Wednesday, August 17. 2022
Progress is a funny word. There is no doubt that Homo sapiens is remarkable in the ability to change and control the planet to meet its own needs and wants, with a population boom as a result.
The Problems of Evolution as a “March of Progress”
Now it appears to be a new virus on the endemic list. It might appear on the CVS annual jab lists in the future . IS COVID OVER?
Tuesday, August 16. 2022
It seems likely correct that 5-6 days of working out, in varying forms, is good for building or maintaining fitness, but tell me what the weaknesses are in this piece: Exercise answer: Research shows it’s how often you do it, not how much
 Navy SEAL Kaj Larsen’s Guide to Becoming a Better Swimmer. The best waterman in his class talks dolphins, breath exercises and something called "surf torture"
Chocolate ICE CREAM is more nutritious than a granola bar, bacon is better than couscous and McDonald's pancakes are healthier than an omelette
Atlantic writer claims the rosary is an extremist symbol
Doomsday Climate Predictions Meltdown: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches 12-Year Mid-August High
I blame climate change
Why all kids should take the SAT: Student’s defense of standardized testing
Pediatricians slam pediatrician group for pushing puberty blockers for children
Have we reached peak insanity yet?
An Unjustified Fear Of Nuclear Energy Is Holding The Industry Back
WSJ: ‘But Her Emails’? A Defense of ‘Whataboutism’ - Mrs. Clinton should take her hat off. Treating like cases alike is crucial to the equal protection of the law.
KAMALA HARRIS, SPACE ODDITY
Always incomprehensible
All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
From Rio Grande to The Row Hotel! Migrants bussed in from Texas will be housed in $400-a-night luxury NYC hotel within a MONTH
Sunday, August 14. 2022
Not really. Before sunrise this morning we were after legal Stripers and Fluke. Legal stripers are in a narrow slot - not too big and not too small. You need a ruler.
Thing is, Bluefish can sometimes be all around. Big ones too. They are delicious on the grill, coated with some mayo, mustard, and soy sauce. Many people feel they are "too fishy" - but they are fish. Best if cooked the day you catch them.
If you get into a school of Blues, at some point you get annoyed and throw them back. A good-sized Blue is supper for six people or more .They will bite you though. Gotta be careful removing the hook.
Luke 12:49-56
12:49 "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
12:50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed!
12:51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!
12:52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three;
12:53 they will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
12:54 He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, 'It is going to rain'; and so it happens.
12:55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat'; and it happens.
12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Saturday, August 13. 2022
Unless you have served in the Navy or the Merchant Marine, it is worth doing a trans-Atlantic crossing. It is a vacation in itself, and all ships have excellent gyms these days. If lucky, you can get a day or so of heavy weather.
There is always something to do on a ship (lectures, music, dining, socializing), but watching the ocean and the ocean critters is the best part for me.
Not an expensive trip either. I recommend heading for Southampton (London's ship harbor), but Le Havre also. Below are two links for Atlantic crossings, but I would avoid Norwegian Cruise Lines. Another note: Don't get an inside cabin. Those are places to put your kids.
Holland-America Line
Trans-Atlantic trips
At Chronicle (sorry): When Students Harass Professors. Women and people of color are most at risk. Colleges must do more to protect them.
About a decade ago, while adjuncting in New York City, I spent a semester scared of a student...
Friday, August 12. 2022
Virtually every major medical organization—from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) to the American Association of Pediatrics—has embraced the idea that medicine is an inequity-producing enterprise. The AMA’s 2021 Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity is virtually indistinguishable from a black studies department’s mission statement. The plan’s anonymous authors seem aware of how radically its rhetoric differs from medicine’s traditional concerns. The preamble notes that “just as the general parlance of a business document varies from that of a physics document, so too is the case for an equity document.” (Such shaky command of usage and grammar characterizes the entire 86-page tome, making the preamble’s boast that “the field of equity has developed a parlance which conveys both [sic] authenticity, precision, and meaning” particularly ironic.)
 "Trash fish"? No. Sea Robins are eminently edible.
Short video about Mussel-farming in Maine.
Thursday, August 11. 2022
Wednesday, August 10. 2022
Hyde Drift Boats. Nice rowboats for rivers and streams.
Tuesday, August 9. 2022
The second squall on Sunday afternoon
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