Maggie's Farm

I feel that blaming is often a childish inclination. For the horrible and unnecessary WW 1, I blame human nature.

Pic is a crowded Cape Cod beach - the bay, at Wellfleet. Duck Harbor. You can walk it for hours, if you bring enough water. Can take dogs there, off leash of course. Do dogs love that? Guess. At low tide, it is dog heaven.

I have all of these books, and love them:

Beston: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Richardson: The House on Nauset Marsh: A Cape Cod Memoir

Schwind: Cape Cod Fisherman

Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod

Schneider: The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

John Hay: The Great Beach

Mitcham's Provincetown Seafood Cookbook. His Kale Soup and Haddock Almondine, along with all the rest of his Portuguese-influenced recipes - are immortal, but his Baked Stuffed Cod is the best. The whole Cape area has lots of Portuguese descended from the visiting Cod fishermen (Emeril, from Fall River, is one.) Interesting fellow, Mitcham. Highly productive in his life; rarely, if ever, sober from what I heard. Dead now, at 77.

I have a few other out of print Cape Cod area history books that I won't link because even Abe's doesn't have them.

The father of radio, more or less. Guglielmo Marconi was quite a fellow.

His antennae etc have all washed away now. Ocean beach erosion.

It's a better day to get in the water for some beach football.

Somebody walked away with mine in Cape Cod, but I have another. Beach footballs.

Here's a quote:

It is satisfying to manifest oneself concretely in the world, through manual competence; it has been known to make a person quiet and easy. It seems to relieve him of the need to offer chattering interpretations of himself, to vindicate his worth. He can remain quiet and simply point: The building stands, the lights are on, the car now runs.

I've been there a few times, mostly in June I think. Foothills. Horses and hiking mainly. Wildflowers, bears.

Funny thing yesterday: the car sales guy who is a legal immigrant from Bangladesh told my wife that his goal is to move to Montana. We both were reminded of the line from Hunt for Red October (a great movie).

Bangladesh to Montana? There's a change.

"Kamala’s interview last night was a reminder that we’re not running against a candidate. We’re running against a *system*. They require a candidate they can control, which means having original ideas is a disqualification. That’s exactly why we get Biden, then Kamala, and so on."

Yep (h/t Instapundit)

The cartoon omitted Jews

Coyote Beautiful: Central Park’s lone coyote has found a partner in NYC

Scholars panel tells radiologists: Don’t call first-trimester babies ‘living’

Cornell to host event on DEI in integrated pest management

It's about time

 Selling Happiness Through Illusions - The caring industry’s wellness and positivity products cannot provide self-esteem to those who do not already have it.

Medical school removes portraits of ‘old, white’ former deans in name of ‘diversity’

VDH: New Rules for Radicals: How to Reinvent Kamala Harris

They appear to be doing quite a job

McWhorter: Joy is a Euphemism for Black

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

A good useful thing, good training.

How to join.

Basics of the Marine VHF Radio

I have a good one, but a battery-powered handheld VHF too, just in case.

 Guide to Hunting Clapper Rails

Oldest Wine in History Discovered in Ancient Roman Tomb

Prep schools and sexual predation

It's all schools...

 What School Didn’t Teach Us: How to Succeed - I wasted my college years. But my ambition would soon bail me out.

 One likes to think that science is immune from DEI considerations...

 You wouldn’t identify as disabled… That transwoman at the Paralympics reveals the magical thinking behind the gender cult.

Jack Smith’s superseding Trump indictment shows that norms are meant to be broken. The special counsel throws yet another Hail Mary

CIA And FBI Spread Disinformation And Interfered In 2020 Presidential Election. New Mark Zuckerberg letter provides further evidence that US officials broke the law to help elect Joe Biden

Mark Zuckerberg needs to spill all on how FBI censored Americans

BREAKING NEWS: Kamala Likes Doritos

Kamala Harris's top economic adviser is a socialist with a longtime passion for seizing & redistributing Americans' hard-earned wealth

"So, Harris is trying something no sitting vice president has ever attempted: running as an insurgent and treating Donald Trump as the incumbent."

