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Saturday, January 21. 2023Met Opera ticketsPost-covid, you can find tickets with excellent seats at affordable prices (eg $60-100 instead of $250). They want to get people back into the habit. Yeah, for the visual and auditory spectacle that is crazy cheap. It worked for us. Made it to L'eliser d'amore (1836) today with buddies. The ultimate opera buffa with the silliest story ever, based on Tristan and Isolde. It's just about a platform for Donizetti's divine music. He wields a light hand in this opera, so the cast can do their thing. This is pop music When Toscanini first heard Caruso sing this aria, it is told that he commented "If this Neapolitan keeps this up, he will become famous." Here's Pavarotti with Una furtiva lagrima:
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Saturday morning linksWhere is everybody? A new hope for solving the Fermi Paradox Naive Realism - When you're certain that you possess the real truth California’s Green Debacle = The Golden State’s energy policies impose ruinous costs on residents but make no measurable impact on global climate. Debt, Not the Debt Limit, Is the Real Fiscal Crisis in the US Dems propose overturning the First Amendment Spectator: The Pink Tide Returns to South America In China Things Head South Quickly
Friday, January 20. 2023Expert witnessFrom the excellent legal comedy My Cousin Vinny:
Failed Game Bird Introductions in North AmericaIt really only sort-of worked with Pheasants in some areas, and with Huns out West. Why introduced game bird species rarely survived. Pen-raised ("farmed") Pheasant and Quail - Bob White - are fun for dogs and shooters but it's not the real thing anymore, mostly. Even South Dakota hunting preserves use pen-raised pheasants. Here's another link: Montana to Spend $1 Million Per Year on Pheasant Farming Instead of Habitat Friday morning links"It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our beloved David (Croz) Crosby has passed away." The latest Boston Dynamics robot video is amazing and a bit scary Related, Hamline Art Professor Who Showed Image of Muhammad Lawyers Up Related, College math a ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal space,’ Vanderbilt professor says at major conference Woman, Defined Repressive Tolerance: “Once they get you to change your language, you have now complied with their ideology” White People Can't Criticize Ugly New MLK Statue America’s Police Exodus - The fallout of 'defund the police' is still unfolding. Spectator: The beautiful people turn their private jets towards Davos. It’s that time of year again! Al Gore Attempts Own 'Greta Moment' In Unhinged Davos Rant: "Equivalent Of 600,000 Hiroshima Bombs Daily" WEF: Insanity On Display? Classified Documents Were At Joe Biden Residence While Hunter Biden Took Millions For “Representing The F**king Spy Chief Of China” Thursday, January 19. 2023IllusionThursday morning linksGerard Vanderleun is hospitalized The UK proposes no cake in offices For decades we’ve been told recycling helps the Earth. It really doesn’t. WEF Promotes Scientist Behind False "Billions Will Die" From Climate Change Claim Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist College upholds firing of whistleblower who shared ‘antiracism’ training with media John Kerry Pontificates About the Extraordinary Ability of a “Select Group of Humans” at the World Economic Forum, Who Will Save The Planet for the Eaters and Serfs FBI Decided Not To Monitor Biden Document Search Biden Admin Clashes with Conservation Groups, Native American Tribes Over Lithium Mines Wednesday, January 18. 2023Leeks are good food"Leeks were eaten in ancient Rome and regarded as superior to garlic and onions." Nothing "healthy" about them, but it's a nice flavor. Sure, you can eat the green parts. Some leek recipes.
