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Monday, July 10. 2023

Oyster Ice Cream?

Much as I love a Wellfleet Oyster, I'll draw a line at Oyster Ice Cream. Or any seafood-flavored ice cream.

A History of Ice Cream

Yes, I know the ancient Egyptians made sorbets. Ice from Lebanese mountains.

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Monday morning links

Looks like Indian leaders would like a word with Ben & Jerry's..

Anglican Leader Says Opening Of Lord’s Prayer Is ‘Problematic’ For Some

Not from the Babylon Bee

IS HOLLYWOOD WAKING UP?

Who cares?

Forty percent of Brown University students say they are LGBT, suggesting social contagion

No, people are bonobos

My Research on Gender Dysphoria Was Censored. But I Won’t Be.. Trans activists forced the retraction of my paper. Their efforts have redoubled my commitment to the truth.

“Domestic Abuse is a Severe Crime”: British Parents Could Be Prosecuted for Refusing to Pay for Transgender Treatments

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

Destroyed Solar Panels In Hailstorm Will End Up In Landfills Because Recycling Isn’t Economical

New York Times Columnist: It’s A ‘Problem’ For U.S. If ‘Elites’ Censor Speech

The Infantilism Of Totalitarianism - Why the Meta-Facebook-Threads effort to make language safe is so dangerous

Biden Has Spent Nearly 40% of His Presidency on Vacation

It's for the best

Los Angeles’ anti-homelessness drive is doomed to fail just like NYC’s

Cuz it's not about housing

Narrative Collapse: Tucker Carlson Says Capitol Police Chief Admitted 'Jan6 Crowd Was Filled With Feds'

A Showdown Is Coming Over Freedom of Expression in Europe

The EU's Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?

Biden's Ukraine policy is a cluster, alright

Biden admin: Child-killing cluster bombs are only used by ‘war criminals,’ until they’re used by us

French Riots Show That Decades Of Mass "Colonizing Immigration" Could Lead To "Collapse", Says Former Head Of French Counter-Intel Agency

French President Blames ‘Video Games’ Instead of ‘Islam’ for Riots

In the most recent waves of immigration, Sweden has let in more refugees and people claiming to be refugees, as a share of population, than any other European country. It is coping with the consequences.

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Sunday, July 9. 2023

What 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' Teaches Us About Filmmaking

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From today's Lectionary

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

11:16 "But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,

11:17 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'

11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon';

11:19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."

11:25 At that time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;

11:26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

11:27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

11:28 "Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

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Saturday, July 8. 2023

Cool moves by Magnus Carlson

h/t AVI

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Saturday morning links

Quote via Moonbattery

Humanity Should Split More Atoms. The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.

Oregon’s Castration Machine - A public hospital in Portland is using a robot to create artificial genitalia.

Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts

American Wokeness Invades Britain’s Schools. Katharine Birbalsingh, principal of a ‘free school,’ says identity politics makes it hard to educate minority youths.

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

Of course DOJ meddled with Biden foreign money

Banned books?

All I know that is banned is porn in grade schools

Karine Jean-Pierre: Racial preferences are an ‘important constitutional right’

France’s Number One American Import - In France, the demand for racism outstrips the supply.

Bonus:

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Friday, July 7. 2023

Who is the arbiter of truth?

The Nation: A Federal Ruling Restricts Oversight of Social Media. A Trump-appointed judge imposed limits on the Biden administration’s contact with online platforms, potentially opening the floodgates for unregulated misinformation.

Sheesh, they are serious.

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Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?

Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are.

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Friday morning links

Guy rescues sea turtle

Nurse Fired for Not Calling for Help After Having Sex with Dialysis Patient in Her Car

Self-esteem: good or bad?

The sexual harassment rules keep changing. Am I too old to understand?

TGIF: TGIF: Hocus SCOTUS - The left hits out at Asians. The gays turn away from DeSantis. Biden’s Big Tech romance is suddenly on the rocks. Plus, MTG, NFTs, and TMI from the de Blasios.

Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine – Journal Removes Study Within 24 Hours

Mothers Swing at CDC for Equating Male Nipple Secretions to Breast Milk

The green mafia loses its collective mind. Despite crazy predictions that have failed to come true, the insanity around climate policies keeps getting more extreme

TAKE THESE CHAINS FROM MY HEART

... lefties and their media claimed that barring the government from advocating censorship was interfering in its free speech.

Deep thoughts from Kamala Harris

Meta Launches Data-Harvesting Twitter Clone, Immediately Starts Censoring

Guardian: Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse

US Army exempts trans service members from physical fitness standards

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Thursday, July 6. 2023

What good does drug enforcement really do?

I feel that drug abuse is a terrible life plan, but what good does enforcement do? It's a serious question.

After 50 Years, the DEA Is Still Losing the War on Drugs

Seems to me that all massive enforcement could ever do is to raise the prices. There are always customers. As I have said before, I had fentanyl once, for a routine colonoscopy. Sheesh, it was pleasant.

What's your plan for drug abuse in the US, given that most abusers reject treatment?

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Wagyu

Well, I have had good Wagyu a couple of times. It's like foie gras, but to make a regular prime thick ribeye even better, use plenty of butter. And don't grill it.

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Thursday morning links

How to get blocked by @PETA

Do you belong to a sex club? If so, do you claim your sex club dues as an expense on your income tax?

Ben & Jerry’s ugly 4th of July tweet shows why woke brands fail

Reports on judge halting Biden admin's ability to censor Americans go full state media

Should be a big deal. Governments have little incentive for truth.

Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.

MSNBC hopes to Make Fascism Great Again with full-throated advocacy for government censoring Americans

"Orwellian Ministry Of Truth" Busted - Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies

"It doesn’t quite have the ring of driving Miss Daisy, but on Independence Day a federal judge enjoined the Biden administration’s communications with social media companies. You can tell this is good news by the dyspepsia of the New York Times..."

Say Farewell To The "Diversity Benefits" Rationale For Affirmative Action

The Downside of Diversity

Heather: A Battle for Cultural Survival - In the face of the Left’s hyper-aggressive transgender ideology, conservatives must reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms.

America traditionally had few immigration restrictions, but since the 1920s, the law has banned most aspiring immigrants. Today, fewer than 1 percent of people who want to move permanently to the United States can do so legally...

After years of hearing immigration downplayed by official apologists, the French now realize just how much mass migration has changed the country...

Af ter 1,000 Buildings Burnt, 5,600 Vehicles Destroyed, 3,300 Arrests, Government Vows to Crack Down – On Free Speech

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Wednesday, July 5. 2023

The good old days in Maine

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Boating in fog

I would never boat in fog on purpose. Commercial fisherman do it all the time - no choice. Furthermore, they know their waters by heart.

Got stuck in a fog bank this morning for an hour or so. Not fun. Where would recreational boaters be without GPS? I do have radar but not expert with it. I am a fair-weather boater. Not in the past, but now.

Navigating In The Fog - When the heat of summer rolls in, humid air and cold water create a dense fog that blankets the coastline.

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Wednesday morning links

Scientists find that the boost you get from a morning coffee can’t be replicated with plain caffeine.

Great White Sharks Are Surging off Cape Cod. Cape Cod has quickly become one of the largest white shark hotspots in the world and the first ever in the North Atlantic

Elizabeth Warren Says Without Affirmative Action, A Native American Girl Like Herself Would Never Have Been Accepted To Rutgers

No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work. The Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate affirmative action hits workplaces as diversity initiatives face pressure from supporters and skeptics; ‘Stop being so woke’

Don't Get The Idea That Internet Censorship Is Diminishing

Michigan Hate Speech Bill Would Make Using Wrong Pronouns A Felony With $10K Fine, Prison Time

NY Times opinion: Affirmative action mattered a lot for very few and very little for most

White Penn State professor who resisted race-based grading files discrimination lawsuit

Villanova University declares LGBTQ+ identity "sacred"

Bisexuality Has Nearly Quadrupled in the U.S.

