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Thursday, February 15. 2024Thursday morning linksWhy are we so connected to sports? Why Do Some People Go Crazy When Their Teams Lose in Sports? An Open Marriage Manifesto? Molly Roden Winter’s nonmonogamy memoir offers sadness in abundance Childhood maltreatment is one of the strongest and the most widespread risk factors for the development of the major depressive disorder. I'm skeptical Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists The people taking illegal aliens into their homes—saints, predators, or fools? Kruiser's Handy Election Year Guide to Topics the Democrats' Media Hacks Will Be Censoring And DeSantis Just Keeps Truckin' Border crisis now No. 1 reason people don’t like Biden Traitor John Brennan Mobilized Foreign Intelligence Services to Spy on the Duly Elected American President 5 things you didn't know about Qatar. Joe Biden's War in Ukraine Why Is The American Right Pandering to Putin? Plus: In defense of Joe Biden. . . and Donald Trump Who is "pandering"? Wednesday, February 14. 2024Staying fit for the people you love
As with everything, there is a right way and many wrong ways.
Wednesday morning linksWho was St. Valentine? Group Names Climate Change as the Culprit in the Nigerian Massacre Lake Shasta reservoirs ‘well above’ historical average after ‘experts’ predicted a global warming drought What, Exactly, Should You Eat? Inside the $190 Million Study Trying to Find the Answer That is so dumb The Business of Transgenderism Not A Single Child Tested Proficient In Math In 67 Illinois Schools White Woman Hosting Illegal Immigrants Says ‘She Feels Like She has Her Own Personal Chef” Slavery Time for Consequences - The "Cabal" who bragged about rigging the 2020 election stuck us with an incapable president at a time of crisis. Examples need to be made. Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri Biden's Latest Racially Tinged Cringe-Fest Is Just Too Much CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say Biden Refuses Cease-Fire and Negotiations -- In Ukraine? Trump’s threat to let Putin invade NATO countries Yeah, right. Putin and Love of Country Why am I supposed to hate Russia this year? Jeffrey Sachs: The Biden-Schumer Plan To Kill More Ukrainians Joy Behar Says if Trump is Reelected, Putin Will Invade Europe and 13 Year-Old American Boys Will be Drafted Yeah, right. Volume upTuesday, February 13. 2024Why I appreciated Tim Keller so muchFrom one of his talks about holiness:
Like Bacon?How about pork belly?
Tuesday morning linksAfter winning his third Super Bowl at only 28 years old, is it time to call Patrick Mahomes the greatest QB ever? Climate endangering French cheeses OK, now I am getting worried Lakewood Church Shooter Identified as Transgender Immigrant from El Salvador Sheesh, a dangerous person for sure A Textbook Case of Social Justice Medicine Run Amok - A new volume from the publishing arm of the American Psychiatric Association illustrates the problem when ideology trumps science. Who is insane? “Whites are psychopaths, and their behavior represents an underlying, biologically transmitted proclivity with roots deep in their evolutionary history.” Coleman Hughes on the New Racism Chaos at the End of History - Even in rights-based and law-bound democratic societies, people tend to find new things to struggle over. Jonathan Haidt: abolish DEI to save academia At the Biden White House's request, Facebook significantly limited the distribution of Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin on its platform. Eliminating failing grades incentivizes laziness Egypt Shows Biden How to Secure a Border Ukraine Anti-Conscription Protests Emerge As Zelensky Hunts For Manpower Niall Ferguson is trying to gin up support for Ukraine, on the grounds that, if we do not arm Ukraine, Russia will soon be invading the rest of Europe. What? Sens. Vance, Lee, and Johnson Join Elon and Vivek to Slam ‘Endless Funding’ for Ukraine Monday, February 12. 2024Bill Ackman's educationHere's his post on X. He is a major Dem donor, but learning how things work:
Monday morning links I liked what Jeff Spurgeon said on WQXR this morning: "There was a ball game last night. Good fun." I bet on Taylor Swift, of course. Whoever she is. I have never dated her or heard her music. Spain sets up ranger patrol to protect villages from massive bears that were once nearly extinct Vox Gets Roasted for Pushing Idea “Americans are Obsessed with Protein”. Vox earns a spectacular X-ratio, and we get reminded that dietary science is perhaps the most unsettled science of all. Double euthanasia growing in popularity in Holland UCLA prof suspended after refusing lenient grading for black students demands $19 million-plus in damages New York's Oldest Gun Manufacturer Shuts Down I have a Remington 12-ga. semi-auto, I guess you'd call it. For ducks. Do you want to be a wife? Kling: Rob Henderson and Lorenzo Warby on Elite Beliefs - How did the elites go wrong? And why is my mindset not elite? BILL ACKMAN LEARNS THE HARD WAY Cognitive dissonance is a path to enlightenment What Next? Woke State Now Coming After Car Tires Remember When Women Were Calming Influences on Society? NYC Doesn't Either 71% of UK men have experienced some form of sexual victimization by a woman Huh? Donald Trump is the Victim of Selective Prosecution. Trump is the victim of political witch hunts by Democrats suffering from Trump derangement syndrome Shocker! DNC Wants a Federal Probe Into RFK Jr Thousands of migrants in NY quietly collecting ‘welfare’ through Hochul rule change Incentives matter Assaults on NYPD escalate to record-breaking totals in latest anti-cop sentiment: ‘Full-blown epidemic’ California Gov. Gavin Newsom sends prosecutors to Oakland over raging crime blamed on woke DA Unhinged progressives are a gift to Trump. The woke zealotry of the Biden administration is turning vast numbers of Americans into reluctant Trumpers. Examining the Controversy Surrounding Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Putin - A leitmotif in Putin’s remarks to Tucker in that marathon interview was, as he saw it, the serial betrayal of Russia by the West. Genocide? In South Africa, a great evil is growing fast Biden, Egypt Warn Israel Not to Finish Off Hamas
