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Wednesday, August 14. 2024Wednesday morning linksClassical music as medicine: Mood-boosting tunes synchronize the brain The Top Five Climate Science Scandals - When self-correction in science goes wrong Big Media conducted polls to determine which climate terms induced the most hysteria but a new study shows all those efforts didn’t pay off AOL claims Polar Bears are decreasing. It's a lie. They have doubled since hunting was banned Pro-Palestinian students plan to skip classes: ‘We need a disruption’ The kingmaker of chaos: George Soros’s failed experiments threaten his kingdom A growing number of Americans aren’t simply out of a job. They’re no longer fit for work. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of medical groups over “gender-affirming care” for minors. Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 7 Takeaways From Trump’s ‘Conversation’ With Elon Musk “We are Monitoring”: EU Censor Threatens Musk Ahead of the Trump Interview What Would Ruthless Republicans Do? Media Bias? Call It by Its True Name: Regime Propaganda Elites decide Hunter Biden can finally be a scandal now that Joe is out NY Times Seems Upset Musk Threw Trump “Softball Questions” Elon Challenges Kamala to Twitter/X Talk How many people are actually influenced by the New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, the ladies of the View, and so on? Tuesday, August 13. 2024Darn PorcelainberryI think the trick is either to yank them out when young, or clip them low and spray the stump with poison. If you live in the Northeast, your gardens and plantings are, right now, being attacked by the unwanted and unwelcome alien Porcelainberry. In fact, you can see it smothering trees and bushes everywhere. This aggressive Asian weed vine was introduced as a decorative ground cover, but it is a cancer with the ability to grow 15' or more per year, and to smother anything you have planted. If you pull it up, get the entire root - or poison it. The birds poop the seeds everywhere, so they come up everywhere around here. Especially in gardens. Their roots are tenacious. If you just clip them, they come back twice as strong. As its leaves demonstrate, it is a member of the grape family and it can be confused with the native wild grape, which is a much less aggressive plant. You can read all about Porcelainberry here, and about how to try to get rid of it. A Trump/Musk chatWhole thing here on X: https://x.com/AdrianDittmann/status/1823251592847438059 It really is a conversation or you could term it a bull session. No fireworks. Musk should ask Harris in for a chat too. A billion?
Tuesday morning linksWhy People Don’t Like Illegal Immigration I like legal immigration TWO CANDIDATES, NOT ONE DAY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR: European Union Tyrants Send Letter to Elon Musk – DEMAND X Owner Elon Musk CENSOR President Donald Trump During Upcoming Interview Tonight Elon Musk To Disgraced Former Scottish Minister Threatening Legal Action: “Make my day” Google Admits to Changing Search Results for ‘Trump Assassination’ Searches and Much More Meta, Google, and TikTok take down posts that have led to real-world violence, but X pushes back as Elon Musk tweets insults at the UK's prime minister and posts 'civil war is inevitable.' We Need a Badass in the White House Joseph Klein: "my disgust with Trump is deeper, more personal. He made a mockery of the values and issues and study to which I devoted my life..." That is immature Trump on X Taps Into a Voting Bloc That Legacy Media Doesn't Even Know Exists The 7 States That Will Decide the Election Kamala the Seductress Van Jones: Harris Is Getting More Attention, Doesn’t Need to Talk to Press Right Now That's true “I think the one advantage that Harris may have is that there’s less than 100 days to go,” True - no time to learn about her You can tell it’s a working-class election by Harris and Walz’s dishonesty and lies Golly, Why Are Kamala's Politics So Hard to Pin Down? It's on purpose JD Vance Continues to Own the Libs With His Sunday Show Appearances The Oppressive Exuberance of the Harris-Walz Pageant The Scramble For Europe Monday, August 12. 2024Monday BobMonday morning links
The Star Tennis Player Who Survived the ‘Titanic’ and Went On to Win Olympic Gold Real Women Don't Cook The Western World Is Insane Olympics Pres: We Would Screen Out Men if Science Could Tell Men and Women Apart Politics has no place in the doctor’s office Climate Fear-Mongering Fail: Great Barrier Reef Sees Third Record Year Of Coral Growth What is Bari Weiss doing with The Free Press? " Very scary things are happening in the United Kingdom. Sir Mark Rowley, Met Police Commissioner, has threatened to jail U.S. citizens over online posts he deems hateful or disinformation. " A dispatch from London on the brink of chaos The UK: Officialdom’s dumbest belief is that the solution to social tensions is censorship. Who are the folks who show up at a Kamala Harris rally? Dems’ childish obsession with Momala and ‘daddy’ Walz is beyond bizarre Things Trump is doing wrong Sunday, August 11. 2024From today's LectionaryEphesians 4:25-5 4:25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, 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 Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work 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 good 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 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 walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Saturday, August 10. 2024More on the Hudson River: Dylan channels Woody Guthrie, 1962Strange bird to seeI did a double take when seeing a blue and white Parakeet (Budgeriar) picking up gravel from my driveway. Maybe an escape, maybe an "accidental" like birds being blown by storms like Debby. After Tropical Storm Sandy I saw a flock of Brown Pelicans over my house.
