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Tuesday, August 6. 2024Tuesday morning linksExcessive Internet Use Disrupts Key Parts Of The Teenage Brain Biden admin will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat climate change Up Close With Chris Rufo Video: Daniel Greenfield Exposes the Left’s 200-Year War on America Niall Ferguson: Welcome to Pandemonium. Plus. Media Lets Kamala Do Another Basement Campaign Kamala Harris and the Masque of Magical Thinking The Democrats have mutated into the party of nowhere, so it is not surprising that they prefer pleasing fantasy to sobering reality. By Roger Kimball Lunacy with bats Monday, August 5. 2024Why are oceans salty?
So why aren't the Great Lakes salty at all? Whatever, I prefer salt water for recreation. Maybe it's because I learned to swim in a salt water pool, and was always near salt water. I still am.
Monday morning linksShould You Always Forgive? Teenage Girls Need Judy Blume More Than Ever. In the seventies, nobody told girls what growing up was like. Now, we just tell girls it’s horrible. Chinese-made humanoid robots raise alarms in Congress Furious bikers turn on Harley Davidson boss for 'going woke' after he publicly promoted DEI programs, LGBT policies and climate change issues The Energy Transition Ain't Happening: "Green" Economy In Retreat The Farce of Academic Activism: When Universities Pander to Ideologues You are the enemy: Racism is defined at the discretion of the regime. The Daily Chart: Deregulate Housing Keep America Weird. Plus. . . Stuart's Saturday Miscellany Joe Rogan Goes Live on Netflix… and Liberals Lose Their Minds Some of Kamala Harris' ideas you might disagree with Hoping to avoid Clinton’s 2016 mistakes, Harris courts three ‘rust belt’ states Sunday, August 4. 2024Up the Hudson RiverWe were up in Hudson, NY, and environs this weekend for a party. Not on our boat, alas, but we did take a ride on the river. Beautiful. Frederick Church country. Interestingly, the Hudson remains an estuary for over 100 miles north. Still kind of tidal, but with a 5 knot current.
Kinda odd that a port 120 miles north of NYC would have been a major whaling port, but it was. It's a big fashionable summer town now, and an easy Amtrak from NYC. Warren St. is shop after shop, and cafe after cafe. Not my style, but I get its appeal. Architecturally, very fun and interesting. From today's Lectionary: Create in me a clean heartPsalm 51:1-12 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 51:3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 51:4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment. 51:5 Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me. 51:6 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. 51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. 51:11 Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. Friday, August 2. 2024I Want My Dog To Live LongerFriday morning linksMuscle Over Medicine: Why Ozempic Alone Won’t Cut It For Weight Loss Determinism Addendum Study: Trust in Medical Establishment Collapsed During COVID Pandemic–Only 4 in 10 Americans Now Say They Trust Doctors More on the Male Olympic Boxer Knocking Out First Female Opponent in Under a Minute The Daily Chart: What Institutional Collapse Looks Like Learn This Term: ‘Whole of Society’. You cannot understand what’s going on with American politics today without it Abigail Shrier: Republicans, You’re Going After Kamala All Wrong. The GOP can complain about a ‘coup’ and call Harris a ‘DEI hire.’ But it won’t win them votes How Harris Can Beat Trump—and How Trump Can Beat Harris TGIF: The Global Gayborhood - The veepstakes, the creepstakes, Donald Trump’s minority outreach, God and Grindr at the Olympics, Russia swaps good guys for bad guys, and much more. During an interview in 2019 Kamala Harris was asked if she smoked pot growing up... After Immigrant Stabbed Kids, UK Gov Cracks Down on Protesters Netanyahu Is Winning Thursday, August 1. 2024The Farmer's Walk
It is a functional total body stressor, especially as your kettlebells or dumbells get heavier. If you get to a weight where your grip fails due to grip strength or sweat, you can use a towel around the weight. Maintain posture. It's sort of fun to walk until failure. Farmer's Walk: Benefits, Techniques, and Muscles Worked
