Maggie's Farm

As editor of this eclectic site, I am sent interesting links from contributors, readers, friends and family, etc. daily. Not to mention links we all appropriate from other sites without deserved acknowledgment.

As a Dog Days experiment, I'd like to ask our folks to directly post their links onto the website whenever they feel like it.

Run the links through Notepad first though, or the font will be screwy.  Sort-of the way Instapundit's contributors do.

It will lighten my load, and, remember, besides the $300 k I get annually from Dunkin (just kidding), this is not a paid job and my life is busy with fun, and with some difficult challenges, always. And yeah, I am not retired and never want to be. (Mrs. BD complains that I can not learn to relax. I hope I never will, although I do read at night in bed.)

In July and August, we tend to run a fair number of re-posts. Our contributors are welcome to repost past stuff that would be interesting.  Especially on weekends.

 So the vaccinated are "running out of patience," eh?

The Fastest-Growing Group of American Evangelicals - A new generation of Latino Protestants is poised to transform our religious and political landscapes.

 Troubling Debt Loads At Graduation And Useless College Degrees

 Why Are We Selling Farmland to China?

 It's About Time We Stopped "Trying Communism"

 NYPD Brings a Reckoning on Leftists Who Seize Property and Call Them 'Slavecatchers'

 Democrats Realize There Are Consequences to Their Actions

Nightmare Scenario? Experts Suggest Contacting Employers for Offensive Posts

Yale:  The Roots of the Elite Left's Attack on Freedom

The Left Allows No Deviation From Orthodoxy

IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY ILLEGAL?

It’s Fun Watching The Press Humiliate Itself

 1.8 Million Americans Have Turned Down Jobs To Stay On Unemployment

 COVID has become a media-driven panic disconnected from facts

 Pope to UN Forum: Hunger Is 'Crime' Violating Basic Rights

 Democrats Want To Legalize 8 Million Illegal Aliens…

Better Red Than Taxed - As government revenues rebound, GOP-led states are cutting taxes while Democratic states ponder increases.

 It's Official: The NSA Unmasked Tucker Carlson

UK:  Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim

 The Guardian view on Haiti’s turmoil: long-term solutions are needed, not an imported fix

A wonderful career

 Jackie Mason was a Jewish American comedy icon. These videos show why.

 Substack: Last, Best Hope for Free Speech

 The National Association of Scholars upholds the standards of a liberal arts education that fosters intellectual freedom, searches for the truth, and promotes virtuous citizenship.

Kotkin:  The End of Merit

 University debuts nation’s first bachelor’s degree in diversity, equity and inclusion

 Academic conference looks ‘critically’ at Taylor Swift’s career — including the whiteness of her fans

 Silicon Valley’s Cynical Treatment of Asian Engineers

 FBI Using the Same Fear Tactic From the First War on Terror: Orchestrating its Own Terrorism Plots

 Eric Adams is making excellent use of long wait before he can finally become NYC mayor

 Fauci Says Mandating Masks For Vaccinated People Is “Understandable”…

St. Louis mandates masks indoors regardless of vaccination status, recommends masks outdoors

 Protesters Rage Across Europe As Lockdown, Vaccination Mandates Begin

 Govt Workers Sue Connecticut to Avoid Returning to Work

 CRB: RACISM ALL THE WAY DOWN

How to Racist 

DC Police Chief: 'you cannot coddle violent criminals'

 Illegal migrants arrested in Texas for trespassing as Biden cancels border wall contracts

A new business emerges.

Pastor Sproul died in 2017, but his sermons live on as podcasts.

Here's a sample:  Christians are called to live differently from the rest of the world. That requires a different way of thinking. 

Lots of his 20+ minute sermons on that website.  Give him a try.

My gosh, do kids have fun with these things. Mostly the boys like to push everybody else off them, including the girls.  And the adults.

Just anchor the boat in some cove, and have at it. Water fun.

