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Wednesday, July 6. 2022Good food: Baked CodCod is perhaps my favorite fish (besides Grouper). Sadly, their populations on George's Bank, the Grand Banks, and around England have been overfished. Tragedy of the Commons. You can no longer be confident that you can catch one off the Maine coast. NB: overcooking fish is criminal.
Wednesday morning linksIn 1949, 78.8% of all households contained married couples. In 2021, 72 years later, 47.3% of households had married couples. Stop whining, people — Americans live in history’s greatest nation " We need to raise hell in every restaurant Alito eats in for the rest of his life." Re Roe: Unfortunately, most of the noise from liberals isn't discussion the issue deserves, but a whirring, whining cacophony reminiscent of a fit a child might throw if told he can't do something he really...really...really wants to do. 3 Things Republicans Should Do To Stop Losing And Start Winning When They Take Back Congress In 2022 Chicagoans' Dislike Towards Mayor Lightfoot Reaching Tipping Point as Shootings Plague the City Confirmed Again: The Green Agenda Is Taking Us Backward Joe Biden has allowed FIVE MILLION barrels of oil from US national supply to be shipped abroad after claiming they'd be released to help lower soaring gas prices Did a White House "intern" write the ridiculous gas station price hike tweet? How the Highland Park Shooter Reportedly Obtained His Guns Is Beyond Ridiculous Facing Defeat in Lysychansk Ukraine Military Retreats, Russia Takes Full Control of Eastern Ukraine Region of Luhansk Something I enjoyIn fact, on Cape Cod I will not go anyplace without one. Outdoor shower. A good outlet for us closeted nudists. When I was a kid, my Great-uncle Bill had a cabin in the woods. His outdoor shower was a big metal bucket that had lots on nail holes in the bottom.
Tuesday, July 5. 2022Monday morning linksFeathers May Have Been Key to Dinosaurs Taking Over Earth US Founding Fathers weren’t the patriarchy—they were heroes There Are Two Fundamentally Irreconcilable Constitutional Visions " All that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their “fair share”, a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All that the colonists wanted was the rights of Englishmen that they believed they were entitled to." Good luck taxing the rich when they’re gone Nearly 8,000 Flights Delayed On Friday As July 4th Weekend To Be Hell No Air Conditioning? No Thanks. Every American needs to know the term “baseload” Hot New Elite Summer Trend: Surgery to Ease 'Hamptons Bladder' Bezos' $500 Million Superyacht Trapped At Dutch Shipyard "One day I hope to become a mother. But for now I have sex just because I like it. Sex is fun. For the puritanical tyrants seeking to control our bodies..." Why The Left Truly Is Evil, (Not Stupid!) Green-Haired, Morbidly Obese Leftist Women Call for Sex Stike Over Abortion Ruling 'Urgency is a White Supremacy Value' Says Oregon Health Bureaucrat Woke Gay Employee in Mourning Who Refused to Work After Roe v. Wade Decision Is Fired Good Morning America Forced To Issue Correction After Calling Ketanji Brown Jackson First Black Supreme Court Justice ‘Burning America to the ground’: Liberals can’t get over SCOTUS EPA decision CDC Tells Millions of Americans to Mask Again. Will Anyone Listen? Why Are The Angriest Abortion-Ruling Protesters In Deep-Blue States Where There Will Be No Impact? Here's why Kavanaugh's would-be assassin didn't get much coverage Clarence Thomas a 'black white supremacist'? Politico Hit Piece on Clarence Thomas Goes Horribly Wrong Biden’s immigration insanity is breaking the nation Ukraine and the Allure of False Realisms Having Scoffed at Trump’s Warnings, Germany Now Fears Complete Russian Gas Cut-Off I’ve got ‘Ukraine fatigue’ fatigue Monday, July 4. 2022Happy 4thHope our readers - Americans, would-be Americans, and those in other lands who find America interesting - will take a few minutes to peruse the US Constitution. Certainly declaring independence was a courageous if not reckless move, but our foundational document is the Constitution. Other than a moment of gratitude for that, today is a beach day or hike day or a boat day or a day to crank up the barbie and have a few beers. Sunday, July 3. 2022American musicFrom today's LectionaryLuke 10:1-11, 16-20 10:1 After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. 10:2 He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 10:3 Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. 10:4 Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road. 10:5 Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace to this house!' 10:6 And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you. 10:7 Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house. 10:8 Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; 10:9 cure the sick who are there, and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.' 10:10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, 10:11 'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.' 10:16 "Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me." 10:17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!" 10:18 He said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. 10:19 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. 10:20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." Saturday, July 2. 