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Saturday, February 20. 2021Saturday morning linksMartin Luther Rewired Your Brain. How mass literacy, spurred by Protestantism, reconfigured our neural pathways Americans' Lust To 'Cancel' One Another Should Spark Soul Searching Wrongthink at Smith College Baylor students want to remove statue of...Baylor? Facebook's Ban on News in Australia Is Waking People Up Forget About Ted Cruz, Governor Cuomo Killed People… Media Begins Noticing Cuomo’s Toxic Culture … When Aimed At Dems Johns Hopkins Prof Sees US Herd Immunity By April, Fauci Fearmongers 2022 For 'Return To Normality' The Pandemic Is Over. 2020 was the year of government overreach. Make 2021 the year of organized civil disobedience and friendly reunions CNN: Biden ‘Torn’ On Schools Because Of Powerful Democrat Special Interest Groups…Stating the obvious. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Proposes New Election Integrity Measures – Wants To Ban Mail-In Voting Biden’s Executive Order on Gender Discrimination Has Muddied Waters on Title IX. Challenges Could Clear That Up. UK Court Essentially Shuts Down Uber, Lyft Dogs and politics Our Dire Future Under Biden Saturday Verse: Dylan ThomasWritten as prose, A Child's Christmas in Wales might as well be verse. It begins thus:
The whole piece can be read here but, better yet, you can stream Thomas reading it here. (19 minutes) Friday, February 19. 2021CoolDropping a beach buggy on Mars yesterday. Where's the beach?
Only 82
I remember doing that, back before I concluded that road-running was a bad idea. It truly is more fun to run in weather. So he is 82 and out running, and I am much younger and doing HIIT on a stupid treadmill. The "Chef's Knife"Serious chefs travel with a packet of their personal knives, but the all-purpose knife is the Chef's Knife, aka Cook's Knife. My chef friend only uses Gunter Wilhelm knives, but chefs are cooking all day. I guess the high-carbon, high-maintenance ones are the best, but whatever. I like the ones with a curved blade so you can rock it when chopping garlic, parsley, etc. Maybe you only need two knives: a bread knife and a chef's knife. You can sometimes find used high-carbon chef's knives on eBay.
Friday morning linksTexas: Time To Get Rid Of This Ridiculous Wind Power Texas Power Crisis Puts Keystone XL Cancelation in Perspective “If They Can Harass and Silence a Professional Journalist, They Can Silence Anybody” – Twitter Bans Top Conservative Investigative Journalist Paul Sperry Without Warning Australia took a stand against Facebook — and got silenced Biden Got Vaccine Dose in Dec, Now Claims There Was No Vaccine When He Took Office The Evidence Is Clear: We Can Open Schools Safely Now City Of Chicago Reviewing ‘Potentially Offensive’ Statues Including Those Of Lincoln And Washington The Greatest National Security Threat by Any Analysis is China. China Emits About 30% of Global GHGs, Twice US Emissions Thursday, February 18. 2021A modern VikingFrom Norway to Iceland. Rugged guy. He uses a drone often for his images.
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QQQWho controls the memes, controls the Universe. Elon Musk That evil, if true, quote comes from a Quilette post on The Narrative and Its Discontents. Who constructs our realities? Scott Adams likes to talk about how we are all hypnotized, and there is some truth in that. The awareness of that might be the way out of it. Scott, like Rush, were/are de-hyponotizers. A Rush miscellanyI first heard Rush Limbaugh years ago when I had long commutes. I thought "Who the heck is this guy." He was articulating, humorously, thoughts and doubts that had been bubbling in me just below the surface. At the time, I was a normal uncritical Liberal thinking the same way I had been since age 17. I would not term it a conversion, but my mind did open to a kind of "critical thinking" that I was not getting from the news. As somebody put it, "awakening from a mindless political slumber." Appreciation: Rush Limbaugh remade talk radio — and modern conservatism. By Ben Domenech Powerline: RUSH LIMBAUGH, RIP Rush had good fun with music. His theme music was from The Pretenders' My City Was Gone And who was Snerdly? This guy:
One his many good ones, from the Rush Limbaugh Singers:
Thursday morning linksThe Curious Warnings of Kipling’s ‘Copybook Headings’ The Intellectuals' Assault on Intelligence Slate Star Codex and the Gray Lady’s Decay. The New York Times hit piece on a heterodox blogger is a bad stumble — the latest of many Why did The NYT even bother with this guy? Hotcold Take: All The Winter Storm Power Outages Are Linked To ‘Climate Change’ Did Frozen Wind Turbines Impact the Texas Freeze? Here's the Data The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot - Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels. Everything They Don't Like Is Now A Public Health Emergency Harris: We’re Following The Science On School Reopenings Except When Teachers Unions Reject It, Or Something I’m an epidemiologist and a father. Here’s why I’m losing patience with our teachers’ unions. Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement How Rush Limbaugh rescued me from liberalism, By Dex Bahr Eating Biden’s Lunch, From the man who said China is not our competition. Joe Biden Excuses the Uyghur Genocide as ‘Just a Chinese Cultural Norm,’ Spreading CCP Propaganda Wednesday, February 17. 2021The Lakes of PontchartrainWhat's up with art museums?
According to the article below, Manet was the first artist to aspire to have his work placed in a museum. In my view, there are a few of his I'd enjoy as our living room decor but we are out of wall space anyway... POINT OF NO RETURN - Alex Kitnick on the discontent with museums I am ambivalent about art and cultural museums. You get to walk around in a strange reverent hush and look at pictures that you could never afford to hang in your living room. What is the greatest art museum in the world? By all accounts, NYC's Metropolitan Museum. Lots of other wonderful ones (I've been to most of 'em) around the western world to visit, but the Met's scope and abundance is overarching. As you know, my limit is one hour just to see a show or a few things I want to look at. Otherwise I get "museum brain". I had some excellent art history classes in high school and college, not to mention books and the good things from Great Courses. Still, a semi-illiterate with Fine Art. I like to look at all of it, cool pictures. Addendum: Re the Met, I wish they would show a mock-up of the Greek guys - the ones with their penises broken off - with the original Greek paint on them. These were not made as "art". More like Tussaud's or Disney. Wish I knew whether Michelangelo knew that the Greek stuff had been realistically painted.
