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Monday, January 30. 2023American Digest
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Monday morning linksOur friend Gerard Vanderleun has died What Progressive Educators Get Wrong About Creativity - Originality requires both knowledge and technical mastery. Originality is rare, probably overrated. Most of us are lucky just to master the basics. Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids, Ages 7 and 9, Walk to Dunkin' Donuts. "I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker." A “mania has taken over academia where every issue, including math, revolves around race and the patriarchy” Everyone wants to check a box that doesn’t say “white.” AT&T's DirecTV Cancels NEWSMAX in Censorship Move History class takes a holiday at The Washington Post Removing Congressman Who Slept With Chinese Spy Hurts National Security. "That makes us a less safe country.” NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay Appears on MSNBC and Melts Down Over Trump Being Reinstated on Social Media Sunday, January 29. 2023Running out of gasFrom today's Lectionary: Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?1 Corinthians 1:18-31 1:18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart." 1:20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. 1:22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, 1:23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 1:24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1:25 For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength. 1:26 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 1:27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 1:28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, 1:29 so that no one might boast in the presence of God. 1:30 He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 1:31 in order that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord." Saturday, January 28. 2023Pop music for a Saturday afternoon
Why? Because nothing has more memorable tunes. Well, the melodrama has power too, and it's a challenging job for whoever plays the floozy Violetta because she gets few breaks from the stage. 150 years since it hit the stage, people still hum the tunes just as the street-sweepers and bartenders did back then. The performance below was outdoors, so the characters wear mini-mikes. In an opera house, no mikes. Click on "Watch on Youtube."
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The cargo ship ultimately survived - not a fishing crewSaturday morning linksThe Flu-ification of COVID Policy Is Almost Complete White people need to ‘work’ on their ‘whiteness’: sociologist Don’t Know Much About History What's wrong with "French"? Some Suggestions For Christopher Rufo And Company To Fix New College Of Florida TGIF: 90 Seconds to Midnight - Even more classified docs, this week care of Mike Pence. All the news you need from the week that was. Antifa is on the job Disney Closes Iconic Ride Splash Mountian For Being Racist… "Madness": France, Croatia Deny 'West At War With Russia' After German Foreign Minister Sparks Outrage She spoke the truth EU Ministers Seek Trump-Style Border Walls Amid Spike In Illegal Border Crossings Friday, January 27. 2023EpiphaniesQQQ“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday morning linksAbout that antarctic iceberg Living for Pleasure by Emily A Austin – an Epicurean guide to happiness. A timely guide to the Greek philosopher – and rival to the Stoics – who saw freedom from anxiety as the ultimate goal Activists at U. Texas-Austin Have Driven the DEI Agenda Into Every Corner of the School. “Throughout our analysis, we have found an entrenched bureaucracy with an ever-expanding ideological agenda.” Geology Professor Explains How Woke Policies Create Profession “Not Worthy” of His Effort - A case study in what’s happening in academics as real science morphs into narrative support. NYT is totally fair! I swear! The U.S. Probation System Has Become a Quagmire. What was originally intended as an alternative to incarceration has become a system for mass state control. Adam Schiff Vows Revenge as Kevin McCarthy Blocks Him, Eric Swalwell from Intelligence Committee George Santos Embraces ‘Storytelling’ More VermontKillington, this week:
Thursday, January 26. 2023Ship Master vs. CaptainShippingShipping is safe, almost all of the time.
Thursday morning linksVenison: Free the meat Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo Vermont Supreme Court Upholds Measure That Allows Non-Citizens To Vote Deborah Birx Openly Admits to Lying About the COVID Vaccines to Manipulate the American People The Crypto Token Economy Is Second-Order Fraud. The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice. If everyone in North America dropped dead, it would do no measurable good for the world’s climate, if you believe the Leftists’ numbers. The Problematic Arrival of Anti-Obesity DrugsFat activists say they’re tools of coercion. Celebrities are taking them to get slim. Is this really the road people want to go down? Exhibit #1 in why it’s so hard to build housing in New York City Pete Buttigieg: “Every Transportation Decision We Make is a Climate Decision” Biden And Trump Classified Documents Scandals: Progressive Talking Point Falls Apart How America's Abrams, Germany's Leopard 2 and Britain's Challenger compare to Russia's outdated T-72 tanks as they are sent to help defend Ukraine VermontFrom a friend who is spending the week skiing.