2022Ringo at age 81Saturday morning links“The Act of Mourning Itself is a Final, Destitute Version of Love.” A Reading List For the Grieving How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life Twitter suspends Jordan Peterson: why? These are the words colleges don't want you to say The Insufferable Arrogance of the Constantly Wrong "Take that restorative justice bull**** and shove it up your ***es" Fun news summary: TGIF: Temps Are Up, Stocks Are Down, Plus: Suitcases of cash for the Prince of Wales; defunding the police for West Hollywood. What If People Actually Controlled The Government? Smart Democrats understand the big reasons behind the Supreme Court’s decisions Supreme Court Reins In The Regulatory Beast Biden: Americans Will Stomach High Gas Prices “As Long As It Takes” Dutch Farmers Livid Over EU's 'Green' Nitrogen Rule Block Border Between Holland And Germany After Destroying Individual Rights, China’s President Xi Arrives at 25th Anniversary of Handover to Claim “Beginning of True Democracy in Hong Kong” Saturday Verse: W.H. Auden
Roman Wall Blues Over the heather the wet wind blows, The rain comes pattering out of the sky, The mist creeps over the hard grey stone, Aulus goes hanging around her place, Piso's a Christian, he worships a fish; She gave me a ring but I diced it away; When I'm a veteran with only one eye
Friday, July 1. 2022Friday morning linksAirline Labor Shortages May Wreck Your Summer Travel Plans The Puritans Are Back: Did They Ever Leave? Are we experiencing another Puritan revival? A “deep dive” into “Queer Theory” so you don’t have to. Why are we feeding crops to our cars when people are starving? AOC: This is now a "judicial coup" and a constitutional crisis Hillary Clinton says Clarence Thomas has been a person of ‘resentment, grievance and anger’ his whole life Biden Climate Advisor Seems Happy About American Job Losses SCOTUS rebukes EPA on climate-change regulation A big deal. It goes beyond the EPA. Thursday, June 30. 2022Thursday morning links
What is "art"? Bon Appetit went woke Colleges offer students counseling to cope with news of Roe v. Wade reversal At Quillette, the politics of the Australian aborigines Also, Aussie Climate Minister Promises to Legislate Away that Evil CO2 Chasing Utopian Energy: How I Wasted 20 Years of My Life Here are headlines and editorials in the dishonest WaPo a day after Secret Service agents effectively called Jan. 6 witness a liar Fox News Still Hasn’t Updated Hoax Story About Trump Assaulting Secret Service Biden Climate Czar John Kerry: “We Need To Spur The Transition To Green Shipping”…. Nationalize 'Big Oil'? Are You Crazy? AOC Claims Supreme Court “Overreached” By Returning Power To The People On Abortion Politico, ACLU: Hey, guess what we discovered post-Dobbs? Federalism and elections! Tuesday, June 28. 2022Tuesday morning linksLake Mead Drying Up As Water Becomes Big Issue For The Southwest Accountability and Authority - the case for well-run institutions School Board Votes to Return San Francisco’s Lowell High School to Merit-Based Admissions Court Strikes Down NY Law Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote Here Are The Headlines That Would Be In The News Right Now If Trump Were Still President France's Emmanuel Macron Drops Truth on Joe Biden About His Insane Energy Policies Colorado Christian center burned in mostly peaceful fashion TikTok Trend Has Angry Leftist Women Threatening Hookup Sex Will Die Now That Roe Is Overturned Blinken's disgraceful apology tour: SCOTUS ruling on Dobbs raises "concerns across the world" Ana Navarro Uses Disabled Brother and Step Granddaughter Who Has Down Syndrome as Examples of Why Women Need Abortions Monday, June 27. 2022Monday morning linksWorld's Deepest Shipwreck Discovered Four Miles Under The Pacific The Metaverse Is Already Here. How is virtual reality remaking our world? Fat studies is the field that teaches students to view obesity as 'oppression' Law Firm Splits With Lawyers Who Won Major Gun Case At Supreme Court Illinois: Drive out the rich for Equality Biden sneaking amnesty through for a million illegal border crossers Hundreds of migrants seen wandering on side of road in Texas amid illegal immigration surge. The area in the Del Rio sector has seen record illegal crossings I have very complicated feelings about Donald Trump right now AOC: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett committed an impeachable offense
Academics throw tantrums over Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal The Nation: Abortion Involves Killing–and That’s OK! To be pro-choice is to be against forced life. Guardian: It’s time to say it: the US supreme court has become an illegitimate institution Colombia's election: How could the voters be so stupid? Sunday, June 26. 2022From today's LectionaryGalatians 5:1, 13-25 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. 5:14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 5:15 If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. 5:16 Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. 5:17 For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want. 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law. 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, 5:21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 5:22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 5:23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. Saturday, June 25. 2022We have lots of readers who are hikers
