sexist when a man flirts with a female interviewer but hilarious when the roles are reversed?

Girls love to flirt and they are far better at it than guys

Drug abuse and Libertarians

Intoxicants will always be with us

How large "non-political" government agencies work: The Port Authority of NY and NJ

Bernie's Adventures on a Stalinist Kibbutz

We Thought Marco Rubio Lost The Debate, But New Hampshire Might Think Differently

Gotta think fast and adapt when under the gun of a New Jersey prosecutor with Sicilian blood

Salon:  It’s almost over for Hillary: This election is a mass insurrection against a rigged system

Hillary and the Suspension of Disbelief

You Go, Girls! People Magazine Gushes Over Hillary, Chelsea, and Charlotte On the Trail

Avoid eating Super Bowl chili the evening before a Deadlift day. Be considerate of others.

Continuing with the theme of painted architecture and sculpture, a reminder that Greek temples and sculptures were always painted and sometimes gold-leafed too. All flaked off except for microscopic residues.

The Roman admirers of Classical Greece did not get that memo, and the Renaissance sculptors didn't either.

Probably because of that historical error, much or most stone and metal sculpture has been unpainted since the Renaissance. To modern eyes, the Pieta would look pretty nasty if painted in lifelike colors but the Greeks would have figured it was waiting for the paint.

Parthenon Once a Riot of Color

Below, the likely appearance of the Parthenon frieze

Well, we're going to a Super Bowl party tonight but I will confess that I have only minimal interest in the game, and it will be past my bedtime.  I like to see our friends though. The thought of guacamole sickens me - and not just because of the terrible cultural appropriation. We'll have spiral-cut ham and Mrs. BD will bake 50 biscuits for it. Any excuse for a party, I suppose. An early Mardi Gras.

U.S. Streetcars Just Aren't Meeting the Standards of Good Transit

The New College Degrees: The Good News and the Bad News

Sorry, but poor kids can still eat healthy

The Liberal Fantasy of Cultural Appropriation

Gallup: We Hate to Admit It, but America Is Conservative

Single-payer collides with reality

The EEOC Wants to Know How Much Every American is Getting Paid

It’s Happening Just Like I Told You - The implosion of the Democrats has begun, and they’re nearly ready to be bought.

Madeleine Albright Tells Young Women Voters ‘There’s A Special Place In Hell’ For Them If They Don’t Support Hillary

Hillary’s Sincerity Problem

Hillary Clinton's venality will be her downfall

Marco Rubio is a new kind of Republican. Really.

Why Marco Rubio is a once-in-a-generation candidate - US election 2016: Florida Senator is only political talent who can beat
Hillary Clinton and rebrand the GOP for the 21st century

Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)

9:28 Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

9:29 And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white.

9:30 Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him.

9:31 They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

9:32 Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.

9:33 Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- not knowing what he said.

9:34 While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were terrified as they entered the cloud.

9:35 Then from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!"

9:36 When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen.

9:37 On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.

9:38 Just then a man from the crowd shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son; he is my only child.

9:39 Suddenly a spirit seizes him, and all at once he shrieks. It convulses him until he foams at the mouth; it mauls him and will scarcely leave him.

9:40 I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

9:41 Jesus answered, "You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."

9:42 While he was coming, the demon dashed him to the ground in convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

9:43a And all were astounded at the greatness of God.

Mrs. BD and I attended a lecture on Romanesque stone architecture at the Cloisters today. I've seen plenty of it in Europe and have read plenty about the style. I asked the expert whether the stone sculptures on lintels and columns in churches and cloisters had been painted.

Definitely, she said. Columns were painted in primary colors. The church walls, so often plain limestone now, had been stuccoed and then plastered with frescoes. Over 1000 years it flaked off.

I've seen reconstructions of the once-painted Greek sculpture and architecture. I'd like to see the same of Romanesque-era churches and cloisters.

Photo is from Pórtico da Gloria, Santiago Cathedral. The colouring once common to much Romanesque sculpture has been preserved - via Wiki

A pal and I have been volunteered to run the bar for a formally-informal Valentine's Day party that our wives' club is putting on. They expect 40 women plus their husbands - all friendly Indians. It's what is termed "heavy cocktails", not dinner.

We decided to keep it simple with just red and white wine, a few interesting beers, bubbly water, and coke. Lemons and limes, and plenty of ice.

I used this site to estimate amounts.

Figured a case of red, a case of white, 5 cases of beer.

Then we just learned that the venue for the party (an art museum) does not permit red wine on the premises. Apparently many places have that rule.  So I am thinking maybe we should have whiskey, Bourbon, rum, and vodka too - but no mixed drinks other than rum and coke.  We don't want to have to be real bartenders because we like to schmooze with all our friends.

What's your opinion?

Is stretching useful?

Saying ‘No’ to ethanol in Iowa

Trader exposes sexist horrors of the Wall Street ‘frat house’

That is news?

