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Wednesday, February 10. 2021Wednesday morning linksThe Bee Gees Will Always Be Stayin Alive Do Looks Matter in an Academic Career? Appearance and comportment matter a lot in life in general Charles Murray must be the bravest man in America. Democrats Cry Foul – Say Tom Brady Winning All Those Super Bowls During Black History Month Is “Racist” Tom Brady is the left’s worst nightmare With a Star Science Reporter’s Purging, Mob Culture at The New York Times Enters a Strange New Phase Evil stuff going on COVID Cases Now Lowest Since October, It’s Probably Because Biden* Is A Mask Wearing Alpha Chad… CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Pandemic "crisis" is suddenly over Come One, Come All - President Biden’s immigration agenda will be a disaster for working-class Americans. Biden Quietly Revokes Trump’s Ban On Chinese Communist Propaganda In Schools No, the 2020 election wasn’t stolen — but yes, it was underhandedly tilted A Quick Post-Mortem on the Trump years He sees it the way I do. A Tragedy in the Greek sense. Tuesday, February 9. 2021The compass
Still, a compass is handy for rough directions even when ignoring variation. Here's variation vs deviation. Here's a bit about the history of the mysterious compass:
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Tuesday morning linksThe missing continent it took 375 years to find The 3 Worst Things About That Terrible Jeep Super Bowl Ad Study: Modern Warm Period Started Around 1825 NYP: Open Our Schools and other commentary TIME TO CLOSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOREVER? Schools Are Safe, If Not Havens from COVID A Shadow of Things to Come: DOJ Filings in Affirmative Action and Title IX Cases ‘Neo-Racism’ in the Justice Department What To Do When There’s A COVID Vaccine Glut The Golden State updated its vaccine rollout to include medicinal cannabis workers in some of the highest prioritization tiers. The Humiliating Art of the Woke Apology Moral Narcissism and the Show Trial of Donald Trump MSNBC: In America, ‘We’ve Been Taught’ That Blacks Are Less Than Whites… The Nascent Biden Doctrine. Biden’s “doctrine” is nothing but useless multilateralism. Iran: Still a State-Sponsor of Terrorism, and Growing Bolder Monday, February 8. 2021A book: The Daughter of TimeDaughter of Time by Josephine Tey
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“Oh Lord; Thy sea is so mighty, and my ship so small.”
These cheerful twins are offshore (which to me means ocean - not coastal) in Florida, not in rough water, but it is a good instructional video.
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Monday morning linksThanks to Roger, King of Sicily, for our recent morning links. Also Bruce's. What a team we have TRAWLER BLAST - Seven crab fishermen injured as boat blown out of the water by WW2 mine off coast of Norfolk Digging Up Old Bodies: Richard III and Jimmy Hoffa Cold Reality Dawns: COVID Is Likely Here To Stay Biden* Says Summer Is Cancelled This Year Too… Killing the Classics Beethoven Considered for Cancelation Scott Adams: Teacher Unions run the country Biden favors teachers unions over students’ education Bill de Blasio Seven Year Report Card As New York City Mayor Here Come the 'Climate Lockdowns' Black Lives Matter, Antifa March Through DC, Chant ‘Burn It Down’ White House Appears to Confirm Hunter Biden Still Holds Stake in Chinese Private Equity Firm Biden ends Trump-era deals with Central American countries to curb asylum claims at US border A Couple Of Very Safe Bets For The Next Four Years VDH: When (or If) Comes the Pushback? Joe Biden is now unapologetically leading the most radical left-wing movement in the nation’s history. Canada Warns Athletes To Not Criticize Chinese Communist Party French Court Finds France Is Not Complying With Paris Climate Accords… During Pandemic, China Sent Millions of Counterfeit Masks, Test Kits to US The hidden world of the doctors Cuba sends overseas We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter – review. A remarkable analysis identifies ‘Mao 2.0’ as the west’s new cold war adversary Forging 21st-Century Strategic Deterrence By Admiral Charles A. Richard, U.S. Navy Sunday, February 7. 2021From Florida to YankeelandMrs. BD and I came home from our enjoyable if grueling seamanship courses last night. We got certificates, plus FL boating safety licenses. Why did we do that? Why not? Navigation and boat handling are basic life skills and we both have plenty of room for improvement. Photo is from now. Florida wasn't hot though. Either way, I like both places. The Maggie's Weather Rule is that any day you are lucky enough to wake up, or wake up healthy, is a beautiful day. I love snow dumps.
