Maggie's Farm

 Royal Doctors Want Queen Elizabeth to Stop Drinking

 This Atlantic piece on the Babylon Bee ends where it should have started

Progressives Against Progress by Noah Rothman

Did anyone notice that Buttigieg has been "MIA" in the supply-chain crisis?

 Biden Begs OPEC and US Oil Companies to Pump More Oil as Prices Surge After He Cracked Down on US Production

 “The Revenge of the Fossil Fuels”

 Buchanan: Are The Good Times Over For Joe?

More about what's inside Biden's spending bill 

The Fallacy of Joe Biden’s ‘Bank of Multilateral Goodwill’

Russia draws a red line for US in Central Asia

 Useless Green Energy Hitting The Wall

Now Two-Parent Families Are Racist Too. A leftist group is pushing the theory that the two-parent home represents ‘family privilege’ and creates barriers to equal opportunity, when in reality such families are proven to be better for kids.

Mainstream Media SILENT After Florida Reports 3rd Lowest Rate Of Covid Infection

 A Citizen’s Action Plan to Keep CRT Out of Schools

How Zuck’s Bucks helped flip Wisconsin for Joe Biden after Hillary’s 2016 defeat

CALIFORNIA’S CONTINUING COLLAPSE - There are several stories that can write themselves every morning, such as the failure of green energy, the failure of the Biden Administration, the failure of the wokerati to acquire any common sense, etc. And then there’s the ongoing failure of California...

 Biden threatens private sector companies as polls nosedive

VDH:  The Left Got What It Wanted—So Now What? There is no schadenfreude in seeing the Left destroy everything it touches—because its claws tear all of us as well.

 Victor Davis Hanson Has a Prediction About Midterms Democrats Won't Want to Hear

 RECONCILIATION ROUNDUP: Policies to Wreck America

 Americans Revert to Favoring Reduced Government Role

 A Radical Dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas Offers a Reproach to Merrick Garland

Despite being a terrible person in some ways, White was not like Frank Gehry who always wants to make a Gehry statement. White just gave his clients whatever they wanted, and he knew how to do it. Shingle-style, neo-classical, whatever.

From our hike, Judson Memorial Church, just off Washinton Square. Mr. Rockefeller mostly paid for it, but White designed it. It's always been more service-oriented than Jesus-oriented, but it's still there.

 Tree-dwelling mammals endured after asteroid strike destroyed forests

Retail:  The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants. What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?

Melinda Gates' fancy wedding 

College enrollment and the pandemic 

WHY PEOPLE HATE THE MEDIA, CHAPTER 12,186

 Thousands register for geophysicist’s lecture after MIT caved to ‘Twitter mob’

Dr.  Michael Burry Drops Redpills In Epic Twitter Rant

Cool 

Wife Involved in Submarine Spy Case is Anti-Trump, Progressive, and ‘Very Liberal’. If the couple was MAGA you know the media would have this story plastered on the front pages and make it the lede.

 Achieving equity through mediocrity: Why elimination of gifted programs should worry us all

 Biden wants to snoop in nearly every American's bank account

What Is Critical Race Theory, Really? And why that’s often the wrong question

Yes, that wild and crazy guy designed this arch. From our hike:

Why Sam Harris is trying to rehabilitate the word ‘spirituality’ (video)

 High Drama: Weill Cornell Medicine Physician Assistant Saves Passenger on Airplane

 Manhattan Contrarian Celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Day

 'Shameful Past': Kamala Harris Criticizes European Explorers in Vicious Speech

Police showed up at this Aussie’s door to question him about Facebook posts which showed him at an "illegal" protest and his response is exactly what yours should be if this ever happens to you

 Americans Are Quitting Jobs at Record Rates: Labor Department

"Hiding the ball": Hunter Biden complicates WH's anti-corruption push

 Joe Biden could become embroiled in the FBI's probe into Hunter's finances, experts say: Emails reveal they SHARED bank accounts, paid each other's bills and the president may have even have funded his son's 2018 drug and prostitution binge

 Dems wonder: Why hasn't free money made us more popular?

 It's All Fake: Kamala Harris Used Child Actors Who Had To Audition For Weird NASA Promo

 Biden’s Education Department moves to install racial quotas in school discipline policies

China’s plan to build more coal-fired plants deals blow to UK’s Cop26 ambitions

 UK Readying New Law Mandating Home EV Chargers Be Shut Down During Peak Hours

 Ten EU countries push for nuclear power to be labelled as green energy as world faces energy crisis following years of pressure to move to eco-friendly sources

Ships Arrive From The Orient Laden With Pumpkin Spice

 Terrified Virginia Democrats Seek to Change Election Laws After Voting Has Already Started

 Garland Memo Fallout: RI Assoc. of School Committees To “Coordinate” With FBI And Gather Information On Public Meeting “Issues”

Why Are Moms Like Me Being Called Domestic Terrorists? Showing up to dress down school boards over their dereliction of duty isn't a crime. It's good parenting and good citizenship.

Revolt of the masses: The left has overplayed its hand

 California Mandates Gender Neutral Areas Of Stores, Bans Gas Powered Lawnmowers, Mandates Free Menstrual Products For Girls…

The Most Frightened Nation - Why the United Kingdom will never be the same

Ivanka and Jared get a hero's welcome in Jerusalem to celebrate Trump's signing of the Abraham Accords: Kushner tells the Knesset the Middle East is 'changing' after meeting former prime minister Netanyahu at glitzy reception

Mrs. BD always wants new adventures, but in many ways I hate traveling. It's the process - airplanes, airports, rental cars, luggage, etc. I am always glad I did it after getting through the guards at JFK and headed back to my own place.

Mrs. is the travel planner, and she is darn good at it. She uses Karen Brown a lot, and knows how to use miles for first class. For me, long-distance air travel is torture regardless of the class. I try Ambien and hope not to wake up. 

Scott Adams wonders whether it's a female thing, at just past the 23 minute mark: Podcast 

Bored with their lives, maybe? Happy wife, happy life. I think mine is a good influence on me, but I never feel bored with life.

"Live and don't learn, that's us."

- Hobbes, the Tiger 

Humans Had Advanced Fishing Technology 12,000 Years Ago in Israel

A key part of the Big Bang remains troublingly elusive. Physicists still don't understand what happened in the instant after the Big Bang.

 14-Year-Old Girl Becomes Youngest to Sail 1,600 Miles Around Britain

 Drax’s renewable energy plant is UK’s biggest CO2 emitter, analysis claims

Havana Syndrome Hysteria and the Great Wild Goose Chase. Classified documents reveal skepticism of foreign actors & bolster the role of psychogenic illness

 Armed French Police Drag A British Man Off A Train Because He “Had The Wrong Kind Of Mask On”

When Fourth-Graders Can’t Read: One Phoenix School Has a New Way to Fight Pandemic Learning Loss, Students return to school two grade levels behind; adding literacy lessons to PE

 De Blasio’s final ‘gift’ to New York City is ruining its schools: Goodwin

Biden Criminalizes CRT Dissent. The administration has mobilized the FBI against parents who oppose critical race theory.

BRANDON—THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: “Let’s go Brandon”

Orchestrated crisis to bring tens of thousands of people to southern border in coming weeks

THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS ARE EVIL

 China arrests businessman for criticizing hit film

 US AC-130 Gunship Receives Laser Cannon 

From a week ago

Minetta Tavern, from our hike. It is on MacDougal St.