Wednesday, January 25. 2023Haggis, for Burns' Night
OK, they do cook good fresh fish, and mutton. Clootie pudding is ok with ice cream, and kippers are fine but too big. Haggis is not terrible as part of a breakfast, but it's not the greatest. Haggis Recipe. A chef friend recommends barley instead of oatmeal. Where do you buy a cow or sheep stomach? It's Bobbie Burns' birthday. What's the Highland Fling?
Wednesday morning linksThe Sullivan brothers - the real story Whatever Happened to Light Verse? A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition. The Vindication of Cheese, Butter, and Full-Fat Milk. A new study exonerates dairy fats as a cause of early death, even as low-fat products continue to be misperceived as healthier. Dr. William Beaumont and the human gut The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly - Why is the public turning to ominous explanations for tragedies like Damar Hamlin’s collapse? Two doctors explain. Real Climate data Formerly Respected Organizations; Now Just Foot Soldiers Of Leftist Orthodoxy Enforcement Tuesday, January 24. 2023David Crosby (RIP) interview1943Tuesday morning linksIs It Time to Unleash Herpes on Invasive Carp? Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death EU Technocrat Threatens Musk With "Sanctions" Unless He Stamps Out Free Speech On Twitter THE DAILY CHART: THE SUICIDE OF ACADEMIC HISTORY Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Passes Elite Business School Exam… University requires photos of applicants for ‘Diversity In Surgery’ internship “Rape the White Girls” Poet Included in Florida’s Black AP Course. “We are all beautiful (except white people, they are full of, and made of s__t),” Des Plaines, Ill., Councilwoman Goes Off on Censor-Happy Leftists, and It's Glorious Ending the Stranglehold of Public Employee Unions Mayor Eric Adams is the last sane Democrat standing up in New York California seems to find a new way to chase away residents every day Monday, January 23. 2023Monday morning linksMachu Picchu closed indefinitely, tourists stranded again LET THEM EAT BUGS! Scientific American Has Newspeak Dictionary Updates The Opponents of Free Speech Are Gaining Ground. “Re-imagining Undergraduate Mathematics…with Structural Disruptions”: Vanderbilt Professor Denounces the Math Field as Racist George Soros spent $40M getting lefty district attorneys, officials elected all over the country Corporate suicide watch: Harley-Davidson plans to go all-electric Why was Biden allowed to visit the crime scene before the search for evidence was complete in the classified documents scandal? Talking Heads Strangely Quiet on Biden After More Classified Docs Found at Delaware Home FBI is weighing up 'whether to seek searches' of Biden's other homes after DOJ finds six MORE classified documents at his Wilmington house: House Oversight Committee promises to probe President's finances in 'next phase' of its investigation Sunday, January 22. 2023Starting with a trainerAn athletic friend who is around my age was saying that he ought to begin weight training. He never has tried it, but nobody likes the effects (or the sight) of lost muscle mass. Experienced trainers can work with you on endurance, agility, balance, strength, cardio, general conditioning - whatever you want. So the first question he or she should ask you, on a first meeting, is your goals. You can even mention weight loss if that is a goal, in which case a trainer will offer advice on a nutritional plan. (An honest trainer, though, will tell you that exercise is only an adjunct to appropriate nutrition, not a substitute.) Second thing the new trainer should run through is medical history and active medical issues. You might be asked to get a cardiac stress test, or other check-ups. The third thing a new trainer will do is to run you through a number of exercises to assess your condition. They like to get a baseline. These exercises will check your endurance, cardio fitness, upper and lower body strength, balance, etc. You just do your best, no matter how lame it is. The fourth thing a trainer will do is to recommend a plan for you. In my case, it has been 2 days of weights with him, 2 days or calisthenics recommended by him, and 2 days of HIIT cardio. One of these days I will cut him back to 1 day/wk for the weights I am not comfortable doing alone, like barbell squats, bench press. Even if you exercise on your own, it is a good idea to learn the right technique for everything. There is even a right and wrong way to do something as simple as Jump Rope, or Farmers' Walk:
From today's LectionaryMatthew 4:12-23 4:12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 4:13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 4:14 so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 4:15 "Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles 4:16 the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." 4:17 From that time Jesus began to proclaim, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." 4:18 As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen. 4:19 And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fish for people." 4:20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 4:21 As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. 4:22 Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him. 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people. Met pics
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