Colleges should apply affirmative action—based on needs, not race

WILL THE SUPREME COURT DISMANTLE THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE?

Leftist mag Mother Jones: Let's celebrate govt. bureaucrats on Fourth of July

Paris Resembles War Zone as France Endures Sixth Night of Migrant-Driven Rioting

The Guardian's view on the riots in France: a grim tale of the growing gulf between haves and have-nots

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Tuesday, July 4. 2023

Boats and thunderstorms

Your microwave is a Faraday Cage, and other good advice.

I've been boating in thunderstorms. Not recommended.

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Happy 4th

We are lucky to have readers all over the world. To all of our American readers, Happy 4th of July.

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Monday, July 3. 2023

Sunspots reach a high

I blame climate change.

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Do you know how to make an alternator?

Even in theory? Much less a marine alternator...Yeah, we had to make a little one in Jr. High School Science. Fun with wires and magnets and stuff. But a functional explosion-proof marine one? God forbid. A/C current is cool.

The people who design and make such things are smarter than I am.

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Of course that was not a Roman pizza

That Pompeii fresco could never have been pizza as we think of it. Sure, humans have put stuff on breads since bread was first made because bread alone is boring. It probably was like focaccia with stuff on it. No tomato or mozzarella though. Maybe fruit, oil, herbs.

Pastry stuff less boring, as in our galette post yesterday. Looks like a pizza.

While the typical Italian-American "tomato pie" is what Americans tend to think of, pretty much anything can be cooked on a pizza crust. In Southern Italy and Sicily, the menu will have 40-50 choices, most without tomato. Consider figs with goat cheese.

Or, in my photo from Sicily, egg and olive with pureed red pepper.

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Reposted: The interview with Bari Weiss

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Monday morning links

Some US cities are replacing 4th of July fireworks with environmentally friendly drones

Isn't the noise the thrill?

Success Academy smashes Regents AND lefty lies on standardized testing

Wow. Do NYC charter schools admit any white kids?

RFK Jr. denounces Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action

Hmmm

Musk's Tweet-Limiting Move Is To Prevent The Completion Of The "AI-Censorship-Death-Star"

And Just Like That, Sex Talk Comes to Work. Younger workers have less sex, but they talk about it at the office

I'm Afraid We Have To Talk About "Her Penis"

The trans revolution, the most startling and unforeseeable in human history, is all the more remarkable for its scientific illiteracy and philosophical incoherence.

Defiant Harvard vows to continue to use race in admissions decisions

Of course. They do not want to be an all-Asian school

The shoplifting epidemic taking over America with a $100B annual price tag

Asian Americans Celebrate Affirmative Action Ruling With 5-Minute Study Break

More gloomy news from Biden! White House backs plan to BLOCK sunlight from hitting surface of the Earth in bid to limit global warming

Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of CHALK into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and slow global warming

EVs pay no gas taxes

LIBERALS BECLOWN THEMSELVES IN REACTION TO SCOTUS DECISIONS

Winsome Sears Nukes Ketanji Brown Jackson's Dissent: ‘Chosen Because She’s Black’

Michelle Obama rage-tweets about blacks being oppressed -- from a fancy Greek yacht vacay out in the Mediterranean

THE FRENCH RIOTS: WHAT HAPPENED?

France Has Fallen: Migrant Mob Torch Mayor’s Home, Wife and Kids Injured Escaping

The Wagner 'Coup' Was Staged by Putin—and the West Fell for It | Opinion

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Sunday, July 2. 2023

Summer dessert: Fruit Galette

It's like a fruit pizza, with pastry dough.

As reader commented, "easier than pie."

Recipes here.

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The 80/20 Rule

It's not a law, it's a rule of thumb. What is the Pareto Principle?

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From today's Lectionary

Genesis 22:1-14

22:1 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."

22:2 He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you."

22:3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him.

22:4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away.

22:5 Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will worship, and then we will come back to you."

22:6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.

22:7 Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

22:8 Abraham said, "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.

22:9 When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

22:10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.

22:11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."

22:12 He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

22:13 And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

22:14 So Abraham called that place "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."

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