Maggie's Farm

The ceviche I had in Cabo San Luca was amazing to the point that I claimed I would eat it daily. Yeah, we caught Spanish Mackerel that morning. Fun fishing with my father in law.

While I have that gene that makes cilantro tastes like soap, or gasoline, enough lime seems to counteract that. 

In Portsmouth, NH, I saw a Cod Ceviche on the menu last weekend. Didn't try it, but should have. Any white firm fish or scallops but Spanish Mackerel is probably the best. I have caught one or two in New England too.

Here's one easy Ceviche recipe. 

Still on the road, but less so. Powerline: Not Dark Yet

This is Every Grain of Sand:

Acts 2:1-21

2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

2:2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

2:3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.

2:4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

2:5 Now there were devout Jews from every people under heaven living in Jerusalem.

2:6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each.

2:7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

2:8 and how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?

2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

2:11 Cretans and Arabs--in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power."

2:12 All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"

2:13 But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine."

2:14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, "Fellow Jews and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say.

2:15 Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

2:16 No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

2:17 'In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

2:18 Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

2:19 And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.

2:20 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord's great and glorious day.

2:21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'

The Battle of the Baked Goods

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Space X Team 

Trump's proposed Washington arch gets another review

We are not Rome 

Spencer Pratt speaks 

It Turns Out Illegal Aliens Were Getting Food Stamps in Wisconsin

MSNOW Host Raises Concern Over Speaker Johnson's Belief in Natural Rights

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Two kinds of azaleas, Siberian Iris, Bleeding Heart, little hostas, and lots more not in photo including lots of Bluebells.

Stanley Tucci Wants This 'Gross' Ingredient Banned

I've read that truffle oil, like vanilla, is often fake 

SpaceX Has Picked a Date for Its IPO. Here's Everything Investors Need to Know Before What Could be the Biggest IPO Ever

Prepare for an Earth-Shattering Kaboom As Starship V3 Finally Takes Flight

Babylon Bee Goes on Rampage Mocking Anti-Gun Media, Politicians

The “Pipeline” Problem That Medical Schools Don’t Want to Discuss. Demographic disparities in medical and scientific knowledge show up long before admissions time. DEI manipulation at the end of the process doesn’t solve the problem.

South African Farming Crisis May Trigger Food Shortages Across The Continent

Is Europe Ending Up as One Big No-Go Zone?

Berkshire Trolls The AI Bubble By Buying Macy's

The Homeless Industrial Complex Eats San Francisco For Lunch

Harvard paid Claudine Gay $1.5M in her first full year after resigning

We have the first president to bring down drug prices 

Black Athena rises from the grave - The Oddysey uproar gets even woker.

 California gave ONE nonprofit $1 BILLION. To put solar panels on poor people's roofs. You know how much solar they actually installed

Seattle Democrat Who Welcomed New ‘Socialist’ Mayor Now ‘Gravely Concerned’ About Businesses Fleeing the City

Nicholas Kristof and the Collapse of Journalistic Standards

Cool story

"Sue And Settle": Two Can Play This Game

A bad day to be a terrorist or drug kingpin ....Trump is knocking them over, one after another, like bowling pins.

Democrat voters keep making the same mistakes

Trump’s Border Czar Has a Smart Surprise for Sanctuary Cities Trying to Hide Criminals

SCOTUS Decision Hits Shipping Brokers Like a Ton of Freight

Cuba Falling: What's All This Talk About Drones?

Chicago drug store closure is another case study in Leftist failure

UC Davis festival apologizes for drum circle: ‘cultural appropriation’

NYU Students Demand Cancellation of Haidt as Commencement Speaker Over Opposition to DEI and Cancel Culture

Britain Is Now Policing Thought Crime

Wait, China Is Gonna Buy Oil From WHERE?

Cuba Falling: There's a Lot Going On Right Now. This Could Be the Breaking Point.

I took a Gross Anatomy class long ago. We did not just have to learn every muscle, tendon, and bone in the hand and foot because our Prof was more interested in how they function as systems, smoothly in unison.

One of the first things he taught, before we began cutting up human bodies, was that we higher apes were designed to be quadripeds, not bipeds. The adaptation to bipedalism came with great advantages but with disadvantages too. Like joint arthritis.

The thing is that to stay erect much of the day, instead of momentarily like other apes, we need extra anti-gravity systems - including balance. That's "the core." Well, many people sit most of the day and that's not so good.

So let's accept that all of our body needs difficult movement to remain functional, but the core is the core. Foundational.

What is core?  It is primarily the "posterior chain", from glutes to upper back. Secondarily, to counterbalance that, the abdominal groups of muscles. 