Sunday, February 11. 2024FocacciaMrs. BD has been whipping up an onion Focaccia to go with Sunday Chili. Some other things too, including a mortadella canape thing that Marcella liked, with cornichons. Yes, I prefer cornbread with barbecue, but focaccia is good with Texas Chile. My main job was to slice onions very thin on the mandolin which is the only instrument I can play. Like all breads, focaccia takes a while. If you do the bake part on a stone thing, you get the good burnt bottom. Best with lots of kosher salt on top. It seems like it was the origin of pizza. Romans, Greeks, etc made this simple bread and put various toppings on it with olive oil - rosemary, garlic, onions, cheese, mushrooms - whatever. Of course, they had no tomatoes but when they got them in the 1600s they loved them, in my view, too much.
From today's LectionaryMark 9:2-9 9:2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 9:3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. 9:4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 9:5 Then Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 9:6 He did not know what to say, for they were terrified. 9:7 Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, "This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!" 9:8 Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus. 9:9 As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. Saturday, February 10. 2024Bugatti ChironTexas-style BrisketSaturday morning linksA good poster of The Common Hawks and Falcons of the Eastern US LI links: Your weekly report on education news. Trial Of Mann v. Steyn, Part V: Results Making Sense of Michael Mann's Resounding Defamation Victory Does anybody think Mann's "Hockey Stick" is real? Scared to say it's bs now? What % of "studies" turn out to be correct? Skeptical is never wrong. That's been my bias since studies claimed broccoli causes cancer. I still enjoy reporting those studies. ILLEGALS ARE ALREADY VOTING Tucker's Thoughts on Putin Interview In Moscow, Tucker Carlson commits journalism I'm interested in what Putin says. He's just another politician-type. Sure, he is "Russia First." Duh. Stuart's Saturday Miscellany New MSM Narrative: 'Biden Has Dementia, And Here's Why That's a Good Thing' I don't think he is demented, just senile, but never was a sharp guy. Anyway, Prez is just a figurehead Friday, February 9. 2024Superbowl Party Time
Another excuse to throw a Party, I guess. Why not, if you have a big TV (which we don't). I have been thinking about the right food though. Barbecue seems right to me: Short ribs, spare ribs, baby back ribs - all the other ribs, brisket, maybe barbecue chicken too. Yeah, salsa and chips, corn bread, corn pudding, cole slaw, whatever. No guacamole for me, thank you. For a good time-waster, it's kinda fun to check out barbecue Youtubes. Many styles and ways to do it - oven, grill, fast, slow, smoked - and all delicious. Friday morning linksVOLCANIC LIGHTNING COULD HAVE IGNITED LIFE ON EARTH, NEW STUDY FINDS Study Confirms 100% Of Men Agree With Toby Keith That They Should've Been A Cowboy Michigan transgender Muslim woman loses case against ex who she sued for throwing out jar of her former pair of testicles that she kept in the FRIDGE Why did I link that? Never put your balls in the freezer. Danish Clean Energy Giant Sucking Wind Medical Schools Should ‘Combat Racism.’ But Not Like This. An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining Forcing Americans to Vote Turns Democracy Into a Farce. Washington senators advance a bill that would making submitting a ballot mandatory. Turley in 2021: The Case For A Trump Censure EU Globalists Threaten Tucker Carlson With Travel Ban, Sanctions for Putin Interview Why? Every journalist wants a Putin interview TGIF: Say It Ain’t Joe - Words fail Biden. The border bedevils progressives. Tucker sits with Putin. DeSantis against fake meat. Plus, Woke Kindergarten, Shane Gillis, Lia Thomas, and more. Democrat Lawyer Admits At Supreme Court That Only One Party Can Be Allowed To Rig Electio SF's Mayor Joins Effort to Roll Back Prop 47 Trump Is the Front-Runner and Biden Is Drifting to Disaster. It’s a race to see who can be more unpopular. Thursday, February 8. 2024More on holinessOlafur ArnaldsThursday morning linksWho owns Zoom? Elon Musk Optimistic About Neuralink's First Patient in Human Clinical Trials He Murdered His Classmates. Should His Mother Go to Jail? Under fire in Canada, Peterson kicked off a 51-city tour Sunday. Here’s what to expect if you’re going to one of his shows Is Your Date Transgender? 10 Signs To Look For A TROVE OF ‘LOST BASQUIATS’ LED TO A SPLASHY EXHIBITION. THEN THE FBI SHOWED UP. Do Americans Really Only Want Sprawl? Having no money makes you happy About Belmont Abbey College U. Oregon bike class helps LGBT students confront ‘capitalist patriarchy’ Biden Admin Pressured Amazon to Suppress Books It Didn’t Like. “Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books”? Tucker Carlson Explains Why He Is Interviewing Putin: "Most Americans Are Not Informed... We're Here Because We Love The US" CNN says: Tucker Carlson is in Russia to interview Putin. He’s already doing the bidding of the Kremlin Most of the world remains either indifferent or opposed to Washington’s long time insistence that Ukraine be turned into an American NATO base. Wednesday, February 7. 2024Why computers can't do math
How do mathematicians choose their axioms?
