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Saturday, August 17. 2019

Addiction: A pitiful sanctuary

She begins:

I never anticipated spending so much of my clinical time in bathrooms. But drug overdose is the leading cause of death among the homeless individuals I take care of at a health center in Boston—and without homes or access to supervised consumption sites, people who are homeless frequently inject drugs behind the closed doors of public bathrooms, including ours...

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 09:54 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

Saturday morning links

15 Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in 'Stuff'

My Time in the University Gulag

Here’s why my fellow millennials are seduced by socialism

How Socialism Permeated City Council. These aren’t your grandma’s Cold War–era pols. Inside Chicago’s far-far-left political wavelet.

CORY BOOKER BLAMES RACISM, NOT HIS OWN CORRUPT AGENCY, FOR LEAD WATER

Yes, Immigrants Should Be Less Dependent On U.S. Welfare, And So Should Everyone Else

Tlaib Bumbles Into Revealing Her Undeniable Priority: Bigoted Anti-Israel Propaganda

NY Times Executive Editor Tells Staff to Ditch Russia Collusion Lies and Start Focusing on Trump’s ‘Racism’ for Election

Admitting Fake News

The American Left, and loathing America:

Some time ago, I noted the irreconcilable difference between the Left and the rest of America: the majority of our fellow citizens believe America is an inherently good nation that continues its pursuit of a more perfect union; the Left believes America is an inherently evil nation that must be transformed fundamentally into an oppressive socialist state—at best.

For the Left to win this existential argument, it must distort and revile America’s history to destroy the truth of American Exceptionalism. If the past is evil, the present has no choice but to reject America’s history and its defenders; and to embrace the dishonest leftist ideology and the agenda of those who loathe America.

Via The Greatest Scientific Fraud of All Time:

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:46 | Comments (15) | Trackbacks (3)

Friday, August 16. 2019

Had to change their hiking plans

From friends vacationing in Colorado, a pic from the Rocky Mountain National Arsenal Wildlife Refuge.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 18:36 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

Mathematic challenges to Darwin

Always a treat to listen to very high IQ people talk. This is a Wow of a conversation. It's not about Creationism, but about Darwin's likely errors (he didn't have the info we have now). The discussion about the emergence of new proteins is especially interesting.

Posted by The News Junkie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:40 | Comments (6) | Trackback (1)

Want to be a Chef?

It's a tough but interesting career. I've learned all about it from a Chef friend (now an Executive Chef).

First, you attend, if you can, one of the top US (or French) culinary trade schools - Johnson & Wales, The New England Culinary Inst. (in NH), the CIA (Hyde Park, NY), the Cornell Hotel School, or the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas. Cordon Bleu in Paris if you can swing that.

When you graduate, having learned all the culinary basics, plus the economics, costing, buying, staffing, etc. you get to get a job as a lowly line cook. You are not a Chef - you are just a cook and not even an accomplished line cook yet.

Then the apprenticeship begins. A few successful years as a line cook (mastering all stations) and you could become a Sous-Chef. And then a fully-fledged Chef of the kitchen. That's a big deal, because you have to be a master of everything: Pastry, sauces, soups, meats, produce, salads - and presentation skills. You know the Chef from his or her Toque.

Some ambitious Chefs seek to become Executive Chefs. More money. They get to make the menus, manage and hire staff, do the buying, train staff, and run the business profitably. A high-hassle, high-complexity job. So-called "front of the house" and "back of the house."

My Chef friend gets so tired of fancy healthy food that he just likes a Big Mac, fries, and a couple of beers to escape it all.

Posted by The Barrister in Food and Drink at 14:54 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Meta-analyses

Not what they were cracked up to be: Meta-analyses were supposed to end scientific debates. Often, they only cause more controversy.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Medical, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 14:49 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

North American Critter du Jour: Grey Fox

The Grey Fox is not a rare canid inhabiting much of the US and Central America. People know the Red Fox (imported from Europe for Virginia fox hunters before the Revolution) and the Coyote (which has invaded the Eastern US with the extirpation of the wolf), but few people know or ever see the crepuscular/nocturnal Grey Fox, a native canid.

I suspect that sometimes Grey Fox is mistaken for Coyote.

A cool fact about Grey Fox is their tree-climbing ability.

