Maggie's Farm

Chick-fil-A Arrives in New York, Gays, Animal-Rights Nuts Hardest Hit

Time to talk about gun free zones

Asian Frustration over College Admissions Deepens

Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity

Will Feminism’s Next Big “Wave” Finally Be the One That Drowns It?

High School Students Revolt After Principal CANCELS ‘AMERICA PRIDE DAY’

California city mayor relinquishes electronics and passwords to agents at SFO - As feds battle over privacy, mayor compares the situation to North Korea.

Nihilist Security Questions

In Las Vegas, Uber and its pugnacious CEO Travis Kalanick really did run into the corrupt taxi cartel bogeymen that they had long claimed to be saving us from.

It's a lesson on how government works

50 Years of Immigration’s Unintended Consequences

The Breakdown of the Black Family - Any attempt to
address mass incarceration has to begin with an effort to tackle
crime—and the social conditions linked to its rise.

Hillary’s Server Is the Smoking Gun!

How 7 years of Obama brought the world from Kumbaya to chaos

Merkel and Zuckerberg Caught on Live Mic Conspiring to Censor Resistance to Muslim Invasion

'Palestinian Authority' breaks silence, condemns... wait for it... Israel for deaths of terrorists

Russia in Syria: Putin Fills Strategic Vacuum in the Middle East

Mark 10:2-16

10:2 Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

10:3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

10:4 They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her."

10:5 But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.

10:6 But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'

10:7 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

10:8 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

10:9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

10:10 Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.

10:11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;

10:12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

10:13 People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them.

10:14 But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.

10:15 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

10:16 And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.

Cool site: Scouting New York

The archives will stay, but now he's scouting LA (h/t, Coyote)

Celebrating Post-Modernism in Journalism and the Media

Hurricane Joaquin Forecast: Why U.S. Weather Model Has Fallen Behind

Hackers steal T-Mobile data on 15 million US customers

Farming in fear

A simple history lesson

The Nazis Wanted to Beat the British With Exploding Chocolate Bars

Psychologist Pours Drain Cleaner in Woman’s Eyes Because She Thinks She Was Meant to Be Blind

More physical mutilation as "therapy"

Is It Sexual Assault to Force a Woman to Shower Alongside the Transgendered?

Whom among us does not enjoy pretty girls in the showers?

Media Narrative: Half-Black Oregon Killer is a "White Supremacist" Was he a Half-White Supremacist?

Mental illness. The press also mentally-disturbed.

The Global Search for Full Pay Students

Guns and alcohol

Michelle Obama Denounces Museums and Concert Halls as Racist

Feds: PPACA risk program may pay just 13% of 2014 claims

They want to bankrupt private insurers

The War of Amazon, Apple and Other Near-Monopolies

Jobs up only for immigrants, +14,000, down 262,000 for 'native-borns'

How Europe’s Capital Became a Jihadi Recruiting Center

Where is the case for co-ed ground combat?

Putin:

“An aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen destruction of national institutions. ... Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster. Nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life.”

Egypt is un-Canadian

Meanwhile, An Islamic Fifth Column Builds Inside America

Plan B for Libya

For Seamus: A Cinematic Homage to Beloved Poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

From a reader on the Connecticut coast. Actually, Seaside Goldenrod. A succulent version of the ordinary, the way Seaside Daisy is.

Two or three of our readers are interested in my "boot camp" activities and progress because it is informative about how trainers approach middle-age fitness these days. It's not much different from how they deal with young athletes.

Fridays are my day for general fitness and muscle endurance. Here's what he had me do this morning:

- 3 minutes of elliptical warm-up (and wake-up), then

- 1 minute elbow plank
- high-rep chest press machine
- high steps
- heavy ball smashes
- rope slams
- low-rep heavy bench press
- pull-ups to failure
- basic burpees
- heavy-hand (kettlebell) farmer's walks to grip failure
- dips to muscle failure

(Repeat the circuit of italicized sets 5 times with only 15-25 seconds between)

- cool down (?) with a couple of minutes on stair machine

That's a tough hour or so for me even without the usual squats with light military presses. I keep trying to remind myself that my breaking point is not what I think it is. I think I'll be able to do my end-of-week general fitness hour without his babysitting soon - but without the heavy bench work.

Tomorrow, he encourages me to begin to add stair machine (I call it stairway to heaven because you can die on that thing) to my cardio day routine to intensify it. It's intense already, but I do what I'm told.

U.S. Passes 4,000 Breweries

Laid-Off Man Finally Achieves Perfect Work-Life Balance

Correcting the New York Times’s Absurd Vision of the Modern Man

Don't Follow Your Passion

The Latest DIY Trend? Sex Tapes

Twitter Characterizes Disagreeing With Someone’s Opinion as “Abusive Behavior”

Mad scientists beat back the politically correct ‘police’

Race-Track Owners Consider Moving One of the Triple Crown Tracks out of Baltimore, and the City’s Clueless Leaders Cry Foul

Oregon bakery owners refuse to pay damages in gay wedding cake case

WaPo: Problem with capitalism is that you have to work

Al Gore: ‘Democracy Has Been Hacked; Capitalism Is in Need of Serious Reform’

Guy made 250 million on "green" scams. That ain't workin, that's the way to do it...

Backfire on the #RICO20 and Jagadish Shukla is imminent; wagon circling, climbdown, dissolution begins

Guy made millions on "green" scams, without working

Did Hillary Clinton Spike CBS' Coverage Of Benghazi?

What if the Refugees Were Blonde and Blue-Eyed Swedes?

Germany's Sharia Refugee Shelters - "Bulk of Migrants Cannot Be Integrated"

PM slams Abbas’s ‘deafening silence’ after terror attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the United Nations and its members

OBAMA LOSES ANOTHER WAR THAT HE 'ENDED' - Afghanistan is turning into a disaster, just like Iraq.

Top EU official warns of rising anti-Semitism in Europe

Coming from the Left and the Muslims, no doubt

The Russian Navy Is Back

China dispatched nuclear-powered submarine on first combat patrol, report says

Iran troops to join Syria war, Russia bombs group trained by CIA

Russia and China want to be players in the world. I don't blame them.

Obama’s Talk and Putin’s Blitz: A Russian Middle East Coup in Three Acts Posted By Claudia Rosett

Digging up New York's Original Seaport:

New clay tablet adds 20 lines to Epic of Gilgamesh

The Dog-Walking Economy - What I learned from a decade in the profession

Sarah Bernhardt - The Invention of Celebrity

Transgender Underwear for Children

Emotionally frail students are draining counseling centers, scaring faculty into easier grading

With so many witch finders now in business, witches will be found.

Why is it so hard to fire abusive prison guards?

Bees trap sheriff in cruiser

New York City Council Honors Ethel Rosenberg

The Thing about Tax Cuts

Clinton's Plan to Mess Up Prescription Economics

Bernie Goldberg: I Didn’t Jump Off the Liberal Crazy Train for This

Jeb Bush campaign death watch begins

Why Hillary’s feminists are suffering from Fiorina envy

Perspective, please, on Hillary Clinton’s e-mails

Muslim Rape 'Misunderstandings' Come to Europe

Enjoy your multiculturalism, Germans.

A market in fake Syrian passports has sprung up

Japan says it must look after its own before allowing in Syrian refugees

The United States Should Stop Treating Russia as an Enemy

Does Obama Have Any Regrets About His Middle East Policy?

This Is How Russia Handles Terrorists: Moscow Releases Video Of Syria Strikes