Maggie's Farm

Pic: It's Oktoberfest. That's my beer and smokes from the deck of a Danube riverboat a couple of years ago. Just a boatride. Yes, that is the original Czech Budweiser

Huckleberry Finn is just a boatride.

Urban Coyotes Could be Setting the Stage for Larger Carnivores to Move Into Cities (h/t Jungle Man)

Plenty of cougars around town already

World Porridge Making Championships held in Carrbridge

Update on the brothels of Amsterdam

Does Fast Food Marketing Make Kids Fat?

Sexless marriage

Dalio: Buy gold

With what?

Not Even Hillary Clinton Can Look Away From Christina Aguilera’s Ample Bosom

"Not even"?

Venetians want their independence back

Electric Cars Hurt the Environment

US Politics Of Medicine

Balancing the Makers and Takers

Sean Penn campaigns in Venezuela — for Hugo Chavez

Declining interest rates = declining common sense

New jobs report shows growth, but in low-skill, part-time jobs

Chart below via Carpe

 Image via Theo

"I’m asking you to keep believing in me."  Is this a religion?

Romney, MSNBC, and the McGurk Effect

Desperate Dems Hide Behind Big Bird

Obama’s Boys on the Bus - The media pull out all the stops to reelect the president.

Klavan: A Fantasy Election, an Imaginary Man - Barack Obama has always been less real than dream—a media dream:

The Obama of the imagination is the media’s Obama. Out of their fascination with the color of his skin and their mindless awe at his windy teleprompted rhetoric, they constructed a man of stature and accomplishment. Now, with the White House on the line, they’re waging an ongoing battle against the undeniable evidence that he has never been, in fact, that man. The result in these quadrennial autumn days has been media coverage of a fantasy election, an election in the news that may bear no relation whatsoever to the election as it is.

McCarthy: Obama is a phoney

"When the hermetic, perfect world created in 2008 came into being, the Lightbringer at its center was protected from the moment of his nomination in a kind of numinous cloud of cultural, media and elite opinion protection."

It was boob bait. Axelrod understands boob bait.

Holy Shit: Washington Post Runs Op-Ed Asking Why Mitt Romney Isn't Richer, and If He Isn't Richer, Doesn't That Disqualify Him From the Presidency?

Ryan’s Impossible Debate Challenge

New polls show Romney overtaking Obama in Colorado, nationally

People just wanted to see a viable, credible alternative

Steyn: Sesame Nation - Big Bird should leave the government nest.

Big essay: Mort Zuckerman: Why the Country Is Unhappy Under Obama

From Driscoll's Observation Can Become an Intervention — The Reverse Is Also True:

• A presidential candidate calls for bankrupting an entire industry? Let’s ignore it in plain sight.


• A presidential candidate calls for higher energy prices for all Americans, especially the poor? Capital idea, we agree! But on the whole, let’s ignore it in plain sight.


• A presidential candidate has spent years marinating in a radical chic background? Let’s ignore it in plain sight.


• The Middle East is in tatters as a result of an administration asleep at the wheel? Let’s ignore it in plain sight.


• A border agent killed and guns in the hands of Mexican criminals? Let’s ignore it in plain sight.


• An incendiary racially charged speech involving the man who is now the president of the United States emerges that 99 percent of the general public hasn’t seen? Old news. Let’s ignore it in plain sight.