Posted by The Barrister in Natural History and Conservation at 14:16 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

Late Friday morning links

First Time Nudist? Here Are 7 Signs You’re Ready to Visit a Nude Resort

No thanks, too shy

Navy SEAL will start at Yale this fall as a 52-year-old undergrad

NY University Gender Studies Department Publishes Paper Saying Milking Cows Is Like Sexual Abuse

Not written by dairy farmers

The Green New Deal Leads To Communism In Seattle

Men who recycle more likely to have their sexuality questioned

HURRICANES? GET SERIOUS

Why not offer to buy Greenland?

Don't tell the Danes, but it will be palm trees and golf courses any day now

More Daycare Spots Will Stop the Shootings!

Ben Shapiro: It's a 'you problem' if you 'had to work more than one job'

Dear Catherine Rampell, the Former Soviet Union Had Many 'Experts' Too

Vanderleun: Rant0matic #5: Dennis Prager Speaks for me, “These are not good people.”

Jessica Anderson: What do women want from political candidates? Surprising answers could get Trump reelected

DEMOCRACY DIES IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Duh

In Government Property We Trust - To help reduce pension debt, Connecticut eyes privatizing publicly owned assets.

The Myth of the ‘Underage Woman’ - One more shameful truth Jeffrey Epstein symbolized: a culture that continues to write girls out of its stories

Dalrymple: Thoughts on the Death of Jeffrey Epstein. It’s not implausible that a man facing life in prison would find the means to kill himself.

When Gorbachov learned an economics lesson

FOIA DOCUMENT Shows FBI Agreed to Cover Up and Ignore All Hillary Crimes in Its 2016 Investigation!

New evidence shows why Steele, the Ohrs and TSA workers never should have become DOJ sources

Collusion

Killing Free Speech In Canada

Israeli Decision on Omar and Tlaib Inflames Politics in Two Countries

Israel Has Every Right To Block Rashida Tlaib And Ilhan Omar - Not even we believe people are entitled to visit simply because they demand it.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 11:05 | Comments (14) | Trackback (1)

Had a server hiccup

We'll catch up.

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Thursday, August 15. 2019

Legendary Fisherman Frank Mundus' Last Interview

Fishing legend Frank Mundus sits down with Tom Gregory in this 2008 interview. He passed away shortly thereafter.

Posted by Bird Dog at 17:05 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

From Scott Adams:

Posted by The News Junkie at 15:44 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

New cars all lack CD players

Yes, I know The Great Courses have an app, but what if you like your CDs in your car?

What to do? Ideas welcome.

Posted by Bird Dog at 13:21 | Comments (18) | Trackbacks (0)

Thursday morning links

This Aircraft Carrier Was Sunk (A Member of the Crew Told Us How)

Poland Preferred to Fight, Fought Bravely, and Lost Terribly

Cape Cod: Might need a bigger boat

The Anthropocene Is a Joke. On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch.

Mamet Speaks Bitter Truth In New Play, And Leftist Critics Aren’t Happy About It. Mamet’s exposure of the liberal-left doctrine as morally contradictory at its core has hit a nerve.

American University trains faculty not to judge quality of writing when grading.

My Son’s Freshman Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda

8 Back-to-School Books To Protect Students Against Leftist Brainwashing

‘Gender stereotypes’: Judge rules Harvard sanctions on single-sex clubs may violate Title IX

“Affirmative Consent” as a Legal Standard? An effort to bring campus procedures rigged against defendants into criminal law has stalled—but advocates will try again.

The Education of Clarence Thomas

Epstein's "Madam" Found: Ghislaine Maxwell Living With Tech CEO In Multimillion Oceanfront Mansion

THE LEFT IS THE NEW YORK TIMES’ EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Six-Year-Old Saying, 'Why Don't We Just Give Everything Away For Free?' Surges To Top Of Democratic Polls

The Spin Cycle: Race Hate, Rinse, Repeat

Leaving the Democrats

MSNBC Analyst Likens Trump Supporters to Members of a 'Terrorist Organization'

The Media Won’t Stop Lying About Ken Cuccinelli’s Comments On Immigration

Obama Hack Blames The Trump Administration For Nuclear Explosion In Russia…

The Mystery Surrounding Russia Accidentally Nuking Itself Continues To Grow

Trump's tariff pause shows he's got his eyes on the prize

Pope Francis Compares Matteo Salvini’s “Italians First” Language to Nazis

UN chief: Islamic State has as much as $300 million to fight

NOT SATIRE: Britain Prints Knife Crime Warnings On Fried Chicken Boxes

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:27 | Comments (20) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday, August 14. 2019

The Obama/Clinton Russia hoax

McCarthy discusses its origins:

There really was a collusion plot. It really did target our election system. It absolutely sought to usurp our capacity for self-determination. It was just not the collusion you’ve been told about for nearly three years. It was not “Donald Trump’s collusion with Russia.”

