Maggie's Farm

Cape Cod: eight great white sharks seen feeding on humpback whale carcass. Expert marvels at ‘biggest smorgasbord a shark could dream of’

Epoch:  800-Year-Old Medieval Chain Mail Vest From Norman Period Discovered in Longford, Ireland

Epoch keeps getting better, but $. Greedy capitalists. 

HHS Plans To Treat Climate Crisis As Public Health Crisis

 LA Teacher's Union President: 'Our babies may not have learned all their times tables' but 'they know the words insurrection and coup'

 Obama Education Secretary Loses His Mind, Compares Anti-Maskers To Kabul Suicide Bombers

 They Openly Mock Us Now: Taliban Hangs “Traitor” by the Throat From US Helicopter in Kandahar Left Behind by Joe Biden

 Biden Will Fund Taliban Through "Humanitarian Aid"

American University of Afghanistan Students Struggle to Flee the Country

Playing the Race Card on Larry Elder. Engaging in shameful duplicity regarding crime and policing, the media attempt to portray the California gubernatorial candidate as anti-black.

Kamala Harris: The absentee VP by design

 The Story About Biden Checking His Watch During Dignified Transfer Just Got a Lot Worse

Did not like being there 

 The kinky secret sex lives of sharks

‘We are burning our cultural inheritance’. Heather Mac Donald on how high culture has been destroyed by the culture war.

 Strange Daze: The American Anti-American White Anti-White Sleepwalking “Woke Folk” Among Us

 Scientific American (and math) go full woke

Stop enabling people to avoid work because of Covid

 Who’s Skipping the Vaccine? The Answer May Surprise You

 After implementing a vaccine mandate, Amherst requires double-masking and limits student travel

 Kamala Harris and Jane Fonda

 AOC Decides To Jump In On The Science Of Ice Cream

From a doctor bewildered at where all this COVID stuff is going

Bill Maher Crowns Greg Gutfeld the ‘New King of Late Night’: Conservative Comedy Successful Because Liberals ‘Sound Like an Onion Headline’

New documents detail behind-the-scenes turmoil at UNC journalism school over Nikole Hannah-Jones hiring

 Okla. Woman Took Credit for Rescuing the Afghan Girls Robotics Team—and Many in the Media Fell for Her Lies

The Atlantic: The dark, destructive place the GOP has found itself in isn’t shocking.

What???

 What Took You So Long? After Years of Antifa Assaults, Portland 'Journalists' Finally Muster Outrage at Latest Attack

 Australian state's new "reward" for full vaccination: Two hours allowed outside your home each day instead of one

One of my daughters and her pal caught 12 Porgies this morning from the boat. It is Porgie season in New England.

Last night I made a bowl of Peach salsa from our peaches to accompany Indian take-out, and Mrs. BD made a peach pie (yeah, she always makes her own crust - rolls them out with her grandma's rolling pin). 

Thing about peaches is, for cooking, best if they are firm and far from ripe. For salsa, not ripe but slightly softer and crunchy like an apple. A skewer of hard peach chunks on a grill makes them perfect.

For fresh peach chutney that you don't want to bother canning (I am done with canning - it's a pain), you want to use unripe fruit. Just cook it up and put it in the fridge. Peach salsa and peach chutney go with everything, but especially shrimp and fish. And Porgies.

The weight of all the fruit has broken many limbs, so it's the last year for this old tree. Such fruit trees have a limited life span. 

It has produced abundantly every three years. Feast or famine. My pic does not capture the amount of fruit.

Invited a gardening pal over to share the harvest.

I think the wood might be nice for smoking a turkey on Thanksgiving. 

The new chief chaplain at Harvard? An atheist

 New York magazine’s shocking revelation: The liberal media are biased!

 Americans Are 'More & More Dependent' On Big Govt - Things Are Never Going Back To 'Normal'

 Cutting to the Chase: Why Trump Was Driven from Office

Quote via Powerline:

  “Ladies and gentlemen, they gave me a list here. The first person I was instructed to call on was Kelly O’Donnell of NBC.” Biden’s minders in the daycare operation at the White House have failed to impress on him that he is to omit their instructions from his remarks.

Taliban Win Liberal Hearts and Minds by Promising to Fight "Climate Change"

 Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go?

 Penn offers course on ‘White Nationalism in the Age of Climate Change’

How to eliminate crime 

 Illinoisans Paid Almost As Much On Unemployment As At Work

 America Is Now Actually the Mess Dems Pretended It Was Under Trump

Critical Race Capitalism - Verizon teaches employees that America is fundamentally racist and promotes “defunding the police.”

Dead at 80. Charlie Watts Should Be Remembered as the Coolest Rolling Stone. In the very serious business of rock stardom, the late drummer always made room for humor and humility

As I understand it, he was a Jazz drummer but never minded playing with the Stones. 

In the Start Me Up video they post, watch Watts smirking at Jagger. 

Windfinder. Wind, weather, waves and tides, for those who seek fun in or on the water.

According to my pal, they accurately noted that the Henri storm would be a non-event.