 Divers Discover Ancient Military Vessel in Submerged Egyptian City

Restoring a 1959 VW 

 Wild birds don’t need your backyard feeders to survive

They are for fun, for people 

Related?  Federal Court Rules CDC’s COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Is Unlawful

 Almost a Million People Can’t Leave Home in Sydney Because Man in His 80s Died from/with COVID

 Cleveland Indians Changing Name To “Cleveland Guardians”

 Molotov Cocktail Lawyers Headed to Trial After Plea Negotiations Break Down

 Tough Jews, Las Vegas, and the Legacy of Meyer Lansky

 Psychoanalysis in the Age of Apology

Reactions Pour In After Senate Panel Votes To Make Women Register For Draft: ‘Equality’

 Biden’s Troubling Department of Education Nominee

 Kentucky school district to host year-long anti-racist mathematics training program for teachers

 Meet Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair: Anti-Israel Activist Has Published Defenses of Hezbollah, Hamas

 Chicago Schools Will Require Masks

A nutty person:  4 Reasons I’m Wearing a Mask Again

Fauci sideshow -- NIH clearly collaborated on dangerous research with China

Virus research is potentially dangerous, of course. So what? 

 Chinese Virus Retrospective: The Shame Of Our Public Health "Experts"

From a commenter at Powerline: 

Michael Crichton:

“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Fedora, Trench Coat, Cigarette, and Gun. Humphrey Bogart’s legacy as an unconventional heartthrob

 Why NYC is still No. 1

 DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins

CNN Airs Hour-Long PSA On Warning Signs Of Dementia

NY Times Says To Start With Your Air Conditioning To Solve Climate Emergency

 California Decriminalized Shoplifting. The Results Were Completely Predictable.

Ace on the lefties at Tik Tok 

 Facebook Flags the Name of a Gardening Tool When Used in a Gardening Group

 Facebook announces sweeping new restrictions on criticism of protected groups.

 Democrats Move to Rename 1,441 Places

 DeVos: Biden Education Dept 'as far left as they come' with promotion of radical 'anti-Whiteness' 'guide'

 Fauci Goes From Opposing Masks for Adults to Imposing Them on 3-Year-Olds

Sen Cotton on  Breaking the Crime Wave

 99.2 Percent of Biden’s Infrastructure Proposals Isn’t about Bridges

 Woke Racial Activism Bears Fruit: Gallup Survey Shows Positive Views On Race Relations In Free Fall

BLM goes quiet 

 The Faith of Systemic Racism

Introducing the Journal of Free Black Thought: A celebration of black viewpoint diversity

 Psaki Calls Hunter Biden’s Meeting With Potential ‘Anonymous’ Art Buyers ‘Reasonable’…

 Che Guevara’s Daughter Calls for More Repression Against ‘Low Class’ Cuba Protesters

Ali Mayorkas, Keep Faith With Cubans. My family and the Mayorkas family were friends who fled Cuba for a better future in America.

  Law of the Sea Court Ruling Continues to Challenge Chinese Aggression

Israel:  Jews Gaslighting Jews: A Primer

An outtake. Was a final version ever produced? Some darn lyrics:

VDH:  The American Descent into Madness. America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen?

 An assistant professor at Appalachian State University recently argued that enforcing behavioural standards in public high schools is rooted in racism

Critical Race Weary 

 Yes, Critical Race Theory Is Real, And It Is Poisonous

The economic data are surprising. For one, immigrant Africans do better than native whites. 

Ace discusses free speech

“Patriot” Is Hate Speech: MSNBC Warns Viewers to Be on the Lookout for Online Groups That Use the Word “Patriot” 

Pentagon Flags Phrase ‘Truth About BLM’ As Possible Extremist Identifier… 

About hate speech in Canada 

Good to see that David Warren is back at it 

Althouse on Rand Paul, Fauci, and Scott Adams 

Covid:  Top Health Officer Orders Australians: "Don't Have A Conversation" With Each Other

 China Rejects Proposed WHO Probe Into COVID-19 Origins

 Former DC Council Candidate Proposes Creating “African Only” Zones Of Washington DC…

 Taliban and ISIS already attacking the green zone in Kabul

 Response to Cuban Unrest Unmasks the Left

 Silliest new potato I've seen, from a friend's garden this week.

Is walking a part of your fitness routine?  If so, be aware that ordinary walking is not valuable "cardio" except for the elderly and the infirm. However, walking and hiking can be perfect for a day of active recovery from a week of exercise.

Assuming a person in decent health, an ordinary street walking speed for men and women is around 3 mph (3.2-3.4 for New Yorkers, which is why you get jostled). Below that is a stroll. This applies to more or less level ground. 3 mph walking is not "cardio" because the heart rate is not sufficiently elevated to challenge or strengthen the heart - or to build lower body endurance.