Wednesday morning linksNo More Fun of Any Kind! Don’t Send Your Kids to Syracuse ‘Massive shortage’ in trade professionals was inevitable "If diversity trainings have no impact whatsoever, that would mean that perhaps billions of dollars are being wasted annually.... But there’s a darker possibility..." NY Supreme Court Strikes Down COVID Vaccine Mandate For Health Care Workers San Fran City Panel Urges Reparations Of $5 Million Per Black Adult Shockingly, the Trans Cult Keeps Finding Ways to Get Weirder DC goes soft on criminals in law too lenient even for the Democratic mayor The View’s Joy Behar disparages 'heterosexual men' and 'conservatives” for supporting the NFL THE SANCTUARY CITY FRAUD Tuesday, January 17. 2023"Transcendent"?The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius - In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master.:
Well, this is damn good:
How's this? Tuesday morning linksIt’s Time to Get Serious. Prevailing wisdom insists that your twenties are for extreme exploration—collecting memories, friends, partners, identities. It’s BS. America doesn't do well in helping people peacefully pass on America ‘Most Permissive Country’ For Sex Change Surgeries, Study Shows How to Regulate Pediatric Gender Medicine - Pursuing bans on drugs and surgeries may not be the most pragmatic approach—lawmakers hoping to reverse the medicalization of youth should instead consider these eight avenues. First They Came For My Showerhead And I Did Nothing, Then They Came For My Light Bulbs And I Did Nothing, Now They Want My Gas Stove And … FDA’s Medical Interference OUR INSANE RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS A World Without Affirmative Action - We need creative thinking and real problem solving to address inequality in education. Youngkin goes ballistic on equity and what schools do to achieve it vice excellence Facebook Admits To Suppressing “Often-True Content” At WH Request All The President's Men: Biden's Use Of Lawyers Raises Additional Concerns Over Handling Classified Material NYC Mayor Says His City Has “No Room” For Illegal Immigrants During Border Visit… Monday, January 16. 2023Can you identify this North American hawk?Monday morning linksOver half of the world's shrimp crop is farmed NEW GOVERNMENT FUNDED “FOOD-PYRAMID” SAYS LUCKY CHARMS ARE HEALTHIER THAN STEAK Misreading Others' Minds: Asymmetric Insight Coverage Of Biden & Trump's Mishandled Classified Documents Reveals Media Double Standard. Most everything the media reported last week turned out to be wrong Democrats fear Biden's classified documents will be his 'Hillary emails moment' Sunday, January 15. 2023A true traveller
The Marquis de Sade
de Sade represents the dark side of human nature, unleashed. The guy definitely was not in tune with bourgeois morals - but he was not bourgeois. A good writer. You can read Justine if you want to take a walk on the wild side.
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From today's LectionaryPsalm 40:1-11 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 40:2 He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. 40:3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD. 40:4 Happy are those who make the LORD their trust, who do not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods. 40:5 You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you. Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be counted. 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. 40:7 Then I said, "Here I am; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. 40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart." 40:9 I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; see, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD. 40:10 I have not hidden your saving help within my heart, I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation. 40:11 Do not, O LORD, withhold your mercy from me; let your steadfast love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever. Saturday, January 14. 2023Magellan history I never knewA free ad for the White Lotus series
Give it a try. I don't need too, because the story has been realated to me at length.
Saturday morning links7th dead whale washed up on Jersey Shore ‘bad news on top of bad news’' Knowledge and Verve - Remembering Paul Johnson "Is it relative that “morality is relative”? Rural school choice is more common than you think Democrats Overwhelmingly Support Killing Newborns Kamala Harris Explains Caribbean Geography to World, World Stares Slack-Jawed It Looks Like There's More Fallout for Adam Schiff Following Last Week's Twitter Files Reveal Friday, January 13. 2023Europe between the WarsFriday morning linksAmerica Runs On... Bottled Water Rufo: Recapturing Higher Education - On the plan to transform New College of Florida into a classical liberal arts institution TGIF: Planes, Trains, and Gastric Bypass for Kids, Out for 2023: the IRS, gas stoves, pictures of Muhammad, National Merit Scholarship certificates, cardigans, and the British monarchy. New rules in the House worry Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries Thursday, January 12. 2023Timballo -a Sicilian comfort treatThis production should hold together tightly, almost like a firm 6-10" deep lasagna. Macaroni Pie. It's really a Primo, but could be a meal in the US, with a salad. You serve it in clean slices. Meats in it? Any or all fowl including duck. Needs ham too. Chunks of mortadella are great. As for the eggs, you can include the cooked egg yolks as in this recipe, but it's good to throw in some whole hard-boiled eggs. The Quail eggs are not required, but Quail eggs are good things. The recipe below is inspired by di Lampedusa's book , which I highly recommend reading. The photo in the recipe below is not right - the thing should hold together firmly: Timballo recipe . It might get a couple of tries to get it right.
No pain, no gain? Science debunks yet another exercise mythYou don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being. Some readers may have disagreements with this, as do I.
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