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Sunday, June 8. 2025From today's LectionaryActs 2:1-21 2:2 And 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 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 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.' Saturday, June 7. 2025Not as easy as it looksLittle wind, no current, lots of tech:
Saturday morning links Is Jordan Peterson Just Making It Up as He Goes? MIT discontinues Institute Community and Equity Office after review process Why Woke Failed - The movement was based on flawed understandings of human nature. China and American academia Poland Is Resisting the EU’s War on Populism Kremlin Says Threat Is 'Existential' After Trump Likens Ukraine War To 'Two Kids Fighting In The Park' Friday, June 6. 20252024 Port Townsend Wooden Boat FestivalFriday morning links Ordeal of Omaha Beach Cartoon Liberation | Robert Crumb and His Times What Porn Took From Us This Scientist Says MIT Ruined His Life. Now He's Fighting for Redemption. Status, class, and the crisis of expertise Can Anyone Save New York From Its Coming Self-Inflicted Climate and Energy Disaster? TGIF: The Real Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue - Donald Trump and Palestinians at U.S.-Backed Gaza Aid Site Cheer for America, Trump Trump Tries to Save Science Has the U.K. Just Signed Its Own Death Warrant? Thursday, June 5. 2025Thursday morning links How Catholicism Got Cool This Program Is a Lifeline for the Severely Mentally Ill. Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics serve as a one-stop shop for people with psychotic conditions. The Trump-Hating Left’s Worst Nightmare: Things Really Are Looking Up Rasmussen Poll: Trump Approval Up to 53 Percent ‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Have Killed 300,000 People — ‘Mostly Children’ It’s Totally Unfair To Require Climate Professionals To Practice What They Preach Congresswoman Claims Immigrants Are Needed to 'Wipe Our A**ses' Migrants In The UK Are Receiving £1 Billion Per Month In Welfare Benefits The US-Israel Gaza aid plan is working — which is why Hamas is spreading lies about it Kurt Volker to Newsmax: Putin Wants to Keep Fighting in Ukraine Wednesday, June 4. 2025Wednesday morning links "... this generation has been raised on therapy and has had their minds Taught For America - A Chronicle of Failure Voters must fight Dems’ new war on small-town America We Don't Need To Welcome In People Who Hate Us Nate Silver on Why Young Men Are Leaving Democratic Party WaPo Befuddled by Decline in Fentanyl Oh, Bill Maher. So Smart, So Stupid. How the Muslim Brotherhood Is Capturing Europe Tuesday, June 3. 2025Tuesday morning links The author of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, and American Buffalo, David Mamet must be our greatest living playwright. Red-pilled Drones: the newest twist in warfare America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’ CNN's Buried Lede: New Poll Shows Dems Still Cratering Marco Rubio Declares War On The Global Censors Brussels: The Muddy Mirror of a Europe in Crisis Where have all the Jews gone? Jews are fleeing from cities and nations that were once safe havens. Germany self-sabotages again Monday, June 2. 2025Monday morning links Gender Medicine on the Ropes - From the courtroom to the ballot box, the trans movement has taken some hits. Self-Care Didn’t Work for My Anxiety—Medicine Did Climate Attribution Lawfare Hits New Low with 2021 Heat Wave Lawsuit Yale dean emails everyone anti-Trump essay: ‘I know you share my concern’ How Much Plastic Surgery Does a Woman Really Need? New York in Danger of Being Steamrolled by the Rent-Freeze Voting Bloc and Pandering Pols ‘Free Palestine’ Terrorism. Plus. . .Police set up a roadblock into Palestinians Shocked U.S. Aid Is Free, After Being Charged by Hamas for U.N. Aid Sunday, June 1. 2025Letters from a Farmer in PennsylvaniaFrom today's LectionaryRevelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 22:12 "See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone's work. 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." 22:14 Blessed 22:16 "It is I, 22:17 The 22:20 The one who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! 22:21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. Saturday, May 31. 2025Saturday morning links AI and the Death of Literary Criticism Lionel Shriver: I lost control of my body 10,000 Fly to French Riviera to Save Planet How The Blues Brothers Saved American Music About Trump's Counterrevolution Saturday Miscellany The clash within civilizations by Heather Mac Donald What Trump’s Accreditation Moves Get Right - They force progressive institutions to accept current civil-rights law. Mark Steyn's Vindication: A Triumph for Free Speech and Personal Fortitude The Bourgeois Morality of ‘The Ethicist’ MAGA’s Machiavelli: The Quiet Rise of Michael Anton Atlantic’s Goldberg Defends Media’s Silence on Biden’s Decline The Democratic Party's Death Spiral Is Even Worse Than We Thought Why is Trump approval rising? The Legitimate Scope Of Judicial Restraints On Presidential Authority; The Need For Politically Neutral Principles Core Inflation Falls To Lowest Rate In Four Years The Biden Autopen Scandal May Be Getting Worse The Peasants’ War: Why Germany’s Elite Fear the Past Keir Starmer: a bad man who identifies as good Friday, May 30. 2025Website problemsSheesh. We really need a new platform like Wordpress or something. Considering options. Not dead yet...