Car dealerships:  Let Them Have Teslas

TSA: Thank God We Have Unionized Government Workers and Not Some Damn Private Company

NFL donations to brain research benefit league-linked doctors, raise worries about influence on science

Gavin McInnes:  The Cost of Prejudice

The Pirates of the Caribbean: Puerto Rico Attempts to Plunder Washington

Connecticut Town Considers Arming Teachers

Classroom discipline

Connecticut Democrats Deep-Six Democrats Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from Fundraiser

Lawmakers Introduce Bill Requiring Women to Register for Draft…

Obama Mocks Republicans, Says Immigrants Are Not Taking Paychecks

$153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented

Clinton accused of invoking 'everybody did it' defense on email scandal

Via commenter at this Powerline post:

In 1993, I saw Hillary being interviewed on the Today Show concerning her health care bill. When told that most of America was against the bill her response was: "Oh Brian, you know that sometimes Americans don't know whats best for them and when that happens those of us in government must just make it happen". That was the day I knew Hillary was beneath contempt.

‘Pinkwashing’ and traitors to the human mind

A case of FGM is reported in England every 109 minutes

Is Facebook Biased Against Israel and Jews?

Hadar Cohen (19) – A True Israeli Hero Murdered After She Prevented Massive Attack

Vietnam’s Master Plan for the South China Sea

Is Assad's Russian-backed Offensive a Game-changer in Syria?

Obama’s Disastrous Betrayal of the Syrian Rebels - How the White House is handing victory to Bashar al-Assad, Russia, and Iran.

How Russian men deal with misbehaving immigrants

Regular (ie 3+ times/wk) strength-building exercise requires some extra dietary protein for muscle repair and building. I would include plyometric exercises in that category along with heavy, difficult resistance work, but not low-weight high-rep work.

On the other hand, people focusing on general fitness/endurance/conditioning exercises like cardio (ie running, swimming, elliptical, rowing, jump rope, etc), calisthenics, and isometrics do not require any dietary adjustment assuming a normal varied diet. Obviously, if you lose too much weight, try to eat a little more of everything.

People working on improving their overall fitness usually work on resistance work (weights) and general fitness on alternate days, usually about 1 hr/day. Thus they need some extra protein and fats in their diets to avoid muscle deterioration.

Some pursuers of fitness also desire weight loss/flab loss. Despite what can be read on various sites ("Ten Great Fat-Burning Exercises"), exercise has only a little to do with that. It's 90% dietary, 10% exertion. I see some pudgeballs working out with weights and doing cardio almost daily, and over months they are just as pudgy. Stronger, no doubt.

In my case (3 days pushing the resistance, plus usually 3 days of general fitness) I was losing too much weight and plateauing on my bench, squats, and deads, so had to up my protein and carbs. I had been probably too low on both. Not on purpose, just because I am not an avid eater. Since doing that, I've gained 5 or 6 lbs but my trousers are just as loose as before so it's mostly welcome muscle.

A Diet and Exercise Plan to Lose Weight and Gain Muscle

A non-profit to consider: Wild Tomorrow Fund

On the 'Tikkun Olam' Fetish - Are Jews commanded to "repair the world" or to repair the Jews?

I never asked Jews to "repair" my world for me.

What about Evangeliphobia?

Gays Indulge in Heterophobia as San Francisco Diversifies

Sheesh. The guy is upset he bought a drink for a straight guy. Waste of money.

Twenty-Four Hours at a Truck Stop - The ever-shifting landscape of truck stops, from sunrise to sunrise.

"Previously I have proved that life cannot have evolved. Today I will prove that life cannot exist."

Brown faculty vote to institute ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’

Cutting Costs Is Possible. These Schools Did It.

The Secretive Hedge Fund That's Generating Huge Profits for Yale

This is What’s Wrong with the Humanities

Words Have Meaning: Neither Kale Nor 80 Percent Funded Public Pensions are "Healthy"

New York Times Hypocrisy On Corporate Taxes Reaches Record High

New York Times Says Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio Are Not Latino

Chicago Is Falling Apart

Obamacare’s Premium Hikes Are Much Bigger Than You’ve Been Told

Who thinks the government would regulate political speech against its own interest? Show of hands??

GOP Chairman: Terrorists Are Taking Note of Lack of Border Enforcement

Border agent: 'We might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether'

Muslim Women Protest Obama's Baltimore Mosque Visit

New Hampshire prepares to cull the herd

Let’s not treat Christian faith as a requirement for being a good president.

Of course it's not. It's an affinity thing, and "politics is downstream of culture"

As Oil Puts Russia Over A Barrel, A Gutsy Move To Privatize

ISIS Ringleader Claims He Entered France with 90 Fighters Before Paris Attacks

Sweden: Death by Immigration

White House Ignores Mounting Failures in Afghanistan

Crouching Tiger: China Acts, America Dithers

China is not an enemy