Deliberate hikers like to move at around 3-4 mph on level ground. I can barely hike at 4 mph (15-min/mile), especially when it's beginning to get dark and I want to get back somewhere. It's a difficult pace for me, though, because my legs want to break into a slow jog at over 4 mph instead of maintaining a vigorous walk.  Some fit and experienced hikers hike at 5 mph with a backpack but at 5 I am definitely jogging, not walking, and I break into a run between after that.

Fitness level and body architecture play into this. If curious about this, your phone can give you your average speed of progress during walks and hikes unless you like to pause to look at birds and wildflowers and snakes and toads. After all, exercise is so you can enjoy life so not every hike needs to be a death march. Maybe most of them, but not all.

Best ways to improve your walking and hill-hiking efficiency? Stair machine, elliptical at the higher resistances, and fast-walking or even jogging on a good incline on a treadmill (say whatever incline you can handle if fast-walking).  An hour of that is a good "active recovery" from other exercises, or good for beginners.

* In the US, normal military march is 3.4 mph (17 mins/mile), but for Army Rangers it's 4 mph. 

Also, walking and jogging are not for weight loss. They are for maintaining functioning and for having fun. 

The Sriracha guy 

Tasty stuff 

 Losing battle for NYC streets: Goodwin

 Lockdown hysteria did more harm than COVID-19

 Senator Rand Paul Confronts a Very Nervous and Lying Dr. Anthony Fauci

 Washington Post Columnist: ‘Rand Paul Was Right and Fauci Was Wrong’

Who gave the FBI access to Twitter?

 AOC: Selling merchandise isn't capitalism, you know

Culture Warrior. Catherine Lhamon is poised to resume her efforts against due process and school discipline.

 Manchin Goes Rogue

Althouse:

The political philosopher Isaiah Berlin turned an obscure fragment by the ancient Greek poet Archilochus ('The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing') into..."

"... an intellectual’s cocktail-party game

HOW CRT LED TO KENDI

‘Pure Orwell’: WH comms director Kate Bedingfield reveals that the Biden admin has their eyes on conservative outlets’ ‘irresponsible content’ on social media

Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America"

Axios: Anyone else notice Dems running away from their party?

Shades of Clinton: Joe Biden used private email to send government information to Hunter

" I am quickly learning why the New York Times and the left (but I repeat myself) are so spun up about Hungary"

We asked my father-in-law how his 96 year-old buddy was doing. Reply:

"He's beginning to show his age." 

 How Bourbon Rose From a Humble Grain to Embody American Exceptionalism

 The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles

The Overdose Wave. America’s drug crisis saw its worst year ever—again.

 Jeff Bezos’ flight is an ego trip, yes, but it sets the stage for so much more

 A world protected by windmills? In 1717 Christmas Floods in Germany killed 14,000

 Joe Biden's Fears Are Expressed and They Show How Far Gone He Is

 The Incoherence of the White House's COVID Messaging Reaches Code Red Levels

Another Manhattanite Mugged By Reality: The Case Of Maud Maron

Surprise! 1619 Project Creator Professed Her Love For Free & ‘Equal’ Communist Cuba

 Just How Desperate Is CNN? It's Not Pretty...

 Bookworm Beat  — the life in Biden’s America

 'Your evil revolution': How a reggaeton anthem inspired Cuba protests

 Boredom’s link to mental illnesses, brain injuries and dysfunctional behaviors

The Panic Pandemic - Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.

 Asian Carp Now Being Renamed Because It's Racist

 Parents Canceled by Their Own Children

 NYC’s top schools seek next generation of woke educators

Philadelphia's electric bus fleet has disappeared

 IS MASS TRANSIT DEAD?

Update on Lockdowns 

 The only reason the media tries to cancel Joe Rogan: He terrifies them

 The Language of Totalitarian Dehumanization

 The Biden Regime Has Made Us All Enemies of the State

Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasts “Communist Democrat Party” at City Hall Rally After Anaheim City Officials Cancel Her Indoor Event with Matt Gaetz

 U.S.-Backed Tech Restores Internet To More Than 1 Million Cubans Amid Uprisings Against Gov't 

After jumpers and hygge, ‘cosy racism’ may be Denmark’s next big export. Asylum requests have fallen dramatically thanks to policies that belie the country’s liberal image. No wonder Priti Patel is watching closely