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Saturday, July 6. 2013

Saturday morning links

Dr. Helen: Six Reasons Why Men Are Avoiding Marriage


She says she is "essentially honest."


Colorized History


Always lots of gems at American Digest


Grilling Over Charcoal Is Objectively, Scientifically Better Than Grilling Over Gas


I agree. In fact, I use a charcoal base with wood on top.


2 films, one about pop background singers and one about Breughel


I guarantee that you will love this


From a gay guy:  Gay Marriage: “What-The-F- -Ever.”:



Every day American culture is a little more like a Black Mass against nature and manhood and anything decent or beautiful or noble or worth saving. Western Civilization has become a Black Mass for Western Civilization. Everything our better fathers believed in has been spit on and placed like a tainted Host between the yeasty thighs of a giggling whore.


In some formerly great nations, like England, I could probably be jailed for “hate speech” even writing that.



Kimball:  July 4, 2013: Thinking about the Summer of 1776


The State’s Case Against the State - Who in his right mind would ever hire George Zimmerman’s
prosecutors?


EPA Growth Knows No Limits


Hinkle: Commit any felonies lately?


Drudge:



ONLY 47% OF ADULTS HAVE FULL-TIME JOB...
Longest Stretch of 7.5%+ Unemployment on Record...



Krauthammer:  Obama’s Global-Warming Folly - No, Mr. President, we don’t need a war on coal.


I don't mind the guy being on his sailboat, but why lie about it?


... it turns out there’s a reason they call it “jailbait,” after all.


Hannan: Those greedy frackers


The top 5 lies about fracking


How Hate Facts Kill Scientific Inquiry:



 Academic outsiders seldom grasp the personal consequences of expressing hate facts. The penalties are especially grim for those who mistakenly soldier on marshalling yet more solid evidence for their "hate." Nor can distinguished academics escape the anti-hate rage. In fact, it seems the more renowned the messenger, the greater the indignation, a perfect strategy to intimidate those with less prestige.


The world famous Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson was physically assaulted and repeatedly harassed for his work on sociobiology. Noble Prize winning geneticist James Watson suffered a similar fate when he said that according to his reading of the research literature, low IQ among sub-Saharan Africans Africa limited their economic progress (he also emphasized his unease about that conclusion, but this hardly helped). The American Sociological Association's campaign once tried to excommunicate James S. Coleman after his infamous report on schools' limited ability to boost academic achievement.  



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Well, if the war on coal goes anything like the war on drugs, then there will be more of it available at cheaper prices, the police will have cool coal burning vehicles, the police will slaughter more household pets, a disproportionate number of blacks and other minorities will be in prison while elite whites, especially in the DC area are able to use coal with impunity.
#1 JKB on 2013-07-06 08:58 (Reply)
Yall post this witch who trys substantively to redefine essential.

Marvelous; me had a witch like that on hook, once upon a time.

She degreed English from University of Michigan but it took another seven years to teach her how to speak English and negociate it proper.

She finally put it, English together well enough to cut her kite string and loft aawy on her broom.
#2 Leag on 2013-07-06 11:40 (Reply)
About the war on coal, might want to read this article at the National Journal. Short story made long, there aren't enough vulnerable Congressional seats.

Rate hikes to cover converting coal fired generators that would make a difference.

And once again, we see the loud and obnoxious suppressing scientific inquiry to defend the orthodoxy, in the minding the campus article.
#3 walt moffett on 2013-07-06 11:44 (Reply)
Yep, that sure enough looks like the anti-Christ colorized.
#4 Leag on 2013-07-06 12:38 (Reply)
Yes, yes, did much enjoy the Duser rendition. Always enjoy a rousing Sousa.
#5 Xray on 2013-07-06 13:11 (Reply)
Not to be pedantic but it's spelled fracing, not fracking.
#6 Ray on 2013-07-06 15:28 (Reply)
EPA Growth Knows No Limits


We should poison the well, so to speak.
#7 JKB on 2013-07-06 17:08 (Reply)
I agree. In fact, I use a charcoal base with wood on top.