"It makes sense to worry about your  health."

What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control. The kids need to drink alcohol, make friends, and accidentally say ‘I love you.’

 International ‘equity’ scholars can’t define ‘gender’ after 5 years of research

Cornell Faculty Living Out “some sort of weird revolutionary fantasy through these students”

California Votes To Approve $150K In Taxpayer-Funded Home Loans For Illegal Aliens

 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Biden-Harris Regime Pressured Him to Censor Millions of Americans — ‘Regrets’ Colluding with the Regime!

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

The New York Times turns on Kamala! As the liberal newspaper runs a string of brutal op-eds slamming Harris as 'weak', 'a phony' and 'ignorant'

Pollster admits the obvious: Dems don’t want Kamala Harris taking tough questions

Spokesman Says Walz’s Lies Make Him Authentic

Why Democrats’ convention set them up to lose in November

Megyn Kelly Delivers the Perfect Response to Harris Needing to Do Joint Interview With Walz

 Three Quarters Of Democrat Voters Don't Know What Any Of Kamala Harris' Policies Are

 THEY’RE NOT DOING JOURNALISM, THEY’RE DOING CHEERLEADING

The imminent collapse of Great Britain

Study Quantifies Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away From Nuclear Power

High-intensity interval training boosts cognitive function, with effects lasting up to five years

I am skeptical about that claim. HIIT is intended for cardiac fitness and, secondarily, for endurance. I do it once or twice weekly, and I still lost my cell phone twice on vacation.

When you get out of routine, things happen.

What the Freshman Class Needs to Read by Niall Ferguson

Where were sharks spotted off Cape Cod since July 12?

Can the Captain of the Sunken Super-Yacht Be Charged?

 Does Reality Still Bite?

 BMA members resign in revolt over transgender children stance

 Path and Pathology: Some Philosophic Aspects of Psychotherapy

 Finding a therapist who takes insurance can feel impossible.

 Personality: HEXACO vs. Big Five

 Demographic Suicide

 Is Joe Okay? “Visibly Shaking” Biden Needed Help Getting in SUV Again (But Reporter Held Story for a Week)

 Zuckerberg: Biden-Harris ‘Repeatedly Pressured’ Us To Censor Free Speech

 Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China

If the Big Bang wasn’t the first thing ever, what caused it?

 Probability Is Not Propensity or Physical

The Strange Paradoxes Of The Cult Of Safety First!

 Will we survive the sex war? The era of eros is coming to a close

 Personality: HEXACO vs. Big Five

The Energy Transition Ain't Happening: "Clean Fuels"

The Beginning and End of Postmodern America

 How ‘Tranny’ Became a Slur

Beyond Scandal - The 2024 presidential campaign invites a sense of realism.

The Front Page: Niall Ferguson on the ‘Barbenheimer’ Election. Plus. . .

Did anything interesting or important happen last week?

If so, let me know.

I will not rent a beach place without some sort of outdoor shower. You do not have to be an exhibitionist to enjoy standing nude in the sun in an (enclosed) outdoor shower.

It just feels amazing.

I have a long-time friendly acquaintance who is in jail for quite a while. Rightly so, and he doesn't mind admitting it. Not a career criminal, but a real one-time white-collar crime. Bad idea, terrible judgement.

I do my best to avoid committing crime, or moral lapses of all sorts, but I did spend one night in jail decades ago. For hitchhiking on the Taconic Parkway to see a girlfriend. Figures, right? The police thought my roll-up tobacco might be marijuana, but it was not. Lucky me, because at that age it might have been.

Career crims might be comfortable with it, but it is a daunting experience for an otherwise decent citizen. People who do not monitor themselves well can do foolish things. I do not term them "bad decisions" because they do not seem like considered decisions.

Any readers been in jail, or have a friend who did?

Excellent:

The House of God by Samuel Shem

Medical humor tends to the dark side.