Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories

Query failed: 
SELECT  c.categoryid,
                           c.category_name,
                           c.category_icon,
                           c.category_description,
                           c.authorid,
                           c.category_left,
                           c.category_right,
                           c.parentid,

                           a.username,
                           a.username AS loginname,
                           a.realname
                      FROM csg_category AS c
           LEFT OUTER JOIN csg_authors AS a
                        ON c.authorid = a.authorid
           LEFT OUTER JOIN csg_authorgroups AS ag
                        ON ag.authorid = c.authorid
           LEFT OUTER JOIN csg_access AS acl
                        ON (ag.groupid = acl.groupid AND acl.artifact_id = c.categoryid)
                           
                           GROUP BY c.categoryid
 ORDER BY category_name ASC
/ Got error 28 from storage engine

    All categories

    Quicksearch

    Links

    Blog Administration

    Open login screen

    RSS Readers

    Add to Google

    Subscribe with Bloglines

    Monday, October 31. 2011

    Monday morning links

    Just got power back at ye olde Maggie's HQ. Looks like our servers held up with my pre-posts and the other postings. These links are from Bruce, mostly, because I had a productive internet-free, heat-free and electric-illumination-free weekend -


    21st Century baby names


    Shakespeare, Resentment, Self-Education and Thieves


    When women dress as Halloween candy - A faux-ho dressed (or mostly undressed) for Halloween might want to be careful where she turns tricks or treats.


    CSU rolling out online undergraduate program


    State treasurer of MA absolutely shreds RomneyCare, which “has nearly bankrupted the state” and is surviving solely because of federal aid


    Is George Will right about Mitt Romney?


    Moral Lessons from Tunisia


    Samuelson: The dangerous debate over cutting military spending


    The real oil for blood


    Somin: Communism and the Jews


    Occupy Wall Street Shrugged


    Balancing act: Cybersecurity vs. cuts


    The Social Security Lies Are Falling Apart


    Debt: we are Slouching toward the 1930s


    Dems turning against Obamacare


    Carpe on fracking:



    What is worrying is that almost a decade of energy investing hasn’t produced any home runs -- no green-energy equivalents of eBay, Amazon, Google or Facebook. The modest, incremental advances we have seen don’t perceptibly move the needle on the energy problem.

    In the meantime, however, a real revolution has happened in traditional energy -- one that poses a serious challenge to companies and investors betting on alternative energy. This breakthrough is arguably one of the greatest advances in energy production since the 1960s. And it came not from a Silicon Valley company, or from MIT or Stanford, but from George Mitchell, the son of a Greek goatherd who immigrated to the U.S.


    Photo below via Driscoll:


    Posted by Bird Dog at 05:57 | Comments (12) | Trackback (1)

    Trackbacks
    Trackback specific URI for this entry

    PingBack
    Weblog: blogs.dailymail.com
    Tracked: Oct 31, 07:01
    Occupy Wall Street Learning A Randian Lession
    Is it possible the Occupy Wall Street protests might succeed where indoctrination has failed? While the OWS protests are obstensively supposed to show "the people" the evils of capitalism, it is having an unexpected side effect. It's teaching the OWS...
    Weblog: Weekend Pundit
    Tracked: Oct 31, 21:57

    Comments
    Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

    No comments

    Add Comment
    (Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

    By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
    addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

    Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
    [url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

    Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
    E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

    To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
    CAPTCHA

    BBCode format allowed
     
     
    A Chris Southern Consulting website.