Maggie's Farm

Here Come the Pizza Gestapo

 PETA Says Milk is a ‘Symbol of White Supremacy’

Why domesticated foxes are bad pets 

Warren:  “Ethics are for people who have no morals”

 5 Reasons It's Dumb To Panic Over Global Warming

 Climate News This Week: What Was Important?

 The Climate Yawns - Donald Trump is no more a planet wrecker than Barack Obama (as measured to the third decimal).

 People are fleeing the New York metro at an alarming rate

The decay of the northeast corridor 

 In defense of northern New Jersey

Z-man:

... this reality denying madness we see going on with Progressives, has a late phase degeneracy vibe to it. Most of this nonsense is happening in well insulated compounds like the college campus. The Progs have total control so all of their worst instincts are free to run riot. It’s not some new phase in the long civil war, but the final burst of maniacal lunacy before there is the knock on the door and reality bursts in.

 Jeff Sessions laid down the law on immigration, here’s the list of counties and cities who aren’t working with ICE

 Sessions And Kelly Tell California Justice She Should Know Better

Klavan:  Obama Spied, Media Lied

Evelyn Farkas Blames “Fake News” and “Russians” for Recent Media Assault 

Baltimore Mayor Supported $15 Minimum Wage Until She Learned What It Would Do to City’s Economy

 Psychologist Analyzes Trump’s Election And The Progressive Left

LA Times really really hates Trump 

Trump is undoing more things than he is doing

That's good 

 Welcome To Londonistan: 423 New Mosques; 500 Closed Churches

England:  Street preachers who quoted Bible convicted in modern day heresy trial

Sugarbush  ski area has a community feeling with lots of regulars. They have an annual pond-skimming event usually early April or late March. You are supposed to wear a costume, and the trick is to get across the pond.  I love things like this.

The water temperature is in the 20s (F).

Romans 8:6-11

8:6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

8:7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law-- indeed it cannot,

8:8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

8:9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

8:10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

8:11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

The geometry and artistry are astonishing. Guys will do a lot to get a good gal: Video

 Breastfeeding Is Not The Only Decent Way to Feed a Child

Reader recommendation:  'A French Village,' Streaming on Amazon, Examines Life After Evil Triumphs

 10 Things We All Did in School That Are Banned for Kids Today

We boys pulled girls' pigtails.  That's how we showed we liked them.

California Transgender Inmates May Soon Be Given Bras, Mascara, Lip Gloss

Z-man's  Essential Knowledge: Part VIII

Ditto to that, but it makes me feel ignorant. 

 Mexico City metro's 'penis seat' sparks debate

 Seattle is the biggest water polluter

 Baby boomers ruined America, according to this Generation X 

SDA:

 So you drastically expand the definition of "sexual harassment," and then promote an ethic that says that all accusations must be believed, and then you're shocked that workplace men don't want to hang out with women?

A Tale of Two Bell Curves

Now Murray is KKK 

All he did was to wonder why jews and asians have higher average IQs, and why blacks and latinos have lower. 

Charles Krauthammer: The road to single-payer health care

"That picture of Hillary is so freaky. Is that real? Where'd you get it?"

 The Fake News Crisis

 McCaskill: I’m filibustering Gorsuch over his “stunning lack of humanity”

 BREAKING=> KREMLIN CONNECTION CONFIRMED! Podesta Company Paid One Billion Rubles from Russian Govt.

 'Russiagate' Is Failing And Its Supporters Are Getting Concerned:

Though the leaders of the US security services have denied the President’s allegation that they wire-tapped him – though they were careful not to deny that they mounted surveillance on him and his associates – the President’s claim that they did, in effect smoked them out.

Thus former DNI James Clapper admitted that he had seen no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians up to the point of his retirement on 20th January 2017, and former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell more recently has publicly trashed the whole story of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Possibly the single most important admission that no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians has been found came however from within the FBI itself, though it has gone almost completely unnoticed...

Heard from Axelrod on CNN (at the gym this morning): "Trump Administration paralyzed by deepening Russia scandals."

 The object of the Left’s game is to nullify Trump’s presidency, whether by impeachment or withering rebuke.

 Democrats Know the Election Was Legitimate but Persist in a Dangerous Fraud

... attention to the Kremlin was bad news for Clinton. It invited scrutiny of the Clinton Foundation’s corrupt foreign dealings; the sulfurous interplay of Putin cronies, Bill Clinton’s lucrative speech racket, and Hillary’s biddable State Department that resulted in Russia’s acquisition of major U.S. uranium supplies; the embarrassing “Russian reset” whereby, during Clinton’s State Department stewardship, the supine Obama administration watched Putin capture territory in Eastern Europe and muscle into the Middle East, while arming and aligning with Iran; and the intriguing relationship between Podesta (the Clinton-campaign chairman and former Obama White House official) and Putin’s circle — specifically, a $35 million investment by a Putin-created venture capital firm, Rusano, into a small Massachusetts energy company, Joule Energy, just two months after Podesta joined Joule’s board.

Drudge:

DNC Perez Unleashed: 'Trump Didn't Win Election'...

Republicans 'Don't Give A S**t About People'...

Dems Demand Investigation Over Mnuchin’s ‘Lego Batman’ Joke

 Chris Matthews: Ivanka Trump Scares Me Really, Really Bad

Her beauty scares me 

 Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers

 Israeli report: Thousands of Chinese jihadists are fighting in Syria

 On display at Arab Summit: division and declining influence

Breathes There The Man... from The Lay Of The Last Minstrel

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
'This is my own, my native land!'
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 

You will enjoy Max McLean's production of C.S. Lewis' conversion: The Most Reluctant Convert.

