Sunday, December 5. 2021
Luke 3:1-6
3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,
3:2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
3:3 He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
3:4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth;
3:6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"
Saturday, December 4. 2021
My closest CVS has set up four self-service kiosks this week. The gal showed me how they work, which is simple.
I was in there early to grab some notebooks. I asked her why they appeared. "We can't find workers."
Thursday, December 2. 2021
Wednesday, December 1. 2021
Nobody imagined that anything remotely resembling The Red Guards of China in the 60s, but the mobbing of people today in the US brings The Red Guard to mind, especially on campuses. In fact, I feel that the Red Guards are a role model for some.
It feels as if there is the fad of a soft Cultural Revolution going on here. Down with The Five Olds, etc.
There are many new topics about which one can engage in Wrongthink these days. Justice, free speech, and tolerance are bourgeois concepts designed to oppress somebody.
Excellent memoir: Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng. It takes a strong stomach to read it.
The Malicious Dead End Of "Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion"
Tuesday, November 30. 2021
"What is the chief end of man?” And we answered together so one of us could carry on if the other forgot, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.”
From Jeffrey Polet's Negotiating “The Captive Mind” on American campuses:
Intellectual terror, Milosz avers, is a principle central to the ideological project.
I was not familiar with Milosz' 1953 The Captive Mind, but should have been.
Monday, November 29. 2021
Sunday, November 28. 2021
Detective Montalbano. It's a cool police series, based in Sicily. The series began in 1999 and is still going on.
The subtitles are good, or it's good practice for your Italian with some Sicilian dialect.
How Plague Reshaped Colonial New England
Very doubtful that it was bubonic plague. It is more likely to have been a combination of European diseases like influenza, smallpox, common cold (a corona virus), etc first brought to the New World by Portuguese fishermen. The natives had no immunity to those things.
Psalm 25:1-10
25:1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
25:2 O my God, in you I trust; do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.
25:3 Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
25:4 Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
25:5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long.
25:6 Be mindful of your mercy, O LORD, and of your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
25:7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness' sake, O LORD!
25:8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
25:9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
25:10 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
Saturday, November 27. 2021
Friday, November 26. 2021
 At the BD homestead Thanksgiving, everybody brings something. It is semi-organized. This year, we had an abundance of homemade desserts, all wonderful.
I am talking about pumpkin cheesecake, mini-mince pies with homemade rum ice cream, squash pie, and things like that.
All good but posting a pic of a daughter's homemade brie pastry thing with the surprise of toasted pecans and cranberries inside with the cheese. That is a meal in itself.
We sent a lot of leftovers home with people.
 The war on Thanksgiving is real and it's spectacular
The war of TG is cleaning all of the pots and pans, dishes, silverware, napkins, etc.
'This is not our land': Students pen editorial on 'dark origins' of Thanksgiving
Tearing down Thomas Jefferson over slavery is moral idiocy
Nadia Murad and the heartlessness of PC, A Toronto school board pulled out of an event with a survivor of ISIS sex slavery over fears of ‘Islamophobia’.
We Don't Get a Vote on the Woke Revolution
The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most
How much porn is needed in schools?
No end to how low Andrew Cuomo will go: Goodwin
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There seems to be a shortage of links this holiday season. Or are we missing everything?
How Do You Say
Towering Musical Theater Master, Broadway’s ‘West Side Story’ Lyricist,