Many people fell for it.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 18:23 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Red Grouse

A lifetime dream: Wing-shooting in Scotland

Posted by The Barrister in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc. at 15:42 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Sauce for burgers: A Scientific Summer Maggie's Survey

I love cheeseburgers on the grill. Cheddar. Or even that American artificial cheese-like-substance. Lots of ketchup too, for the vegetable component. Health, etc.

I also love blue cheese on a burger - lots of it. Or bacon. Or blue cheese and bacon.

If you ever bothered to read the back of a John Kerry-Heinz ketchup bottle, they offer an alternative burger condiment. It is delicious, worth trying once:

1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup sweet relish
1 tbsp cider vinegar
2 tsp sugar
1 tbsp chopped garlic
1 tsp hot pepper flakes (I added that)

Let sauce marinate in fridge for a while.

So to our Survey: What do you like on your grilled burgers?

Posted by The Barrister in Food and Drink at 14:49 | Comments (30) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday morning links

'Orthorexia' vying for classification as mental disorder as more people become obsessed with 'clean eating'

Univ. BANS BURGERS to combat climate change. Where could it happen next?

Fake Disabilities Are Becoming the New College Admissions Scam

How Hundreds of Campus #MeToo Punishments Could Get Tossed

Ideology in academia

Mirthiness: job posting ‘CLIMATE EMERGENCY OFFICER’

More mirth: Trump campaign sells 'Fredo Unhinged' T-shirts following viral Cuomo video

Women accuse opera legend Domingo of sexual harassment

That is news?

Jeffrey Epstein: Let The Conspiracy Theories Begin!

Five years ago Michael Brown died, and a movement based on lies was born

WaPo: Four Pinocchios To Harris, Warren Over Ferguson Murder Claim

Elizabeth Warren Calls for ‘Affordable, Gender Affirming’ Health Care for Transgender People

Elizabeth Warren calls for ______________ . Fill in the blank

THE CAMPAIGN TO BRAND TRUMP A RACIST

Take a Breath; America Is Still a Decent Country Filled With Decent People

Darn right

So Trump is the divisive one when he brings up Democrat policies?

Orange man bad

Trump Admin Reinstitutes Clinton Immigration Law, Open Borders Advocates Melt Down

MSNBC Goes After Trump For Saying What They Already Said About Epstein

BRITISH PUBLIC FACES HUGE ELECTRICITY PRICE RISES TO BAIL OUT WIND FARMS

Big surprise

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:00 | Comments (20) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, August 13. 2019

The Epstein movie, with a summertime survey

I have no doubt that screenwriters are already hard at work, working out a plot outline.

The story has everything a tabloid story needs. Only problem, to crank out a halfway-credible story, they will need to discover where the money came from. That's still the mystery, from what I have read.

What actor would you pick to play Epstein? And who to play Ghislaine?

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 16:58 | Comments (19) | Trackbacks (0)

Free will

Free Will always seems like a dorm room topic to me.

Can Neuroscience Understand Free Will?

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 14:14 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday morning links

6 Mistakes Travelers Make When Buying Their First Backpack

Of Course Most Catholics Don’t Believe in the Real Presence

Does Socialized Medicine Let Fat People Live?

New evidence proves that Cain killed Abel after first-shooter video game binge

“What’s the word for being sexually attracted to people with lots of money?”

The Left is Panicking Over Much Needed Changes to the Endangered Species Act

Beto Suggests Anyone Who Votes for Trump Is a Racist

Al Sharpton Heckled In Baltimore: “You’re A Phony . . . You’re A Hustler!”

Kamala Harris Confronted By Upset Iowa Resident: ‘Leave Our Health Care Alone’

New Trump Rule Could Deny Green Cards For Immigrants Who Use Public Benefits

Trump says Google is biased against conservatives. Here’s how search actually works. Google search and claims of conservative bias, explained.

Scaramucci Compares Trump to Nuclear Disaster, Urges GOP to Consider Ditching Him

China Exports its Panopticon.Science fiction writers have wondered for years what an all-encompassing surveillance state might look like. China decided to build it.

