Maggie's Farm

It's a better day to get in the water for some beach football.

Somebody walked away with mine in Cape Cod, but I have another. Beach footballs.

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It is satisfying to manifest oneself concretely in the world, through manual competence; it has been known to make a person quiet and easy. It seems to relieve him of the need to offer chattering interpretations of himself, to vindicate his worth. He can remain quiet and simply point: The building stands, the lights are on, the car now runs.

 Guide to Hunting Clapper Rails

Oldest Wine in History Discovered in Ancient Roman Tomb

Prep schools and sexual predation

It's all schools...

 What School Didn’t Teach Us: How to Succeed - I wasted my college years. But my ambition would soon bail me out.

 One likes to think that science is immune from DEI considerations...

 You wouldn’t identify as disabled… That transwoman at the Paralympics reveals the magical thinking behind the gender cult.

Jack Smith’s superseding Trump indictment shows that norms are meant to be broken. The special counsel throws yet another Hail Mary

CIA And FBI Spread Disinformation And Interfered In 2020 Presidential Election. New Mark Zuckerberg letter provides further evidence that US officials broke the law to help elect Joe Biden

Mark Zuckerberg needs to spill all on how FBI censored Americans

BREAKING NEWS: Kamala Likes Doritos

Kamala Harris's top economic adviser is a socialist with a longtime passion for seizing & redistributing Americans' hard-earned wealth

"So, Harris is trying something no sitting vice president has ever attempted: running as an insurgent and treating Donald Trump as the incumbent."

"It makes sense to worry about your  health."

What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control. The kids need to drink alcohol, make friends, and accidentally say ‘I love you.’

 International ‘equity’ scholars can’t define ‘gender’ after 5 years of research

Cornell Faculty Living Out “some sort of weird revolutionary fantasy through these students”

California Votes To Approve $150K In Taxpayer-Funded Home Loans For Illegal Aliens

 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Biden-Harris Regime Pressured Him to Censor Millions of Americans — ‘Regrets’ Colluding with the Regime!

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

The New York Times turns on Kamala! As the liberal newspaper runs a string of brutal op-eds slamming Harris as 'weak', 'a phony' and 'ignorant'

Pollster admits the obvious: Dems don’t want Kamala Harris taking tough questions

Spokesman Says Walz’s Lies Make Him Authentic

Why Democrats’ convention set them up to lose in November

Megyn Kelly Delivers the Perfect Response to Harris Needing to Do Joint Interview With Walz

 Three Quarters Of Democrat Voters Don't Know What Any Of Kamala Harris' Policies Are

 THEY’RE NOT DOING JOURNALISM, THEY’RE DOING CHEERLEADING

The imminent collapse of Great Britain

Study Quantifies Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away From Nuclear Power

 Gossip as a Literary Genre, or Gossip as “L’Écriture feminine”? Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”

 New Research Sheds Light On Mysterious Origin Off Stonehenge's 'Altar Stone'

 Gender differences in beauty concerns start surprisingly early, study finds

 Feminism linked to increased hookup culture endorsement among women, study shows

 Excellent advice no matter it you like the man or not!

 Where Columbia’s ousted president went wrong - And how university campuses can do better this fall.

 How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

 3 Simple Habits to Improve Your Critical Thinking

 Lacking purpose later in life could signal cognitive decline

Scaling the Heights of Physics: James D. Bjorken 1934–2024

CBP Found Discriminating Against Pregnant Employees

 ‘Friends no longer speak to me’: How it feels to be a British Jew after October 7

 Academic: Genetically Engineer Shorter People To Battle “Climate Change”

 UT faculty council committee says the school should be ‘patient’ with Pro-Palestine encampments

Eric Adams Pinpoints Cause of Migrant Violence

 America is turning into the EU. Democrats are steering the US towards European-style censorship, technocratic rule and economic decline.

 The Unthinkable Just Became Thinkable for Google

 The press doesn't care if Kamala Harris lie

 Harris campaign ID requirement at Arizona rally draws calls of hypocrisy

 Walz Lied About Drunk Driving, Says ... CNN

 Kamala Harris must speak to the press

 Taliban Parade American Equipment Biden Left Behind to Celebrate Three Years in Power

Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust

 The surprising truth about loneliness in America

 NYC Migrant Crisis To Cost Staggering $5 Billion For Shelters, Security And Food

 Most grades don’t match test scores: Is that a problem?

