Maggie's Farm

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY AT LINCOLN CENTER MARCH 8-26, 2017

The bonus is a performance of Merce Cunningham's masterpiece Summerspace and Martha Graham's Diversion of Angels. Cunningham has always been my favorite Modern Dance choreographer because the movements are so oddball and unpredictable. And I can try to put John Cage's "music" out of mind.

A reader recommended this good piece: A Job Study Guide. The author's point, in short, is that the good man Job needed to repent to connect with God. Not to repent for any things in particular, but just to fully humble himself before God.

Mrs. BD thought you might like to see some of her snaps from the annual Philadelphia Flower Show (since 1836) this week. This is a show put on by professionals, not amateurs.

An annual treat for Mrs. BD and her pals. 

More pics below the fold - 

Chuck Berry, a Founding Father of Rock 'n' Roll, Dies at 90

Here,  Jon Pareles, music critic for The New York Times, reflects on the pioneering music and attitude of the rock legend Chuck Berry. (video)

I learned from a 4-star chef hunting friend that, having cooked meals all of my life, I still knew nothing about the basic principles of cooking.  Spending time with him in a commercial kitchen was eye-opening and, in a small way, life-changing.

What I knew was how to throw stuff together and make edible, nourishing food. It prevented starvation, but it had no art to it and I had never been taught the fundamentals. Nowadays, we lazily specialize in Thai take-out but I love learning more about the fundamentals of serious cuisine. Sometimes I wish I had gone to the CIA - the real one, not the one in Langley.

From Great Courses,  The Everyday Gourmet: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Cooking

Here's their ad for the course:

 NYC ‘mega-pastor’ Tim Keller sees faith booming in the city

He never wanted to be a missionary to NYC, but now loves it. He is semi-retiring. That is sad.

 How Knowing Too Much Can Hurt You at Work

 The 100 Websites That Rule the Internet

The power of a simple Oxford, aka Harvard, comma 

 Jonathan Haidt on "the Coddling of the American Mind" and How We Should Address It. Students rather than deans are calling for less speech and expression. That should worry us all.

 These are the 138 JC Penney stores that are about to close

 Krauthammer’s Take: Despite Proposed Cuts, ‘Big Bird Is Going to Escape Unscathed’

Gibbs is on the job:  NCIS has identified hundreds of Marines who are members of Marines United

NCIS as bush patrol? 

 What Say to Your Doctor Badgering You On Hotcoldwetdry?

 An American Working in Mexico

 Gavin Newsom – “hey, California, let’s have our own single payer health care system!”

CO2 goes kaboom 

 The Last Gasps of the Clinton Dynasty

 Expedia names Chelsea Clinton to board of directors

 Donna Brazile Finally Admits She Passed Debate Questions to Hillary Clinton Campaign

 A proposal has been making its way through the social justice sewer system to have white people pay a 5% privilege tax.

 Liberals are learning to love states’ rights

Why corporations prefer Lefties 

 With Thomas Perez As DNC Chairthing, Democrats Go Full Anti-White

Diversity-loving is a new thing 

 HYPOCRISY-METER EXPLODES: New York Lyin’ Times Suddenly Appalled by Presidential Overreach

 The Revolt of the Judges: What Happens When the Judiciary Doesn’t Trust the President’s Oath

Warfare:  Nazi Card: The Left's Latest Dirty Shot At Gorka Fails

 Oh no! Illegal immigrants are cancelling SNAP benefits to avoid deportation

 Budget Director: Trump Isn't Spending Money on Climate Change Because It's a Waste of Money

3 Ways the Trump Administration Could Stop Crony Capitalism

 Trump Preserves the Export-Import Bank - If you're against corporate welfare, the president's budget has some good news—and a lot more bad news.

Carpe:

 One of the reasons that the costs of medical care services in the US have increased more than twice as much as general consumer prices since 1998 is that a large and increasing share of medical costs are paid by third parties (private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Department of Veterans Affairs, etc.) and only a small and shrinking percentage of health care costs are paid out-of-pocket by consumers. 

Lockheed Martin completes new battle laser for U.S. military

Socialism update: As Venezuelan "Bread War" Escalates, Maduro Warns Bakers "You Will Pay, I Swear" 

The government controls the wheat imports 

The Death of the Hired Man (1915)

You can hear Frost read the poem here. 

Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table  
Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step,  
She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage  
To meet him in the doorway with the news  
And put him on his guard. “Silas is back.”           
She pushed him outward with her through the door  
And shut it after her. “Be kind," she said.  
She took the market things from Warren’s arms  
And set them on the porch, then drew him down  
To sit beside her on the wooden steps.            