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Wednesday morning linksAustralian City Councilwoman Suspended For Saying 'Transwomen Are Biological Men' Mother convicted of manslaughter mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Caused More Deaths Than Saved: Peer-Reviewed Study What They Do to Trump, They’re Doing to Everyone Stuart's Wednesday Miscellany Biden Makes Coal Great Again As Exports Soar To India Smithsonian: Six Big Ways Climate Change Could Impact the United States by 2100 - Climate change is expected to affect all parts of the country in the coming decades, threatening everything from our food supply to our coastlines Scared? GREAT TIME TO BE A SANCTUARY STATE Biden to Send Troops to Stop Texas from Protecting the Southern Border Biden Gives Game Plan Away: Senate Bill Precursor to Amnesty for Illegals ICE in Phoenix Arrest Illegal Immigrants Accused of Beating NYPD Cops Tuesday, February 6. 2024PolicingWe linked to a piece about the Israeli police this morning. It's not a good idea to assault Israeli police. Civilization - civilized behavior - is a thin veneer. At the extremes, if we aren't armed, all we have is the thin blue line. I happen to be armed at home. I can legally carry, but I don't bother. I believe I can not legally carry in NY State anyway and Mrs. BD and I do love visiting NYC. Plus 2 of our kids live there quite happily. I don't know the details of NYC police protocol, and I am not saying that these guys should have been shot (maybe), but should they have been tased and roughed up at the very least? As a relatively law-abiding citizen, I do not expect to put up with this behavior. It could be police, or it could be me. Would not bother me at all if the cops had shot the bad guys. What good would jail do? In Rikers, you'd get macho points, respect, for assaulting a police officer.
I need help from readers with a few spare minutesMaybe knowledge of Greek, Latin, or whatever old languages would help. What does the word "holy" mean? I guess it sorta means "sacred," but what does that mean, exactly? Our English bibles are titled "Holy Bible," so it matters. Might be a translation from Latin or Greek or something, but from what? I get that "holy" is a Germanic term, later anglicized by those Anglo-Saxons. It seemed to mean whole or complete or, by extension God-connected in some special way, like Heilige Nacht. Having been raised Protestant, I do not quite get the ideas of holy or sacred. They feel like kind of pagan terms to me, like the unapproachable statues of Athena or Apollo in Greek temples, or the Holy Cow, and there are the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy Grail and The Holy Land. I guess the ideas I was raised with do not connect much that is material with the transcendent - except Jesus - but what do I know or understand? Not much, but I do appreciate CS Lewis' discussions about imagination and every kind of mental life. I am not a materialist. I do not understand existence at all but I feel it's beyond normal, or beyond human comprehension. Help me out, genius readers.
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Tuesday morning links
Full performance of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs at the Grammys. Amazon sells these houses for $19,000 Gen Zers whine that they need therapy — from the stress of filing taxes The Trans-Children Era is About to Be Memory-Holed & the Perpetrators Will Be Disavowing Involvement University of Arkansas appears to follow through with dismantling DEI "This Is Fascism": Machete-Wielding Professor Fired Again Schumer: If We Don’t Aid Ukraine Then ‘We Could be Fighting in Eastern Europe’ That is bs Don't mess with Israeli police We all were lied to – Gaza was a modern developed city before October 7th Who Is Winning the Gaza War? Monday, February 5. 2024Crazy Europe
Europe did not have much to offer the world until the Renaissance in Italy. Given the big world, Europe was sort of a backwater. I should have seen this thing before I took Medieval History in high school because I had no context:
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