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Tuesday, May 31. 2022Survey: Do any of our readers smoke weed or use edibles?
In my view, its best use is for music appreciation. Beer does not have that benefit. I do not advocate being a chronic stoner any more than I advocate alcohol abuse - it does not work well in life and both are dangerous for vulnerable people.
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QQQIf people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo
No morning links this weekFor a number of good, non-serious reasons, I need a week-long sabbatical from morning links about all the the crazy stuff. Nobody seems to want to take over the duty.
Do my job this weekPut your links in the comments. I am AWOL this week. Salt water - gotta get some.
Monday, May 30. 2022Memorial Day Parade Photos, reposted from years ago Re-posted - Villages in Yankeeland - and surely everywhere in America - know how to have a parade on Memorial Day. All you need are some Boy Scouts and Brownies, some firemen and an antique fire truck, the Volunteer Fire Department Marching Band, and anybody else who feels like joining in. Including people with their dogs, adorned with flags. (And yes, in Yankeeland, we are big on Volunteer Fire Departments, and volunteer everything including volunteer Town Meetings as a form of local government.) What a great country. How fortunate, optimistic, well-intentioned, and patriotic we are! Photos from a neighbor, today. Thanks!
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Sunday, May 29. 2022The casino business
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The Ark of the CovenantThe meaning of the Ark of the Covenant. This 7-minute piece is a stunning summary of the metaphysics of Christianity (via American Digest)
From today's Lectionary: The slave girlActs 16:16-34 16:16 One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. 16:17 While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation." 16:18 She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that very hour. 16:19 But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. 16:20 When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, "These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews 16:21 and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe." 16:22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. 16:23 After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. 16:24 Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 16:26 Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened. 16:27 When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. 16:28 But Paul shouted in a loud voice, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here." 16:29 The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 16:30 Then he brought them outside and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 16:31 They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." 16:32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 16:33 At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. 16:34 He brought them up into the house and set food before them; and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God. Cape CodSaturday, May 28. 2022Re-posted
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Good talker, good memoryWalking and Hiking
When does walking become a form of endurance (light-moderate "cardio") exercise? That depends on speed and incline. However challenging hiking might be (hills, rocks, etc.) it is still mostly a recreational and visual experience. Even for mountain hiking, most of us need to slow down. As a rule of thumb, walking is not exercise unless there is sweat and a little shortness of breath. Some people say that if you can have a conversation, it is not exercise. Makes sense. Here's a good synopsis about walking as exercise.
Watch for a return of the ignominious Disinformation Governance Board
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Saturday morning linksThe Alchemist Emperor of Prague. As the Holy Roman Empire descended into religious conflicts, its Habsburg ruler surrounded himself with magicians, astrologers, and scryers. Former Vermont governor, a prominent Middlebury alum, skips 50th reunion over college’s cancel culture A Bachelor’s in Diversity. Northern Arizona University requires its students to take four “diversity perspective” courses and loads such courses with ideological propaganda. Prager U Video: Should Schools Teach Kids about LGBTQ? Elite High School Ended Merit-Based Admissions. It Was A Complete Disaster I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired. The data about police shootings just didn't add up, but no one at Thomson Reuters wanted to hear it. Florida’s Covid numbers were obviously right all along. Who saw this coming? I did MIT Weighs In On Energy Storage Ethanol: a Dumb idea or a Crime — or Both Moderna Throwing Away 30 Million Doses of COVID Vaccine Because 'Nobody Wants Them' Bill Barr Says Hillary Clinton Guilty Of 'Sedition' Biden Wants Taxpayers to Write a $10,000 Check to Every College Grad Making $300,000 Friday, May 27. 2022There Is No Magic Fix for School ShootingsThere Is No Magic Fix for School Shootings They are, simply, far too rare. They are terrible tragedies, but entirely unpredictable. It is wrong to use these as news and political fodder. It encourages copycats, and, worse, it makes every odd kid a potential suspect. Psychiatry has nothing to offer with this other than opinions on TV. These adolescent or late-adolescent boys never get to Psychiatrists, and even if they did there would be little to do. None would tell a doctor that their dream is to shoot up a school.
Spring BreakA bunch of high-schoolers get a taste of USMC basic training
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Let's celebrate Poison IvyPoison Ivy is a native vine to North America. Apparently humans are the creatures for whom it is an annoying weed. Animals seem to like it. When your dog runs through a patch, be careful about hugging your dog. I've had plenty of unpleasant experiences of it in my life. Now I know that Dawn detergent after contact is a miracle. Sometimes it is difficult to avoid.
