|
Maggie's FarmWe are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for. |
Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page
Categories
QuicksearchLinks
Blog Administration |
Thursday, March 7. 2013AGW Update: A morning with the MSM Of course, since the subject is global warming, I suppose I wax redundant.
This is especially true with large storms, the perfect example of which would be Superstorm Sandy, she of the Category 1 level — the lowest hurricane level — with some meteorologists claiming it had dropped down to Tropical Storm level by the time it actually hit land. The only reason New York City had all the flooding was because Sandy (1) hit at high tide, (2) hit right as there was an extra-large low pressure area out to sea, allowing the tide to rise even higher than normal, and (3) the fact that NYC had been hit by two storms even larger than Sandy in the previous 100 years, both times the sea wall had been breached with the resultant massive flooding, yet they never did anything about it. In the meantime, how much money has NYC spent on 'green' measures because of the peril of global warming? True; it, too, is supposed to breach the sea walls, but over the course of a century — not the two hours it took Sandy. This week's example of global warming run amok was Snowquester, the largest, meanest, baddest storm that global warming run amok has yet produced! Washington DC shuts down ahead of winter snow storm So did all the schools. The AGW advocates, however, were thrilled, and were halfway through writing their next article citing Snowquester as just a sign of things to come when the bad news struck. Which brings us to this morning's headlines. Sadly, Snowquester was not to be. Snow fail: Predictions almost all wrong this time around 'Snowquester' doesn't pan out in DC
And there's your ultimate example of global warming run amok: Warm snow. Then I glance around the page and notice this: Popular Indonesian volcano shoots ash into the sky What the article doesn't mention is that the popular Indonesian volcano is probably belching more CO2 into the atmosphere every half-hour than mankind has over its entire existence. Then I notice this: Ancient arctic camel fossils link to modern desert breed Wait, how can this be? A warm-blooded mammal up in the Arctic? Without any coal plants or your neighbor's SUV around? Impossible, I say! As any AGW advocate will tell you, the current slow rise in temperature is a planetary first. And you can just bet that the lamestream media really doesn't see the irony when it posts a headline like this: Hill hearing on global warming cancelled by D.C. snowstorm Or, represented graphically:
Thank you, MSM, for another wonderfully entertaining morning. You had just one job
Since Diversity is more important than knowing calculusNorthwestern Creates Mandatory Diversity Program. I find myself wondering how the college students of today can be so full of hate and intolerance that they require mandatory regrooving. Perhaps there is only so much sanctimonious bs one can absorb without vomiting or laughing. This reminds me of a local town employee who got in a little trouble with his free speech at work and was sent to mandatory diversity training. He told me afterwards "I went to their classes, but it didn't take." Fun in the wee world The documentary did, in one way, set itself apart from your usual documentary fare. Here's what the narrator says at the beginning:
Those are the last words spoken for over an hour. Herewith I present ten of its more magical moments. That Damned Interdimensional Barrier At least, if you're a bug. Here are four scenes dealing with that dreaded interdimensional barrier — at least, if you're a bug — known as adhesion or surface tension. In the first one, while it probably just looks that way, it appears the ant is having trouble penetrating the bead of water. Yet, in the next scene, the ants are lappin' away around the ol' water hole like a herd of buffaloes. That brings us to the third part and one of everybody's favorite critters, the water skeeter. Now here's an animal that knows how to use adhesion to its advantage. But the fourth scene poses something of a question. If the water skeeter is using adhesion to its advantage, what are these guys using? Reverse adhesion? Continue reading "Fun in the wee world" Some batshit insane peopleKate Shaidle's interesting (and successful) experience as member of a peculiar AA meeting, and in the world in general: My Otherkin Headmate is a Two-Spirited Starseed! (h/t Am. Digest) I hope readers don't get the impression that all AA meetings are like hers.
Posted by The News Junkie
in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation
at
11:58
| Comments (3)
| Trackbacks (0)
Dangerous, hate-filled Grannies love the USA and the Constitution
Posted by The News Junkie
in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects
at
11:00
| Comments (5)
| Trackback (1)
Thursday morning links Can Parents Afford to Make Mistakes? Talking About Men: The Taboos - Several important silences prevent the discussion about most men to move forward Via Insty, 13 Sex Secrets Of Married Couples Red White - Why a Founding Father of Postwar Capitalism Spied for the Soviets As the years pass, it seems more and more as if Joe McCarthy was right. He just handled it wrong. Cranked-Up Earbuds Next On Mayor Bloomberg’s Health Hit List He is a putz and a weenie, and an embarassment to hearty New Yorkers. Henninger: Is the South Still Racist? A Supreme Court case reveals the divide between liberals and conservatives in the U.S. K. C. Johnson: Duke Drops the Case Against Me The Coddling of College Hate Crime Hoaxers Slavery Flap Shows Emory University Professors are Morons California Exodus: Flight of the Poor The working poor leave places where it is too difficult to improve their lives WSJ: Obama’s Goal Is To Win The House In 2014 A return to practical conservatism - Randian purists want to dismantle America's popular entitlement programs. That's impractical — and cruel, to boot Federal Report: Businesses Are Hiring Less And Laying Off Workers Due to Obamacare Kudos to Rand Paul The Chavez legacy: Venezuela became one of the world’s most economically repressed countries under his regime Wednesday, March 6. 2013More Michael Huemer: The Irrationality of PoliticsProvocative, and some of it is wrong or misleading because by "irrational" he often means "human:
You had just one job
The Dangers of College-for-AllA Maggie's Scientific Opinion Poll: Legalization of Recreational Drugs They are all readily available on most streets in the US (but at far-above free market prices despite being free of sales taxes) and are widely popular. I find it difficult, from a libertarian point of view, to make a continuing argument for our Federal ongoing, attempted but failed prohibition. If some people want to live in a haze for a few hours - or all the time, why not (as long as I do not have to support them)? In a free country, having things be legal does not mean that you condone them morally, spiritually, or in any other way. Adultery is not illegal, and neither is devil-worship nor alcohol abuse. Recreational drugs used to be legal in the US, and I doubt there were more social problems with them back then. Maybe less, because when they were not illegal they were cheap. Are any of our readers old enough to remember when there was cocaine in Coke? Funnily enough, now a Large Coke without coke is illegal in New York. Crazy world in which it is easier to buy cocaine in front of the minimart than it is to buy a Big Gulp inside. What's your opinion? Just don't make the argument that "It's bad for people." That will not fly, because driving is dangerous too. So is mountain-climbing. Please review the debate in comments before commenting. Pretty good debate.