The New Yorker: " Lewis’ fiercely considered intellectual reason makes the stuffy Oxford don intriguing company.”

My favorite line from the performance: "My Oxford friend Barfield was raised in an open-minded family... so naturally he knew nothing about Christianity."  I also loved the part about his pre-university tutor W T Kirkpatrick. Some teacher, demanding as hell of intellectual consistency and precision. Also, his experiences in combat in WW l.

Lewis' conversion happened like Hemingway's line about how a character's bankruptcy happened, "Gradually, then suddenly."  

It's at the Acorn on W 42nd St NYC. Cheap. McLean did another one man show of Screwtape a couple of years ago (which we saw. Also a tour de force).  This is only 80 minutes. After, you can grab a bite or a cocktail at our favorite joint in that neck of the woods, The West Bank Cafe, right across the street. Cozy and great service.

When McLean finishes, he takes questions from the audience. Mrs. BD unmasked her intelligence with the best question.

The Acorn is in one of these new sorts of multiplex stage theaters that are emerging around NYC. It's a cool concept: four or so black box theaters on a few floors of an old converted industrial building, all sharing administration etc.  Each small theater has its own name.

Also want to mention that all the brand-new high-rises around W 42nd are astonishing.  That used to be a lousy area between the Garment District and Hell's Kitchen with a long windy hike to the subway. Every few months there is a new luxury high rise even though the general area is too busy and charmless in my opinion. The Big Apple draws ambitious, determined, and talented people like an apple draws fruit flies.

What people wore during Jesus' time 

At Black Rock, machines take over money management 

 Pothole Coast Highway - With its dams and roads crumbling, California faces an infrastructure crisis.

 Man Self-Identifies as Hen

Keep him away from Col. Sanders 

 Transgender WWII veteran comes out as a woman at 90

 When a Man in a Women’s Restroom is Finally Seen as Wrong

 5-Year-Old Girl Suspended from School for Pretending a Stick Was a Gun

Insanity is contagious 

College plans to fire professor who taught ‘Men in Literature’ class

Faculty forced to pledge allegiance to diversity or lose their jobs nationwide

Good grief. An oath of allegiance to what?

 Leftists Flip Off Memorial Dedicated To Victims Of Communism

 THE WORLD’S FIRST STATE OF THE CLIMATE SURVEY BASED ON OBSERVATIONS ONLY

 Reflections on Mark Steyn’s ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’ about Dr. Michael Mann

 U.S. College Grads See Slim-to-Nothing Wage Gains Since Recession

 ‘Buy America’ is a form of impoverishing economic poison, and legalizes discrimination based on national origin

 It Took Three People Two Months to Create Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Logo

Not from the Onion:  CNN Investigates Russian Salad Dressing After Sean Spicer Mentions it in Press Briefing

 TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS QUIETLY DOING GOOD THINGS

 Cuba reforms are stalling

 What a World Led by China Might Look Like - The Trump administration may be accelerating "Easternization," argues Gideon Rachman.

 Lone Wolves No More - The Decline of a Myth

 Trump's Inherited North Korea Crisis, and Lessons on Iran

I was happy to see that Steiner is still alive. He is one of the smart guys with a lot to say about everything, and it's a shame he doesn't have a website on which to toss out random thoughts and ideas.

"Revealing and exhilarating, A Long Saturday invites readers to pull up a chair and listen in on a conversation with a master."  A Long Saturday: Conversations

Peterson is a harsh speaker of truth

Body-weight squats, lunges with or without weights, wall sits, jump rope, burpees, and step-ups are all excellent lower-focus calisthenics which, like most calisthenics, provide plenty of intense cardio stress too. 

We're working on a new game: Pistols. It's like a one-legged squat. Try it from your chair. It's not easy and you might have to begin from a higher perch and work your way lower. You will see what it feels like for elderly people to get up from a chair without using their arms.

The gal in the vid has short legs so she uses a stool for her foot to get the 90 degree knee angle. It stresses lots of accessory leg and core muscles because of the balance challenge. One foot must be solidly-planted, one in the air. We're adding this to our calis repertoire, and I am going to get out of chairs one-legged from now on. Just think of how many times/day you get up from a chair.  Why not use it as a good exercise?

Sorry for the horrible music.

People dress sloppy on flights so they can sleep comfortably. It's unpleasant,though. 

When children came together when I was a child it was usually to argue about the rules of games and beat the crap out of each other.

Seven Ways You’re Ruining Your Steak Dinner

CONSUMER ALERT: 'CAN YOU HEAR ME' SCAMS

An Army of Straw Men Keeps Campus Intolerance Alive

Gotta protect the students from the KKK 

Wellesley too 

These people are evil 

 ‘Free’ Camille Paglia!

 Evidence of employers paying women 20% less than men for the exact same work is as elusive as Bigfoot sightings

Computer lab for indigenous only 

 'Originalism' — another word for the rule of law

Investors not worried about the Maldives 

The Overton Window: How the Left turns the unthinkable into the uncontroversial

Money for nothing: Cuomo’s $25 billion upstate-jobs failure

 What If the Health-Care Collapse Saves Trump's Presidency?

President Trump And Making America Great Again — Swiss-Style

 Did Obamacare Create the Expectation of Universal Health Coverage? And did Obamacare solidify the belief that the federal government should provide it?

 UPDATE: President Obama’s Own Defense Deputy Admits Obama White House Spied on Candidate/President-Elect Trump…