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A sad dayRush has died. He has been an inspiration to millions for 32 years. A warm, loving guy who seemed to see through all BS but was, above all, entertaining and (almost always) cheerful and upbeat. His wife spoke a lovely remembrance of him today on the radio, with gratitude for all of the prayers and love from his listeners. RIP, Rush, with thanks for all of your work almost until your last breath.
Wednesday morning linksMan Asks That You Respect His Preferred Adjectives We Didn’t Start the Fire. How much blame do the baby boomers deserve? “We are in our 50s and have no real retirement savings. What do we do now?” I suggest continuing to work Maryland Teachers’ Unions Still Not Accepting The Offer They Asked For Some Fairfax Students Go Back to School 2 Days a Week, Wear Masks, Sit 6 Feet Apart While Their Teachers Stay Home. Is this really what reopening looks like? CDC Admits It Based School Guidelines on Teacher Input and Stakeholders. Stakeholders, in other words, lobbying groups. Lobbying groups over parents and students. Good things about modern farming methods The Compound Fractures of Identity Politics - Characterizing people by skin color or sexual practice violates core principles of a free society and worsens human divisions. The Grand Illusion (of fair elections) New Comey Email Raises Additional Questions About His Use and Defense of The Steele Dossier. There is a new and intriguing document related to the Russian investigation out this week. Conspiracies everywhere Venezuela Turns to Privatization After Being Bankrupted by Socialism Baby steps Tuesday, February 16. 2021Canceling ShakespeareI posted about math yesterday, so today Shakespeare. Today, math is challenging for many and so is reading Shakespeare. It's not exactly a different language, but it sort-of is. His plots are not too difficult to suss out and his characters are usually interesting and colorful, but his language is the thing for me. It is not for kids. I wonder whether the teachers just want to avoid things that are challenging to deal with. Going to sea with ships and boats
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Tuesday morning linksBill Gates Goes Full Captain Planet, Wants To Change 'Every Aspect Of Economy' While We Dine On Fake Meat Snow Takes Down Green Energy Wind Turbines and Solar Panels In US and the World Get Ready for COVID-19 Variants Panic Porn Perma Mandates How The Legacy Media Convinced Americans That Andrew Cuomo Was A Hero Why Did the Pandemic Drive People to Purchase Tons of Toilet Paper? Glenn Loury: Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America NYC Public High School Calls for White Abolitionists Asylum Seekers Stage Hunger Strike over Quality of Free Hotel Food They Can't Quit Him: Democrats Have a New Plan for How to 'Get' Trump Monday, February 15. 2021Math is racistPowerline: WHY MATH IS RACIST Many people have trouble getting their minds into the logic and language of math at different levels. It takes focus and concentration, like learning a language.
Some racing funMonday morning linksSix Skeletons Recovered From 1717 Pirate Ship Wreck A history lesson that floats my boat: the stories of British slave rescues we never hear about Speaking Of Religious Mass Hysteria, How About The Campaign Against Fossil Fuels? VDH: Our Animal Farm - The Left’s 1960s dream is America’s 2021 nightmare VDH sounds depressed #DisruptTexts Tries to Cancel the Odyssey. My experience teaching mythology shows why that’s a terrible idea Ex-NYT Boss Jill Abramson Responds To Unrest At Paper As Woke Activists Dictate Policy Thought Police at The New York Times New York Post Receives Leak, Reveals NYT Columnist’s Scathing Article Against His Own Paper Half Of NY Times Employees Don’t Feel Free To Speak Their Mind At Work… NYT Retracts Story First Published on Jan. 8 That Capitol Hill Police Officer Was Killed by a Fire Extinguisher Thrown by Protesters Diversity, Equity and Inclusion was the Fastest Growing Job Category on LinkedIn in During 2020 There's More Word On How Long the National Guard Might Stay In D.C., It's Starting to Get Crazy Biden Administration Will Allow 25,000 Migrants to Enter U.S. From Mexico Why? NYP: Ugly truth about ‘Honest Joe’: Devine The Biden Administration Calls Out China for Not Cooperating with WHO Investigators Duh Tucker Carlson Asks Question of the Day: The Democrats 'Won Everything,' Why Are They So 'Crazy-Person Mad'? Dowd: Trump’s Taste for Blood - If Republicans won’t convict, bring on the handcuffs The hate is strong in her. It feels personal. Sunday, February 14. 2021Cooking toolsA semi-retired buddy has gotten big into cooking as a hobby. He is especially into old coooking tools on eBay. - Carbon steel chef knives, for example. They need a little maintenance but supposedly are best. Here's an old one from LL Bean he likes:
Cast iron deep fryers.
Sentimental for St. Valentine's DayWe had dear old friends over for dinner last night. Somehow we got on the topic of music boxes and, guess what, I have a Regina with about 25 discs. A charming sound. My Dad had given it to my Mom as a wedding gift. An antique at the time. It works just fine, but I am afraid to over-wind it. Given its age (c 1890) it is probably due its 100-year cleaning and oiling if I can find someone who can do it.
From today's Lectionary: The transfigurationMark 9:2-9 9:2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 9:3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. 9:4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 9:5 Then Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 9:6 He did not know what to say, for they were terrified. 9:7 Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, "This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!" 9:8 Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus. 9:9 As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
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