Maggie's Farm

Thanks to our pal at Never Yet Melted for mailing me that book. That was my Mom's life, or an aspect of it.

What one needs to know about female orgasm.

Females like orgasms.

The New York Sun is back.

The moving moment a deaf woman is overcome by emotion as she HEARS for the first time after having her cochlear implants switched on

How did she understand speech?

Can Boys Be ‘Coerced’ Into Sex?

Depends on how you define "coerced"

U.S. Autism Estimate Rises 30% in Two Years

California Bullet Train Tallies Yet Another Failure

New IPCC report will back off on alarmism

Feds Blew $700,000 on Global Warming Junk Science Musical

The Collapsing Soufflé of Climate Change

Matt Ridley:

"Even with its too-high, too-fast assumptions, the recently leaked draft of the IPCC impacts report makes clear that when it comes to the effect on human welfare, "for most economic sectors, the impact of climate change will be small relative to the impacts of other drivers," such as economic growth and technology, for the rest of this century. If temperatures change by about 1C degrees between now and 2090, as Mr. Lewis calculates, then the effects will be even smaller.

Indeed, a small amount of warming spread over a long period will, most experts think, bring net improvements to human welfare. Studies such as by the IPCC author and economist Professor Richard Tol of Sussex University in Britain show that global warming has probably done so already. People can adapt to such change—which essentially means capture the benefits but minimize the harm. Satellites have recorded a roughly 14% increase in greenery on the planet over the past 30 years, in all types of ecosystems, partly as a result of man-made CO2 emissions, which enable plants to grow faster and use less water."

Religious tide turns against 'Noah'

Feminist Unleashes Anti-Christian Hatred

Is College A Waste Of Time And Money?

Should The Post run a correction to the Koch oil sands story?i

Charming image below from University of Michigan Exhibit Celebrates Abortion as ‘Life-Sustaining Act’

Nobody who loves abortion was aborted. Thanks, Mom, for not aborting me.

Sultan: The Shape of a Post-American World

The more tolerant society becomes, the more desperate the race and gender hustlers become.

Another outrageous UN appointment

Via a money manager friend:

Fasten Your Seat Belts – Yet Again? – Fabled money manager, Jeremy Grantham did a recent, rather sharp-edge interview with Fortune. He was very critical of Fed policies, claiming they were ineffective and/or counterproductive. At the end, he seems to be looking for an imminent roller coaster ride in the stock market.
Here's a bit:

Okay, but then I guess that means you think stocks are going higher? I thought I had read your prediction that the market would disappoint investors.

We do think the market is going to go higher because the Fed hasn't ended its game, and it won't stop playing until we are in old-fashioned bubble territory and it bursts, which usually happens at two standard deviations from the market's mean. That would take us to 2,350 on the S&P 500, or roughly 25% from where we are now.

So are you putting your client's money into the market?

No. You asked me where the market is headed from here. But to invest our clients' money on the basis of speculation being driven by the Fed's misguided policies doesn't seem like the best thing to do with our clients' money. We invest our clients' money based on our seven-year prediction. And over the next seven years, we think the market will have negative returns. The next bust will be unlike any other, because the Fed and other centrals banks around the world have taken on all this leverage that was out there and put it on their balance sheets. We have never had this before. Assets are overpriced generally. They will be cheap again. That's how we will pay for this. It's going to be very painful for investors.