Maggie's Farm

We linked it here.

As I often explain, there are cultural differences.  Western civilization has Christian foundations, regardless of individual attitudes. It's not about whether you go to church.

God willing. that is.

Home-maintenance is a bitch. Even if you do it yourself, which I can't. Powerwash, scraping and sanding, replacing any bad wood with ASIC, replacing all door and window screens (I like open windows all year), and maybe begin repainting next week.

We have 9 people. painters and carpenters, today.  

What do you do? 

It's not in my plans, but never was anyway.

Why Your Brain is Wired for Pessimism—and What You Can Do to Fix It

 Why Are Young People Troubled?

 Parents Under Investigation for Raising an Independent Seven-Year-Old

 From The Recycling Bin To The Landfill: The Major Flaw In Plastic Recycling

 "Backlash Is Real": DEI Exodus Gains Steam Across Corporate America

 Believe data, not activists: Transgenderism among kids is mostly a fad

Scots Flood First Minister Humza Yousaf’s ‘Hate Crime’ Tip Line With Reports of His Anti-White Speech

 TGIF: Happy Cesar Chavez Trans Visibility Easter Day. Hipsters for nuclear war. DJT International. Fight Club on BART. Stoning makes a comeback. Plus: Seattle schools drop algebra and Amazon’s magic tech is just 1,000 people in India.

 Poland Prepares New Hate-Speech Law: 3 Years In Prison For Insulting LGBT People

Despite all of the computerization

 Gen Z doesn’t care for table manners 

 Americans love Florida, even if you don't

It's OK. I kinda like Stuart 

 Save the Planet, Kill the Gorillas - "You can't make green energy without killing gorillas."

Who needs gorillas?

Seattle closes gifted and talented schools because they had too many white and Asian students

 J.K. Rowling and the Prisoner of the Cult of Trans - The Harry Potter author created Dolores Umbridge as a fictional tyrant. Scotland seems to think of Umbridge as a role model.

 Most gender-confused children grow out of it, landmark 15-year study concludes

 Tucker Carlson’s Prep School in RI Won’t Let Him Speak on Campus Because ‘People Could be Killed’

No doubt - a school full of killers 

 George Floyd Protests - I point to them as the worst thing that has happened to America in terms of public comity in the past few years, on multiple fronts.

 So You Think You’ve Been Gaslit - What happens when a niche clinical concept becomes a ubiquitous cultural diagnosis.

 LA Times Seems Surprised That Restaurants Are Raising Prices With $20 Minimum Wage

 THE CASE AGAINST ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Boring but important 

 The 20,000 voters who could determine the next president

 Biden's Next EV Mandate Is Out and It's Going to Break America

 Bloomberg Admits '10,000 Migrant Crossings A Day' Has 'Upended The Election'

 Ex-ESPN host reveals ‘every single question’ in Biden interview was ‘scripted’ by network execs

 Did Trump Really Do That? Progressive Media Never Tells the Truth

 Where Were These Ceasefire Bleeding Hearts for the Past 20 Years of Hamas's Carnage?

Besides both exercises being upper-body, I link them because they share the same gym machine. 

To get the benefits of enough reps, many people (me) need the machine support for 10-15 reps/set. Fit guys and slender gals don't need it, but many of us do.

Dips, depending on form, can be either mostly tripceps or a chest+triceps exercise. 

Triceps are the major arm muscle, but to balance tricep stresses it's always good to do some curls or bench presses for balance. 

Dips are good, but pull-ups are one of the basic measures of physical fitness. In my first week of secondary school, we were all tested for our pullups, pushups, and running sprints - 100-yard dash. 

(It's funny/sad to recall, but we were all also tested on our singing ability, math ability, and public speaking ability. Whew. As a 13 year-old nature-boy nerd, I guess, all was deeply humbling. Humbling is good for the soul, mostly.)

