Maggie's Farm

Secret Room Holds 'Lost' Michelangelo Artwork. These rarely seen drawings on the chamber walls may have been created when the famed artist took refuge from the Medici family in 1530.

First Clear View of a Boiling Cauldron Where Stars are Born - UMD-led team used NASA’s SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky Way

Climate Today: Guardian Pushes Nuclear Power

eBay Bans Dr. Seuss, Allows Hezbollah

 Suspending Reading and Math Requirements for Oregon Students

 U. of Oklahoma Instructors Receive Training on How to Censor, Indoctrinate Students

MacDonald:  Down a Black Hole - Even the hard sciences are no longer immune to the ongoing racial hysteria.

Fat Liberation 

 Joe Rogan Explains Why Hollywood is So Liberal

 ‘Huge Win for Democracy’: GOP Blocks Federal Election Takeover

Who won the NYC mayoral primary? Nobody knows

From our friend in Colorado, yesterday

Image shows two things: the difference between half squat and full squat, and terrible form in the second image 

Squats (and deadlifts) are the two most functional muscular exercises.  The former is getting up, and the latter is picking up stuff. 

Squats are known as "The King of Exercises" because so many muscle groups are stressed. They are also said to be beneficial for knee joints.

Squats come in many forms: the basic barbell back squat (a power lift), and calisthenics like body-weight squats, squat-and press, side squats, squat jumps, heavy ball wall throws, etc.

I have been thinking about how to deepen my barbell squats. With body-weight or hand weights, I can do full squats easily, but with heavier weight I do not go below 45 degrees. It's partly confidence and partly weakness.

To do full squats with barbell weights (instead of half-squats, 90 degrees) I think I need to reset my barbell squat program with the plain bar (45 lbs) or light weights and to try to work up quickly from there. I'm convinced that the full squat is the real deal.

Also,  Squats Are Safe, But You’re Probably Doing Them Wrong

 As a general rule, if the bar is so heavy that you cannot squat below parallel with it and stand back up, it’s too heavy to have on your back.

What about you? 

Below the fold, image depicting all of the muscles engaged in a full squat. She's using dumbells, but it is not as if gals cannot do barbell squats. They sure can, and using the bar makes it more reliable to keep a chest-up posture. On the other hand, dumbell squats get you low if you touch the dumbells to the ground...but on the third hand, barbell back squats let you squat with more weight than your grip is strong.

With Its Power Grid On The Verge Of Failure, California Begs Residents To Change Their EV Charging Routines

Senate Republicans and Democrats Agree To Double Amtrak's Funding. A bill approved by the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation would give the money-losing rail company $19 billion over 5 years.

 "I'm Not Going Back To Work": Indiana Residents Sue After Governor Nixes Unemployment Benefits

Ikea Atlanta Juneteenth menu changed after blowback over plans to serve fried chicken, watermelon

 WHO Stealth Edits Page Warning Against Vaccinating Children

 University Lab Finds 11 Dangerous Pathogens on Children’s Face Masks

 Democrats' voter ID debacle

Black parents furious with Critical Race Theory

 Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society

 Cal State professor worries Victorian literature studies promote ‘white feminism’

 A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow's Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts

 Gen Mattis on law, lawyers, law school, and the commanders’ role in military justice

 What Are Dads Good For?

Youth Protest Group Inspired By Greta Thunberg Disbands, Accuses Itself Of Racism

Bill Maher to Lin-Manuel Miranda: Don't apologize to these whiny progressive bullies

 Bookworm Beat  — the stupid leftist’s illustrated edition

A disturbing look at corporate Critical Race Theory brainwashing

CNN IS CRAZY

All the Projection That’s Fit to Print. On the New York Times’s blindness to what it has become

Chicago Alderman Says Gangs Are Responsible For Chicago Problems, Not Racism, As Mayor Lori Lightfoot Claimed

 Singer Macy Gray Calls for Replacing ‘Tattered and Divisive’ American Flag

 Taibbi: Why Has "Ivermectin" Become A Dirty Word?

Following the Scientists Who Were Destroying America Just to Spite Trump

 Palestinians reject 1 million corona vaccine doses from Israel

It's the first day of summer

Ladders are necessary but they are dangerous. Guys like roofers and framers are experts with them, but the ordinary person is not. 

Job 38:1-11

38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:

38:2 "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

38:3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

38:4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

38:5 Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?