Here's What Happens to Your Brain When You Give Up Sugar for Lent

How About Freedom for Dinner? The regulatory state determines too much of what and how we eat.

 Student op-ed: Yes, milk is racist

 Want to Raise Successful Boys? Science Says Do This (but Their Schools Probably Won't)

 Universities teach students and employees to yell ‘Ouch!’ when they are offended

 Female Marines outraged that others watched their sex videos

 How an ESPN Announcer's Career Was Destroyed by a False Accusation of Racism

U.S. airlines flee Castro's island hellhole

 GLOBAL WARMING WILL SHRINK YOUR HORSE

 Americans are quitting jobs at the fastest pace in 16 years

College:  Like Day Care, Only Worse And More Expensive

 People Are Not Paying Back Student Loans

 New York Assemblyman Unveils Bill To Suppress Non-Government-Approved Free Speech

 Google to Now Begin Flagging Content as "Upsetting-Offensive"

McArdle:  Republicans Keep Repeating the Same Tax Mistake

 Winners and losers in Trump's budget blueprint

Chelsea wrote another book 

About loving "Hamilton" 

 Mexican Migrants Eye Canada as Trump Cracks Down on Immigration

" Even fake news needs content, which is where fake science comes in..."

Fake weather news? 

 Trump Says He Found Out He Was Being ‘Wiretapped’ After Reading New York Times Article

Was he suckered by fake news? 

 CBO’s Alternate Facts about Obamacare

The National Endowment for the Arts Is Bad for Art and Should Be Defunded

 Trump Begins to Slash Government Leviathan

Good luck... 

 Trump's Brutally Honest Budget Puts GOP Lawmakers On The Spot

 Disagreeing With Democrats Is Now Considered Un-American

Red Tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Mourning Dove
Purple Grackle
Cowbird
Redwing Blackbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
WB Nuthatch
Chickadee
Robin
Blue Jay
House Finch
Cardinal
Fox Sparrow
SC Junco
Song Sparrow
Tufted Titmouse
WT Sparrow
Goldfinch

What are you seeing around your place? 

What about square photos? 

 Children Prefer Reading Books on Paper, Not Screens

 “ATTENTION PARENTS: Kids Under 12 Cannot Walk or Ride to School on Their Own”

 Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century

 Solar Road Update -- The Stupid Continues

Woodpile:

 From time to time I'm called simple minded. I take it as a compliment and thank my accuser for noticing. Few things are as complicated as they're made out to be. Examples: before ObamaCare there was no ObamaCare. Duh. It made things worse. Repeal it and make things better instantly.

Nullify and denounce every federal, state and municipal gun control act, law and regulation ever passed, including the commerce clause stuff. The Constitution prohibits government from interfering, in any way, with our right to keep and bear arms. So stop doing it.

And illegal aliens. They have to go. It's the law. Don't like it? Change the law. Until then it's the will of the people, duly enacted. Either enforce it or stop saying 'representative democracy' and 'rule of law'. => Insert "it's not that simple" and pictures of baby seals here <=.

And why is it a routine winter snowstorm can cross the whole country unremarked until it reaches the east coast, then it becomes a blizzard emergency with a name and 'round-the-clock national breaking news?

When a Man’s Unemployed, His Wife Bears the Emotional Costs

Why stores are going out of business 

 How Common Core Damages Students’ College Readiness

 Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech and Miseducate Students

 UChicago student leaders slam their president for his commitment to free speech

 Why are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete

 Number of sanctuary cities nears 500

 ANOTHER AMERICAN CITY DESTROYED BY THE DEMOCRATS - The tragic story of Minneapolis.

 CBO: You Can't "Lose" Medicaid You Don't Have

 Medicaid Is Free. So Why Does It Require a Mandate?

  Obama Used British Agents For Trump Wire Tap Surveillance

No One Will Build Police Station in Islamic Colony of Rinkeby, Sweden

 Conservative vs. Liberal Logic: A Comparison

 AMERICAN THINKER: TOP TEN REASONS I AM NO LONGER A LEFTIST

 TILLERSON REFUSES TO LEAVE ISRAEL-BASHING UN "HUMAN RIGHTS" COUNCIL. BUYS INTO "REFORM" OF THE UNREFORMABLE'

 Trump to Sign Executive Order Removing "Climate Change" As Factor Government Agencies Regulate

 Trump Launches Downsizing Effort

 MIT profs call Trump 'significant step' toward 'fascism'

What the heck?  Seems like the opposite to me.

  Trump Orders Massive UN Budget Cuts

A great old tune from the fake cowboy