  61-Year-Old Brit Gets 18 Month Prison Sentence For Chanting "Who The F**k Is Allah"

 The Front Page: Truth and Lies on the Campaign Trail. Plus. . .

 Thierry Breton's Threat to Elon Musk Seems to Have Backfired

 “Fearless,” then, is a giant step in Kamala Harris’s ongoing redefinition, her miraculous transformation from political liability to electoral juggernaut. 

 Classical music as medicine: Mood-boosting tunes synchronize the brain

 The Top Five Climate Science Scandals - When self-correction in science goes wrong

 Big Media conducted polls to determine which climate terms induced the most hysteria but a new study shows all those efforts didn’t pay off

AOL claims Polar Bears are decreasing.

It's a lie. They have doubled since hunting was banned

 Pro-Palestinian students plan to skip classes: ‘We need a disruption’

 The kingmaker of chaos: George Soros’s failed experiments threaten his kingdom

 A growing number of Americans aren’t simply out of a job. They’re no longer fit for work.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of medical groups over “gender-affirming care” for minors.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

 7 Takeaways From Trump’s ‘Conversation’ With Elon Musk

 “We are Monitoring”: EU Censor Threatens Musk Ahead of the Trump Interview

 What Would Ruthless Republicans Do?

Media Bias? Call It by Its True Name: Regime Propaganda

Elites decide Hunter Biden can finally be a scandal now that Joe is out

 NY Times Seems Upset Musk Threw Trump “Softball Questions”

 Elon Challenges Kamala to Twitter/X Talk

 How many people are actually influenced by the New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, the ladies of the View, and so on?

Why People Don’t Like Illegal Immigration

I like legal immigration 

 TWO CANDIDATES, NOT ONE DAY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR:

 European Union Tyrants Send Letter to Elon Musk – DEMAND X Owner Elon Musk CENSOR President Donald Trump During Upcoming Interview Tonight

 Elon Musk To Disgraced Former Scottish Minister Threatening Legal Action: “Make my day”

 Google Admits to Changing Search Results for ‘Trump Assassination’ Searches and Much More

 Meta, Google, and TikTok take down posts that have led to real-world violence, but X pushes back as Elon Musk tweets insults at the UK's prime minister and posts 'civil war is inevitable.'

 We Need a Badass in the White House

Joseph Klein: "my disgust with Trump is deeper, more personal. He made a mockery of the values and issues and study to which I devoted my life..."

That is immature 

Trump on X Taps Into a Voting Bloc That Legacy Media Doesn't Even Know Exists

 The 7 States That Will Decide the Election

 Kamala the Seductress

 Van Jones: Harris Is Getting More Attention, Doesn’t Need to Talk to Press Right Now

That's true 

 “I think the one advantage that Harris may have is that there’s less than 100 days to go,” 

True - no time to learn about her

 You can tell it’s a working-class election by Harris and Walz’s dishonesty and lies

 Golly, Why Are Kamala's Politics So Hard to Pin Down?

It's on purpose 

 JD Vance Continues to Own the Libs With His Sunday Show Appearances

 The Oppressive Exuberance of the Harris-Walz Pageant

 The Scramble For Europe

 The Star Tennis Player Who Survived the ‘Titanic’ and Went On to Win Olympic Gold

 Real Women Don't Cook

The Western World Is Insane

 Olympics Pres: We Would Screen Out Men if Science Could Tell Men and Women Apart

 Politics has no place in the doctor’s office

 Climate Fear-Mongering Fail: Great Barrier Reef Sees Third Record Year Of Coral Growth

What is Bari Weiss doing with The Free Press? 

" Very scary things are happening in the United Kingdom. Sir Mark Rowley, Met Police Commissioner, has threatened to jail U.S. citizens over online posts he deems hateful or disinformation. "

 A dispatch from London on the brink of chaos

The UK:  Officialdom’s dumbest belief is that the solution to social tensions is censorship.

 Who are the folks who show up at a Kamala Harris rally?

