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Friday, March 12. 2021The very reason why ideology reigns is a lack of ethical foundation.Why do independent schools perform so well?
A person at The Atlantic is sour on those schools.
My Octopus Teacher
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Friday morning links In Love with Social Isolation Coyote: Conversation With A Phone Company Why didn’t more professors oppose the Gramscian march or at least stick up for free speech? Italy Imposes National Lockdown As Mutant COVID Strains Spread Eight In Ten American Parents Want Their Kids Back In School — Now More California Cities Experiment With “Hero Pay” Leading To Predictable Results Courage was the reason campus anti-Semites were beaten. A Tufts University student stood up to the mob of Israel-haters. His victory won’t necessarily prevent others from being targeted, but it showed how they, too, can prevail. Wall Street elites who fled to Florida amid COVID-19 want to return to NYC CNN: Too Few Are Vaccinated, Another COVID Surge Just Weeks Away FDA Postpones Inspections Delaying New Drugs and Creating Shortages of Old Drugs Peter Doocy embarrasses Jen Psaki for laughing at his question about migrant children at the border and closed schools MC: Now It’s Really Time to Disrupt Education
Hate Hoax Results in Beheading Biden Adviser Says the Border Rush Is Caused by Smugglers Spreading Disinformation The Iran Deal’s Inevitable Sequel - Barack Obama’s plan was never about stopping Iran from obtaining a bomb. It was about realigning American interests in the Middle East in order to remake the Democratic Party at home. Addressing Iran’s Weaponization Work Will Fortify the Nuclear Deal Israel Is the Arab World’s New Soft Power. Arab countries are increasingly competing to deepen ties with their former enemy. Thursday, March 11. 2021Queen's Birthday StormIn June of 1994 a dangerous storm caught dozens of cruising sailors by surprise as they voyaged north from New Zealand. There are times when there is no rescue. "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday."
When you go boating, you make a lot of other people responsible for you. Amazing film.
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What Makes the Classics Worth StudyingRe the racism of Western Civilization:
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Thursday morning links Why I Am Leaving a Great Career in Public Education Bookworm Beat 3/10/21 — the “leftist insanity is on the rise” illustrated edition The left has perfected the art of gaslighting in the culture wars Newsom To Californians: Let’s Face It, We’re Never Getting Back To Normal Revenge of the Gods. California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum urges students to chant to the Aztec deity of human sacrifice. 'Weekend At Biden's?' Handlers Shut Down Yet Another Q&A After Public Appearance Biden Advisor Admits Trump’s Policies Stopped Illegal Immigration While Biden’s Caused a Historic Surge of Illegals Here Come Trillions More: Biden Will Unveil "Next Phase" Of COVID Response On Thursday Wednesday, March 10. 2021Crossing the Atlantic on a 26ft boat with my dadWednesday morning links
CNN Medical Analyst: CDC Guidance For Vaccinated People Is “Overly Timid” And “Far Too Cautious” As Scott says, pandemic is mostly done COVID Relief: Could This Be The Very Worst Piece Of Legislation Ever? Paging Dr. Hayek - Free-marketeers should make their case with renewed vigor after central planners’ pandemic missteps. The Campus as Factory - Corporatist progressivism and the crisis of American higher education The Miseducation of America’s Elites - Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret. The Military Is Resuming the Diversity Training That Trump Banned Biden’s Executive Order on Title IX Warrants Little Practical Change for Schools Biden’s German Shepherds Shipped Back to Delaware After ‘Biting Incident’ Involving White House Security Imagine if Trump had owned biting German Sheperds. Nazi! Feminist Group NOW Joins San Diego Suit in High Court Call: Let Women Be Drafted Pepe LePew dropped, Luv Gov keeps his Emmy DHS Pleads for Volunteers to Assist With ‘Overwhelming’ Surge at Southern Border Biden Broke The Border, Now He Owns The Crisis Trump’s Shakedown of the GOP - The establishmentarian GOP is heading for the exits. Tuesday, March 9. 2021Mike Rowe on cancel culture
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How to rebuild an engine
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Pastor Tim Keller faces his own death
He begins:
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Tuesday morning linksTurner Classic Movies Denounces Classic Movies NY Times Wonders If The Burger Is Nearing Extinction The Academic Freedom Alliance: A Welcome Addition to the Fight against Cancel Culture Is Compulsory Race and Bias ‘Training’ Legal? Victor Davis Hanson’s perfect description of why troops are in DC Cuomo Got $$Millions For His Book Advance — After His Cover-Up Began CNN Medical Analyst: CDC Guidance For Vaccinated People Is “Overly Timid” And “Far Too Cautious” Durham will have Russiagate indictments ready in 6–8 weeks, says John Solomon Biden’s Open Border Policies May Not Work Out After All "Not Safe To Return": Biden Offers Legal Status To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Venezuelans Democrat Lawmaker: Biden Admin ‘Purposely Withholding’ Number Of Migrants ‘Being Released’ Into U.S. Biden is rejecting the common-sense center on everything from schools to securing border Monday, March 8. 2021A Long Read: The Most Intolerant Wins
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CDC relaxes recommendationsCDC Says "Fully Vaccinated" People Can Stop Wearing Masks, Distancing In Private They are very cautious.
