Maggie's Farm

Hello again. Roger here. Bird Dog's off to get wormed, or get his nails clipped, or something, so you're stuck with me. I can't do nearly as good a job as Bird Dog when it comes to assembling links for you fine people. My lips get really tired reading all those stories. However, he's started me off on Saturday. It's a smart strategy. Nothing much happens on the weekends, so I can't get into too much trouble. Of course George III is reported to have written "Nothing of importance happened today," in his diary on July 4th, 1776, so maybe I better scan the papers for you just in case. On to the links!

NAACP Warns Black Travelers To Use 'Extreme Caution' When Visiting Missouri

I guess the NAACP's daughter just got her learner's permit or something. I can't be bothered to read it.

Still Better Than United

Everyone warns everyone to use extreme caution when visiting Russia

Truth as a Possibly Illegal and Addictive Substance

Our friend Gerard at American Digest is in the Saturday Evening Post? Signs and wonders, man. Signs and wonders.

Marchons Macron!

France is nominally secular, but just like Britain and #ourNHS the French have a state religion - its famously strict labour market. Gallic politicians of left and right are cursed the second they touch the subject of reforms but it looks possible that is about to be confounded. President Macron won his landslide victory earlier this year while advocating far-reaching reforms of labour laws, against the protectionist and dirigiste Mme Le Pen. And on Tuesday the Assemblie Nationale voted through a bill allowing the government to fast-track changes to the labour code.

Dirigiste? My French is rusty. She's not that fat, is she?

California’s Promethean Past. How a visionary entrepreneur watered and powered Los Angeles

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Bookies Now See Facebook CEO Zuckerberg More Likely To Be President In 2020 Than Hillary, Harris, & Biden

Zuckerberg currently runs a business without a "Dislike" button. The little ponce is in for a rude awakening.

Wards of the Court

Thus the authors’ fatuous pronouncement that: “In recognizing the central role that the medical profession can play in reducing firearm injuries, the court’s ruling highlights the opportunity that physicians have to reduce firearm violence.”

Just plug the holes, doc, and mind yer own business.

The Tragedy of Doctor Who

The new Doctor Who is a woman. “All the cool humans are thrilled,” cooed Mashable; “Pissboys Are Melting Down,” added Dorkly (when did nerds start talking like bitter drag queens?). The Telegraph was slightly more sober and wrote off the whole thing with “Who cares?” It doesn’t matter to the establishment left because we’ve already established that men are exactly the same as women—especially when it comes to fiction. They see nothing wrong with female superheroes and action stars.

You know, you could turn it off. It sounds crazy, I know, but you could. Smart people never looked at it in the first place.

Five anarchists held in Italy over January 1st blast

Sacco and Vanzetti unavailable for comment.

Robert Hardy, Harry Potter actor, dies at 91

Harry Potter actor? That's like saying, "George Washington, surveyor, dies at 67.

Early modern humans consumed more plants than Neanderthals but ate very little fish

Pssst. Grok. Don't mention the Paleo diet to the Neanderthals. They think it's cultural appropriation.

The Problems of Price Controls

Shorter version: Sign says: All You Can Eat Special! Waiter puts half a saltine on your plate, and says, "That's all you can eat."

Have a nice Saturday. Try to make sure that nothing important happens to you today.