 Dems’ childish obsession with Momala and ‘daddy’ Walz is beyond bizarre

Things Trump is doing wrong 

 A Guide to Building Muscle Mass Over the Age of 40 - It's possible to replicate (or even topple) 20-year-old you. Here's how.

 There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent

 The Rise of Neotoddlerism - How society encourages activists to behave like infants

 Coffee for the Brain - Evidence is mounting that moderate coffee consumption may improve cognition.

 Brits Are Being Arrested for Social Media Posts Now

 The New Yorker’s Fact Crisis - Is Masha Gessen’s performative anti-Zionism an exception to the magazine’s commitment to factual accuracy and independent style, or a reflection of broader decay?

 TGIF: To the Window, to the Walz - Kamala picks the coach. Cori goes out screaming. Trump goes berserk. RFK Jr. and the tale of the bear. The GLAAD CEO lives large. And much, much more.

 Inequality As a Left-Wing Principle

Everybody knew about Biden 

 Joe Biden’s Schedule This Week Included Two Phone Calls, One Meeting and Then Off to the Beach

Fine with me 

Tim Walz’s ‘Church’ Is About What You’d Expect

 New Fragments of Euripides Discovered

I don't need to visit Dubai 

 Astronauts trapped in space by Boeing's faulty Starliner are given horrifying news about potential return to Earth

 How Did Planned Parenthood Become One of the Country’s Largest Suppliers of Testosterone?

 The Front Page: Do the Childless Have a Stake in Our Future? The Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. An ISIS plot against Taylor Swift. Does ‘mental health’ make us sick? And much more.

People not being Tim Walz

 The media are scared to ask Kamala Harris questions.

 Excessive Internet Use Disrupts Key Parts Of The Teenage Brain

 Biden admin will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat climate change

 Up Close With Chris Rufo

 Video: Daniel Greenfield Exposes the Left’s 200-Year War on America

 Niall Ferguson: Welcome to Pandemonium. Plus.

Media Lets Kamala Do Another Basement Campaign

 Kamala Harris and the Masque of Magical Thinking

The Democrats have mutated into the party of nowhere, so it is not surprising that they prefer pleasing fantasy to sobering reality. By Roger Kimball

Lunacy with bats 

 Should You Always Forgive?

 Teenage Girls Need Judy Blume More Than Ever. In the seventies, nobody told girls what growing up was like. Now, we just tell girls it’s horrible.

 Chinese-made humanoid robots raise alarms in Congress

 Furious bikers turn on Harley Davidson boss for 'going woke' after he publicly promoted DEI programs, LGBT policies and climate change issues

 The Energy Transition Ain't Happening: "Green" Economy In Retreat

 The Farce of Academic Activism: When Universities Pander to Ideologues

 You are the enemy: Racism is defined at the discretion of the regime.

 The Daily Chart: Deregulate Housing

 Keep America Weird. Plus. . .

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

Joe Rogan Goes Live on Netflix… and Liberals Lose Their Minds

Some of Kamala Harris' ideas you might disagree with 

 Hoping to avoid Clinton’s 2016 mistakes, Harris courts three ‘rust belt’ states

 Muscle Over Medicine: Why Ozempic Alone Won’t Cut It For Weight Loss

 Determinism Addendum

 Study: Trust in Medical Establishment Collapsed During COVID Pandemic–Only 4 in 10 Americans Now Say They Trust Doctors

 More on the Male Olympic Boxer Knocking Out First Female Opponent in Under a Minute

The Daily Chart: What Institutional Collapse Looks Like

 Learn This Term: ‘Whole of Society’. You cannot understand what’s going on with American politics today without it 

 Abigail Shrier: Republicans, You’re Going After Kamala All Wrong. The GOP can complain about a ‘coup’ and call Harris a ‘DEI hire.’ But it won’t win them votes

 How Harris Can Beat Trump—and How Trump Can Beat Harris

 TGIF: The Global Gayborhood - The veepstakes, the creepstakes, Donald Trump’s minority outreach, God and Grindr at the Olympics, Russia swaps good guys for bad guys, and much more.

 During an interview in 2019 Kamala Harris was asked if she smoked pot growing up...

 After Immigrant Stabbed Kids, UK Gov Cracks Down on Protesters

 Netanyahu Is Winning

 The Feckless Lebanese State