Maggie's Farm

You might term it an historical novel but it's not that categorizable. 

I was impressed that he knew so much about apple cultivation, and that he knew what New England weeds had been carried from Europe. Author Daniel Mason is a Psychiatrist at Stanford but that has nothing to do with this novel.

North Woods: A Novel

In New England, Indian Pudding is as essential a part of Thanksgiving dinner as Pumpkin or Squash Pie. Great stuff, if you like the flavor of molasses. It's not just for Thanksgiving.

It's called "Indian" because it is made with corn (maize) meal - the staple food of North American Indians. It's easy to forget that they were not mainly hunter-gatherers, but farmers with 100-acre fields. Farmers, with their main amusement being killing, raping, and torturing members of neighboring tribes. A cultural thing.

Simple rustic ingredients. No sugar? You use molasses. No flour? You use corn meal. The only trick is to make sure it is neither too firm nor too runny. Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream.

Here's a bit of the history of this dessert, with a good recipe.

John 18:33-37

18:33  Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

18:34  Jesus answered, "Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?

18:35  Pilate
replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests
have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

18:36  Jesus
answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom
belonged to this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from
being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from
here."

18:37  Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus
answered, "You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I
came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to
the truth listens to my voice."

Delicious, and Indian roots in the corn (aka Maize): Grandma's Corn Pudding

What did Northern Italians eat before they got polenta from the American Indians?

You'd be hard-pressed to find a turkey in the Northeast 50 years ago. Now hundreds of thousands roam suburbs where they thrill and bully residents.

Notre Dame apologizes after telling hockey fans not to wear green, Shamrocks, ‘Fighting Irish’

Pronoun-Wielding Jaguar Boss Goes On Damage Control After Cringeworthy Woke Ad

For contrast, A Volvo ad

 Uproar at U.N. Climate Summit as Envoys Say Proposed $250 Billion a Year from West Not Enough

Experts Recommend You Avoid Using Heat In Your EV

A Second Trump Presidency is an Opportunity for Climate Science to Reset. Rather
than doubling down on the misguided notion that science is an authority
that can dictate policy, scientists should strive to delineate between
scientific facts and their political preferences

A Look At President-Elect Trump's Picks For The Key Energy Policy Positions

An Unscientific American - Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure
from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers
of mixing facts and ideology. 

Where Have All the Lefties Gone?

Dems Don't Grasp How Fringe and Cringe Their Coastal Elites Are

Why Asian Americans Are Moving Right

"The politicized class of professors is a serious political liability to any party that it supports."

'The View's Not-So-Sunny Hostin Is Forced to Read Yet Another 'Legal Note' Live on Air

Adam Carolla Explains the Problem With Progressives – They Never Stop Pushing and Go Too Far

EXPELLIARMUS! HBO Tells Trans Activists They Have No Power Here

Saturday Miscellany

Denver Mayor Suggests Police May Be Used to Block Deportation of Illegals

Just When You Thought Illegal Immigration Couldn't Get Worse, Biden Does This...

Germans Being German: “You Can’t Say I Hate Free Speech! I’ll Have You Arrested!” Minister Says

The Emperor Has No Brains. America's post-electoral military
escalation might amount to nothing, or it could be the last act of an
empire gone mad. On ATACMS, ICBMs, and more nuclear poker

Gerard was an email pal, and I was a devoted reader of his site American Digest.

Somebody collected a bunch of his essays: The Name in the Stone.

I see that it was neoneo who did that work.

It depends on their ages, doesn't it? 

Still, the leftovers are the best thing. What size turkey(s)?

To Get The Most Benefits, Should You Walk Faster Or Farther?

The new Notre Dame cathedral

Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city

Autism and Myelin

2024: The Year of the Driverless Car

The End of Climate Hysteria

Free Speech will destroy the planet

New Zealand Study: ‘Dearth’ of Evidence Supporting Use of Puberty Blockers

Another Migrant Caravan Departs Southern Mexico Ahead of Trump Inauguration

Indiana AG Opens "Human Labor Trafficking" Probe At Tyson Meat Factory

First Springfield, Then Charleroi, Now Migrant Crisis Swamps This Small Indiana Town

Denver Mayor Declares War on Federal Law: Vows to Use Police and
Citizens to Block Deportation of Illegal Migrants, Including Gang
Members

Crawling Through The Democratic Wreckage

VDH:  The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity

Crazy new innovation from DOGE's Vivek: Making the federal workforce actually show up for work

Trump’s education pick Linda McMahon has a national school-choice mandate

French Farmers Dump Manure and Block Roads in Latest Round of Protests
Against Mercosur Trade Agreement and ‘Green’ Failed Policies

Her Son Went for a Walk. She Was Charged with ‘Reckless Conduct.’