The Beepocalypse Has Been Canceled

 Dawkins: I Like the World Christianity Created Even Though I Don't Believe It

Sippican likes Mexico 

 Never Safety First

 Why young men and women are drifting apart

 Physical activity and mental health: Exercise’s therapeutic potential for depression highlighted in new meta-analysis

 Biden administration approves enormous wind farm off the coast of Martha's Vineyard as part of bid to drastically cut emissions by 2030

The End of Merit in Med Schools Will Be Deadly

 Iran Vows Revenge. J.K. Rowling Says, ‘Arrest Me.’ Plus. . .A tragedy in Gaza. RFK voters sound off. Ten stories we’re tracking. And much more.

 The coming revolt against woke capitalism - The ‘progressive’ super-rich have no idea how much the public loathes them.

 The Truth About Lies - Campaign disinformation is ubiquitous and hard to fight. But it mostly feeds the fever swamps and seldom changes election results.

 How Working Class Americans Became Second-Class Citizens. Blue-collar workers have been abandoned by both the Democrats and the Republicans. Batya Ungar-Sargon explains why.

Here's how they work: Why Do Eclipses Happen?

Easter Reflections: George Washington’s Farewell Address in Today’s America

 How Exercise Strengthens Your Brain

 Duke University Helps Man Chestfeed His Grandchild

 J.K. Rowling Dares Scottish Police to Arrest Her over Transgender Criticism as Hate Crime Law Comes into Effect

Assisted suicide: Human sacrifice today

AMERICANS DON’T LIKE DEI

 And Just Like That the Border Stampeders were Released by an El Paso Judge

 Communist China had a good run — but the Party is over

 Things Worth Remembering: The Resurrection of the Body and the Immortality of the Soul. Preacher-poet John Donne gave voice to his faith with a sermon on how God will raise the dead.

The NYT (Finally) Looks Back on COVID

 ‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’

 Freud: What he said, why he matters

 'Equity-Based Algebra' Is as Bad as You Imagine It to Be

Heather Mac Donald: Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization

 ‘Gender-affirming therapy’ is not beneficial, pediatrics group concludes

 In the US, a quarter of all people have not married by age 40, a historic record. Much the same is occurring in the EU, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and now China.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones to Get Tough on VICTIMS – Wants to Hold Business Owners Responsible for Crimes Near Their Stores

 Memo to the 'Experts': Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent 

 The fury of Europe’s farmers

 The Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy Leadership

 Hatred in UK Mosques

We have the whole crew here this year, sadly without Popop who died a couple of weeks ago. Mrs. BD is busy picking out his funeral music. Yes, it will be an RC Funeral Mass.

Thanks to God, life goes on and Easter is a magical day, a feast day in Christianity.

I'm grilling 2 marinated butterflied legs of lamb - might be more than 16 people need especially including the littles. I have 4 1/2 grandkids and 4 step-grandkids.  

Mrs. BD is making 2 traditional Rice Pies. I made some mint sauce.  Everybody else has to bring sides.

I think we'll watch the NYC St. Patrick's Easter Mass live on the machine in the morning, cuz too much to do to get to our church. Yes, we Protestants do love an RC Mass and I do like Cardinal Dolan. Same narrative.

Easter blessings to all, regardless of views on existence and its mysteries.

 AVID HUME’S PROTESTANT ETHIC

 Narcissism for All - Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified what has become a defining feature of modern activism—“the ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.”

 The War on Citizenship - For global elites, countries are merely exotic names for trade zones and labor camps, and citizenship has about as much ethical or emotional significance as a gym membership. Most Americans feel otherwise.

 The Prophets: Allan Bloom - Nearly 40 years ago, a University of Chicago professor warned that higher education was closing Americans’ minds. Today, he could be called the grandfather of our culture wars.