These guys make backing into a slip look easy. It is NOT - especially in a narrow lagoon with a current, a 20 knot breeze, and manatees as special navigation hazards.
An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts
From the piece by Dorian Abbott:
From today's Lectionary: Wait for the LordIsaiah 40:21-31 40:21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in; 40:23 who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing. 40:24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble. 40:25 To whom then will you compare me, or who is my equal? says the Holy One. 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing. 40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"? 40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable 40:29 He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. 40:30 Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; 40:31 but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Saturday, February 6. 2021Ice storms, and Birches, reposted - not from todayWe had a lovely ice storm this week (only a few branches "pruned" by Mother Nature), reminded me of Robert Frost and swinging birches. Beautiful:
Related, here's Robert Frost reciting his Birches:
Wednesday, February 3. 2021About our winter JuncosThey are snowbirds around here. They are actually in the family of sparrows.
Sunday, January 31. 2021Downeast-style boatsMrs. BD and I have a disagreement about boats. Maybe readers can offer us some marital help. She wants a Great Loop boat, a trawler with a couple of staterooms, galley, head, shower, etc. She prefers these Beneteau Swift Trawlers to the Grand Banks trawlers. She wants to do the Great Loop (in bits) but I'd rather do the Appalachian Trail (in pieces, of course) as an adventure, since travel is sort-of out this year. Those big trawlers, I feel, are just too much boat for my comfort and skill (even with bow and stern thrusters). I could learn for sure, but do I want to? In fact, I am more comfortable with sail than power even though most sail has accessory power too. I've had boats much of my life, and thought I was done with them. Less things to worry about makes me happy. Kayaks are great fun and good exercise, and zero worries. But when it comes to real boats, my preference is for jaunty Downeast-style boats. I can handle them just fine. They are ok for overnights, but not for lengthy cruises. I kinda like this old Dyer 29 Pics of a couple of Downeast boats -
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From today's Lectionary1 Corinthians 8:1-13 8:1 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 8:2 Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; 8:3 but anyone who loves God is known by him. 8:4 Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "no idol in the world really exists," and that "there is no God but one." 8:5 Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth--as in fact there are many gods and many lords-- 8:6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. 8:7 It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8:8 "Food will not bring us close to God." We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 8:9 But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 8:10 For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols? 8:11 So by your knowledge those weak believers for whom Christ died are destroyed. 8:12 But when you thus sin against members of your family, and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 8:13 Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall. Saturday, January 30. 2021Long QQQ from BonhoefferSaturday morning links
How ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry J&J Vaccine Provides Strong Shield Against Severe Covid What Teachers Have Been Doing Instead of Teaching James report exposes Andrew Cuomo’s despicable, cynical dishonesty Cuomo Asked Why He Lied About Nursing Home Deaths: “Who Cares” Why Is American Rail So Costly? A new research project identifies one cause: bloated station designs. FBI Lawyer Who Forged Email in Carter Page FISA Process Sentenced to Probation Democrats Introduce Bill to ‘Massively Expand’ Mail-in Voting 87% of Bureau of Land Management Staffers Quit When Trump Told Them to Move to Colorado Biden Presidency: The Dopes Have Taken Full Control China Tells Taiwan "Independence Means War" As Rival Wargames Ongoing Friday, January 29. 2021What is "Olivier Salad"?
It just has to have pickles.
Friday morning linksRevenge of the Nerds: Reddit “WallStreetBets” Short Squeezes Hedge Fund on GameStop Stock Why GameStop's Stock Surge Is Shaking Wall Street Book Review: Kevin Williamson’s Thoroughly Spectacular ‘Big White Ghetto’ The Cost of False Facts: A Critical Review of Incorrect Boogey-Men from Glassner’s 1990s to Today California Is Cleansing Jews From History. The state’s proposed new ethnic studies curriculum is even worse than you imagined BIDEN APPOINTS ANTI-ISRAEL BDS ACTIVIST TO HEAD NSC INTEL After 440,000 Americans are Dead – Facebook and American Journal of Medicine Admit Their Stand on HCQ was Wrong People were "against it" only because Trump suggested that it might help Frequent New York Times Opinion Writer Was Secret Iranian Agent, Federal Prosecutors Charge John Kerry’s Family Owns A Private Jet Despite His Role In Combating “Climate Crisis” Pentagon Has Gone Full On Climate Cult Fairfax County teacher unions, school district clash over return to in-person learning Democrats Want a 'Return to Civility'; When Did They Practice It? The New York Times is deeply worried about Kristi Noem running for president in 2024 How to Californicate America Media May Ignore It, but Biden Presidency Is Already Radical How Woke Politics are a Disaster for Minorities Biden Appeases Putin, Media Falsely Claims Biden is Tough On Him It's Time for American Impatience With China China will run the world soon Thursday, January 28. 2021Snow Geese
Unlike Canada Geese whose feathers can bounce off birdshot at distance, Snow Geese, in the words of a friend, "go down like a prom dress."
