Maggie's Farm

What day is it? Back to normal life today, and back to work like our hard-working little truck. Holiday Season is done, except for putting the ornaments away, paying the bills, and losing the weight. A relief, and a sadness. Anyway, we hate New Years celebrations - they mean nothing at all. Well, an excuse to get together I guess, which is great.

The cow flatulence crisis. We have been on this crisis for over a year, and it continues to concern us deeply at Maggie's Farm, but we don't know what to do about it, except Beano. UN - Please help us!

Sideline the GOP. That's the Dem plan. I am not sure that it is a winning plan.

The new new short political shelf life. Newsmax

Dave Barry's Year-end review. (h/t, Protein)

The history of the game of Monopoly. Cool capitalism. It was banned in the Soviet Union.

The End of England, Part 76: The end of the pint? WTF? Gay and Right. "European Conformity"? Time to rebel.

The End of France, Part 753: "French" "youths" torch cars, to celebrate a New Year of car torching.

Want to keep Free Speech? Don't look to our Congress. Captain Ed

Can there be peace? Bowden at Opinion Journal. A quote:

We Americans consistently underestimate the deep hatreds that divide people. Our political system is designed to wrestle peacefully with the divisions of race, class, ethnicity, religion and competing ideological or geographical interests, and has generally worked as intended--the Civil War being the one glaring exception. Generations have struggled to live up to ideals of tolerance and diversity. When we look out at the world, we tend to see millions longing to get past the blood feuds, to be, in short, more like us. George Bush and the neocon intellectuals who led us into Iraq are just the latest in a long line of evangelical Americanists. No matter how many times history slaps us in the face, the dream persists.