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

Canada Now Euthanizing Autistic People

 Joe Rogan: New York Times Reporters Are Essentially Hard-Left Activists Masquerading As Journalists

The Great Replacement? As Americans Flee Blue Counties, Immigrants Move In

 Revenge Of The Swamp: DC RINOs Attempt to Sabotage President Trump’s Re-Election With Retirements, Insurrection Legislation – President Trump Must Work On Counter-Strategy Before It’s Too Late

 Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies

 Gad Saad: The West suffers from cultural self-delusion

Bud Light may lose 18% of grocery store shelf space after Dylan Mulvaney boycott

 Vanderbilt University officials end anti-Israel rally in chancellor's office by locking students in building without access to water or bathrooms

 TGIF: Make America Pray Again. Trump publishes the MAGA Bible. Kamala dances to the wrong tune. RFK Jr. hires Nicole Shanahan. NBC fires Ronna McDaniel. Plus, Candace Owens and much more.

 Who Are the Real Fascists?

 In an abysmal article, Nautilus dismisses the importance of genes

 Ivy League changes mind, SATs no longer racist

 Rich NYC teens are getting fake ADHD diagnoses to win extra time on the SATs leading to huge surge in points: 'Everyone is doing it'

 Tale of a Tampon - Scenes from a sit-in at Vanderbilt.

 Academia Versus Civilization - The antisemitism of campus leftism may be incidental. The barbarism is the point.

Inmates Run NBC's Asylum: Former RNC Chief McDaniel Fired After 'Talent' Mutiny

 Our Rulers Are Insane

 NYC Begs Supreme Court to Allow Over 800,000 Illegal Immigrants to Vote

 "There's A Lot More Chainsaw": Argentine President Milei To Fire 70,000 Government Workers

 The Rafah Crossing

Talk about melodrama. I believe we have tix to go to the Met this week. The overture of Forza:

I just find it to be an entertaining topic: Probability Is Not Frequentist, Nor Math, Nor Real, Nor Subjective

How Did Jelly Beans Become an Easter Candy?

Bill Shatner turns 93 

 Gen Z Is Toxic for Companies, Employers Believe

 The Classical School Revolution. The Lady Lowriders Club. Plus. . .Is the SAT getting easier?

 A Big Week in Medical A.I. - Multiple new reports are indicators for where we are headed

 The Department of Justice Takes Aim at Apple’s iPhone Empire

 "The rule is projected to eliminate more than seven billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the next 30 years...."

Which is nothing 

 California Synagogue Leases Space to Mosque to ‘Ease Tensions,’ But a Lovefest Doesn't Exactly Break Out

 American Idiots Kill the American Century. After decades of foreign-policy bungling and strategic defeats, the U.S. has never seemed weaker — and dictators around the world know it

 *Who’s Afraid of Gender?*

 High school students at a New York high school staged a massive walk-out protest this week in opposition to the district’s attempts to force them to share restrooms with the opposite gender, in the name of “transgender” acceptance.

 Planet Fitness Paying the Price for Trans Agenda

 ASU paid Ibram Kendi $35,000 for 60-minute speech

He has a good agent 

 Bernie Sanders’ four-day-work-week scheme is a prescription for poverty

 CNN Panelist Warns What Will Happen If Letitia James Seizes Trump's Assets, and It's Not Good for Dems

 “what’s going on in New York State with the weaponization of prosecutors’ offices both criminally and civilly is really troubling”

 “Real Time” host Bill Maher closed his show on Friday night scorching Democrats for “pandering” to minority groups for votes, telling them the time of relying on “identity politics” to win elections is over. 

 James Carville Sounds Off on Dems in Wild NYT Column, Says Party’s Culture is Being Dominated By ‘Too Many Preachy Females’

 Governor Abbott has no plans to stop sending them until the Texas border is secured. He is doing Joe Biden's job and Biden is fighting him every step of the way. 

 Illegal Alien Lists All the Things New York City is Giving Him for FREE — and it’s Shocking

Incentives matter 

Reporters arrested at border 

The Chaos in Haiti is Getting Worse

 Putin Vows Revenge For "Bloodbath" Moscow Attack, Points Finger At Help From Ukraine, As 11 'Terrorists' Captured

Believe nothing