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Stop Saying We Can't Go Back to Normal After Vaccines. We can justifiably hope for normalcy by Independence Day. NY Times Now Wants To Cancel A Cartoon Skunk Because It Perpetuates Rape Culture… ‘Space Jam’ Reboot Director Says He’s Shocked At How Politically Incorrect ‘Lola Bunny’ Was In Original Movie, Vows To Make Her More Plain Looking… Dr. Seuss shows leftists again blurring fantasy and reality At Instapundit:
Powerline: The Cuomo Chronicles Thousands of migrants crossing US border overwhelm government agents Biden's Solution to the Border Crisis: Let Them All Go Arizona Hospital Worker Says Nearly All of New COVID Cases are Illegal Aliens Uh-oh! They let Biden get in front of a microphone again Since when does big government spending 'alleviate poverty'? Sunday, March 7. 2021Thaddeus StevensFrom a reader:
What Good Am I?From today's LectionaryJohn 2:13-22 2:13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2:14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 2:15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 2:16 He told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!" 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." 2:18 The Jews then said to him, "What sign can you show us for doing this?" 2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 2:20 The Jews then said, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?" 2:21 But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 2:22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. Saturday, March 6. 2021The lady pilotsFrom Corfu to Greece, then to the Canaries
Timing of workoutsThe Maggie's Fitness for Life Program is of course somewhat controversial. All fitness programs are. Our program is 2 days/wk of heavy weights, 2 days of calisthenics, and 2 days of cardio (meaning heart stress - HIIT, jump rope, stair machine, etc). Besides plain obsessionalism, I do heavy weights twice/week with a trainer, and no need for a trainer for the other things. Right now, I need to be pushed hard with heavy and he is needed for that. Rightly or wrongly, he pushes me past my limits. We do not prefer tough calis on the day before weights because tough calis need a bit of recovery too, and for the over-40 crowd maybe a bit more than 24 hrs. Anybody with a touch of gray, I believe, needs 2 days of recovery after lifting heavy. Calis and cardio more or less count for that. What are your views?
Saturday morning links
FAIR: A worthy non-profit A website which is new to me: NOTES ON LIBERTY The self-silencing majority. In red America and blue America, an epidemic of self-censorship is threatening democracy By Bari Weiss The Capitalists Who Sell Ethnic Studies by Lee Ohanian WSJ: 'Equity’ Is a Mandate to Discriminate. The new buzzword tries to hide the aim of throwing out the American principle of equality under the law. Boston Public Schools suspends advanced academic program due to racial ‘equity’ concerns Cuomo Aides Rewrote July Nursing Home Report To Conceal COVID Death Toll Operation Warp Speed Is Trump’s Triumph Let's see what's in this poisonous, 800-page long "For the People" bill, H.R. 1, the House Democrats have succeeded in passing. Biden's border chaos Friday, March 5. 2021Nobody can cancel Maggie'sWe aren't important enough to bother with, alas. How the French poop on boats, and other topicsCalis for tougher legs: LungesOur readers know that the Maggie's Farm Fitness for Life Program includes two days of calisthenics, and that we view calis as valuable for toughness and athleticism, but not so much for strength-building. (It is best not to do calis on the day before a weights day.) Lunges are a basic calisthenic exercise, whether just body weight, hand weights, or the many variations.
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