Maggie's Farm

Who wrote The Story of O, and why?

Sado-masochistic sex fantasies. Shrinks say we all have them, consciously or unconsciously.

Margarine Bootleggers Sent to Federal Prison...and other stories of what happens when the government plays with your food.

Just like transfats. Margarine outsells butter today, but I use only butter.

Black Americans want to move to the South, for opportunity and for the culture

Hansen update: NASA Scientist Accused of Using Celeb Status Among Environmental Groups to Enrich Himself

EU follies: If I were a Greek, I'd be in the streets too

They need to get out of the EU and be free to destroy their lovely country's marginal economy however they chose to do. The German Empire's rules do not suit them, and they don't care much about their economy. "Free the Greeks!" (I can't decide whether to nickname the EU the German Empire or the Holy Roman Empire ll.)

Medical Tourism: A New Rx For Timely, Affordable Care

Self publishing writer becomes million seller

A clever entrepreneur. Story-telling is a wonderful craft.

Dems lost the argument over the deficit, because they never engaged it

Yale's New, Neutered, Anti-Semitism Program

Bookworm quotes this from Shaffer, re Mamet's book:

“But liberalism, Mamet thinks, is dismantling culture. The problem is that “the Left today is essentially an elitist movement, and it has invested a lot of time and money in the idea that they know better.” Elites have been led to think “by getting the grades, and getting into good schools and think-tanks and government positions that they are fit” to reorder society more rationally. But this requires first demolishing the order produced by the organic processes of tradition, democracy, and markets — the culture. Why are some so susceptible to this fatal conceit? “They get out of elite schools being told nothing but, ‘You’re the best.’” Hubris — a dramatist’s area of expertise. (The liberalism of his own elite group, the literati, he blames on “devotion to fantasy — this sort of Manichean view.”)

Left or right, the elites always know what's best for you - and what's best for themselves.