Maggie's Farm

Our post, reposted. Summer is coming up here.

Around here, anyway. It means they have laid their eggs, and do not wish to advertise their presence. It's not just Robins, it's all of the songbirds.

All the same, for the next several weeks the crows will be swooping everywhere to steal the songbirds' eggs and nestlings. They know how to find them. 

In other breaking news, our wrens are back this morning. Welcome home, little friends.

Have not seen a warbler yet but our trees have not leafed out yet -still just tree flowers. Not ornamental, just yellowish tree blossoms spewing pollen.

 One Billion 'Franken-Squitoes' Set To Be Released In Florida Keys 

Cool experiment. It's not to get rid of mosquitoes, just to reduce numbers of one species

Christian Pastor Arrested In UK For Saying Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman

Let the barbarians cancel whoever they like. Poor young Americans are now expected to uphold woke standards on their way to becoming total simpletons

Reading and arithmetic are too white 

VDH:  American Universities Have Lost Their Prestige

More VDH:  How Much Ruin Do We Have Left?

 A Minority Group Triumphs. Liberals Are Upset.

 Rose McGowan calls the Democrats a ‘cult,’ says people should evaluate their beliefs

True, but I don't take advice from celebs 

In the US, COVID hospitalizations are crashing

 Vaccinations are plateauing. Don’t blame it on ‘resistance’

Joy Behar Says She Doesn’t Think A Black Man Understands What Racism Really Is Like In America…

 UNCLE TIM?

I learned from one of those Italian cuisine Youtubes that "fresh" pasta, ie still not fully dried and packaged, is a waste of money. The comment was that "You're paying extra prices just for the water weight."

Not a big fan of pasta, really, because it feels like filling, empty calories to me. Sure, rare exceptions like when in Italy. Come to think of it, though, I do eat Thai noodles about monthly in noodle soup or Pad Thai, so there's that. 

The point remains, though, that pastas were invented for food storage, carb storage like dried beans. They are made to be dried. Sheesh, years ago Mrs. BD and I made fresh homemade lasagna with a pasta machine. Worth doing it once to see what it's like, but after that a waste of time.

12 Ways To Help Your Wife Around The House Without Putting In Too Much Effort

The Mystery Of Why Human Feet Keep Washing Ashore In The US And Canada Has Been Solved

 Masking for the vaccinated as a symbol of ‘solidarity’ is downright dumb

 So congrats to everyone on now having CDC approval for behaving the same way you’ve been behaving for a year outdoors.

More on Climate Change Hysteria 

 Epicurious Will No Longer Publish Recipes With Beef To Stop The Climate Emergency 

 77% support requiring photo ID for voting

Who uses the term "Latinx"? 

 IRS Data Shows Democrats Are Now The Party Of The Rich

MacDonald:  How “Black Lives Matter” Kills Black Americans

 Biden Set To Unveil $1.8 Trillion Expansion Of American "Social Safety Net"

Twenty retired French generals call for military rule in the country if President Macron cannot halt society's 'disintegration' caused by Islamists— sparking political uproar ahead of elections

Two greedy guys reviist the poverty food of the Campagna region of southern Italy.  Their enjoyment of food and life is delightful.

Eating fresh lemons from the tree? It's great. I do that, but not from the tree. Slice up a lemon and eat the slices, peel and all.

The World’s Oldest-Known Wild Bird—Named Wisdom—Hatches Another Chick at 70

She looks good for 70. 

Survey: We Keep Raising the Age That Children Are Allowed To Play Outside. No freedom for kids until they're 11.

We used to have an 11 year-old babysitter 

Myron Magnet: Defounding America - On the erosion of American freedoms.

Deserves a separate post 

 Civic Education Should Unite Americans, Not Divide Us

 Law professor may be fired after personal blog post criticized Chinese government

What? Everybody criticizes the CCP.

 Is School Policy for Transgender Student Bathroom Use Discriminatory Under Title IX?

Sheesh. Is this real? 

 Supreme Court considers whether students can be punished for comments outside class

No - just punish them for anything and everything they say on campus. Again, is this for real? 

Gravity is Cancelled: Professors at Sheffield University Want Disclaimers on Isaac Newton’s Theories for ‘Eurocentric’ and ‘White Savior’ Science

Newton's secret scheme finally exposed 

Syracuse course questions whether academia should stop teaching Shakespeare. Syracuse University is offering a course in the English Department this Fall, entitled “Why Shakespeare? Race in the Academy.”

Shakespeare's secret scheme finally exposed 

 Whites Aren't Hated for Slavery but for Making America and the West

White people are not hated. It's just in-fashion posturing.

 A Mom’s Research (Part 4): Why Are Many Elites Leftists?

A good question. Maybe because they are superior to rubes like me. 

 How Equity Pulls People Down Rather Than Lifting Anyone Up.

With real Equity, I'd be teaching Astrophysics at Oxford 

 Biden's Stimulus Checks "Wreck Labor Pool" As People Get Paid To Stay Home 

Shamelessly? 

 Portland Mayor finally notices people have been burning down his city

Progressive Policy Means Crime without Punishment and Chaos with Anarchy. Used to be let them eat cake, now it’s let them stab each other

When police shoot white people, it's not news 

Police shoot lots of white people 

 JOE BIDEN’S ANTI-AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

Why Iran Negotiations Will Go Nowhere

Biden's Betrayal of Afghanistan

A new book: A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul 

 Earth Day 2021: celebrate abundant sea ice habitat for polar bear feeding and mating

 Deeper And Deeper Into "Climate" Fantasy

 WHY WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY ARE DOOMED TO FAILURE

 Germany and France still having COVID issues. But why?

 Boston employers also unable to compete with enhanced unemployment checks

 De Blasio may finally understand NYC’s crime crisis — but still won’t get serious about it

 Democrat Portland Mayor ‘Done’ With ‘Anarchist Mob,’ Begs Public To Help ‘Unmask’ Rioters

 Los Angeles mayor: On second thought, we need more money for police

 Grade Inflation Is Ruining Education

 Virginia Dept Of Education To Drop All AP Math Classes Because Minorities Are Underrepresented…

Rutgers students provided with 'trigger' warnings in Classics and history courses. A Rutgers professor is using trigger warnings for his courses involving uncomfortable realities of Greek and Roman history.

Commentary:  The Crusade to ‘Mitigate the Projected Whitening’ of Schools

 Tucker Carlson is saving journalism

 Bill Maher’s Audience Cheers As He Trashes Young People With Far-Left Views: ‘Your Ideas Are Stupid’

Ribbon Snakes are long (up to 30 inches), skinny members of the Garter Snake family, found across the Eastern half of the US.

We saw one slithering along a pond edge in New England two weeks ago.  They like to hunt near water and marshes for bugs, tadpoles, etc., but I've seen them sunning on woodpiles a ways from ponds.

Seen one?