So I’ve reformatted the name of my almost weekly list of random stuff from the net. It will now be called the “Firkin” and my “Grill” is now the “Bar & Grill”
Perhaps I’m just feeling a bit “Ole English” but I wanted to make this a bit more “sophisticated” sounding.
When I heard about this new place town called the “Firkin and Wolf” I thought “What the heck is a Firkin?” so I looked it up and well a “Firkin” is an old unit of measurement for Beers and Wines. Since I wanted to change the name of my “Grill” Section to “The Bar & Grill” the name seemed perfect, I want this to be a section for humor, random fun stuff, and the opinions about news items that you only share with your good friends, so raise your glass for a toast to my new site and have a pint with me.
Item! Maybe gay’s really are born that way. Some interesting and little know studies on that here
Item! It is interesting to see an ant-Islam push in Europe like this one, however, while I applaud the idea, do we want the post-modern world that they are attacking Islam for being against?
“In doing so we must be alert to the trap of reaction. Reactionaries are defined by their enemies, and thus become trapped in their enemies’ constructions, false dichotomies, and unspoken assumptions. Rather than rejection, the key word is transcendence. The end of liberalism is achieved through its transcendence, its relegation into irrelevance.
Given the confusion of our times, it must be stressed that tradition is not about returning to an imagined past, or about reviving a practice that was forgotten so that it may be continued exactly as it was when it was abandoned. There may have been a valid reason for abandoning a particular practice, and the institution of a new practice may have been required in order for the tradition successfully to continue. A tradition, once rediscovered, must be carried forward. Continuation is not endless replication.” – Alex Kurtagic
First off yes, I have not been posting as often as I’d like but I did get my BFA application in so I have my fingers crossed. I do have some posts in the works, hopefully I’ll have time to get one or two up this week. In the meantime we have some catching up to do don’t we so let’s get cooking.
Item! “Something to think about. We should ever examine the “god” we worship. Is it the true God, or is it a distortion, a projection, a “demon,” indeed? The “God” we worship says a lot about us, about our own character. Can we at least get the character of God straight, or, would that mean we’d have to get our own character straight first?” – David Yeagley
“Unfortunately, however long the pedigree of repetition such defenses of the food stamp program (now called SNAP, for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) have, they simply reiterate the same basic misunderstandings when it comes to food consumption, nutrition, agriculture, and its effects on income and job creation.
The food stamp defense uses the magnitude of food stamp benefits to dramatically overstate the increase in food consumption. The reason is that food stamps are equivalent to cash for almost all recipients, because virtually everyone would purchase more food than their food stamp allotments, even if they were given cash. So, for the vast majority, food stamps simply replace money that would have been spent on food anyway, freeing that money to spend however they choose.
Other than higher administrative costs, the result is the same as giving them money.
Even for the few families for which food stamps might raise food expenditures compared to cash, their nutrition effects are misrepresented. Studies find little difference between the nutritional adequacy of the diets of low- and high-income families, so that the problem is vastly overstated. Added food spending also often fails to improve nutrition, as less nutritious but more convenient pre-prepared food is substituted for healthier home-prepared food. Further, obesity is a more common problem among low-income families today than lack of food. Therefore, trying to force recipients to consume more food than they would otherwise by giving food aid instead of cash would, to the extent it was successful, do little to improve nutrition, but would worsen obesity problems. That doesn’t seem very “essential” to Americans’ well-being.” – Gary Galles
Item! “For policy purposes, a more appropriate index of segregation than dissimilarity is an index that describes the “exposure” of African Americans to the majority white population. By this measure, segregation is today greater than it was in 1940, and has remained mostly unchanged since 1950. As John Logan and Brian Stults of Brown University’s US2010 Project have shown, in 1940, the average black lived in a neighborhood that was 40 percent white. In 1950 it fell to 35 percent—where it remains today. This average, of course, aggregates data from many neighborhoods where blacks have virtually no exposure to whites, and others where integration is advanced. Nonetheless, by this measure there has been no progress in reducing segregation for the last 60 years.” – From this article.
School is back in session and I’m hard at work on my next series so expect to see some new pics up soon.
However with school out and my back log of blogs wiped out from last week I won’t be updating too frequently until this summer. However I will try to do something each week besides the In ‘n Out Burgers, speaking of, I think they are done…..
Item! I’m not sure if it is Feminism per say that has caused sex to be so materialistic in our society, like it is described here. However, I am sure that it has not helped one iota.
All right guys I’m back from a brief hiatus. School started up again and I wanted to get every thing in order, however that has not prevented me from grilling up some nice new and tasty Burgers for you. So please enjoy, and stay tuned this week, I’ve got some new stuff in the pipe waiting to be posted, beyond the normal musings, I’ll have a post about some bash scripts that I wrote for my Arch Box. Also in the more long term I hope to have some kind of video posted about how to do simple stuff like updating your box before you shut it down with bash scripting.
Item! Ron Paul will never be my “perfect” candidate. He has some things that I disagree with him about, just like Matt Parrott but like Parrott’s article here, I support him because he is the only candidate fighting the Neo-Con establishment, also he is the only candidate who “walks the walk”
Ok so I’ve been gone for a while but now I’m back and kicking. I’ve got a new series to show you, I’ll be working on getting the pictures formatted for the “interwebz” tonight along with my artist’s statement to be posted here under the Art Page.
Item! On the one hand she is vulgar in her speech and not someone the alt-right movement should hail as some kind of intellectual champion, but in her own way, the “Epic” Tram Lady is, hopefully, showing that there are a growing number of people who are waking up to the “rich tapestry” of modern London
Item! I’m getting tired of this one local news caster and her whole anti-bullying BS. Yes kids should not pick on each other, but if kids are unable to either stand up for them selves, turn to their parents for help, or figure out how to use the “BLOCK” button. Then its really not my problem to pay for parents who can’t parent and expect the schools to do it for them. (sorry; rant)
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