Maggie's Farm

I was working on some food posts about our Italian dinners when I found this image.

Funny thing is that millions of American kids grew big and strong on things like this. 

 Ötzi the Iceman: What we know 30 years after his discovery

The Early History of Human Excreta. When humans stopped being nomadic, we could no longer walk away from our waste. We’ve been battling it ever since.

Long Covid doesn't exist, volume one zillion. A huge French study shows BELIEVING you had Covid is associated with many later symptoms. But ACTUALLY having had Covid isn't associated with any (except loss of sense of smell).

1619:  The Falsification Project

Primary school asks boys (and teachers) to wear skirts to class to 'promote equality'

 Watching My Great Nation Lapse Into a Cult of Self-Abasement

 Americans Are Waking Up To The Democrats' Race Hustle

 Watch Biden Nominee Call for Bankrupting Energy Industry

ABC News documentary challenges Pentagon's claims of rogue Green Berets. "3212 UN-REDACTED" probes the mystery behind the deaths of four Green Berets.

 At the Center of the Crossroads: A New U.S. Strategy for the East Med

The Solitary World of a Vet

 In Jupiter's swirling Great Red Spot, NASA spacecraft finds hidden depths

7 Reasons Doctors Are Leaving Medicine 

 The Progressive Neo-Racist Cancer Has Completely Destroyed The AMA

 Thomas Friedman: Why Won’t You Peons Just Allow Government To Force You To Make Lifestyle Changes For ‘Climate Change’

Unscientific Method - An astronomer’s peer-reviewed work is passed under the “equity” lens and found wanting.

 Biden Transportation Secretary: Roads Are Racist…

America's Ports Need More Robots, but the $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Won't Fund Automation. The one thing that would most help increase efficiency at America's lagging ports is also the one thing that Biden's union allies dislike the most.

 Corporate Safe Spaces: How Racial Affinity Groups Radicalize Companies

How Covid despots humiliated America. The Democrats have become public health technocrats

Schools: The parental revolution 

 Kyle Rittenhouse spokesperson slams Joe Biden for casting defendant as a White supremacist

 Feds ponder how much to pay illegal immigrants

 France To Build New Nuclear Reactors For The First Time In Decades

The eccentric dog breeds that vanished

Trains are racist 

 California’s COVID-19 Case Rate Is Now Twice Florida’s

 ‘Experts’ struggle to explain why the free state of Florida has half the Covid case rate of masked and vax mandated California

 Democrats are slowly coming around to nuclear power

 Randi Weingarten should have learned in school that she cannot fool everyone

Anatomy of a media hit job — how press pushed Clinton’s lies against Trump

 “Let’s Go Brandon” Is Latest Progressive Virtue Signal

 Biden’s Generals Are Fighting the Last COVID War

 Winsome Sears: The latest Black conservative to make liberals nervous

VDH:  Trickle-Down Bidenism. This Biden socialist cadre who engineered these self-induced calamities has no clue about the damage they have done to America.

As I mentioned before, Orbetello is an old walled city on a peninsula sticking out from the Maremma in southern Tuscany. Americans do not go there. Some Brits do. Exception - I know one person who has been to Hotel Il Pellicano on the mountain above Porto Ercole. It is a steep cliffside drive.

I learned the word sprezzatura from there. 

You can drive out the causeway to the mountainous island Monte Argentario and visit the cool seaside villages of Porto Santo Stefano and Porto Ercole. They are about diving, sailing, and professional fishing. Also, duck and woodcock hunting, judging from some bumper stickers.

Excellent cafe on the waterfront in San Stefano. Good beer. Euroland does not pasteurize beer.

Fun pics, etc. below the fold - 

How bad is plastic?

You’re Already Living in the Metaverse. Dave Chappelle is wrong. Twitter—and Instagram and Facebook and even this platform—are real life.

Not for me 

 ‘If you want to understand why no one trusts the press’: AG Hamilton looks at some headlines on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial

 Turley: Why is the FBI investigating the theft of a diary?

 NYT to Dems: You haven't hit bottom yet in rural America -- or the suburbs either

 Biden looking at shutting down another pipeline as winter approaches

 White House Seems Perfectly Fine With Giving Your Tax Dollars To Illegal Aliens…

Poland wants to build a wall 

A large potato 

 Are U.S. playgrounds too safe?

 Native American Lawsuit Challenges Colorado Ban On Native American “Mascots” As Discriminatory

Climate Change Hysteria, circa 2004

 NYT Urges Biden: 'Why Not' Force Americans to Pay Higher Gas Prices to Fight Climate Change?

What the AMA says:

 Individualism is a philosophy and group of ideas, expressed in symbols, practices, and stories that supports a belief that self-sufficient individuals are rational beings that freely make consumer-like choices, independent of political influences, living conditions or historical context. Among these ideas is the concept of meritocracy, a social system in which advancement in society is based on an individual’s capabilities and merits rather than on the basis of family, wealth or social background. Individualism is problematic in obscuring the dynamics of group domination, especially socioeconomic privilege and racism. In health care, this narrative appears as an over-emphasis on changing individuals and individual behavior instead of the institutional and structural causes of disease.

Let’s face facts. There is nothing historically un-American about election skulduggery. (h/t, American Digest)

What is early voting all about? 

 Ivy League Analysis Destroys Biden’s Entire Argument for Multi-Trillion-Dollar ‘Build Back Better’ Spending Plans

For dinners, Mrs. BD and I typically order one antipasto, one primo, and one secondo, and share them. That way, many tastes but no gluttony. Sometimes we skip one of the courses. The primi are usually small and tasty (one or two pasta dishes are usually among the primi, never a Secondi - meaning meat course).

Typically a nice dinner for both of us will run around 50-55 Euros, not including a glass or two of wine. Tip? In Euroland, 10% is more than enough.

I plan to do an Italian food post one of these days, but for starters here's a pic of a restaurant's offerings in Volterra. If your Italian is terrible, Pasta al Nero is squid with a squid ink sauce. We will try a pasta as a primo on rare occasions, and only if it seems unique:

A perfect song?

Yes, you guessed it. Roger McGuinn discusses:

The Newest Insanity Out Of Yale Law School - These controversies could be wake-up calls—for the YLS community, legal academia, and society at large.

California Is the Supply Chain’s Weakest Link. Environmental and antibusiness regulations in the deep blue state are backing up port traffic.

 A torture experiment’: plan for almost windowless student megadorm raises alarm

 Attacking Merit in a Bumbling Bureaucracy: The University of California Leads Again

 5-Year-Olds to Be Required to Show Vaccination Cards in San Francisco

 Yes, Charles Blow, Cases of COVID-19 Are Increasing in the North, Decreasing in the South

 THE DURHAM INVESTIGATION, ELI LAKE’S TAKE

 Young BBC staffers angered by trans story claiming harassment of lesbians

 Critical Race Theory Is Coming for Your Doctor

 Woman Who Testified Against Trump Also Introduced Authors of Fake Russian 'Dossier' to Each Other. Gee, What Are the Odds ... ?

How the climate lobby crushed debate. Anyone who dissents from stringent climate policies will be branded an enemy of The Science.

 Note that I’m not saying that the whole climate scam is going to collapse tomorrow.  Just that the hysteria has reached a peak beyond which it has nowhere to go. 

NBC, Axios: Tuesday was worse for Dems than they realize

Even The NY Times Editorial Board Thinks Democrats Are Denying Political Reality

On their excellent highways. Autogrills have excellent coffee bars, clean bathrooms, and food. And other stuff, like Euroland phone and electric plugs. Gas and diesel, of course.