I cried at my vegan wedding — the $15K menu was completely upstaged after guests did the unthinkable

Isn't pizza also veggie?

Mice on remote island that eat albatrosses alive sentenced to death by 'bombing,' scientists decree

"Ozempic users... aren’t just eating less. They’re eating differently. GLP-1 drugs seem not only to shrink appetite..."

 Those meds can be amazing

Poison Food

RFK in the Crosshairs of Democrats, Big Pharma, and Big Food

Taibbi: Let's redefine "fringe"

Update on Jaguar cars

Selling off MSNBC

Harris Campaign and MSNBC Involved in Major Ethics Violation Over $500k 'Donation' to Al Sharpton

‘Utterly naive’: Michigan State U. professor sends entire class anti-Trump email

Commerce Looking To Quickly Spend All The CHIPS Act Money Before Trump Or Something

That's how government works

Now that Trump has won, how to talk to your liberal friends

I avoid politics mostly. At most I say "It'll be ok."

Scholars blast Nottingham U. for content warning on ‘The Canterbury Tales’ due to Christian themes

Why Is the National Book Award Going to a Publisher of Antisemitic Books?

Homan fires back after Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair says group will oppose mass deportations: 'Game on'

Jennifer Rubin's Venom

Jen doesn't know how much she is used for humor

I got banned from BlueSky for committing wrongthink

Why Wasn’t He in Jail? Misguided New York State and City policies helped put yesterday’s stabbing-spree suspect back on the street.

Billionaire Musk foe bankrolls second Trump resistance

Good luck with that

Trump is flooding the zone

Democrats are losing tomorrow’s elections today — as voters flee blue states

'Snowstorms Are a Thing of the Past' Day in UK as Snowstorm Closes Over 200 Schools

Zelensky Admits Ukraine Can Never Regain Crimea By Force

Gee, really?

President of Azerbaijan Boldly Asserts that Oil, Gas Are ‘Gift of God’ at Climate-Cult Conference

‘Jews and homosexuals are no longer safe in Berlin,’ warns city’s police chief

The Daily Chart: De-Industrializing Europe

A few days ago in the USA. What is it?

Is it ok with turkey and stuffing? Yes.

Are Yams and Sweet Potatoes the Same?

How Scientific American's Departing Editor Helped Degrade Science

Wednesday Potpourri

Jen Rubin: It is 1933. Hitler is in power.

Jen Rubin Mad at Morning Joe Now, Too

Martin Gurri: Our Countercultural Revolution - Trump has become the definitive avatar of the revolt of the public. Will he be enough to satisfy Americans’ hunger for change?

Italy and Czech Republic Plead for Nuclear Energy

Trump may save Ukraine. Much will ultimately depend on the United States

VDH: Can Trump End Ukraine's 'Endless War'?

What Happens After Major Cuts In Government Spending? The Latest From Argentina

The clips are painful and embarassing.

Where is Alibaba's Jack Ma?

Why Trump was the candidate for ‘educational freedom’

Cry-Bullies

The tide is turning against the green elites. Western publics are rejecting the self-destructive and immiserating policies of Net Zero.

Speaking Liberalese

What's this with medical care administrators?

University of Maryland to offer ‘Fat Studies’ course about the ‘intersection’ of ‘blackness’ and ‘fatness’

The Guardian: Greedy farmers ‘hoard’ land, but government has a new tax to solve that problem

Leftists Leave X For Bluesky Only To Overwhelm Site With Mass Censorship Demands

Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert

How America's Accurate Election Polls Were Covered Up - The Real Clear
Politics National Average was removed by Wikipedia before the election
and the New York Times denounced its failure to skew data. A solution to
the "mystery" of crappy polling?

Identity Politics Blows Up in the Democrats’ Face

Kamala Spent $100 Million a Week. “We had so much money it was hard to get it out the door.”