Trump's tough approach working in China

The Biggest Migration Since The Barbarian Invasions Of Rome (Is Not Where You Think)

UK knife crime epidemic sees children as young as 10 rushed to hospital with stab wounds

Europe’s Fading Cosmopolitan Dream - The continent and its cities are beginning to rethink their multicultural enthusiasm.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:25 | Comments (28) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday, August 12. 2019

I forget where I found this:

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 14:19 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday morning links

Has the world's deadliest sport become safer? It's complicated. As wingsuit BASE jumping turns 20, some pilots are rethinking the risk.

From summer camp to stardom, his friendship with Bob Dylan spanned 50 years

Famines have all but disappeared outside of war zones. How Humanity Won the War on Famine

New York's Best Old-Time Neighborhood--And Food--Is An Easy Must-See

New York’s Hot New Tour Is Visiting Ultra Orthodox Jews. “To many, the Hasidic world is shrouded in mystery and secrecy—well, not anymore.”

How Government Prolonged the Lobotomy

MAHON: Mamet Speaks Bitter Truth In New Play, And Leftist Critics Aren’t Happy About It. Mamet’s exposure of the liberal-left doctrine as morally contradictory at its core has hit a nerve.

The death of a local newspaper rocks America to its core

The unintended consequences of more potent pot

The link between pot and mass shootings may be closer than we think

Spare Me Your Moralizing, David Brooks

Why Google Poses a Serious Threat to Democracy, and How to End That Threat

Former MCC Inmate Says Epstein Suicide Was 'Impossible'

Identity Politics Violence is Tearing America Apart

KLAVAN: To Defeat The Outrage Mobs, We Must Stand Up To Them

Democrats have demonized every Trump voter as a ‘deplorable’

Trump just beat Democrats on guns

Lindsey Graham Politely Explains to Idiot Reporters Why He needs an AR-15

Dan Gainor: Media go far beyond Trump Derangement Syndrome in attacking president

Elizabeth Warren Defends Calling Trump a White Supremacist, Repeats Charlottesville Hoax

State Dept. updates ‘anti-Semitism’ definition following Omar’s anti-Israel resolution

Germany's Pro-Iran, Anti-Israel Foreign Policy

Russia tells Google not to advertise 'illegal' events after election protests

Google's decision to work with China, not US, 'unprecedented': Peter Thiel

50,000 protest banning of opposition candidates from Moscow elections

Losing the War in Forgotten Afghanistan

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:24 | Comments (14) | Trackbacks (0)

Sunday, August 11. 2019

Pay It Forward

Baseball Hall Of Famer Trevor Hoffman is a major supporter of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. Hoffman is widely acclaimed as a man and player and community member of high character. He was raised by an Iwo Jima Marine to be a sterling player, teammate, parent, supporter of good causes. On Sunday he represented the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation to present a check to the son of a Vietnam Marine, my son. I credit much of my sons' successes and character to also being raised in the Marine Corps ethos of giving it all, giving it back, giving it forward, and of course intense love of country.

Hoffman was all smiles when my son, Jason, showed him this photo of he and Hoffman from 2011 Little League.

On field at Petco for a Padres game on Sunday, Trevor Hoffman presented Jason with his scholarship check.

After, several other star Padres players met Jason: Randy Jones and Tony Gwynn Jr. Hoffman, Jones, and Gwynn Jr. are all active with the Padres support organization.

The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation shared the best suite in the ballpark with some other military support organizations. That's Jason and Hoffman, my younger son Gavin following his big brother's footsteps, myself and my better half (much better).

If you recall, last Fall, Jason was honored -- and I brought to tears -- by the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation at its annual awards banquet. The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation does an outstanding job of finding children of Marines who merit help through college, and to in turn build a strong and better America. If you can, please stretch and contribute whatever you can to this worthy mission. Semper Fidelis.

Posted by Bruce Kesler at 23:23 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

College students who know nothing

Today’s Students and Professors ‘Know Hardly Anything about Anything at All’

That's my experience with the job interviews I do.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 16:30 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

My Epstein theory

The Queen of England got to the jail Psychiatrist and with money and charm and got the guy to claim Epstein meant no harm to himself. Simple.

Do you have a better theory? Just don't mention Hillary.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 15:31 | Comments (14) | Trackbacks (0)

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