Wednesday, June 19. 2019
Thanks to seal conservation, the ocean beaches of Cape Cod are more exciting than ever this year.
For the cardio component of your fitness program, the Mayo Clinic says HIIT seems to help stave off some effects of ageing.
Nothing wrong with endurance "cardio", but it does nothing for heart fitness. Still, moving is better than sitting.
Sports shouldn't seem to have much in common with the Electoral College, but in fact they share very interesting facets. Sometimes the team that reaches the championship level doesn't 'seem' like it should be there, or even deserve to win. Yet that team, amazingly, will wind up victorious.
I still have friends who want to eliminate the Electoral College. Apparently, they didn't take any courses about history while in high school or college. More and more states are approving bills that will give their Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote. That will 'work' until the national popular vote winner is someone they do not like. It may be Donald Trump, in 2020, who makes that happen. It would be amusing to see these states passing a bill like this because of 2016, and pulling it back because the man they hoped to stop made them look foolish.
Tuesday, June 18. 2019
My son is in Orlando on business and went to the capacity filled (20,000+, with attendees waiting in rain before)) stadium for President Trump's 2020 campaign kickoff rally.
Pregame at Powerline. For live coverage from sarcastic local reporter. Fox also has live coverage.
Vice President Pence was powerful. Loudest applause at the move of our embassy to Jerusalem. President Trump so far:
"Our radical Democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice and rage," Trump adds. "They want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it. Not acceptable. It's not going to happen."
"They went after my family, my business, my finances, my employees, almost everyone that I have ever known or worked with, but they are really going after you. That's what it is all about. It's not about us. It's about you. They tried to erase your vote, erase your legacy of the greatest campaign and the greatest election probably in the history of our country."
Keep America Great is 2020 slogan.
Where we planted my dear brother-in-law's ashes on Saturday afternoon, in the family churchyard next to my parents. Typical of the Bird Dog family, his widow's first words: "Let's make this quick, everybody, cuz I'm paying the gravedigger by the hour." We all got an F in Solemnity class.
Damn, I miss that good guy, and will miss him terribly in Cape Cod this summer. Navy vet, outdoor-lover, running buddy, fishing buddy, beer-drinking buddy, body-surfing buddy, hiking buddy, farm work buddy. Always up for anything energetic or challenging. Wry, dry humor.
It sucks, as my sister says. Yep. Happy trails, Uncle Bob, and maybe catch ya later in the great unknown.
I think i cracked the riddle: price is the signal in a free market economy that tells everyone what to do. This is why socialists and authoritarians hate market prices so much. They want to be the ones telling everyone what do do.
A commenter at Cafe Hayek. A good rule of thumb is to never tell any adult what to do unless they beg you to.
Yes it is. Your waist size is not your belt size or jeans size though, especially if you wear them on your hips which most people do these days. Your waist is above your belly button, the potentially narrow space below your rib cage.
 How to Measure Your Waist
How do you measure your waist? Sounds simple enough, but it’s not always obvious where your waist is. Posture and other variables can affect the reading, so here are some basic guidelines to follow:
Position a tape measure at the narrowest point between your lower rib and the top of your hip bone, or at the midpoint in between. It should be snug but not compress the skin. If you can’t find the narrowest point (it may be difficult if you’re very overweight), measure just above your belly button.
Stand straight and breathe out normally; don’t suck in your belly.
Measure your waist first thing in the morning, before breakfast.
Though there’s no magic cutoff point, values over 37 inches for men and 32 inches for women indicate increased health risks, according to the World Health Organization; values over 40 for men and 35 for women represent substantially increased risk.
Monday, June 17. 2019
VDH: When normality became abnormal
The Republican Party’s prior role was to slow down the inevitable trajectory to European socialism, the end of American exceptionalism, and homogenized globalized culture. Losing nobly in national elections was one way of keeping one’s dignity, weepy wounded-fawn style, while the progressive historical arc kept bending to our collective future. Rolling one’s eyes on Sunday talk shows as a progressive outlined the next unhinged agenda was proof of tough resistance.
