Maggie's Farm

Snow and wind headed to Yankeeland. A Nor'easter. Don't be surprised if our servers go down sometime tonight or tomorrow. As it is, they are just held together with baling wire, duct tape, and hope. New England Yankees are cheap - we always just patch it up. Anyway, how soon before an early snow is blamed on global warming?

Where are the ducks?

Nekked lady hunters want to know where to find a good duck

What is a Swamp Yankee?

Swamp Yankee is a colloquialism that has a variety of meanings. Generally, it refers to Yankees or WASPs (northeasterners with English colonial ancestry) from rural Rhode Island and nearby eastern Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts. The term "Yankee" connotes urbane industriousness, while the term "Swamp Yankee" signifies a more countrified, stubborn, independent and less refined subtype.

That would be us, more or less, I think. I have plenty of ancestors buried in Kingstown, RI.

Lee Siegel considers the weird comedy of letters between T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx

In the Holy Land, a changed Christian world

Howard Stern talks to OWS

Prof: People who come to the nuisance should not be heard to complain

A college-loan scam - Schools gain, families get debt

Many retirees feel they have ‘paid’ for benefits through their payroll taxes. This is much closer to being true for Social Security than it is for Medicare

The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians

Greed: Obama Skirts Own Fundraising Rules as Small Donors Flee

The Global Moral Hazard Dawns: Merkel Says "It Must Be Prevented That Others Come Seeking A Haircut" As Ireland Cuts GDP Forecast

Ohio ballot measure raises Democrats’ hopes for 2012

New York: Public Employees Busted in Retirement Scheme

Democrats increasingly down on ObamaCare

Can You Be Guilty of Insider Trading Without Personal Gain?

Occupy EPA, Not Wall Street

James O'Keefe Scores Another Hit On the New York Times, Jay Rosen, and Clay Shirky.

What I find most dispiriting is not the decline, which as Gardiner notes is not yet irreversible, but that over 40% of the population still approves of the job Obama is doing.

The Facts of Life Are Conservative, Even in Zuccotti Park

The Same Washington Post That Got Marco Rubio’s Story Wrong, Attacks Him Again

Scared he'll be the VP candidate

Paul Ryans' speech at the Heritage Foundation:

Insty:

TRADERS TALK BACK to OccupyChicago.“Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work until 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.”

Ha! Joke’s on you, dudes — the Occupy folks don’t have jobs.

Foulk Manifesto:

There’s lots of talk about self-reliance, and depending on one’s self to get along. Nice thoughts, when you are getting along. Not such a good proposition when you have to spend your last bucks for gasoline to drive to the church’s food pantry to feed your family.