Bagel with caviarYou can put anything on a sliced bagel. Just a shmear is good. Lox with capers of course good too. But what I want on this birthday is a slightly toasted bagel with a shmear and a tablespoon of good caviar. With a glass or two of champagne.
Saturday morning links
A Guide to Building Muscle Mass Over the Age of 40 - It's possible to replicate (or even topple) 20-year-old you. Here's how. There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent The Rise of Neotoddlerism - How society encourages activists to behave like infants International Olympic Committee President Says Chromosomes Don’t Determine Sex: ‘Not True Anymore’ Yale to hold event series showing how ‘anti-racism’ efforts can be racist Columbia group wants ‘eradication of Western civilization’ The Legal Backlash to DEI Training ‘Think before you post’: Britain’s slide into censorship - This authoritarian mess has been decades in the making. Stuart's Saturday Miscellany Megyn Kelly Exposes the Fantasy Repackaging of Kamala With New Word They're Using to Rebrand Her “If Harris is running a campaign that’s full of energy but short on specifics, we should say that,” the author opined, “even if we think that Harris’s content-light approach is an optimal strategy for winning in November.” 'Can’t go back,’ Kamala? Here’s why most Americans DO want to go back Tim Walz Was Dead Wrong About Misinformation and Free Speech. Kamala Harris' veep should learn something about the First Amendment. Don’t Look Now, But J.D. Is Doing Great Out There Brussels Is Hellbent On Destroying European Farming Friday, August 9. 2024Swimming in a Christian sea
I have Holland's viewpoint, but still stick with the the idea of the divine. The "Y" axis of existence. I can't live entirely on the X axis. This is smart:
Friday morning linksCoffee for the Brain - Evidence is mounting that moderate coffee consumption may improve cognition. Brits Are Being Arrested for Social Media Posts Now The New Yorker’s Fact Crisis - Is Masha Gessen’s performative anti-Zionism an exception to the magazine’s commitment to factual accuracy and independent style, or a reflection of broader decay? TGIF: To the Window, to the Walz - Kamala picks the coach. Cori goes out screaming. Trump goes berserk. RFK Jr. and the tale of the bear. The GLAAD CEO lives large. And much, much more. Inequality As a Left-Wing Principle Everybody knew about Biden Joe Biden’s Schedule This Week Included Two Phone Calls, One Meeting and Then Off to the Beach Fine with me Tim Walz’s ‘Church’ Is About What You’d Expect Thursday, August 8. 2024Trump is a centristThursday morning linksNew Fragments of Euripides Discovered I don't need to visit Dubai Astronauts trapped in space by Boeing's faulty Starliner are given horrifying news about potential return to Earth How Did Planned Parenthood Become One of the Country’s Largest Suppliers of Testosterone? The Front Page: Do the Childless Have a Stake in Our Future? The Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. An ISIS plot against Taylor Swift. Does ‘mental health’ make us sick? And much more. People not being Tim Walz Wednesday, August 7. 2024Learn a little about Bordeaux winesEating competition, with oystersWednesday morning linksCan You Really Get the World’s Best Scotch for $40? How creative expression boosts well-being Update on the universe More greenie Olympic FAILS: worms in food, meat airlifts, athlete camping out in public park New ASU curriculum mandates all students meet ‘sustainability’ course requiremen Glenn Loury on Economics, Black Conservatism, and Crack Cocaine- The Brown University economist's new memoir Late Admissions covers capitalism, addiction, race, and the academy. Justice Gorsuch on the Administrative State Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri Who is Tim Walz? Accidental rise of Kamala Harris is a symptom of an unserious age Kamala updates Joe’s basement campaign — still hiding, now behind a Teleprompter Tuesday, August 6. 2024Inspiring kids' song, with more Hudson RiverPete Seeger was good with kids' songs
Thunder and lightningIt's thunderstorm season around here. From Understanding Lightning: Thunder: "If you count the number of seconds between the flash of lightning and the sound of thunder, and then divide by 5, you'll get the distance in miles to the lightning: 5 seconds = 1 mile, 15 seconds = 3 miles, 0 seconds = very close." I should add that I love thunderstorms. Exciting.
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Tuesday 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.
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