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Thursday, August 19. 2021Thursday afternoon linksVia American Digest, Jobs that white men do Socialist magazine founder fires staff for socialist organizing, confesses he felt ownership of what he'd made Now even rape victims are being called bigots Requiem For Afghanistan It is not a country. It is a region. How Russia-China Are Stage-Managing The Taliban Chris Rufo more than held his own in this NY Times interview on Critical Race Theory What are the "dog days"?
Technically, the term "dog days of summer" came to mean the 20 days before and 20 days after the alignment of Sirius with the sun -- July 3 to August 11 each year. The phrase is actually a reference to the fact that, during this time, the Sun occupies the same region of the sky as Sirius, the brightest star visible from any part of Earth and part of the constellation Canis Major, the Greater Dog.
Wednesday, August 18. 2021A good day for some Keith JarrettIt's said that he performed this in memory of Miles Davis, with whom he had played. (h/t, reader)
A good day for a Root Beer Float
Works even better with Sarsaparilla if you have some around your cabin.
Tuesday, August 17. 2021Afternoon LinksStrong Demand for Gas Vehicles Drives Detroit Production Plans, Clouds Biden’s 2030 Goal for EVs Call For ‘Decentering Whiteness,’ Blame White Children. “White children have been done a great disservice by sustaining white-centered schools in America over all these years." New Zealand to go into national lockdown over one COVID case Media Literacy’s False Promise - Another social-justice-steeped pedagogy is gaining ground—and like the others, it won’t help students understand the world. AMERICA’S SUICIDE ATTEMPT—THE SEQUEL The Invisible City Beneath ParisUnder the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers. I feel no desire to see that. Monday, August 16. 2021Monday afternoon link dumpFor the Love of Music - Conductor and violinist John McLaughlin Williams’s work constitutes a profound rebuttal to the constricting vision of today’s race arbiters. Scottish Schools Will Allow Kids as Young as Four to Change Gender Without Asking Parents ‘Pregnant People’ and the Erasure of Motherhood Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine suggests ‘chestfeeding,’ ‘father’s milk’ in new guidelines THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO IS “JOIN[ING] THE NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO DECONSTRUCT ANTI-BLACKNESS [AND] DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY” Teachers Union Sues Mom for Demanding to See Her Child’s Curriculum The Fears of the Elite - We aren’t a normal society, and the timid reticence of the elite whenever a charge of political incorrectness is launched is one of the sure signs of abnormality. DHS List of Terror 'Threats' Should Raise All Kinds of Eyebrows Cori Bush Wants to Defund the Police. My Neighbors (in Oakland) Have Other Ideas.. The congresswoman can afford private security. Those who live in Oakland, California, don't have that luxury. The Afghan military was built over 20 years. How did it collapse so quickly? LGBT Pride in Afghanistan Hemingway: Afghanistan Disaster Is The Result Of 20 Years Of Failed Interventionist Strategy We Once Waltzed in Kabul. The U.S. abandoned my friends. Now they are trapped in Afghanistan and hiding from the Taliban. Sunday, August 15. 2021Yes, Keith Jarrett is the musical genius of my generation
Yes, he is/was a concert pianist, but for improv he is mind-boggling. For starters, try his Koln concert recording. You will not want to turn it off.
Re-posted because good exercise stuff9 essential exercises to include in any full body workout For sturdiness and functionality, the basics for age 16-95. From today's Lectionary1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 2:10 Then David slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the city of David. 2:11 The time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 2:12 So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom was firmly established. 3:3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David; only, he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places. 3:4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 3:5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I should give you." 3:6 And Solomon said, "You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you; and you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his throne today. 3:7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. 3:8 And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people, so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted. 3:9 Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?" 3:10 It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. 3:11 God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches, or for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 3:12 I now do according to your word. Indeed I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you. 3:13 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life; no other king shall compare with you. 3:14 If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.
