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Monday, February 21. 2022Life in America: Home music
When I was a kid my Dad was always working on Mozart on the pianny. It used to be the only time I would hear "Damn, damn, damn" from him. Like him, no talent but much desire. Music in enchanting for me, but not as background sound. Furthermore, I am slow to get it. I need to listen to a piece many times to learn what it seems to be about. Many decades ago, I felt that weed really helped me get the idea of listening to music and it was a help. Reading about it too. Anyway, I am long past weed but sometimes like to listen to music at night as a break from reading. However, wifi music is not good enough. I use CDs, a good amp, and fancy speakers. Problem is now that Mrs. BD's decorator friend does not want wires around. Too late to re-wire the house. What to do? Made it to Swan Lake and other Balanchine things at NYCB yesterday. Mrs. BD was enthralled, so that's good.I love the live music. I told her that I was sorry that I still, after all of these years, could not differentiate NYCB from the San Francisco Ballet. She said "Even you can tell great from just OK." They were sold out, of course. All ages. Yes, we missed Sara Mearns. That will have to be next time, but all perfect enuf for me. By this time I should understand dance, but it eludes me. It is one of many flaws.
Those Jacksonville eagle chicks have grownAnd can now eat their own sushi without help
Monday morning linksWhat is President's Day? The Unexpected Reason PEZ Was Originally Invented ‘The Automat’ Was the Coin-Operated Restaurant of the People. The automat, a type of coin-operated diner, was a tourist attraction on a par with the Statue of Liberty and this warm, witty film tells you how it began, how it grew into an institution and a way of living in New York City. Matt Walsh Destroys Woke Gender Narrative With One Simple Question Watching Lia Thomas Win. The transgender swimmer smashes more records at the Ivies. ‘It can’t feel good to know that there’s nobody in the stands who is happy you won.’ Officials Ask for Understanding After Student Writes "Colored" Over Drinking Fountain CDC quietly lowers the bar for early childhood speech development England To Scrap Mandatory COVID Self-Isolation As Hospitalisations Continue To Drop New Zealand, amazingly, has gotten even more totalitarian about COVID Dear Prudence: Dump Your Therapist If She’s Not Hysterical About Climate Change Crackdown Sparks Even More Massive Protests Across Canada, Crisis for Trudeau Zelensky criticizes the allied response to Russia’s buildup. There is no "Ukraine crisis" Sunday, February 20. 2022From today's LectionaryLuke 6:27-38 6:27 "But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 6:28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 6:29 If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. 6:30 Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. 6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you. 6:32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 6:33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 6:34 If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. 6:35 But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. 6:36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. 6:37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven; 6:38 give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back." Saturday, February 19. 2022Saturday morning linksImage via P'line's Week in Pictures How conscious are we of reality? I often have fatigue and brain fog, don't you? I never had Covid though. Making it illegal to do talk therapy with the gender-confused Trade Restrictions on Oysters Get Shucked The Flight of Big Tech. Lethargic, overcapitalized, and resigned to Chinese dominance, Silicon Valley is losing its productive talent to the Midwest and South WSJ: Who Are Those ‘Techies’ Who Spied on Trump? ‘Benevolent posse’ or partisans for Hillary Clinton? John Durham has the answer. The Checkered Past of the FBI Cyber Contractor Who 'Spied' on Trump Cringe Inducing: Kamala Harris Explains The Internet To Audience As If They Are Toddlers… VP Harris Finally Focused on Securing the Border. No, Not Ours—Ukraine's. Whether or there is large-scale fighting in the Ukraine, the key thing is that it won't involve the US Friday, February 18. 2022Friday morning linksDick Van Dyke, 96, dances in Valentine’s Day video with much-younger wife It Turns Out That Ethanol Is Worse For the Climate Than Gasoline Free, State-Run Preschool Worse for Poor Kids Than No Preschool, Study Finds. "If this study doesn't put the nail in the coffin of academic training to little children, it's hard to imagine what will," says psychologist Peter Gray. The Union Map of School Closings - States where teachers’ unions are strongest have been slowest to get back to in-person teaching and to lift Covid restrictions on students. "Revenge travel": As Omicron wanes, Americans eagerly book vacations How to Save Science From Covid Politics. Ten crucial lessons from Dr. Vinay Prasad. Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform A Student Sleuth Found Evidence that Our University Practices Reverse Racism. Here’s Why I Advised Him Not to Publish It Durham scandal: The sheer dishonesty of the media is astounding 11 implications of Durham probe threaten to undermine Biden. This story should reverberate far beyond the next election Hillary Clinton uses a Vanity Fair article as "a good debunking" of the Durham filing Thursday, February 17. 2022Culling books