You would.
#8 brobro on 2013-07-06 19:51 (Reply)
The whole charcoal vs gas argument is ignorant. You need smoldering wood for the best flavor, i.e., smoke. With the common grill design, charcoal is best to put the wood over. But properly designed, the same can be achieved with gas or even electricity. You don't want any other smoke generating fuel besides charcoal since that adds bad smoke. The impurities in charcoal generally add to the smoking flavor.

I have good success with reversing the normal cooking process using a gas grill for convenience. I put steaks, (works with other meats with mods), on 250-300 (front and rear burners on low) for 6 minutes a side for store thick-cuts. Then remove them covered with foil as I get the grill hot, above 550. The put the steaks back on for 2 minutes on a side. You are looking for flame, flare ups from the fat rendering. (not good fat on the steak to render then use grease, bacon grease) you want drippings. You might leave it a bit longer if you want to get some better browning.

Advantage is by varying the time at 250 you can achieve different levels of doneness then finish all the steaks at the same time. the 6 minutes gets a nice med-rare. I think the internal temps before searing is 80 for rare to 100 for well done.

You get smoke, high heat so you get flavor and browning (Maillard reaction). Not a nice wood smoke but you do get flavor. I got to get my Smoke Daddy hooked up to the grill then I'll have both.
#8.1 JKB on 2013-07-06 22:14 (Reply)
The whole charcoal vs gas argument is ignorant. You need smoldering wood for the best flavor, i.e., smoke. With the common grill design, charcoal is best to put the wood over. But properly designed, the same can be achieved with gas or even electricity. You don't want any other smoke generating fuel besides charcoal since that adds bad smoke. The impurities in charcoal generally add to the smoking flavor.

I have good success with reversing the normal cooking process using a gas grill for convenience. I put steaks, (works with other meats with mods), on 250-300 (front and rear burners on low) for 6 minutes a side for store thick-cuts. Then remove them covered with foil as I get the grill hot, above 550. The put the steaks back on for 2 minutes on a side. You are looking for flame, flare ups from the fat rendering. (not good fat on the steak to render then use grease, bacon grease) you want drippings. You might leave it a bit longer if you want to get some better browning.

Advantage is by varying the time at 250 you can achieve different levels of doneness then finish all the steaks at the same time. the 6 minutes gets a nice med-rare. I think the internal temps before searing is 80 for rare to 100 for well done.

You get smoke, high heat so you get flavor and browning (Maillard reaction). Not a nice wood smoke but you do get flavor. I got to get my Smoke Daddy (url provoked spam msg) hooked up to the grill then I'll have both.
#8.2 JKB on 2013-07-06 22:16 (Reply)
It may be true that some men are avoiding marriage because of negative social trends, but the culture in one's immediate family can override that influence. Family is very important.
#9 LP on 2013-07-06 21:16 (Reply)
She says she is "essentially honest."

Everything Althouse has posted the past day or two in what appears to be her War on Dr. Helen has produced enormous blowback from her commenters. When your hypocrisy becomes as obvious to everyone as the Law Professor's, you can expect to get called on it. To this day, she still gets flak for voting her emotions, not her brains, for Obama. Let's just say her photography is better than her lawyering.
#10 Agent Cooper on 2013-07-07 01:54 (Reply)
I'm with the gay guy: the issue of gay marriage has become utterly boring. Whatever. The recent SCOTUS decision on gay marriage has confirmed what I've thought all along, that it's all about the Benjamins. Just don't ask me to serve on a jury in any civil case over the contested divorce of a gay marriage that splits because of infidelity. This is a mess made in the courts by the judges; they can sort it out themselves.
#11 Agent Cooper on 2013-07-07 18:11 (Reply)

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