Sunday, May 25. 2025Goodbye to The Great BooksIt is sad for me that John J. Miller's weekly podcast, The Great Books, is shutting down. Here's one of his most recent interviews about Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night.
From today's LectionaryJohn 5:1-9 5:1 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 5:2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. 5:3 In these lay many ill, blind, lame, and paralyzed people. 5:5 One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" 5:7 The 5:8 Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." 5:9 At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a Sabbath. Saturday, May 24. 2025Bob is 84 todaySaturday morning links
I always have to check the meaning of hermeneutics Goodbye Oakland A’s. Hello Oakland Ballers. Biden Officials KNEW COVID Vaccine Caused Heart Damage and Hid It From the Public Progressives Progress Beyond Polyamory Who has time? Climate extremists make our kids despair — and groom them to join the left’s crusades Hillary Clinton Calls on Liberals to Ruin Memorial Day Gatherings by Bashing Trump to “Friends, Neighbors, Cookout Attendees” Good idea for sure Democrats Considering New Strategy Of Complaining Loudly Every Day About Trump The Democrats: Leadership discredited, party off kilter Saturday Miscellany Federal judge strikes down Trump’s efforts to dismantle Education Department Dershowitz told "American Agenda" that Harvard's Divinity School and Public Health School are "sewers of antisemitism." Bari’s Picks of the Week: May Their Memories Be a Blessing Elias Gonzalez Confessed, Said He 'Did It for Palestine' Want to Reduce Poverty? Teach the “Success Sequence” Any serious attempt to tackle the problem must address not just economics but culture. MinnesotaCare for undocumented immigrants continues to cause problems for Walz LA Hotels Revolt as City Approves $38 Minimum Wage The Sins Of Our Colonizers: Europe's Highbrows Imagine Themselves As The World's New Royalty Germany deploys permanent troops beyond its borders for the first time since WWII China Isn’t Taking Over Manufacturing, It’s Taking Over Retail Friday, May 23. 2025BluesAVI reminded me of this record from 1966. I guess Brits and other white guys introduced lots of people to Blues. Friday morning links Forget AI, students are already cheating their way through exams Can We Trust Social Science Yet? The reasons for Snow White and The Seven Dwarf’s success were evident. New York Times On Climate Change: Two Candidates For Quote Of The Day Congress overturns California’s gas car ban impacting 11 states and D.C. Trump admin accuses Columbia University of violating Jewish students’ rights Trump Admin Blocks Harvard From Enrolling International Students, Musk's 'Biggest Product of All Time' Will Do Your Dishes Who Is Elias Rodriguez? TGIF: Fit to Serve - Biden’s cover-up gets aired out. Trump yells at DOGE Damage Deepens As 'Deep TriState' Continuing Jobless Claims Highest Since Dec 2021 Via Instapundit: Flashback: Jon Gabriel last year: Welcome to protest season, where the Thursday, May 22. 2025Gotta Serve SomebodyBob, this week
Thursday morning links The Atlantic Goes Full Animal House: You F'd Up, You Trusted Us! Why Do Leftists Think That Train Travel Is the Solution to Everything? California’s $100bn railway to nowhere exposes the stunning costs of Democrat incompetence Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S. Citizens A Fired Government Worker Later Sobbed but Couldn't Call His Parents Because of This Hilarious Reason No job is permanent, but I feel bad for people who thought it was 'This Is a District Court—Not a Denny’s': 5th Circuit Responds to SCOTUS in TdA Case and Hoo Boy Marco Rubio Rocks and Will Be President One Day Qatar: Futuristic City, Medieval Morals Meanwhile, in Gaza Trump Challenges South Africa’s President Over Boers Wednesday, May 21. 2025Bird migration and mitochondriaMitochondrial adaptation might be part of what happens to us with diligent exercise, but migratory bird physiology seems to do it best.
Spider DanceWednesday morning links FDA Stops Recommending Covid Vaccine Boosters for Most Americans Ask Your Doctor if Jihad Is Right for You "Renewable" Electricity Champion Denmark Now Looking Into Nuclear Denmark's population is smaller than NYC OpenAI’s Sam Altman rips ‘naive’ critics of Trump-backed AI chip deals with UAE, Saudi Arabia Democrats’ Confederacy of Dunces Trump’s Foreign Policy: An Exercise in Radical Pragmatism "We Have Imported Knife Violence" – Wave Of Attacks Shakes Germany Once Again Resuming Control of Gaza Is a Terrible Idea. But What the Hell Else Can Israel Do? UK, Canada, France Gang Up On Israel, Demand Ending IDF Operation as Hamas Stalls Hostage Talks
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