We are eliminating an overflow of bookshelves and books accumulated over decades. I kinda hate to do it with books (and furniture), but, on the other hand, getting rid of accumulated stuff makes our cabin feel lighter. Found a few jewels on my kids' shelves, along with a few remaining textbooks for the garbage. Examples of jewels: -Intro to Paleoclimatology
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Thursday morning linksEpoch: Day After Fire, Amish Neighbors Raise New Barn - "We’re taught to help each other." Extracurricular Degeneracy at Tulane Professor resigns from APA, says woke ideology drives organization to harmful policies, ‘garbage therapy’ Kling is tough on the welfare state Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Other Groups Declines Authorities Say Seattle’s Public Transit is Unusable Due to Drugs and Crime DHS Official Defends Monitoring Trucker Protests, Linking Terrorism To Misinfo Liberal Media Obsessed Over Russia Collusion but Downplays Durham Revelations It Was Hillary Hoax Hillary Clinton - 'I Am Not a Crook' Two intriguing points about the Durham allegations Are the walls closing in? Durham probe: Media suddenly develops 'laryngitis' after years of pushing Trump-Russia collusion, critics say MSNBC: Americans Tired Of “Woke Democrats” Will Start Voting Republican… Opponents of Critical Race Theory in Health Care Denigrated as ‘White Supremacists’ in Medical Journal Voters Think Democrats Are ‘Focused on Culture Wars’ Because They Are Wednesday, February 16. 2022Wednesday morning linksPhoto: P.J. O’Rourke was America’s greatest satirist and coolest conservative. For two examples, Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics and Give War a Chance MORGAN STANLEY AND PRINCETON WARNED What exactly has happened to the formerly must-read Drudge Report? Don’t Trust Movies Named ‘Munich’ Climate pledges built on flawed emissions data, Post investigation finds - Washington Post My parents fled communism decades ago. But at my elite D.C. university, the ideology is alive and well. Washington Post, New York Times should give back their Pulitzers for Russia-Trump ‘reporting’ Hillary Clinton Spied on Trump Even After the Election -- and I Think I Know Why China's fishing fleets are ruining the oceans Biden Administration Kills Israel-to-Europe Gas Pipeline Tuesday, February 15. 2022Tuesday morning linksThere’s no autism epidemic. But there is an autism diagnosis epidemic 'Meat Supremacy'? Eating Meat Is Part of 'White Supremacist Patriarchal Worldview' Firing the canon - On the persistence of bad ideas. Distort the Present, Rewrite the Past. Following the lead of other major cultural institutions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art redefines its purpose as overcoming the racism of Western civilization. Authoritarian Science and the Case of Hydroxychloroquine. The approach to medical information increasingly taken by authorities and the media is damaging to public health and scientific inquiry. Amnesty International’s Pseudo-Scholarship Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free. I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice. Zelensky’s Game of Chicken Kyiv What Putin Really Wants
Monday, February 14. 2022Monday morning linksAmericans Love The NFL, But Change Is Looming AVI on Rap, Culture, and Politics Not a Single Celebrity Is Wearing a Mask at Super Bowl Including Hypocrite Mayor Eric Garcetti Last Week the “Experts” Admitted Lockdowns Did Not Reduce Mortality Rates — NOW They Admit Masking Was Mostly Worthless Seattle's Soda Tax Has Been Great for…Beer Sales? INSIDE THE BIZARRE HELLWORLD OF MINNEAPOLIS The Jig is up for Transgenderism as Child Abuse Jon Stewart: "Who Gets To Decide What's 'Misinformation' Eyes turn to Hillary Clinton, not Trump in the Russiagate scandal Most Democrats want Hillary Clinton investigated for any role in Russiagate scandal: poll Media Refuses to Cover Explosive New Clinton Spying Story, Covers Hillary's New Hat The dictator’s gambit: What Putin is after on Ukraine Sunday, February 13. 2022Been to church today?We occasionally attend our friends' church's Sunday service (streamed). It is called The Church of the City New York. Fired up for Jesus - lots of praise music. Pastor is as compelling as Tim Keller. He begins talking around the 45-min mark.