Thursday morning linksNeed a job? Assistant Professor of Indigenous Horticulture World's 'best-performing' quantum computing chip could be used in machines by 2027 Why Science Will Never Explain Consciousness - -Explaining consciousness in physical terms is conceptually impossible. Mass extinction 66 million years ago triggered rapid evolution of bird genomes Female Boxer Quits Olympic Match, Melts Down In Tears After Biological Male Brutalizes Her In 46 Seconds Climate Cult Links Dirty Seine Water To Hotcoldwetdry Rent Control Reduces New Development: Bug or Feature? Harris’ Rent Control Support Clashes With Even Progressive Economists Bad-Faith Tenants, Distressed Landlords About That Wind Farm Off Nantucket and the Big Blade That Just Kicked the Bucket Google is still doing politics Black Americans Patiently Waiting For Liberal White Woman To Tell Them Who To Vote For Kamala Harris Supporters at Teacher’s Union Convention Left Befuddled When Asked to Name Her Top “Accomplishments 'Harris Is in Better Shape Than Biden, 'But She Has One Big Problem' Kamala Harris Collapsed in 2020. Here’s How to Avoid a Repeat. A 'Watershed Event': Five Takeaways From Israel's Assassination Of Hamas' Political Leader In Tehran Wednesday, July 31. 2024"Barefoot" sneakersI get the impression that lots of people have been trying these out. I might. The 8 Best Barefoot Shoes of 2024 - Barefoot shoes have a host of benefits, and we’ve rounded up the best options, whether you’re running, hiking, or stomping through the snow. Snow? Wednesday morning linksCan Blue States Build? Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri White Dudes for Kamala. Plus... Settler Colonialists In Israel And The United States Judge Tosses Former 'Disinformation' Chief's Defamation Suit, Says She Really Was a Censor The left is breaking all the rules they claim to uphold to keep Donald Trump down Kamala Harris Vows to Confiscate Guns in Atlanta Campaign Speech Tuesday, July 30. 2024Mayo Beach Light, with a little banana history and Lorenzo Dow Baker
Here is the lighthouse-keeper's house today (the Coast Guard moved the light itself to California): This little brick structure in the back contained the kerosene, delivered by boat as needed, to keep Mayo Light burning to mark Wellfleet Harbor: Just past Mayo Beach, through the 1920s, was the grand Chequessett Inn, built on pilings (the stumps of which still poke through the mud) and finally destroyed by an attack of sea ice in the 1930s. Rumor is that rum-runner boats would stop by at night, contributing to the Inn's popularity during Prohibition. It was built by Mr. Lorenzo Dow Baker, the pioneer of the banana trade from the Caribbean and Central America. On a whim, he loaded his schooner's empty hold with tropical fruit for the return trip to Boston, and made millions. Mainly bananas, hitherto unknown in Boston. Ended up owning plantations all over Central America, and a big hotel in Jamaica. His employees were Jamaicans: They worked Wellfleet in the summer and the Jamaica hotel in the winter. Baker's business became the Boston Fruit Company, the foundation of the United Fruit Company. A clever Yankee.
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Tuesday morning linksOrca Grandmother Defeats Great White Shark with One Blow Orcas like to eat shark livers ‘Sensational breakthrough’ marks step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers In Search of a Healthier Spud - Companies are tweaking the potato’s DNA to make it more nutritious and plentiful—even working on a block-shaped spud to maximize french fry yield Olympics Back-Tracks on Offensive Drag Queen Opening Ceremonies Mocking Christians. The woke moralizing in the “apology” is angering, but so is the distraction away from the magnificent achievements of our athletes. Media Shills Have Received Their New Script: "Conservatives Are Weird" A lot of developmental psychology isn't worth doing. Not your studies, of course. Yours are great! Issues with online therapy MIT grew staff size by 1,200 while enrollment barely budged The health care assembly line. Time is money. Girling the Boy Scouts - Progressives notch another victory in their war on American institutions. VDH: America’s Lab Rats? Many Americans feel that the country has become unrecognizable due to decades of globalization and a technological revolution that has eroded middle-class livelihoods Men vs.Women: The Great Estrangement A woman who says she is going to vote for Harris because 'she is a black woman' gets a quick wake-up lesson Don't pick on Kamala, whines NPR Cuba’s population in freefall as Biden-Harris open border sparks mass exodus Venezuelans Are Fighting for Freedom. SunriseMonday, July 29. 2024Sex on the beach: The Horseshoe Crab, re-postedThis is the time of year (mid-May to mid-June) when our Horseshoe Crabs come into the shallows to mate, sometimes ending up dead on the beach in the process. The WaPo did a piece on the spectacle a few years ago. These critters, or ones similar, have been around for 1/2 billion years. The female digs holes in the sand and deposits around 20,000 eggs in each one, which the male then fertilizes. Those eggs are an important shorebird food. They aren't really crabs: they are closer to trilobites and spiders. A few Horsehoe Crab facts from this site:
