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Friday, July 30. 2021

Are masks political? Or just for phobics?

Hinderaker at NY Post:

As the Democratic Party becomes a party of the white metropolitan class and its government-dependent clients, the GOP has emerged as a multiracial party of the working class. Democrats no doubt hope that sharpening racial divisions will help slow that process, but former President Donald Trump did alarmingly well with minorities, from Dems’ point of view.

There is a great deal of pent-up frustration and resentment over the inconvenience, the loss of freedom and the general climate of hectoring that the government’s pandemic response has created...

Normal people are done with the COVID panic.

Posted by The News Junkie at 11:18 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

2 Links

NYT Op-Ed: Allow Foreign Nationals to Vote in U.S. Elections

Imagine there's no countries...

Migrants arrive to US border from all over the world: 'We are seeing a permanent change'

I guess they all want to live in an evil, Trumpy, racist, patriarchal, capitalist place

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:39 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (4)

Thursday, July 29. 2021

DIY Links

More Equal Than Others: Biden’s “equity” agenda is systemic racism in disguise.

Bearing Witness to China’s ‘Orwellian Dystopia’

CDC Sentences Kids to Another School Year of Irrational Masking: Because adults can't evaluate risk, kids continue to suffer the most from COVID policy, despite suffering the least from COVID.

The Noble Lies of COVID-19

Posted by Bruce Kesler at 23:12 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

Leaving your worries behind

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:13 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

More misc.

What Will Happen When We Kill Meritocracy?

Biden Official Orders Immigration Judges To Stop Describing Illegal Aliens As "Illegal Aliens"

We've Discovered the Real Reason the CDC Is Requiring All Kids Wear Masks in Schools

Calm down about the Delta variant.

Seattle Mayor Who Dismissed Lawlessness Now Begging For More Police…

Biden's latest whopper: "I used to drive an 18-wheeler truck, man." WH staff scrambles to cover for him.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:15 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

QQQ

"The government is idiotic, but more government is the answer."

Via the UK Spectator's A volte face over what caused the pandemic needs explaining

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 13:05 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Links

Dusty Hill, ZZ Top bassist, dead at 72

There’s a new “Pride” flag. Do try to keep up.

Power Outages and the Indian Point Closure: An “I Told You So” Event

"While workers of all ages have become accustomed to dialing in and skipping the wearying commute, younger ones have grown especially attached to the new way of doing business."

Can The Care And Feeding Of College Students Go Too Far?

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:05 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Hummers

From a pal who is spending this summer in the Sierras. Rufous and Anna's Hummingbirds. He says they go through 10 lbs. of sugar attracting the Hummers.

Posted by Bird Dog at 05:34 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday, July 28. 2021

There is "cardio", and then there is real Cardio exercise. What many people, especially women, do for cardio is actually endurance work: Swimming a mile, fast walking, stairmaster, treadmill, elliptical. An hour or four of endurance work per week will keep you moving, but it's not really Cardio for a relatively healthy person.

Real Cardio means training the heart muscle (the invisible muscle) and stressing the cardio-pulmonary system. For the Cardio component of our Fitness For Life program, we recommend some endurance cardio but, more importantly, HIIT cardio training.

What does it do? Primarily, it builds cardiac muscle and cardiac vessels. We need those for life exertions (eg mountain hikes), for endurance, for energy, for our sports, and, sadly, to help us survive our first or second heart attacks. Since most of us will die from cancer or heart disease, why not postpone the latter if we can, and have more energy and life vigor in the process? There's some evidence that it might help postpone dementia too.

HIIT entails maximum sprints, 30-45 seconds, integrated in a regular cardio program. You want your heart rate near you max output, 90% or more. This can be done with swimming, treadmill, stairmaster, Jacob's Ladder, rower - whatever. Best not to undertake this without a stress echocardiogram and your doc to clear you first to make sure you do not drop dead in the gym. That would be embarassing for you and for them.

Customizing your HIIT workout.

If you do 5-10 fully-intense, max effort cardio sprints on your cardio days, you will feel it. A bit of dizziness means you've done your best. Good calis classes offer this too, and you can, of course, exert yourself to your own best level.

Reminder: Whether you do "long-slow" exercises, or do HIIT, or jus take walks or swims, none of these will offer you any meaningful loss of abdominal fat. Fat is nutritional unless you workout 6 hours/day.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Physical Fitness at 15:47 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

QQQ

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

- George Orwell, 1984

Posted by The Barrister in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 14:30 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Can science be objective?

Not "social science". Real science. Dr. Ioannidis is on the video panel.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:51 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

More misc.

What's up with wolf-hunting in the US?

America’s ‘Deep Divisions’ That Weren’t

Americans have already tired of Biden’s hyper-partisan agenda: Optimism in nation’s future plunges after 6 months

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 09:23 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

Misc.

CDC: Put the Masks Back On, Fully Vaccinated People!

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

LA Times: Maybe we shouldn't follow California's example on electric cars

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:08 | Comments (32) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, July 27. 2021

Shut up and sing

Olympian Lolo Jones blasts anthem protests, says 'delicate balance' between sports and social activism

It's not a balance. Despite linking Ms. Jones, I don't care what she thinks either.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 18:03 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

California vs. the SAT exams

The University of California Is Lying to Us. Does getting right with contemporary concepts of anti-racism mean reviving one of the state’s most shameful traditions?

All the data show that the SAT roughly approximates an IQ test. That was not by design. It just happened.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 15:42 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

Missed the weather memo + a QQQ

While out on an anchorage Sunday we were awakened by thunder and hailstones + heavy rain on the roof around 11:30 pm. It was pitch black outside and we realized with the lightning flashes that the other three boats in the anchorage had fled to some safe port. Oh, and it had been such a mild sea breeze that we had left all of the hatches and eisenglass windows open.

It was a dramatic hour or so on the water for us.

We have some serious boaters who read us. For them, stormy nighttime navigation is probably easy. I have been a day-boater, salt water, most of my life (sail and power), but I am not used to this sort of overnight thing away from port. We have to up our game but I guess that midlife requires new things. Decay, or grow.

Another problem I have with overnight boating is that I like to get to the gym early. It straightens out my brain and body. On a boat, at 5 AM, there is no escape and nothing to do but sit or eat, neither of which I like to do very much.

Ocean sailing with autopilot is another thing entirely. A quote from a commenter on Our Scariest Days At Sea (4 days from land):

"There are times when sailing feels like Murphy's Law in action. Because if anything can go wrong, it will. And, most likely, it will happen at night."

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:13 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Atheists most vaccine-avoidant

At Powerline

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:53 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Trying a new Dog Days of Summer link format

As editor of this eclectic site, I am sent interesting links from contributors, readers, friends and family, etc. daily. Not to mention links we all appropriate from other sites without deserved acknowledgment.

As a Dog Days experiment, I'd like to ask our folks to directly post their links onto the website whenever they feel like it.

Run the links through Notepad first though, or the font will be screwy. Sort-of the way Instapundit's contributors do.

It will lighten my load, and, remember, besides the $300 k I get annually from Dunkin (just kidding), this is not a paid job and my life is busy with fun, and with some difficult challenges, always. And yeah, I am not retired and never want to be. (Mrs. BD complains that I can not learn to relax. I hope I never will, although I do read at night in bed.)

In July and August, we tend to run a fair number of re-posts. Our contributors are welcome to repost past stuff that would be interesting. Especially on weekends.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:00 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)