Maggie's Farm

The Nature Conservancy's Pine Butte Ranch. Hiking, riding, fishing, swimming, nature-watching, fossil-finding. It's sort of a Grizzly Bear preserve but you'd be lucky to see one - at a comfortable distance. Grizzlies do not like mountains - they like river bottoms and damp meadows best,

Even in summer, you can find snow and ice on the high hikes. June best for the wildflower bloom. That is like Eden. It's real America and, yes, there are firearms around. Europeans come there to experience the American West. My lad once got trapped in the outhouse by a Black Bear. Fire a couple of magnum rounds in the air and the bears run away.

The ranch lands abut the 1 million-acre Bob Marshall Wilderness. We all own that. They will give you a day-long trip to Glacier National Park too, if you want. Another astonishing wild place which we Americans own.

Getting King John To Sign Magna Carta Was Only Half The Battle

25,098,000 Foreign-Born Workers Employed in U.S.A.

What a 95% failure rate says about the TSA

The New York Times Retro Report

New York Times Has Hissy Fit, Demands Transgender Troops - They never stop, they never sleep, they never quit.

Let’s face it: we’ve wandered into the realm of barking insanity at this point...

Walter Block makes the case for legalizing blackmail

The Gender Fluidity Industry’s Magical Thinking

Ranger School will eventually be turned into diversity seminar.

Is the New Political Correctness Already Dying?

When It’s a Crime to Withdraw Money From Your Bank

Connecticut:  Joe Scarborough’s Anti-Tax Crusade

Incredible: NOAA Gets Rid of 15 Year Hiatus In Global Warming Simply By Re-Weighting and "Adjusting" the Numbers

Climate Activists Slam Ted Cruz For Not Blaming Texas Flood On Climate Change

Chinese Hackers Snare Data From Millions of Federal Workers

Iran Will Walk

Iran’s Uranium Hoard - Whoops, Tehran forgot to shrink its enriched uranium stockpile.

An ethnic war in Iran is only a matter of time

The Anniversary Of A Miracle - Israel's Victory In The Six Day War

Attorneys at War - Inside an elite Israeli military law unit

 I think she wrote this when Robert Lowell died.

The Art

 The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

I will have my Cumberland Island travelogue photos ready soon, but somebody mentioned Little Saint Simons Island to me at a big social event last night, so I thought it might be time for a plug for them. Not that they need it. I posted my own pics etc, previously. LSS does have skeeters, sometimes to an unpleasant extent but not as bad as the Everglades. Bugs there are insane.

You may have heard the recent news that the owners of Little St. Simons Island donated a conservation easement to The Nature Conservancy on the entire 11,000 + acre island. For you, our longtime guests and supporters, we're happy to report that you will be unlikely to notice any changes, but we hope you'll celebrate with us knowing that one of the most significant natural areas on the southeastern coast has been preserved for perpetuity.

Learn more about the announcement here:  http://www.naturelssi.com/?p=2108

Yes, that would be the prosperous Mr. Paulson who just gave a half-billion to Harvard. It's my kind of rustic place with Southern food. These two pics are their own photos.

Mrs. BD recommends to y'all:

In NYC, The Flick, Annie Baker's new play at the Barrow St. Theater

Mrs. BD and dau liked it so much they bought the script

The Royal Ballet, coming to NY later in June

In NYC, Bar Eolo

The book that her book group is reading: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

Handy and enjoyable: Gardening Know-How

5 Things You Need To Know About So-Called "Female Viagra"

Why Liberals Oppose Over-the-Counter Birth Control

Public ignorance about economic inequality

Friendly Fire: When Christian General Prays, All Hell Breaks Loose

New Music Festival Just Large Empty Field To Do Drugs In

Scythian gold vessels found with opium, cannabis residue

Mom on Child Abuse Registry for Letting Kids 11, 9 and 5 Play in Park Literally Across the Street

"Bruce/Caitlin Jenner is not a girl, he's a gelding." Saith a reader.

Minnesota Teachers Revolt Against 5 Years of ‘White Privilege’ Training

California's sexual re-education camps are coming soon

Any girl who feels “unsafe” on reading classical poetry belongs in an asylum

Is the Tide Turning against PC?

NOAA Fiddles With Climate Data To Erase The 15-Year Global Warming ‘Hiatus’

Wealth Creators Aren't 'Lottery Winners,' They Actually Built Something

BlockThat Image! ‘Clinton Rivals Pounce…’ - Challengers arise to the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua.