It depends on whether you are climbing steeps, rock-scrambling as a big part of it, or strolling on a comfy trail. The terrain matters, but most hill-hiking has varied terrain. Still, lots of people prefer various sorts of light-weight, quick-drying sneakers even when taking on the AT to Maine. I like my heavy-duty (and heavy) Meindls for rocks and rocky steeps, Adidas for mild varied terrain, and running sneakers for ordinary trail hiking. The weight matters - less is better. Mountaineering boots are a different topic. I am not climbing Ben Nevis, although we did as kids. The easy route, and in summer - not winter. Links: Best German hiking stuff (I did not know that Adidas was German)
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Saturday morning linksDemocrats are looking for a weed deal Biden’s Green Hypocrisy - The president’s attempt to lift the federal gas tax exposes the hollowness of climate-change rhetoric. USA Today demoted me for a tweet — because its woke newsrooms are out of touch with readers The Hits Just Keep Coming! BLM Rioter Snags 10-Year Sentence for Trying to Burn Cops Alive Progressive Utopian Vision Versus The Constitution The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child: What Ancient Cultures Did Before Abortion Most commentary on the Dobbs decision is, not surprisingly, incompetent. If you didn’t know better, you would think that abortion had suddenly been made illegal across the country–which, for better or worse, is obviously not the case. The End of Roe and the Curse of Self-Governance Supreme Court Turns Over Abortion Question to the People. Democrats Rage Against Democracy. Haltiwanger isn’t the only person confused today about what the judiciary does in the American form of government, Friday, June 24. 2022Cripple CreekFriday morning linksWhy Competitive Chess Is as Vicious as 10 Rounds in a Boxing Ring How turtles defy ageing When did good parenting become something to 'equalize'? More On Energy Fantasy Versus Reality In Woke-Land ‘I literally lost organs:’ Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders They Questioned Gender-Affirming Care. Then Their Kids Were Kicked Out of School. Toobin: SCOTUS wants 2nd Amendment to be a "first class right" without any restrictions America’s religious history is more complicated than the Supreme Court’s liberal justices understand The Supreme Court's Decision Is a Huge Win for the Constitution How Should Courts Evaluate Gun Regulations After Bruen? Alcohol, Drugs, Homelessness and Crime. What is the right approach? Are libertarians on the wrong side? Thursday, June 23. 2022Ideas from readers: Hiking blistersMrs. BD has planned a 9-day hiking trip in Scotland (and in the Eng. Lake District). Fine with me. Probably 10-12 miles/day over hill and dale, but no moutains. However, I tend to have two hiking issues. One is that I have destroyed one shoulder from skiing and body-surfing accidents, so I can't handle a backpack for much over an hour. Pain whick removes all pleasure. Luckily, she doesn't mind carrying it. But I am also prone to foot blisters. It is not about the right hiking shoes. I have the best for different purposes. Yes, liner socks etc. A few years ago, I found some amazing analgesic bandaid-like things in a farmacia in Spain. I should have bought 50 packs of them, because they saved our trip for me. My feet were a bloody mess, but painless. Can't find those same things on Amazon. Do any of our readers have any genius ideas?
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Thursday morning linksCanada Completes Construction of Manufacturing Facility to Make Food from Bugs An eagle snatched a baby hawk for dinner, then ended up adopting it Largest Ever Florida Python Discovered, And The Contents Of Its Stomach Will Blow Your Mind Bear Breaks Into Colorado Home, "Plays" Piano Dave Chappelle Owns the Snowflakes Once Again Top 10 most ridiculous campus cancelations in 2021-22 school year Student Kicked Out Of UK College For Supporting Deportation Of Illegal Immigrants The Left Completely Melts Down Over Supreme Court Ruling On Religious Schools On education, the tide is turning in favor of parents Population-fueled Sprawl Undermines Conservation Ambitions ‘Hypocritical’ defund NYPD advocate moved out of Harlem for ‘safety issues’ Biden Ambassador Nominee Warns of "Jewish Money" If I get canceled, let them eat me alive KAMALASPLAINING, AND OTHER VIDEO COMEDY Wednesday, June 22. 2022Wednesday morning linksHiker dies on Mt. Washington The Loop is a good day hike, but Be Prepared Americans' Belief in God Drops to All-Time Low Amazingly, Buzzfeed Readers Don’t Realize They Did This to Themselves " That aside, happy belated Juneteenth." Washington Post Wants To Regulate “Carbon” As A Toxic Substance Or Something Has Omicron evolved to become more dangerous? Disney Stock Has Tumbled Nearly 50 Percent as Audiences Turn Away CEOs Start To Push Back Against 'Woke' Employee Bullying Supreme Court Rules Religious Schools Can't Be Excluded From School Vouchers For the longest time, the debate over immigration has been about how both sides can agree on open borders while appearing to disagree. The Federal Republic Of New Normal Germany Canada: Governed by Hypochondriacs Tuesday, June 21. 2022Summertime
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