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Sunday, April 18. 2021The Irish Famine
Why are Democrats so badly misinformed about COVID?
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MiseducationBari Weiss on the elite prep schools: (h/t K-12 Implosion) What is wrong with these people? From today's LectionaryActs 3:12-19 3:12 When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, "You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 3:13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. 3:14 But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, 3:15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. 3:16 And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you. 3:17 "And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 3:18 In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. 3:19 Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out. Saturday, April 17. 2021Is this offensive to people of Yorkshirian ethnicity?A glorious rantThe entirety of the glorious rant from the father of a Brearley girl. (If you do not know, Brearley is one a few very toney NYC private schools.) Most parents will probably agree, but will be afraid to speak up.
Saturday morning linksThe SEC V. Ripple: Testing The Limits Of A Regulatory Vacuum National Geographic’s Pollution Of Scientific Discourse " There has to be a point where any decent parent will say, Oh, my God, this is the crap they are feeding young minds, including my beautiful child!" CBS News slammed for cropping bodycam footage of Adam Toledo holding gun before fatal shooting Portland Rioters Set Fire To Apple Store; Smash Up Church, Veggie Grill, Historical Society Liz Cheney Was A Primary Culprit Of Spreading Fake News On Russian Bounties To Undermine Trump Kamala Harris comes out of the woodwork with plan to solve all those 'root causes' of migrant surge Venez: Dollar triumphs in socialist hellhole, rescuing high quality producers Berlin’s Disastrous Rent Control Law Gets Scrapped Biden finally saw the folly of our Afghan adventure, but Trump got it first Chinese government worker goes viral after battering her boss with a mop after he had allegedly harassed her Friday, April 16. 2021Notes for copy editorsA dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. A bar was walked into by the passive voice. An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.” A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. A question mark walks into a bar? A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type." A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. A synonym strolls into a tavern. At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph. The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. A dyslexic walks into a bra. A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars. A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget. A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
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Computer genius suggests blocking out the sunBill Gates wants to spray dust into the sky to control the Earth's temperature. Is that the ultimate "What could go wrong" idea?
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Friday morning linksBernie Madoff’s secrets revealed by his prison pen pal Rep Dan Crenshaw Had Emergency Surgery on His Only Eye The Truth About 'Papa John' Schnatter Finally Comes Out Comedian John Cleese 'Apologises' For Making "Fun Of White English People" Why cheese is racist “Consensus” Becomes a Scary Word COVID: We're in a 'Perpetual Pandemic' With No End in Sight Global Warming Rebranded as “Climate Emergency” A number of major news organizations worldwide, ranging from Scientific American and The Columbia Journalism Review to The Guardian and Al Jazeera, have signed a pledge to begin referring to "climate change" as a "climate emergency" in their reporting. Chelsea Clinton Calls on Facebook to Ban Tucker Carlson Video After His Takedown of Dr. Fauci Goes Viral Fascist Jack Dorsey Purges James O'Keefe From Twitter Border agents arrest more criminals, see spike in meth and pot seizures as cartels exploit migrant surge Biden's CBP nominee defended sanctuary cities, criticized police working with immigration authorities Retail explodes, jobless claims drop nearly 200K to pandemic low ACE goes quite sarcastic re Afghanistan Dozens of Gitmo Captives Confirmed to Reengage in Terrorism after Release are At Large The Biggest Threat to the Climate: China Thursday, April 15. 2021Woodland forensics: An education in Northeastern forestsI thought I knew quite a bit about North American (mostly meaning east of the Mississippi) forests. Nope. This helped me be a far more informed hiker. This is a sequential series of 3. I had to watch it all twice. One of the best youtubes we've ever posted. I lied - I watched it 3 times because it was so absorbing.
Conditioning for those with a gray hair: "It's not fun, but it's done."Been thinking about this more. We like terms like sturdiness and conditioning. Our fitness posts (many of them for years) have never been about body-building or training for a specific athletic pursuit. It has all been about maintaining good fitness for life for those over 35 years old so that the interests and pleasures that life offers can be engaged as much as possible for as long as possible. One hour or so daily, plus a nutrition plan to stay trim, are not very difficult even for the most sedentary. I have to say that I envy Bulldog, who plays basketball and tennis every week. How good is that? Great fun.
