Maggie's Farm

Our blog: Predictably and amusingly, lots of search hits on our Box Turtle post for "farm p*rn" and "animal p*rn."  If we wanted hundreds of thousands instead of our elite thousands of discriminating readers, farm p*orn would surely be the way to go because there are clearly tons of still-closeted bestiality fans out there. Unpredictably but also amusingly, I see lots of hits on "Removing Pachysandra." At Maggie's Farm, one must admit, you never know what you might find. We are pleased that our Brit blog pal Theo named us his "Best Blog in the Known Universe" - or something like that - for the week. Thanks, Theo. You have exquisite taste in both blogs and women. And how was the sailing in Newport, I hear you asking. Wonderful, but we didn't win. Deservedly so. A fairly good strategy for the breezy but shifting conditions, but our tactics didn't work out and, in one race, we fouled another boat at the windward mark. Fouled them badly, but unintentionally, and put a nice ding in their fiberglass in addition to annoying their crew quite a bit in doing so to the point of using unsavory language. We were coming on too fast, and had little room to maneuver. We apologized profusely after that race, and bought them boat drinks.

Let's chat. Dems meet with Muslim Brotherhood.

Activist Cash. Where does the money come from? Look it up here.

Democracy is no defence against tyranny. Samizdata on the Venezuela mess. True to Socialist form, Chavez sent in his tanks. Another Worker's Paradise in the making.

How I learned to love Vlad. A 2006 Guardian piece on Putin. h/t, Free Republic. Apparently Russians don't mind being ruled.

The UK becomes more Orwellian. Small Drowned Baby Polar Bears

Al Gore's fan club. Rich folks with SUVs. h/t, My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Gag me with a spoon. The life of Bill and Hillary. These two are what my friend would term "rude, crude, and socially unacceptable."

Soft drinks bad for your health? Somebody tell Mayor Bloomberg.

Rachel Carson. A bad person? Moonbattery. True, she was a pioneer enviro-hysteric, but she was right that DDT was harmful to animals, especially those higher on the food chain. But if not for DDT, we would still have malaria in New England. In 1900 it was a major public health problem up here. It is not a tropical disease.

Be very afraid of "Big Recreation." And quit using your grill, too.

A town that told the food Nazis where to stick their transfats.

Why infant morbidity rates in the US are higher than in other countries - we spend too much money. Right Thinking. Never take a statistic at face value.

People are too stupid for democracy. An old argument in new clothes. Cafe Hayek