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We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

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Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

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Thursday, September 2. 2021

DIY Links


Stakeholder Capitalism Is a Trojan Horse for China: It may be good for companies Airbnb, Nike and Disney. But it's terrible for America. 


This corporate hustle is the subject of a new, bestselling book called Woke Inc: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam by biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Ramaswamy makes the compelling case that “stakeholder capitalism” sounds like a good thing, but is in fact deeply damaging our democracy. 


China may be the most prominent example of stakeholder capitalism gone awry, but it is hardly alone.


Any number of American corporations now lavishing untold sums of capital on diversity, inclusion and equity initiatives in the United States are eager to do business in countries with reprehensible human-rights records


..So persists an inescapable contradiction of stakeholder capitalism: All of these corporations have successfully rebranded themselves as good citizens, global stewards and combatants in the war against systemic racism, which has obviously proven good for business, but very bad for America, blurring the moral distinction between democracies and closed societies, between the free West and fear-based societies like China.


And because this business strategy is dressed in the garments of justice, it only compounds our innumerable confusions about what makes us us.


No, the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why.


Iran’s new approach to missile proliferation


Jewish Institute for Liberal Values: CRT and Antisemitism white paper (An important resource)


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Protein supplements and weight training

This article applies to heavy weight training, not for the hand-weights typically used in conditioning classes.


Age is a factor. Also, there is an amount which is optimal. More is not always better.  I do heavy weights (powerlifts, etc) twice weekly, but have been slacking off on the nutrition. 




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The Freedom to Be Left Alone

At Taki


Are there two tendencies? Those who want something from government, and those who say they want to be left alone? 


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Wednesday, September 1. 2021

Beaufort Wind Scale

You can see why I almost never term things "storms". The Beaufort Scale.


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DIY Links















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NPR wants speech to be controlled

But not theirs, of course.



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Wednesday morning links

Study shows evidence of beer drinking 9,000 years ago in Southern China


 Hydroponics Reveals That Organic Food Is About Ideology, Not Sustainability


 More On European Climate Change Litigation: These People Are Crazy


U.S. Aid Will Keep Flowing to Taliban


The Media Will Lap Up Biden's Afghanistan 'Victory' Speech Like Dogs Returning to Their Vomit 


 Kinder, Gentler Taliban Murder Afghan Folk Singer, Because Music Is Un-Islamic


Taliban Expected To Double Down On Drug Trafficking


 Taliban Committing House-To-House Executions Of “Traitors”…


 Government Teachers Gone Wild: Teachers Direct Students to Salute the Gay Pride Flat and the Antifa Fla


Report: Libs ‘Discouraged’ After Months of Getting Owned by Kyrsten Sinema. 'Demoralization is setting in' among left-wing activists as Democratic senator ignores their pointless whining

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What is a clock, and what does it do?


The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks. 


Studies of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into the nature of time itself.





Early in their conversations in Barcelona, Huber, Erker and their colleagues realized that a clock is anything that undergoes irreversible changes: changes in which energy spreads out among more particles or into a broader area. Energy tends to dissipate — and entropy, a measure of its dissipation, tends to increase — simply because there are far, far more ways for energy to be spread out than for it to be highly concentrated. This numerical asymmetry, and the curious fact that energy started out ultra-concentrated at the beginning of the universe, are why energy now moves toward increasingly dispersed arrangements, one cooling coffee cup at a time.






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Tuesday, August 31. 2021

'Animal Farm' turns 75

Revisiting Orwell's work on the anniversary of the barnyard classic.


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More about Bach

Sadly I can not understand this:



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Tuesday morning links

Cape Cod: eight great white sharks seen feeding on humpback whale carcass. Expert marvels at ‘biggest smorgasbord a shark could dream of’


Epoch:  800-Year-Old Medieval Chain Mail Vest From Norman Period Discovered in Longford, Ireland


Epoch keeps getting better, but $. Greedy capitalists. 


HHS Plans To Treat Climate Crisis As Public Health Crisis


 LA Teacher's Union President: 'Our babies may not have learned all their times tables' but 'they know the words insurrection and coup'


 Obama Education Secretary Loses His Mind, Compares Anti-Maskers To Kabul Suicide Bombers


 They Openly Mock Us Now: Taliban Hangs “Traitor” by the Throat From US Helicopter in Kandahar Left Behind by Joe Biden


 Biden Will Fund Taliban Through "Humanitarian Aid"


American University of Afghanistan Students Struggle to Flee the Country


Playing the Race Card on Larry Elder. Engaging in shameful duplicity regarding crime and policing, the media attempt to portray the California gubernatorial candidate as anti-black.