Saturday, August 14. 2021A gift to our readers: Some of the best, from Bob's pre-covid tourFrom 2019. On there they have Masterpiece and Gotta Serve Somebody
Darn good-lookin' Down East lobster boatHer hull and balance are basically Maine lobster boat/pilot boat, but re-made into a cruising trawler. At 36', she's not a toy boat and she doesn't seem to care what the seas are like. Her range at "slow cruise" is 1000 miles on a tank of diesel. Sheesh. Not a speed boat, doesn't really go on plane much but if you were ambitious, with time on your hands, you could take her from Texas to Maine in a leisurely way with fun stops for looking around, food, and fuel. And pump-outs.
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Friday, August 13. 2021France: The incestuous sins of the soixante-huitardsThursday, August 12. 2021Afternoon linksSheesh. Quackery. John Kerry’s family jet emitted around 30 times more carbon than average American does all year American Express tells its workers capitalism is racist Why don't they just close the business? "Rewilding" unused landPlaying the wild card. “Rewilding” is fashionable but there is more to it than letting Nature run free
Wednesday, August 11. 2021Boat fireSome morning linksMan hooks great white shark while fishing from Cape Cod beach: video NIH chief: We don't have rigorous data about kids and Delta but let me freak you out anyway US House Candidate: 'We Should Be Allowed to Shoot' Anyone Who Doesn't Take COVID Seriously Enough The NSA's Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Allegations of Illegal Spying on Tucker Carlson Monday, August 9. 2021Boating is complicatedDo you think boating is a simple pastime? We all see boats happily zooming around on nice days. I've been around boats all of my life but handling a larger powerboat in biggish water takes lots of practice and learning. Brains + Feel, like a Farmall on slanty fields. At sea, except for storms and high seas, it's easy to get around with a Marine GPS. We have a semi-displacement boat so she is heavy, steady and comfortable unless there is a reason to clamber up to the bow to do things. A trained monkey would be better than me. Besides heavy seas and storms, the challenge to boating is when you approach land: docking and mooring. In that way, boating is like airplane flying if less dangerous. Planes are meant for the air, and boats are designed for sea. Besides all that, you need to understand the seacocks, the engine and oil (fairly new tough Yanmar diesel engine) the generator, the electronics (we got a new very complex marine GPS which I do not understand), the water systems, radar, etc. And that's just if it is a serious powerboat. For sail-boaters, there is a ton more to learn but I kinda have a feel for sail. Of course, sailboats have to maneuver under power often, near port and outside too. I will not do nighttime or fog boating. Done with that. My Skipper, Mrs. BD, is getting better. I am First Mate cuz it is her beautiful Maine-style, lobster boat hull "midlife" boat. She has driven it on the Atlantic with giant swells, but I will not do that. I will never be able to dock this boat backwards into a slip. If she were a Hinkley with a joystick, I could dock her in the darn Grand Canyon but those boats are not for heavy seas, really. Funny thing happened yesterday evening. We're about to leave dock after washing down, and a big Hinckley tries to dock next to us. From Newport. He is single-handed so I wait to help handle his lines because it is quite wavy gravy with 20 k wind. Tied up, he offers me a $20 dollar bill. I say thanks, but I am not a dockhand! Just do us a favor and help us push off. He did.
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Monday morning links, for onceTake the 27-mile round trip between Hollidaysburg and Martinsburg on No. 11. Traveling through the breathtaking Morrison’s Cove, including a stop for ice cream at the Roaring Spring depot, will leave you with a sense that all is right with the world, at least for a few hours. Book: How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything--Yes, Anything! ‘That’s Bullsh*t’: Vietnam Vet Star Wars Shop Owner Tells Trans Council Member ‘You’re Not A Woman’ In Viral Public Confrontation They Don’t Speak for Me. The need for free black thought in academia—and beyond ‘Defund the Police’ Mayors Used Taxpayer Cash to Hire Their Own Private Security VOX tells you how to deal with the emotional trauma of climate crisis Guardian: Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet New Hampshire delivers a double victory for school choice This website has always liked school choice, and not just for urban kids Polyamory Gets Another Push, This Time From Harvard Law Did the CDC Director just kill the rationale for vaccine passports? Anti-Racism Reaches Its Most Ridiculous Low Yet: $50,000 to Move a Rock Corporate Rent-Seeking Reaches New Level With US Postal Service Reform Bill The Green Dream of Electrified Vehicles Where'd you go, Ohio? How a swing state went red Wargaming in progress: The early panic by Team Biden about "the Kamala crisis" is ... something Like it or not, Cuomo will be hanging around Althouse considers Cuomo's sexiness Women appreciate toughness when needed, but not creepiness COVID Power: Biden Extends Freeze on Repayment of Student Loans Through January 2022 Democratic leaders are increasingly at odds with their own voters Sunday, August 8. 2021From today's LectionaryEphesians 4:25-5:2 4:25 So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. 4:26 Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 4:27 and do not make room for the devil. 4:28 Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 4:29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 4:31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 4:32 and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. 5:1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 5:2 and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Saturday, August 7. 2021I have no links
Off to Martha's Vineyard for the million dollar bash, as the date of Beyonce. She promised to bring her bathing suit. Eat your hearts out, readers.