Like it or not, now lines are drawn. Trump so unhinged the Left that it finally tore off its occasional veneer of moderation, and showed us what progressives had in store for America...
 We took my father in law out for dinner yesterday to our favorite Italian joint. I had two appetizers for supper (I often like to do that): Carpaccio, and the steamed PEI mussels in Green Harissa.
Well, that harissa/mussel broth was the tastiest new flavor I've tasted in a year. Wow. Luckily for me, there was no cilantro in it (I am among those for whom cilantro tastes like gasoline).
There are many variations on Green Harissa - you can google them. It's not meant to be overly hot, just tangy. As best I can tell, this one contained jalapenos, garlic, mint, scallions, black pepper, salt, flat-leaf parsley, olive oil, lemon zest, a little sugar. Some water. No spices, because the mussel broth had plenty of good flavor. Mix raw in blender or immersible blender.
For vegetables or fish, you might want to use some of the spices the recipes suggest.
Photo is farmed mussels, Nova Scotia
Sunday, June 16. 2019
Re the Russia hoax
With Justice Department investigators’ noses to the ground, it should be just a matter of time before they identify Brennan conclusively as fabricator-in-chief of the Russiagate story. Evidence, real evidence in this case, abounds, since the Brennan-Comey-Clapper gang of three were sure Hillary Clinton would become president. Consequently, they did not perform due diligence to hide their tracks...
Great Books podcast: The Book of Isaiah
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
8:1 Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?
8:2 On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;
8:3 beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
8:4 "To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.
8:22 The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.
8:23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
8:24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
8:25 Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth--
8:26 when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world's first bits of soil.
8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
8:28 when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,
8:29 when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
8:30 then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
8:31 rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.
Yesterday, from a friend and reader, and a father
Saturday, June 15. 2019
 Local Anytime Fitness Blasted For This Fat-Shaming Promotional Email
Snowflakes Triggered by Calorie Count Exam Question
Countless workout fads have come along since the heyday of Jazzercise: Tae Bo, Pilates, Zumba, boxing, spinning, pole dancing. And yet Jazzercise persists
Hiking Mt. Washington is the real deal
Thousands do it, but be prepared for weather
Name change: "Cimate Emergency" replaces Climate Change, which replaced Global Warming
Still working on the branding
COWARDICE AT HARVARD
An Addiction Crisis Disguised as a Housing Crisis - Opioids are fueling homelessness on the West Coast.
Williamson: But Why Is Guatemala Hungry?
Codevilla: A Conservative Resistance?
Do the current Democratic politics spell doom for charter schools?
Cuomo’s rent regulation will destroy NYC’s housing market
Damned irrational
Communism Versus Freedom: The Strategy for Taking Over the Democratic Party
Question For Bernie: What Happens To Those Who Don’t Want To Join Your Commune?
Berrnie lived on a Vermont commune for a while. Got thrown out for being a slacker.
Kamala Harris Would Help Dreamers Get Green Cards — Sometimes at the Expense of Legal Immigrants
Aren't Democrats now accusing Team Obama of treason?
Just Try Calling the FBI With Foreign Dirt Dug Up On Democrats
Trump touts new health care move to expand choices for small businesses
Trump administration expands pre-tax accounts for health insurance coverage
So Far, Trade War 2019 Risks Red Ink, Not Blood
Where Jews and Palis get along well
Friday, June 14. 2019
Many or most people in the US have used opioids whether for surgical or dental procedures, cancer pain, etc. The number of those people who become addicts is extremely low, but I do not have the numbers.
I know that there is some recreational use too, which seems, intuitively, more likely to lead towards addiction.
The few times I have used opioids (prescribed, of course), I have found them to be sort-of ok for pain relief but generally unpleasant (sleepy, stupid, unsettling) so I switch to NSAIDs or Tylenol as soon as I can.
Others find opioids to provide a feeling of deep, warm well-being if not euphoria. That sounds appealing, doesn't it?
What are your experiences with opioids?
Here's Dalrymple's take on the topic.
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