Kamala Harris: The absentee VP by design


 The Story About Biden Checking His Watch During Dignified Transfer Just Got a Lot Worse


Did not like being there 



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Monday, August 30. 2021

Rick Beato on J.S. Bach

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Monday PM links

 The kinky secret sex lives of sharks


‘We are burning our cultural inheritance’. Heather Mac Donald on how high culture has been destroyed by the culture war.


 Strange Daze: The American Anti-American White Anti-White Sleepwalking “Woke Folk” Among Us


 Scientific American (and math) go full woke


Stop enabling people to avoid work because of Covid


 Who’s Skipping the Vaccine? The Answer May Surprise You


 After implementing a vaccine mandate, Amherst requires double-masking and limits student travel


 Kamala Harris and Jane Fonda

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Sunday, August 29. 2021

DIY Links




When schools teach 'equity,' kids learn fear and anger: Social science research documents harm from well-intentioned "coddling."  Time to rethink Biden's anti-American energy policies


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The story of the Yardbirds

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Larry Elder: White supremacist

From Tucker. Amusing.
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Sunday afternoon link dump


 AOC Decides To Jump In On The Science Of Ice Cream


From a doctor bewildered at where all this COVID stuff is going


Bill Maher Crowns Greg Gutfeld the ‘New King of Late Night’: Conservative Comedy Successful Because Liberals ‘Sound Like an Onion Headline’


New documents detail behind-the-scenes turmoil at UNC journalism school over Nikole Hannah-Jones hiring


 Okla. Woman Took Credit for Rescuing the Afghan Girls Robotics Team—and Many in the Media Fell for Her Lies


The Atlantic: The dark, destructive place the GOP has found itself in isn’t shocking.


What???


 What Took You So Long? After Years of Antifa Assaults, Portland 'Journalists' Finally Muster Outrage at Latest Attack


 Australian state's new "reward" for full vaccination: Two hours allowed outside your home each day instead of one

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Life in America: Peaches and Porgies

One of my daughters and her pal caught 12 Porgies this morning from the boat. It is Porgie season in New England.


Last night I made a bowl of Peach salsa from our peaches to accompany Indian take-out, and Mrs. BD made a peach pie (yeah, she always makes her own crust - rolls them out with her grandma's rolling pin). 


Thing about peaches is, for cooking, best if they are firm and far from ripe. For salsa, not ripe but slightly softer and crunchy like an apple. A skewer of hard peach chunks on a grill makes them perfect.


For fresh peach chutney that you don't want to bother canning (I am done with canning - it's a pain), you want to use unripe fruit. Just cook it up and put it in the fridge. Peach salsa and peach chutney go with everything, but especially shrimp and fish. And Porgies.

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From today's Lectionary


Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23


7:1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,


7:2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.


7:3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;


7:4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.)


7:5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?"


7:6 He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;


7:7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'


7:8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."


7:14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand:


7:15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile."


7:21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,


7:22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.


7:23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."


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Saturday, August 28. 2021

For sale: A Great Harbor 47' trawler

Pretty cool. Slow trawler - 7-9 k. Take the tour:




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Bumper crop of peaches right now

The weight of all the fruit has broken many limbs, so it's the last year for this old tree. Such fruit trees have a limited life span. 


It has produced abundantly every three years. Feast or famine. My pic does not capture the amount of fruit.


Invited a gardening pal over to share the harvest.


I think the wood might be nice for smoking a turkey on Thanksgiving. 


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The models for American Gothic

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Friday, August 27. 2021

DIY Links




Taliban Takeover Is a Boon for Cash-Strapped Iran: Tehran gets dollars from new oil sales to Afghanistan, while the Taliban get fuel for the ailing Afghan economy 






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Identifying as a Furry

A high school in Kentucky is having a "furry" problem


Only in America 


As Scott Adams says, "being yourself" is idiotic and infantile. Be your best, most adaptive self if you want to. 

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Justice requires injustice

Do facts matter? Re-linking from Undoing the Enlightenment:



 Several Disenlightenment urges reinforced one another in the case of James Damore, the Google engineer fired in 2017 for writing a memo discussing sex differences in his field. The National Labor Relations Board declared that Damore’s “statements about immutable traits linked to sex — such as women’s heightened neuroticism and men’s prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution — were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment notwithstanding efforts to cloak comments with ‘scientific references’ and analysis.” The scare quotes around references to science tell us that science must be ignored whenever it conflicts with Disenlightenment dogma. In the Enlightenment, science was often referred to as a process of unveiling — the frontispiece to Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers depicts the figures of Reason and Philosophy unveiling the figure of Truth. According to the National Labor Relations Board, though, science is more of a cloak.



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