Friday, August 6. 2021Pre-weekend link dumpUnder Fire from Social-Justice Warriors, Classical-Music Organizations Grovel Teaching Biological Sex and Gender to Med Students: What's Really Going On? — A controversial blog post has stirred intense debate among the medical community Intense debate? Really? C'mon, man. Climate Change Doesn’t Cause All Disasters. Warmth annually causes about 120,000 heat deaths but prevents nearly 300,000 cold deaths. AVI considers the "third spike" and why it makes sense to get vaccinated Despite ‘Delta’ Alarmism, US COVID Deaths Are at Lowest Level Since March 2020 How Fauci et al undermined public trust Professor suggests it should be a federal hate crime to criticize Fauci and other government-funded scientists Americans Are Willing to Take Pay Cuts to Never Go Into the Office Again The Progressives’ Callous Indifference to the Loss of Small Businesses Via Dr S, Our Broken Politics I dunno. Politics is war without guns Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report Dem Rep. Cori Bush: ‘I’m Going To Make Sure I Have Security…Defunding The Police Has To Happen’…. DESANTIS IN THE BREACH Trumpy without the mean streak "This is a mess": White House, Dems feud expands over eviction-moratorium failure Landlords have mortgages to pay, usually Is it possible that Biden’s not as stupid as he appears? Biden Wants Half of All Vehicles Sold in US by 2030 to Be Zero Emission So the power comes from unicorn poo?
Thursday, August 5. 2021Misc. linksOmigosh, the Delta Variant Now Has a Variant and You Know What That Means What the heck is going on in this country? California May Mandate Menstrual Products for Men Infrastructure Bill Would Require Alcohol Monitors for All New Cars But what about THC and meth? Misinformed about Misinformation Everyone’s deserted you, Creep Cuomo. It’s over. Just go. Politico: Biden’s Border Plan A Has Gone Bust, What’s Plan B? Not a bust, it was the plan Wednesday, August 4. 2021Workout update
For starters, it is still the Maggie's Fitness for Life Program which is a mix of weights, HIIT and endurance "cardio", and a broad category of Calisthenics with includes plyometric stuff and other misc things. I'm fairly sure I have a semi-retired pal who is willing to do the Cali days with me - but he won't do 5 AM. - "Heavy" weights twice/week, with trainer. My current guy pushes me to my limits, unlike my previous guy who was a slow incrementalist. This guy feels as if I am not getting my money's worth without pushing the limits routinely. It's ok. It's powerlifts and accessory lifts, plus abs, and I can't call it fun. Failure doesn't bother me much. - "Cardio" days: I use these for endurance and to try to keep my heart in good shape. Might work because I just had my cardiology check-up with all the bells and whistles and it's all good. "No rust in the pipes, or not much, yet," he told me. What I tend to do is a mix of HIIT on the treadmill and the stair machine, 20-30 minutes total. For the rest of the hour I'll do vigorous - no sprints - on elliptical and rower. Great way to begin a day. - "Calisthenics" days: I use this term as a grab bag of athletic-style exertions which are not all technically calis but which mostly do not include moving any weights much heavier than my own body. I kinda like doing them in rotations of 3. It's more inspiring to do them in a group or with pals. I put samples of these rotations below the fold: Continue reading "Workout update"
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