Monday, September 5. 2022
It is Labor Day in the US, a federal holiday to celebrate unionization. For most people, just a day off towards the end of summer. I am working this morning, and so was the nice cleaning gal at my gym. And the regular folks at Dunkin.
An AI program won an art competition. Does it matter?
College Football’s Twilight. The sport as we know it is changing forever.
Wall Street’s most-coddled generation is in for a rude office-return awakening
Top med school putting wokeism ahead of giving America good doctors
Robots could be the future of child mental health counselors: study
Gender-affirming care for transgender kids is going to backfire: experts
America, Exporter of the Gender Revolution, The Biden administration may begin pressuring other countries to push vulnerable youth into hormones and surgeries.
NY Dem Governor Declares No Such Thing As A “Good Guy With A Gun”…
Her security guards don't count
How science became politicized. New rules from a leading journal do not bode well
So who can you believe?
Yale psychiatrist fails in attempt to get her job back after calling Trump mentally ill
Duke University Volleyball Hate Hoax
Related, Who knew that Victor Davis Hanson was also a comedian?
The ESG Bubble Is Bursting. Politicizing investment decisions was never a good idea—especially for public pensions.
Electric Car Mandates: The Latest Frontier in the Elites' War on the Middle Class
Allahpundit: My Farewell to Hot Air Readers
Biden Banks on Democratic Outrage, Risking Deeper US Divisions
Biden's speech declared war on half the country
I Am a 'Clear and Present Danger' to the Biden Regime (And So Are You)
WaPo:
For Biden, a staunch believer in bipartisanship and compromise, this was a huge conceptual leap. The party of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan has devolved into a menace to American democracy. Imagine what any of those men would think of today’s GOP. And weep.
Reagan is not the devil anymore?
Lori Lightfoot, an extreme left-winger, presides over a sanctuary city. So she should be happy to get a few busloads of illegal immigrants, right? Wrong!
The origins of illegal migrants are shifting rapidly
BIDEN IS PAYING OSAMA BIN LADEN’S OLD AIRLINE MILLIONS TO FLY OUT AFGHANS
Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Sears Talks About Why Democrats Despise Black Conservatives
Russia has shut off the gas supply to Germany indefinitely
Trump warned them years ago. Didn't listen to Orange Man.
Sunday, September 4. 2022
Best pizza I've ever had, at least recently. Pupette and I took Mrs. BD out to a fancy Italian dinner for her birthday but I just ordered the pizza there. Not ordinary pizza.
Very thin crust pizza, like a cracker, burned black on the bottom as I like it, with melted chunks of goat cheese and chunks of peanut-sized chopped and sauteed white truffle, (no sauce), cooked over firewood, then sprinkled with some dandelion greens and thinly-sliced fresh figs and the whole thing splashed with hot white truffle oil.
The smell of it was a meal in itself. I usually prefer a pizza bianco with wild mushrooms, but I suppose I am, unfortunately, a pizza snob. This was better than that.
Mrs. BD had their beef carpaccio as an antipasto. It was as good as you can get in Todi, but without the view. Pupette had their tuna carpaccio with dill and cucumber as her antipasto, then ate half my pizza with a bottle of Moretti. She lost 15 lbs. on her 14 hr/day film job, need to fatten her up before she returns to school.
Truffle oil - and truffle - is one proof to me of God's existence. My hope is that Obama or Bernie will make truffles free for us all, when Utopia arrives. I can't wait.
Pic is a beautiful White Truffle. Cost around $125./ounce.
That is actually "Shrimp-Shrimp", because "Scampi" is the Italian term for cooked shrimp or prawns.
In Italy and Sicily, it's just "Scampi." Not a common item over there though. More common are mixed seafood things with shrimp or prawns, squid, clams, fresh anchovies, cuttlefish, etc.
Anyway, American "Shrimp Scampi" includes, garlic, butter, wine, and parsley. Tasty, even for a shrimp-bored person like me. I'd eat dog kibbles with enough garlic and parsley.
Luke 14:25-33
14:25 Now large crowds were traveling with him; and he turned and said to them,
14:26 "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.
14:27 Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
14:29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him,
14:30 saying, 'This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.'
14:31 Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?
14:32 If he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace.
14:33 So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.