Hillary Clinton plays to raucous but HALF-EMPTY arena at black university as she claims opponents want to 'disempower
and disenfranchise people of color'

Even O never claimed that

New dimensions to the Hillary email server story?

To Hell and Back in the Chinese Healthcare System

Shantytown Sweden - The welfare-state country finds itself engulfed by international beggars.

It's the size of a single bed. A comfortable, sturdy thing indeed.

Pat Puckett will make one for you. When he can find the time, he says.

Boomer Anthems: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - It was 48 years ago today......

Some Surprising Signs of Hope from Portlandia (The City, Not the Show)

"It was all explained to me on a bridge in London, some thirty-nine years ago, yet I still find it an unplumbable mystery, this “Holy Trinity” of Whom Christians speak."

Tom Paine

Calling Bruce Jenner a Woman Is an Insult to Women

Same-Sex Marriage: How Did We Get Here?

EPA Looks To Increase Cost Of Airplane Tickets To Save Us From Climate Change

First Church of Cannabis wins IRS nonprofit status

Dalrymple: "A Society of Emasculated Liars Is Easy to Control."

A Few Courageous Academics Fight the Rewriting of AP American History

Los Angeles Nonprofits Fear Wage Hike Will Require Program Cuts

Insty:

...the entire notion of academic freedom was boosted mostly to protect campus communists. Once lefties were fully in charge, their commitment to academic freedom evaporated. If lefties find themselves in the crosshairs again, I predict a newfound movement in favor of free speech and free thought.

Kimball: The Relevance of the House of Usher to the Way We Live Now - “If I owned shares in multiculturalism, I’d sell now.”

You might think I am making this up.  I wondered at first whether it came from The Onion.

Hirsi Ali: The Liberal Diversity Dilemma

Democratic vs. Republican by occupation

Sen. Whitehouse: Bring RICO Charges against Climate Wrongthink

Steyn:  Our nation's ruling elite is decadent and depraved

Hillary to Call for Expansion of Early Voting Scam Nationwide

In the middle east:  Anyone Seen the "Feminists"?

Confessions of a NATO Trip Wire: Why Poles and Balts Want US Trip Wire Forces

UK:  Child-Rape Crimes Covered Up

The Philippines to the US: We want you back

Pic is preparation for the cocktail hour shrimp boil at the Greyfield Inn.

Why are the shrimp so tender? They are bought directly from the shrimp boat, and they are in the boil in their shells for 2 minutes max - 90 seconds preferably - just until they turn pink. I tend to find shrimp boring but these were sweet and not chewy.

The square hole in the table is for the shells. Works for oyster roasts too.

You are supposed to drink beer with them.

They use this recipe for dipping sauce.

Ten Ways Men Oppress Women with Their Everyday Behavior

American woman killed by lion recorded her own grisly death

Amancio Ortega Overtakes Buffett to Become World’s Second-Richest Person

FDA Readies Its Bloomberg-esque National Trans-Fat Ban

Why?

College Board's Reckless Spin on U.S. History

Jenner:  Mutilating the Mentally Ill:

 The question... is why this other type of mental illness is being treated as a triumph, rather than insanity.

The next wave of “body diversity”: Disabled by choice

 “We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa.

Liberals Worship Caitlyn Jenner as Transgender “Goddess” - Cult-like adulation is downright creepy

If You Want to Be Rich, Choose Your Country of Birth Wisely "There is nothing more valuable than a U.S. passport."

The Media’s Race-Baiting Snipers

The Democratic Party's Growing Radicalism

Have you noticed your liberal friends on Facebook spotlighting some
unbelievably shocking comments from Republican presidential candidates
lately?

HRC Emails: Federal officials voiced growing alarm over Clinton’s compliance with records laws, documents show

Women-Only “Conversation With Hillary Clinton” Event Sells Only 50 Tickets, So Men Are Invited

Billionaire: ‘Clinton Cash’ Revelations Evidence of ‘An Unbelievable Shakedown’

TSA Missed Weapons and Explosives In Almost All Test Cases

Well, they got my jar of Amish mustard

Guardian:  Students: express yourself on the theme of austerity and protest, We want to see your placards, poetry and art – as well as hear your stories

The Bloodiest Conflict No One Is Talking About - Part I — Nameless, numberless and dead in South Sudan

We are truffle fans. I have hiked those truffle woods in Umbria.