Maggie's Farm

The prospects for Irene in the northeast change by the hour. Last night, she was downgraded but now it's just confusing. However, if she does hit New England hard, don't be surprised if Maggie's is down for a while. As of now, predictions are just "rain and wind" on Sunday, warm and sunny Monday. (That's obviously an old toon from the files)

Storm advice from Ace:

Pull in your lawn chairs and stuff. Prepare for loss of power. Beer, charcoal, batteries, beer, candles, booze, gas, beer, etc.

Bungee cords. Forceps. A large sheet of vinyl. Thirty feet of 1/2" clear tubing. A dead rabbit, two pairs of black pantyhose, a quart of corn oil, a large pumpkin, and a fully charged cordless drill with a size-variety of wood boring bits.

You will need these things. Survival is the word. And, undetectable perversion in early natural darkness. Those are also. Some words.

Counselor Cheers Up Someone’s First Wife By Reminding Them That Their Life Is Meaningless Anyway

Maine's 'Rockefeller' Home Values Make Rich Richer

There ya go, Sipp

McDonald's Unveils New Senior Citizen PlayPlace

Romance Hinders Women in STEM Courses?

As Caltech women are fond of pointing out about their dating prospects in a sea of STEM men, the odds are good but the goods are odd.

Glenn Beck in Israel

Rubin: With Glenn Beck by the Temple’s Walls

Understanding Just How Harmful Obama’s Tax Hikes Would Be

Reason: What Does Opposition to Government Rail Projects Have to Do With Individual Liberty?

Stossel: Almost Everything We're Taught Is Wrong - Using economics to explode fallacies

Business Regulation vs. Growth: The View from Middle America - It has become clear that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been a real deterrent to companies that would like to go public.

Zuckerman: Obama and the 'Competency Crisis' - Like many Americans who supported him, I long for a triple-A president to run a triple-A country.

Excuse me, Mort, but a prez does not "run a country" - not in the USA anyway. And your "longing" is immature.

Poll: 51% still blame George W. Bush for economy

Lifson: Obama's Big Labor Albatross

London’s anti-gun zealots ban children from Olympic shooting events in city ticket giveaway

“Who Lost the Middle Class?”

There’s a major difference, though, between New York and the country as a whole. The New York option—move somewhere else—doesn’t apply to private-sector middle-class workers fighting adverse conditions that exist throughout America. So they’ve exercised the classic democratic right of political action, organizing themselves to compete in elections. The Tea Party is the national voice of the private-sector middle class—despite the demonizations heaped upon it by public-policy elites whose own judgment and competence leave much to be desired.

IBD: Is Higher Education Worth It? Or Is It The Next Big Bubble?

Another Obama Record!… Percentage of Young People Employed Is Lowest Ever

Blame raising the minimum wage

Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation - America's richest people meet to discuss ways of tackling a 'disastrous' environmental, social and industrial threat

I doubt that the world "needs" more people, but I do think it needs more millionaires and billionaires because they buy stuff and invest in new enterprises.

Study on global plant die-off faces questions

Feds reject request to require seat belts on school buses

Maritime Jihad

I think this image is cruel:

Jonah:

Texas governor Rick Perry is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination now, at least in the national polls. Undoubtedly that’s the main reason so many East Coast pundits and Beltway wags are making fun of him. He likes guns! He’s from Texas! He talks funny! He’s a — gird yourself now — Christian! New York magazine and others mock his harmless, Bush-like pronunciation of nuclear (“nuke-ular”). They’re scandalized that he doesn’t go to a golf course to relax, but a shooting range. It’s already a cliché among liberals to describe him as the sort of cartoonish, ignorant cowboy ...