While there are plenty of posterior chain exercises, the mighty mighty deadlift done right is the best single thing for the entire core, posterior and abdominals. Some might argue that sit-ups, crunches, and the like are useful but I view them as accessory core exercises.

This gal's technique is not quite right - knees way too close and back too arched, but I give her credit for being there: 

CIA Whistleblower Testifies That Agency Covered Up Lab Leak at Behest of Fauci

Washington Post Seems Surprised That People With Few Private Sector Skills Having Trouble Getting Jobs

Liberal Outlet Politico: Democrats Trying ‘New’ Strategy of Blaming Trump for Everything

The Latest Bluesky Meltdown

Virginia, Sic Semper Tyrannis?

Mayorkas: It Wasn't My Fault!

The Starmer Drama Continues

However you feel about their creator, TrumpIRAs are sorely needed

‘Weird, totally unnecessary, and absurd’: UVA students raise concerns over tampon dispensers in men’s restrooms

Public School Exodus Hits Texas - “Have you looked at the impact that this decline will have on the teacher retirement system?”

California Farmers to Destroy 420,000 Peach Trees After Del Monte Collapses

The Poll That Should Embarrass the Country: 30% Doubt the Bullets Aimed at Trump

The ‘Very Fine People’ Were Paid - A decade-long distortion, a media megaphone, and the story that reshaped American politics.

Is Spencer Pratt the hero LA needs?

Dog rapists in Israel? 

US Unleashes Another Wave Of Crude From Strategic Reserve As Gas Prices Soar

Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net‑Zero Pretense

It's probably due to the loss of small farms and hay meadows in the Eastern US. When the eastern US was mainly woodlands, they were probably uncommon too.

When I was a kid, Meadowlarks and flocks of Bobolinks were not unusual, especially during spring migration.

The grassland Western Meadowlark has no such problem. 

All about the Eastern Meadowlark 

Reflections on Going Off Into the Deep End of the Pool

Professor quantifies ‘curriculum degradation’ at University of Chicago

A Note on Government Fraud

Union Ad Attacking Spencer Pratt Backfires So Hard It May Be One of the Best Pro-Pratt Ads Yet

Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind

After Losing His Buttocks in Local Elections, Starmer Declares War on 'Right-Wing' and Regular British

Ideological Insanity Has Gotten Way Way Worse In The UK...

Free diapers 

Did Someone Blow the Whistle on Motherhood?

 U.S. women 40+ now have more babies per capita than teens.

When The Mall Turned Into A Party

 Chinese EVs Absent From U.S. Roads, But Parts Under The Hood Are Alarming

VDH: How our ‘new’ Democratic Party is really a blast from the Jacobin past 

The gerrymandering story 

 Europeans Are Also Tired Of Dumb Leftists Ruining Everything They Touch

England: " the Labour Party needs the Muslim vote. Alas for the nominally ruling party, the Muslim vote no longer needs Labour.”

WB Nuthatch, Tufted Titmouse, Goldfinch, Common Nighthawk, Robin, Cardinal,  House Sparrow, Balt. Oriole, Catbird, Grackle, Blue Jay.

Might have more in the morning.

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 Tracking Dr. Fauci’s Fallout

 Wall Street giant Apollo aims to open ‘second headquarters’ outside NYC — in latest fallout from Mamdani’s war on the wealthy 

 The fall of the Golden State - California’s tech elites have virtue-signalled their way to economic collapse.

These Moments Are Why Republican Spencer Pratt Was Declared the Overwhelming Winner of LA Mayor Debate

Round and round the Money goes, where it stops, Everybody knows (into Democrat pockets). Homeless housing and funding in Seattle.

Abby Phillip Is Raging About the GOP's Redistricting Wins

There is never "settled science" 

 Fungal strains in space spark worry

 New York’s Teachers’ Unions Are So Progressive, They’re Even Alienating Teachers

Why Minimum Wage is Maximum Folly

Politics:"I don't want a solution" 

 New York Told Ken Griffin To Leave...And He Listened

 "This disaster was an ideological choice. If states are the laboratories of democracy, cities had become its meth labs."

What states have lots of DEI in education? 

 Josh Shapiro’s Message to Fetterman Carries a Familiar Party Warning: Conform

 TGIF: Too Crazy and Not Crazy Enough

Marco Rubio is a rock star in the Trump admin – and making himself a serious candidate for prez in 2028 

We’re Saved: Amsterdam Bans Ads For Meat And Fossil Fuels

Tracking Dr. Fauci’s Fallout

 Area Where Zohran Mamdani is Planning to Build Government-Owned Grocery Store Already Has 45 Markets Within Walking Distance

 Iran Spox Blasts 'Unrealistic' White House 'Wish List'

 Mass Migration Doubles Modern Day Slavery in the UK - "Slavery in the UK is at record levels"

That's all I have today