Jim

Reg,

The squatters of Beverly Hills.

It doesn’t sound like there are any good people in this story at all.

Nevertheless, the concept of “squatter’s rights” under new laws has been used against hard-working good homeowners and it can easily happen to anyone who has been a victim of Identity Theft who gets their name copied from public…[Read more]

I was wrong. Admitting that makes me strong.

“Shoo-fly pie began as a crust-less molasses cake called centennial cake in 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. There is no evidence of it being made before the American Civil War.”

Unseen you are given the responsibility of a…[Read more]

Those ingredients in Shoe fly pie make me think it is a war time recipe. Where is the beef?

Here is Grandma Shumway’s world famous recipe.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/15853/my-grandmas-shoo-fly-pie/

And here is that song you never knew but longed to hear.

@ Jake

I checked and there’s no such thing as a “shoe fly,” but if there was, I think I’d decline to have a slice.

I remember that key lime pie from Publix.

My oh my that key lime pie twice as yummy as shoe fly pie.

@theencogitationer –

Blood Pressure and A1-C (which includes cholesterol, blood sugar, and enzyme levels) are very important, I fully agree. I aim, usually with success, to keep both readings in a normal range.

However, BMI, as well as the means of measuring it, I am not yet sure about.

I fully accept the not too scientific nature of the BMI.…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
As with firearms, defibrillators are only as good or as bad as the hands and minds of the rational, moral agents who use them. And you’d want to stop the bleeding before using a defibrillator at a crime scene, terrorist attack, or war zone.

Talk about missing the point. Was I seriously proposing everyone carry around a d…[Read more]

Stega,

Be safe, don’t overexert yourself in the snow, and keep the mind active against “cabin fever.”

We’ll know something is wrong if we see an entry that keeps repeating:

“All work and no play make Strega a dull girl.
All work and no play make Strega a dull girl.
All work and no play make Strega a dull girl…”
🥶 😉 😁

Unseen,

See the movie science myths article in the new secion I created on Mythbusting.

As with firearms, defibrillators are only as good or as bad as the hands and minds of the rational, moral agents who use them. And you’d want to stop the bleeding before using a defibrillator at a crime scene, terrorist attack, or war zone.

As for “Black…[Read more]

On Frans de Waal (from The Guardian)

The honor he was proudest of, however, was the Ig Nobel prize – awarded for research that “makes people laugh, then think” – he won in 2012 with a colleague, Jennifer Pokorny, for a paper showing that chimps can recognize each other by their bottoms.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal.

I was sorry to hear of the death of Frans de Waal.  He was much more than a primatologist.  He gave me several fundamental insights into moral philosophy as well, about natural normativity and the evolutionary basis of competition.  He was kind enough to reply to on…[Read more]

I suspect more lives would be saved if everyone had a defibrillator with them than if everyone carried a gun.

Unseen I love this!

@ Enco

I suspect more lives would be saved if everyone had a defibrillator with them than if everyone carried a gun. There is no lack of evidence that countries where gun carrying is rare have far, far, far fewer gun homicides.

One can’t form rational public policy based on black swan events.

So, what is a “black swan event”?

Here are the key…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Oh, and no one in Moscow could shoot back, so chalk another one against Putin and a Russian legal system that doesn’t recognize a right to keep and bear arms.

Thanks Reg!  We’ve had a bit of snow here so I’ve been digging out my car.

Obliquely related to this week’s sermon:

The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.

Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in countries such as the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.

(source)

Reg,

Innocent Russian civilians are victims of both Islamifascist terrorists and of Putin thinking he can somehow have Muslims as allies in his Revanchist aspirations towards Ukraine and the former Soviet Empire.

Little does Putin realize that Islam, too, has it’s own global aspirations baked right into the very Qu’ran which Putin doesn’t want…[Read more]

The pathetic apologetics of Islam is dismantled.

How many ways are we failing Muslims by coddling them? Whose interest do we serve in doing so? By making it anathema to criticize the precious ideas/beliefs that keep so many in ignorance and sustain a depraved morality? And this while women, LGBT and other less than equals are oppressed.

Was…[Read more]

Have a great week Everyone!

Thanks Strega and Unapolgetic for the links.