Friday morning linksA Promising Treatment for Mental Disorders: Fecal Matter Transplants Gotta be a joke Is the Stock Market Still Dangerous? Kevin Spacey Charged With 'Penetrative Sexual Activity Without Consent' in England…Isn't That Rape? Such a talented actor. Why does he do these things? The Surveillance Solution - a dangerous way to address crazed shooters Does Anyone Really Believe in This Transgender Stuff? Bummer: Renewable Energy Is A Threat To Biodiversity Or Something ESG’s power grows as banker is canceled for talking sense on climate change Democracy Dies Without Disagreement Don't laugh off the left's attempts to change history Thomas Sowell was Right As Usual Thursday, May 26. 2022The War on the West
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A Nutritional Diary for weight gain and weight loss, reposted
Weight-gain is important for scrawny or physically-undeveloped people who are looking to gain muscle and physical power. The classic 150-lb weakling male who wants to develop might need to gain 10 lbs with a balanced exercise program including weights and a robust diet. Same goes for a weakling stringbean gal. Whether part of a fitness goal is weight gain or weight loss, a nutritional diary, I believe, is the essential, basic aid. If you record everything you put in your oatmeal-hole, including portion size, while weighing yourself every month, you will get a good idea of how you're moving towards your goals. For weight gain goals with a 5-6-day per week exercise program including weights, I'd like to see about a 1 lb gain per month for a while. Unless you want to gain fat, a pound/month is plenty. If you can't do that, you need to up your intake. That can be difficult for some people who have to force themselves to eat more than they really want. For getting rid of excess fat, a reasonable goal is 2 lbs/month with or without exercise. I can't tell you what percentage of American medical problems are related to being overweight, but it could be half of it, from arthritis to breast cancer. Hard exercise doesn't do much for weight loss but it's a good thing for life anyway. In either case, a detailed diary can help you navigate towards your goal. People are often surprised by how much, or how little, they consume in a day. This is not a recommendation for an obsessive lifetime plan, just to try for a few months.
Thursday morning links‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon. The urban centres are the first to be discovered in the region, challenging archaeological dogma. Woman who wrote ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ essay is convicted of murdering husband The NHS Just Edited Their Monkeypox Page... To Make It Scarier What Princeton Did to My Husband. My alma mater is not the school I once loved. But Joshua Katz is exactly the man I knew I married. Gov. Newsom asks Biden administration to help him preserve California's last nuclear power plant When woke=broke State Farm Exec Apologizes to Angry Agents, Says 'We Made a Mistake With Our Involvement' With GenderCool Expect more flight delays this summer — thanks to the government-driven pilot shortage The Davis crowd has the sads The Situation at the Border Is Far More Dire Than We're Being Told Obama Tweets Unbelievably Coarse and Cruel Reaction to School Shooting It’s clear Salvador Ramos was mentally sick, so why wasn’t he stopped? How do you "stop" every wierd kid in the world? Assessing Joe Biden Wednesday, May 25. 2022Metcon workouts"Metcon" workouts (metabolic conditioning) are not about strength-building or weight loss. They are about building vigor and endurance. A combination of HIIT Cardio and calisthenics, usually. They are far better, and more fun, done in a group in a gym. Not 20 minutes, more like an hour with a 5-minute warm-up and 5 minutes stretching at the end. Metcon Workout: Is It for You?
What's up with Psychiatry these days?Soul Doctors. A new book takes an unsparing look at psychiatry's past and future. The problem with that book review, and maybe with the book, it that it sounds as if "mental illness" were a unitary phenomenon and as if treatment approaches were somewhat unitary too. Believe it or not, we have many ways to be of help to people with all sorts of problems. True "cures" are relatively unusual in all areas of medicine.
Wednesday morning linksBreaking: Princeton University Fires Professor Joshua Katz. “Katz’s real offense was running afoul of the woke pieties that now dominate American campuses.” CT Democrats Compare Black Republicans To Monkey… AMA Will Use "Equity" to Fight "Anti-Fat" Bias Among Doctors White House Frenzy Over Karine Jean-Pierre's White Straight Male Backup Before they can learn ‘antiracism,’ kids need to be literate Larry Summers slams Biden over inflation, ‘hipster antitrust’ policies Biden Confirms High Gas Prices Are Part of Plan Where’s The Promised Transparency In Drug Pricing? TOP FBI BRASS WERE “FIRED UP” ABOUT DESTROYING TRUMP What's Next for Russia's War in Ukraine? There’s no endpoint in sight to a war that threatens widespread consequences. Twenty-Two House Republicans Demand Accountability on Biden's $40b War Spending Looks Like CNN and Rest of The American Media Are Growing Weary of the War in Ukraine White House Scrambles to Roll Back Biden’s Vow to Defend Taiwan Tuesday, May 24. 2022Good gameDid you ever try to play Chess, taking both sides? It stretches your brain out of shape. Try it sometime.
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