Thank Goodness — Joe and Mika Survived Their Trip to Trump's Death Camp

LIBERALS RAGE AGAINST ‘MORNING JOE’ ‘BETRAYAL’ AFTER CO-HOSTS MEET WITH TRUMP: ‘WE WILL NOT FORGIVE’

Can Trump Accomplish His Lofty Goals?

I do not believe in climate data, and the worst is taking a global temperature.

Geography Revealed as Racist

The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate - How an obscure British nonprofit came to influence White House COVID policy and lead attacks on Elon Musk

Some Democrats Are Admitting They Lied Before The Election

Schumer to GOP: Please Don’t Do to Us What We Were Going to Do to You

Climate Change Was the Big Election Loser

The National Debt Just Hit $36 Trillion. Does Trump Have a Plan To Control It? It
would take nearly $8 trillion in budget cuts merely to stabilize the
national debt so it does not grow faster than the economy.

What to expect from Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense pick In Washington terms, he has no executive or legislative experience.

MSM Downplays Need to Tackle Obesity Epidemic to Take Shots at RFK Jr.

RFK Jr. poses with Big Mac and a Coke on Trump Force One

Everybody gets to be Hitler for 15 minutes

Not All Federal Agencies Fear DOGE-Insiders at NASA ‘Welcome’ the Chance to ‘Clean House’

Victor Davis Hanson Analyzes and Explains Trump’s Cabinet Picks as Only He Can

Vivek Ramaswamy suggests Department of Education will be ‘deleted outright’ by DOGE

Simple Competency Would Be a Pleasant Change: Homan Promising Shock and Awe

The History Lesson Democrats Can’t Afford to Forget - Forty years ago
the party was in the political wilderness. Then a band of centrist
insurgents took on the left wing—and got Clinton in the White House.

The Trump Dance

President Trump Dances to ‘YMCA’ at UFC 309 in Madison Square Garden

Biden's Cabinet Nominees Were Completely Unqualified Compared To Trump's

The New York Times Publishes an Article Calling for a Color Revolution In the United States to Block Trump from the Presidency

UMass students hold ‘Walkout Against Trump’

Is Pete Hegseth a Nazi? Are Christians White Supremacists? One News Outlet Thinks So

Education Cmte. will work with Dept. of Government Efficiency to 'cut back waste' in higher ed: Rep. Burgess Owens

Americans in Western NC Will BE Delighted the US Is Building Rail Lines for Lima, Peru

Biden Lifts Ban on Ukraine Using US Arms to Strike Inside Russia

Russian Forces Unleash Over 120 Missiles and 90 Drones in One of the Largest Strikes of the War Against Ukraine

‘F*** Elon Musk’: Brazil’s First Lady Insults X CEO and Gets a Brutal Response

Cuban dictatorship promises worse hardships, threatens anyone who complains with severe penalties

Anti-Zionism’s German Roots - While Islam traditionally treated Jews
with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany
escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.

I like to keep up with how other people see the world, and WaPo columnist Jen Rubin is one of them. But I see nothing but lies.

Does she really believe this? If Republican voters are all Christian nationalists, Hitler fascists, and hate "reproductive freedom", then I am confused.

I've been to Trapani (west coast of Sicily), and have even taken a little boat out to the Egadi Islands to bike around and eat good seafood.

The area around Trapani is full of salt flats which are windmill-filled.

You can buy their Sicilian sea salt on Amazon. Sure, salt is salt and "sea salt" is the same thing but it's fun to use their sea salt. I like the coarse type which does not fit in a salt-shaker. That's why we use salt bowls. I love salt.

Hebrews 10:11-14, (15-18), 19-25

10:11 And
every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and
again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.

10:12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God,"

10:13 and since then has been waiting "until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet."

10:14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

10:15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

10:16 "This
is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the
Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their
minds,"

10:17 and he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."

10:18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

10:19 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

10:20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),

10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

10:22 let
us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our
hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water.

10:23 Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.

10:24 And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,

10:25 not
neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging
one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

My view is that it can't hurt, especially if you work out hard. I take a scoop every morning. Might be placebo effect.

How does creatine work?

I am willing to eat 2 or 3 Brussel Sprouts just for the virtue of it. It's odd, because I do enjoy regular cabbage.

Anyway, our Brussel Sprouts recipe is this: First, freeze them if only for a few hours. Why? Cuz they are better with a little freeze. Then chop in half and cook in bacon chunks under the broiler or in a cast iron pan with salt and pepper.

How do your make them?

Bacon makes everything better.