Saturday, September 3. 2022
Readers know that the Soft-Shelled Crab (ie moulting Blue Crab) in all of its forms is perhaps my favorite food. My friends and I would catch them at the shore with bacon tied to string and bring a bucket of them home to Mom. She'd steam the hard-shelled ones, and sautee the soft-shells.
I love the soft-shells fried, sauteed, in a sandwich with mayo, Chinese-style - or anything. A perfect combination of juiciness and crunchiness, and you just eat the whole darn thing feathers and all.
Here's an easy one: Soft-Shelled Crabs on Toast.
Methods of crabbing.
Delicious photos of soft-shell crab recipes.
Soft-shells are often frozen for use through the crab season.
Friday, September 2. 2022
Thursday, September 1. 2022
Migration Time
The Aug-Oct migration of the eastern Monarch butterflies from the US and Canada to one small area in central Mexico is, to my mind, more remarkable than the march of those cute penguins in Antarctica. (Those west of the Rockies fly to southern California.) As they pass through New England, I see them fattening up on my buddleias (photo yesterday), but they have been around the milkweed in the meadows all summer. And that's why birds never eat them - they ingest a nasty flavor from the milkweed and birds won't touch 'em.
Here's a monarch migration site.
And here's something: How do butterflies fly?
Wednesday, August 31. 2022
Just as the male sexual drive and violent impulses can overwhelm their conscience and their ability to think and act rationally, emotions can do the same thing in girls and women: overwhelm their conscience and their ability to think and act rationally.
Ibram Kendi attacks John McWhorter's latest column on standardized tests for licensing
Tuesday, August 30. 2022
Even in a bad tomato year people get plenty of Cherry Tomatoes.
CHERRY TOMATO TART
Sunday, August 28. 2022
Luke 14:1, 7-14
14:1 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely.
14:7 When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.
14:8 "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host;
14:9 and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, 'Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place.
14:10 But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
14:11 For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."
14:12 He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid.
14:13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
14:14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
Saturday, August 27. 2022
Let Djokovic Play
'Trans-masculine' parents of 10-year-old 'trans model' plan for minor's gender surgeries at age 16
Georgetown University imposes mask mandates this fall, against CDC guidelines
Liberal Arts:
According to the course description for “Mental Health, Madness, and Neuroqueerness,” the class will, “critically examine how ideas about mental health and wellness are situated in systems of colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.”
Cornell is evil: Cornell perpetuates ‘colonialism, slavery, racism, classism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism,’ school’s website states
Whiteboards are racist because 'they collaborate with white organizational culture'
Spectator: Nikole Hannah-Jones has taken over the history profession. A professor strays from the woke line and gets slammed
College: Free is Free, Before or After the Fact; Yet, There is No Such Thing As Free
Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree
Penn-Wharton pegs Biden's Academia bailout potential cost at $1 trillion
Big Tech Gears Up To Throw The Midterm Elections
We Now Know The Perfect Temperature For Your Home, Which Is Bad For ‘Climate Change’
Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting
Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan The FBI Told Him To Censor Hunter Biden Story…
Whistleblowers: FBI Leadership Told Agents ‘You Will Not Look at That Hunter Biden Laptop’
With a stroke of his pen before the midterms, Biden forgives $300 billion in student debt, without a care for the dutiful who paid their loans off or those who did not go to college but will now pay for those that did.
Anybody who imagines that the Jan 6th protest was an attempted coup is crazy
Europe Is Now "Powerless" And Its Inflation And Recession Are About To Get Even More Brutal
Thursday, August 25. 2022
Wednesday, August 24. 2022
No, Eve did not eat an apple. It's called poetic license by the translator.
A small mountainside apple originated in the hills of Kazahistan. This heritage apple (in the Rose family) was probably the size of a rose hip.
It took me decades to realize that I don't like apples unless they are cooked in some way. Occasionally a thin slice with some cheese.
Exploring the origins of the apple
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE APPLE TREE
Who was Granny Smith?
Are apples "healthy"? Not much. Mostly sugar.
Tuesday, August 23. 2022
That's one of Mrs. BD's boating T-shirts. She means it too. I caught a little trouble the other day for leaving some fish blood on the deck. I figgered it would rain...
"My House, My Rules" works too.
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