Maggie's Farm

To my mind, it killed the conservation "movement". Balanced conservation is not really a movement, because it matters to pretty much everybody.

I still do not buy the climate cult, but it makes money. I like all kinds of climates.

We all know that statistical correlation does not imply any causational link. I remember a famous study (in the news) that correlated eating broccoli with cancer.

In fact,  many reporters and citizens mistake the two. This site shows how easy it is to demonstrate meaningless correlations. All it takes is a pile of data and a computer.

Yes, I know it's all about Get Bad Orange Man:

Who wants to run for public office with this kind of lawfare going on? It is surreal.

Despite his personality flaws, the swarms of bees that have attacked him since he came down the escalator have been remarkable. He's a target because he has a personal magnetism - maybe like Teddy Roosevent. A magnificently independent SOB.

Politics can be a rough game. Revenge politics and about 2024. DeSantis is next.

Oh yeah, and Trump is a Russian spy. 

This One Strategy Will Reveal if Someone's Lying With 80% Accuracy, Study Finds

 Scientists Create Lab-Grown Meatball from DNA of Extinct Woolly Mammoth to Spark Debate About ‘Climate Change Crisis’

I thought that was an April Fool

 Giorgia Meloni's government stands up for Italy's Mediterranean diet

 Blundering on the Brink - The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis

VDH:  Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would not survive...

Cornell University Draws The Line, Refuses To Insert 'Trigger Warnings' Before Class Discussions

 Does Stanford Have More Administrators Than Undergrads?

 Anheuser-Busch Defends Making Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney a Spokesperson

 Michigan State warns against using bigoted phrases like 'Christmas trees,' 'terrorist' or 'overweight'

 Boston Children's prepares for "drastic increase" in gender surgery for minors

 Why Renee Diresta Leads The Censorship Industry. How a former CIA fellow came to lead US government efforts to stamp out disfavored speech on the Internet

My buddy and I had Aile de Raie for dinner last night. I think poached, with a nice sauce. (Our wives had pork osso buco.)

Have you ever caught a Skate? I've caught a couple over the years on Cape Cod while fishing for Stripers. Released them. Felt like you hooked a log. Should have cooked them. 

I've had Joue de Raie once, years ago in France. Like a scallop. The "wings" are the more usual menu thing. A nice sweet white meat, and a first time for me.

Everybody who visits Atlantic beaches has seen their blackened egg cases ("mermaid purses") washed up. Skates lay those egg sacks, while Sting Rays bear live young. People eat Sting Rays, but do not step on one.

Cooking skates 

Types of Rays 

 These two ancient empires shaped Passover - The holiday celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, but it continued evolving after the Neo-Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 587 B.C.

 Important New Report Explores The Futility Of Wind Power

 The Wages of Sin at Stanford Law

Battle of the Atlantic, Part 1 and Part 2 to follow:

The assaults on Donald Trump began when he came down the escalator. Before that he was a popular celebrity. It's because he was running as a Republican. Similar things happened with Nixon, Reagan, Bush. Demonized, and literally hunted. Same thing will happen to any nominee.

Nancy Pelosi said yesterday: "Now Donald Trump has the chance to prove his innocence." 

Diversity Training Disaster

 Pols, teachers unions aim to scrap tests to hide huge learning loss

 TGIF: Showdown Edition - DeSantis vs. Disney. Scotland vs. the UK. The IRS vs. Matt Taibbi. Plus: Gwyneth vs. an Optometrist.

Joe Biden: ‘Transgender Americans Shape our Nation’s Soul’

 "WTF Is Wrong With You": Columbia Center & Law Students Protest Meeting With Justice Kavanaugh

 How the tech elites lost touch with reality - Joel Kotkin on the growing rift between Silicon Valley and the masses.

 Unprecedented: Former President Donald J. Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury

 Democracy in America on life support as President Trump is indicted

Another lengthy history:

It's the basis of the scientific method, but often overlooked: The Null Hypothesis

It is why experiments never "fail."

PETA: Crabs are people too, you know

 Mass misconception: The real reason we can’t outpace light speed

 Florida moves on school choice

 Tritium Panic in Minnesota - Once again, a minor incident at a nuclear plant provokes unwarranted fears.

 Biden Targets Air Conditioners In Latest Attack on Americans’ Quality-of-Life Choices

 Legacy Media Struggle to Characterize Trans Shooter’s Sex

 Godwin’s Law Goes Woke: UT-Austin Prof Says Objecting To Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Is “Modern Day Lynching”

 Air Force Academy Focus On Anti-American Critical Race Theory Training Of Cadets

 Majority Still See Hard Work, Tolerance, and Religion as Important American Values

There are too many routine uses of cheese in the US to list them all - just think cheeseburgers, nachos, cheese and cracker appetizers,  McMuffins with cheese, grilled cheese, ham and Swiss sandwiches, salads with gorgonzola. There are many more.

The big supermarket sellers in the USA seem to be "American cheese" (which is a food-like substance), sliced Swiss (made in Wisconsin), Dutch Gouda, and Cheddar-type cheeses (often made in Vermont - but the best of that type imo is Irish Kerrygold Dubliner). Gorgonzola too if there are a lot of Italians around, and goat cheese has become basic these days. Cottage Cheese and Cream Cheese are not really cheeses. Yeah, and Brie is a popular party cheese.

Amazing cheeses (often French) are due respect. The frogs can be as fussy about cheese as about wine, and for good reasons: they go from sheep to cow, from gooey to hard, from intensely stinky to nutty, plenty of complex blues, etc.

Our experience in France is that a charcuterie board (supposedly an aperitif) is a meal in itself - sliced hard cheeses, cured meats, nuts, olives, bread, etc. 

We also had excellent and interesting cheeses at breakfast buffets. 

However, the special cheeses are reserved for the Cheese course, before dessert. If you don't know the names, you just point to 3 or 4 that you want, and the slices are put on your plate. Some jam, sliced apple or pear. No bread to dilute the intensity.

Links:

 Cheese or Dessert First? Short answer: the cheese. 

 How To Serve A Cheese Course For Dinner

It's early Springtime in New England. The male Robins are singing their territorial announcements in the morning, and the Song Sparrows are too.  The world outdoors is waking up and feeling the hormones.

Interesting to me has been seeing Chickadees munching on the emerging rosebuds. Never seen that before.  

Thanks to Google:  Why Do Birds Eat Flower Buds?

Our pal Stuart Schneiderman has opened at Substack 

 Scholars say U.S. treatment of youth gender dysphoria not evidence-based

 Liberal College Professor Placed on Leave for Suggesting it’s OK to Murder Conservative Speakers

 EU Members Clash Over Nuclear Energy's Role In Climate Policy

Black Lives Matter Activists Executed A Shocking $83 Billion Shakedown Of American Corporations

 Trump’s bizarre behavior a gift to the left just as public opinion was turning on Bragg