A reader sent us this photo from two weeks ago. The male is the smaller one, clinging to the the barnacle-encrusted female: � Monday morning linksExpert Reveals Vital Survival Tip if You Unexpectedly Fall in Deep Water 10 Things They Don't Tell You About Your First Job Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Dancing Drag Queens And Bizarre Symbology The Government Is Choking Off Wineries People moving to Red States Yellen: By the Way, We're Going to Need Another $3 Trillion per Year for Climate Change 76% of U.S. Income Taxes Go Toward Servicing Our Debt Are The Washington Post and The New York Times treating the rise of Kamala Harris quite differently? Is DEI DIEing? Pritzker: JD Vance Is "Just Weird," "Known For Obsession With Couches," "Cat Ladies" The Middle East on the Brink. Plus. . .Cat ladies, unite! NYU students embrace ‘armed struggle.’ A wild Olympics opening ceremony. And much more. Nice weekend awaySunday, July 28. 2024From today's LectionaryEphesians 3:14-21 3:14 3:15 3:16 3:17 3:18 3:19 3:20 3:21 Saturday, July 27. 2024Saturday morning links
Baby talk - When babies are born, they cry in the accent of their mother tongue: how does language begin in the womb This weightlifting workout in your 60s can preserve strength for years. Older people had stronger leg muscles years after a 12-month weightlifting program than those who did moderate strength training Does Disney's Dramatic Decline Reflect Growing Public Opposition To Woke Activism? Stuart's Saturday Miscellany Racism And Sexism: The Campaign Theme Of The Harris-Whoever Ticket A country that picks its leader on DEI grounds is doomed To prove fealty to Kamala Harris, the media gaslights voters by rewriting her past City at SeaFriday, July 26. 2024Friday morning linksBottled-Up Bottlenoses: The Ugly Truth Behind Our Love of Dolphins - Dolphins are the smiling ambassadors of the sea, but a growing chorus of scientists, trainers and advocates say it’s time to end their captivity “The Strange Death of Environmentalism” The supposedly unhappy Zoomer generation Some professors are also worried about job security if they publish unpopular results. 93% Of Top-Ranked University Presidents Donate To Democrats NASA says no return date yet for astronauts and troubled Boeing capsule at space station New Chevron Decision Will Increase Postal Competition TGIF: The Week Unburdened by the Week That Has Been - Biden’s out. Kamala leans into the meme. Cheatle quits. The sharks are on cocaine. CrowdStrike has a CrowdStroke. The Olympics are here! J.D. Vance’s couch. And much, much more… Newsom Orders All California's Homeless Encampments Removed Trump, the Magic Candidate - No one is safe from his spell. The Current Thing: Kamala Harris- The Democrats are so 20th century The media’s flip to Harris was predictable Inside the plot to gaslight Americans about Kamala and re-write her story... and it starts with insisting she was never 'Border Czar' or the 'most liberal' Senator Calling Kamala a "DEI Hire" is "Extremely Offensive and Dehumanizing" 10 Questions We Dare the Media to Ask Kamala Harris Paliwood in action Thursday, July 25. 2024Shoes for the gym
I do have a pair of "running" shoes but I don't really run much these days. Stair machine is fine cardio if you go fast enough. First World problems, right? I like Sperry Topsider sneakers on the boat. Good grip on a wet boat. Only New Balance for me, cuz they make narrow sizes. What exactly is cross-training? It's not what I do, because I do not have a primary sport any more due to injuries. What do our gym rat readers like for mixed workouts?
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Thursday morning linksBiden Administration Launches A Great Leap Forward Into Green Energy Wiseman: History Will Forget Who Shot Trump. Plus. . The Atlantic: JD Vance likes Mountain Dew America First and the Role of Unions ICYMI: Biden’s Withdrawal Was Scripted Long Ago - “His decision is … an act of self-sacrifice that places him in the company of George Washington.” European Leaders Laugh Behind Kamala's Back Kiev Mayor Klitschko Speculated That Zelensky Might Agree To Territorial Compromises With Russia
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