Two more pics below the fold - Continue reading "Snow Geese" Everybody knew this about iPhonesExcept me. Well, I call them iCameras but whatever. When they refuse to recharge wirelessly, turn them off and turn back on. Then they will happily recharge. I thought my wireless rechargers were broken. There are too many things in life that I do not know. Thursday morning linksSnowy Owl in Central Park Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use A biography of John C Calhoun A book: The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy A tribute to those who risked their lives to save Jews Say What You Please, Even If You Don’t Back it with Reasons What They Really Mean by ‘Equity’ Sen. Tom Carper Introduces Washington DC Admission Act to Make Nation’s Capital its 51st State Biden To Sign Another EO On Hotcoldwetdry, And Fight Like No Other President Has John Kerry says out-of-work oil/gas workers should be grateful to Joe Biden for giving them ‘better choices’ like building solar panels “It Doesn’t Make Any Sense – They Took It!” – MUST SEE: Black Keystone Pipeline Worker GOES OFF After Biden Fires Him and 10,000 Co-Workers Court Packing, Here We Come: Biden Launches Commission On “Supreme Court Reform” Biden administration replaces top immigration court official China Needs A Hundred Bombers To Punch Through An American Flattop’s Defenses Wednesday, January 27. 2021This is not a meal. It's a Primo.It's a Primo. A platter like that is to serve at least 2 people, maybe 4. I can be an annoying stickler about Italian food but there is a tradition to it and a logic to it too. A big bowl of pasta is not a meal and, in fact, it would be a terribly unwholesome meal. A small plate of pasta, like the Bolognese recipe (the correct recipe) featured today is an excellent Primo preceding a meat and vegetable course (the Secondo). Bolognese is a beef-flavored sauce. Some tomato sauce flavor. Typically, less sauce than shown in the photo. Italians seem to reserve their 4-course meals (Antipasto, Primo, Secondo, Dessert - sliced fruit usually) for special occasions. It's just too much food and puts you to sleep. However, when we are in a food paradise like Norcia, Mrs. BD and I do their 4-course dinner (around 1 pm is dinner there) we just order one plate per course and share so we get all the tastes. Restaurants don't mind that at all. Main rule for pasta? Dump the wet undrained pasta into the pan with the sauce with the heat on, and swirl around. Add some pasta water if a sauce is too dry or not creamy enough.
Wednesday morning linksWikipedia turns twenty Via Insty, The One Fitness Test You Have to Pass If Teachers Won’t Go Back To School, Why Are They Getting The Vaccine Ahead Of Others? CDC: ‘Little Evidence’ That In-Person Schooling Contributes To Community Spread Of COVID The Serial Failures of Dr. Fauci Freedom of association is under attack. Will the Supreme Court protect it? Compulsory Political Ideology For Illinois K-12 Teachers And Classrooms Moves Closer To Finalization ‘My Pillow’ Founder Mike Lindell is Latest Pro-Trump Conservative Banned from Twitter for Wrong Thinking Schumer: Biden Should Consider Declaring ‘Climate Emergency’ So He Can Do Things Without Congress WHO IS RUNNING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION? Biden Promptly Dismantles Trump’s Border Security Measures Buyer's Remorse? Let’s Blame the Press China Is Wasting No Time In Testing Biden Here's the Truly Beastly Helicopter That Might Replace the Black Hawk Tuesday, January 26. 2021Toasted Fluffernutter, re-posted
The use of peanuts dates to the Aztecs and Incas. They supposedly made a paste out of them too. Wow. Another New World food that I missed on my list of European appropriations of native New World foods: Squash, corn (maize), all peppers, tomato, potato, sweet potato, beans, vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, avocado, cashew, walnut, etc. A twist on the venerable New England classic. Here's a food question for the day: Where do Fluffernut Trees grow?
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