Thursday morning links
Sorry, but I forgot where that toon came from Our internet pal David Warren is recovering from a stroke, heart attack, and bypass surgery Who Is Freer These Days? Rand Paul Calls Fauci a 'Petty Tyrant,' Urges Americans to 'Go About Your Lives' Nate Silver Accuses Dr. Fauci of Gaslighting on COVID Transmission Teacher’s ‘come at me’ rant caught on video by Reopen California Schools group California Public School Teachers Being Told to Hide Critical Race Materials From Parents CEOs’ Surrender To The Mobocrats On The Left Will End Poorly No Charges Against Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt: DOJ John Durham scrutinizes Steele dossier source through Brookings Institution subpoena The Georgetown Affair: New Levels Of Progressive Reality Denial BBC diversity chief says Idris Elba's TV detective Luther 'isn't black enough to be real' because 'he doesn't have any black friends and doesn't eat any Caribbean food' Students support voting bill...then learn it's actually Georgia's law Did the cop who shot Daunte Wright experience "slip and capture?" The border is even worse than you think Guatemala: We have no idea what Biden and Harris are talking about Israel: A “VERY BEAUTIFUL” ATTACK Wednesday, April 14. 2021Ginger Baker soloThe bad news: Waistline correlates with cognitive decline (reposted)Correlation does not prove causation, but it's something to consider anyway. There are many reasons to pursue physical fitness.
Why to do your workouts before breakfastI would be afraidI would be afraid to be a police officer today. I would enjoy, I think, being a detective but you have to begin on the streets.
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Wednesday morning linksI Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated. Children are afraid to challenge the repressive ideology that rules our school. That’s why I am. A VACCINATION PAUSE THAT SEEMS SENSELESS AND HARMFUL Chicago Teachers Union Plans To Walk Off Job Over Re-opening Schools… Government Against Bourgeois Values. Encouraging drug use and other vices risks social catastrophe. NCAA Upholds Policy of Transgender Women Competing in Women's Sports They went from ‘Everything White Is Bad’ to ‘Everything Bad Is White’ so fast we didn’t even notice. Leaked Video Shows CNN Director Admits Matt Gaetz Stories Are Democrat Propaganda. Liberals Are Really Going to Hate Ron DeSantis Over Florida's Latest COVID Benchmark Biden Faces His First Disasters in Yemen and Afghanistan FULFILLING OUR DUTY TO AFGHAN AND IRAQI INTERPRETERS IS A MATTER OF HONOR—AND OF NATIONAL SECURITY Tuesday, April 13. 2021Mick Jagger calls out the panic, er pandemic, er control-freaks"We Were Creating A Story"'We Were Creating A Story -- Our Focus Was To Get Trump Out': CNN Director Busted By Undercover Veritas Operative
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Why illegal immigration?
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Tuesday morning linksLessons In Woke "Science": Covid-19 And Climate ‘Dirty Jobs’ Star Mike Rowe Just Totally Debunked the Argument for a $15 Minimum Wage. Rowe knows the value of hard work, so it’s worth taking his recent warning on minimum wage hikes seriously. How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed? CDC Director Rejects Michigan’s Plea for COVID Vaccines, Suggests State ‘Shut Things Down’ 10 Easy Ways To END RACISM FOREVER Can American Cities Manufacture Again? Industry needs lower taxes and fewer regulations, rather than more economic-development policies. Gov. Cuomo shut down Indian Point nuclear reactor, now the electricity it produced will come from fossil fuels VP Harris is hiding because she's got nothing to say A ‘Woke’ Minority Has Seized America 100 Top CEOs Plot To Punish States Which Pass 'Restrictive' Voting Laws Taiwan Records Largest Ever Incursion By Chinese Air Force With 25 Planes Monday Monday, April 12. 2021Aspiring Middlebrow?
These are strange, if not snobby, cultural descriptions. I thought that Kenneth Clark's Civilization series (still available online) was excellent anyway.
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Monday morning links
Are Organ Meats Healthy? Metal detector finds ancient treasure in Rhode Island tied to famous pirate ‘No community should suffer this’: Florida’s toxic breach was decades in the making A Self-Loathing Ruling Class Cannot Endure Fonts can be racist IS RACE DISCRIMINATION LEGAL, OR NOT? Another, Clearer Take on the Chauvin Trial BLM Founder Not Only Has One Million Dollar Home But Four… Northern Ireland Violence Worst In Decades; Fears Of "The Troubles" Return Sunday, April 11. 2021Academia todayFrom a piece by a Georgetown Law Prof, at Quillette:
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