From today's LectionaryLuke 6:17-26 6:17 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. 6:18 They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 6:19 And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them. 6:20 Then he looked up at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 6:21 "Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 6:22 "Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. 6:23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. 6:24 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. 6:25 "Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. "Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. 6:26 "Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets." First CrocusSaturday, February 12. 2022Saturday morning linksHere’s Why I’ll Be Keeping My Shoes on in Your Shoeless Home. Why are you assuming that your guests’ shoes are dirtier than your floors? Why not be polite? Harvard students are protesting . . . hummus. What Happens if Government Unions Get Control of an Entire State? Virginia Withdrawing From The Northeast's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative White House Defies Most Governors, Demands Americans Keep Wearing Masks Biden’s New Energy Department Pick Is His Most Outrageous and Appalling Yet A retired Marine 3-star general explains 'critical military theory' Friday, February 11. 2022Tell Ol' BillFriday morning links18 interesting maps to change your perspective on the world Infrastructure Bill Is Bad For Climate Crisis It’s Time To Ask: Did Any Of The COVID Mandates, Closures, Lockdowns Do Anything? Super Bowl mask mandate, California? Better enforce it good and hard Wall Street Opens Its Wallet to Keep Talent. It’s Not Always Enough. What the Truckers Want. I’ve spoken to 100 of the protestors gathered in the Canadian capital. What's happening is far bigger than the vaccine mandates. The border crisis is a big story — that most media continue to ignore The Other New York - Influential books on poverty in the city focus on institutional failure, while overlooking the importance of personal agency. CT middle school's “Pizza and Consent” assignment outraged parents, now called "a mistake" Thursday, February 10. 2022Thursday morning linksHow Guns Made America Great …(and Rich) CDC Begs For People To Keep Hiding From COVID, Even Blue State Governors Are Terrified To Not End COVID… Virginia Democrats Make Masks Optional in Schools After Opposing Youngkin’s EO Ottawa Drops Hammer: Arrests Great-Grandfather for Honk, Sics Child Services on Convoy Increasingly, readers expect their favored news sources to advance their favored narrative, the facts be damned. And many news outlets, beset by immense economic challenges, seem happy to satisfy them to stay afloat. Remember When Eric Adams Was The Sane One? BLM is imploding Hamburglar shows truth of mass shoplifting — it’s not about poor, it’s about money-making thieves There’s Apartheid in the Holy Land, but Not in Israel. Palestinian law makes selling land to Jews a crime punishable by death, often without trial. Wednesday, February 9. 2022Wednesday morning links"A sign at a playground in Moraga, a 35-minute drive from San Francisco, advises parents that rattlesnakes are 'important members of the natural community' and to give the snakes 'respect.'" Well, it is true Duke newspaper editor asks why cop shot patient firing bullets in ER Biden Advisor Anthony Fauci: Forced Masking In Schools Should Continue Until “We Can Feel Safe”… 'Perfectionism,' having a 'sense of urgency' are examples of White supremacy, academics argue Why "Anti-Work" Is Anti-Reality Free-Lunch Economics. Policymakers are wishing away our economic troubles. The New York Times Is Unfit to Be ‘The Newspaper of Record’ Illinois College Students Want Hate-Crime Culprit Expelled — Until They Find Out Who She Is Biden Admin Funding Free Crack Pipes To Promote 'Racial Equity' The estimated cost of California's high speed rail system is now up to $105 billion Minneapolis update, with recreational violence Palestinians: The Human Rights Violations No One Talks About Tuesday, February 8. 2022Sailing alone to HawaiiWith a broken rudder
Tuesday morning linksAnd just like that, liberals hated mountain lions WSJ: Chimps Seen Performing First Aid on Themselves and Each Other Watching My Beloved, Once-Eclectic Library Become Just Another Bastion of Orthodoxy The Transformation of Public High Schools in New York City Slow-Motion Suicide in San Francisco - The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment in which they are helping homeless drug addicts use drugs. ‘It’s handing a loaded gun to a suicidal person.’ Does Pre-K Actually Hurt Kids? THE ONLY ONES BANNING BOOKS ARE CRITICAL RACE THEORISTS Facebook, other tech giants censor inconvenient facts about climate change Opting Out of Whiteness - For decades, immigrants fought to be considered white. Now that trend is reversing. Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it Amnesty International Claim That Israel Is An Apartheid State Is Recklessly Ill-Informed Monday, February 7. 2022Bird poo, and related
It is white because birds handle nitrogenous waste in a different way than mammals. Why do most birds never bother drinking water? Most of their food, unless fully-dried, is mostly water. The fish and red meat those eagles feed on is at least 75% water. Monday morning linksImage via Powerline Were the Beatles Just Lucky? Novel Dating Method Yields New Discovery About North American Rock Art Technocrats Demand Meat Tax To Fight Climate Change CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo completely avoid Johns Hopkins study finding COVID lockdowns ineffective The Destruction of Detroit's Black Bottom. How the zeal for government project housing killed a prosperous black community in Detroit. Georgetown Law Student Protesters Demand Ilya Shapiro Firing, Reparations, Place To Cry, End To “Originalist” Center Germany to raze a 1,000-year-old forest in the name of 'going green' The End of Free-Lunch Economics Some day years from now, we predict, historians are going to look back on the work of the House select committee investigating the events of January 6 and recoil in horror. Video captures the moment SHOPPERS and clerks trying to stop brazen thieves from looting swanky Louis Vuitton store in New York while mall security look on and do NOTHING Public Policy is Blinded by White Supremacist Rhetoric — Just Not How You Think Sunday, February 6. 2022Wet EaglesFrom today's Lectionary: Fishers of menLuke 5:1-11 5:1 Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, 5:2 he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 5:3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. 5:4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." 5:5 Simon answered, "Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets." 5:6 When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break. 5:7 So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. 5:8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" 5:9 For he and all who were with him were amazed at the catch of fish that they had taken; 5:10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who are partners with Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people." 5:11 When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.
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