38:6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone

38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?

38:8 "Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?--

38:9 when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

38:10 and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,

38:11 and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?

I have not seen or heard one of these big bugs yet. Maybe in July.

How is your Year of the Locust? 

Janet Malcolm, R.I.P.

 Lego Introduces New Sharper Bricks That Instantly Kill You When You Step On Them

What Ever Happened to Flirting? By assuming that any approach is malign unless proven otherwise, we lose something potentially risky—but also potentially wonderful.

 My Mother Came to America the Right Way. Here’s How Biden’s Policies Devalue Legal Immigration.

Who trusts the US Federal govt to do what is right? 

 Jeff Bezos-Backed Company To Build Fusion Plant In UK

 World Report Card: The Inexorable March Toward Zero Carbon Emissions (Not!)

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Could there be anything more gross than the masks your kids are wearing?

The CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Safely Travel, But Please Don't - More mixed messages from CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

 Scientist Admits: We Concealed Our Knowledge That a Lab Leak Was Likely Because We Didn't Want to be "Associated With Trump"

 Wuhan, Weapons, & Burned Spies: CCP Defector Identified, Gave 'Terabytes' Of Dirt To US Govt.

 Minneapolis police investigating bags of human body parts found on the street

 Welcome to Wokespeak: Its Logic-Defying Rhetoric Is Making Heads Spin

 Parent Destroys CRT At Illinois School Board Meeting: ‘How Do I Have Two Medical Degrees If I’m Sitting Here Oppressed?’…

Don't Ban CRT. Expose It. There's a liberal way to fight illiberalism. And it's beginning to work.

 So It Begins: Lori Lightfoot Declares Racism a 'Public Health Crisis' to Justify New Policy

 Chicago mayor: Racism is a public health crisis, It is "literally killing us"

Army Long Range Strike Gives China A Taste of Its Own Medicine

Everything these days sounds like satire. This is not: Guardian Article Condemns Apple Pie as “Food Injustice”.

Half or more of The Guardian is difficult to distinguish from the Babylon Bee. Seems to me that their specialty to beclown themselves much  of the time.

The apple is an import from the Chinese mountains. The pie idea has been around since there was flour - probably the Sumerians put some fruit or meat inside some dough.

In my view, the nurseryman Johnny Appleseed, aka John Chapman -(photo) did us all a great favor. I am not a big fan of fruit, but most people are. Well, I like cooked fruit in desserts because fruit is nothing but sugar anyway.

The idiot who wrote the Guardian article clearly did not know that pumpkins came from Mexico, not from England. Pumpkins, and all squash, were appropriated from Central American farmers by North American natives - and by the Spanish too. Shame on them.

For me, I prefer a Tarte Tatin with a hard caramelized crust to an apple pie. With some ice cream (invented in Egypt). Is that un-American of me?

Clockwork manicure robot is proof the future is here

 Happy Birthday Mr. President From the Marginalized Majority

 Bookworm Beat 6/14/21 — the Flag Day illustrated edition

 Father's Day: Fatherlessness Is America's Top Domestic Problem

 Why Do Colleges Dislike Men? The Disappearing Collegiate Male

 Mark and Patricia McCloskey Plead Guilty to Charges, Will Surrender Guns

Mom Won't Let Her Vaccinated 15-Year-Old Go to Summer Camp, and Slate Agrees. A bad response from the magazine's parental advice column

 CONCERNED SHAREHOLDERS TAKE ACTION AGAINST COKE’S RACIST DEMANDS

Critical Race Theory and Academic Freedom - State-based legislation banning the teaching of the toxic ideology is philosophically and legally justifiable.

Last Men Standing: Charles Murray vs. Ibram X. Kendi

 England’s first Black Studies professor accuses his university of being racist

 The Wrong Turn of Civil Rights

 In Loudoun County, Dad Has 2 Reasons to Take on Critical Race Theory

 John McWhorter: Ignore the left's gaslighting, it's not racist to criticize Critical Race Theory

Via HET:

 As Sex Pistol John Lydon put it: 'I never thought I'd see the day when the Right would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the Establishment and the Left become the snivelling self-righteous ones going around shaming everybody.'

Abbott launches Texas border wall project with $250 million 'down payment'. Texas' governor accused the Biden administration of abandoning its border responsibilities

 Australian Media Mocks CNN's Glowing Coverage of Bumbling Joe Biden