Posted by The Barrister
in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays, Politics
at
13:19
| Comments (94)
| Trackbacks (0)
Irony update Global cooling, not sequester, closes down the Federal government. Somehow or other, we'll all survive. It might even be for the best. But aren't they aware that everybody in the private sector is at work today? Weds. morning links
Photo is a new Dunkin Donuts sign in Bloomberg City Yale hosts workshop teaching sensitivity to bestiality "Bulldog, bulldog, bow-wow-wow..." School offers counseling for traumatized students who saw classmate chew breakfast pastry into shape of gun Ben Affleck and Why Marriage Matters Anti-Feminism Men’s Group at ASU Prompts Angst Bicycles to Be Taxed for Causing Global Warming CDC sounds alarm on deadly, untreatable superbugs Do Conservatives Actually Want to Win Elections? Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised A book: In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy US economy: "When You Get This Kind Of Rigging, It Will End Badly" How Lefties think, from Dan Greenfield: The closing of the liberal mind Don’t tell the Tea Party, but the tag team of John Boehner and Mitch It’s cases like Schrader v. Holder which make us rightly suspicious of Barack Obama: The Man Behind the Mask Tuesday, March 5. 2013This book by Huemer sounds interesting and provocative: The Problem of Political Authority: "An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey”
FYI, Warren Buffet's 2012 summary letter
Posted by The News Junkie
in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects
at
17:53
| Comments (0)
| Trackbacks (0)
You had just one job
Employers Say Grads Are a Disappointment
Related, What College Graduates Lack - Americans have lost their competitive edge. Can college restore it? As I have said here many times, a Liberal Arts education is not job training. It's designed to be about life-enrichment and about molding civilized and thoughtful citizens with deeper understanding of the world and of their own civilization than secondary schools can offer. If people want job credentials, I'd advise majoring in Medieval History, Classics, or Renaissance Literature, and minoring in Accounting, Engineering, hard sciences, or Econ (or the other way around) - combining the life-enhancement with the utilitarian. The kids should consider this: anything that can be learned just as well at The Great Courses/Teaching Company should not be studied at great expense in college. With all the alternative ways of learning higher ed material nowadays, spending big bucks for it makes no sense. And if you need a class and exams to provide the discipline, then one should work on one's discipline. You can obtain a top-notch Liberal Arts education with them, with as much breadth or depth as you desire. I eagerly await the day that the company will offer their courses for college credit. Thanks, friendTo some mystery friend who sent me the new Wodehouse bio, thank you. Fun to read. Began it last night. QQQ
“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan Speech That Denies Fellow Students a “Supportive Environment”Are kids supposed to be eachothers' social workers now? I am all for civilized behavior, but this nursery-school sort of moonbattery, attempting to insulate kids from the rough and tumble of real life, seems insane to me (not to mention unconstitutional): Minnesota Bill to Ban K-12 Speech That Denies Fellow Students a “Supportive Environment” We all enjoy supportive environments. However, that is not necessarily what we need. For supportive environments, we have home. For annoying jerks and bullies we have ostracism, gossip, and fists as handy tools. Related: Massachusetts Warns Students: Affirm Transgendered Classmates or Face Punishment Mocking those with mental illness is cruel, but why must conspicuous deviancy be "affirmed" - whatever than means. I think it means applauded.
Posted by The News Junkie
in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays
at
11:35
| Comments (4)
| Trackbacks (0)
Tuesday morning links The Top 5 Lies About Biotech Crops Why I Hate Anti-Bullying Public Service Announcements If you aren’t smart enough to distinguish reality from non-reality, you shouldn’t be allowed around kids. Department of Social Justice Attacks Motherhood What does DHS need with 2,700 armored vehicles? VDH: Journalists as Ring Wraiths - When you’ve got a country to transform, any caviling is disloyalty. Bill Ayers in Moorhead Carbon Power Politics - The next EPA chief and next phase of the Obama green agenda. Asian-Americans Solidly Prefer Democrats - Sixty-one percent of young adult Asian-Americans identify as/lean Democratic Why? China's dangerous housing bubble, with Potemkin cities Monday, March 4. 2013Remember this ad?
Remember this ad for pre-owned Beemers, "You know you're not the first, but do you really care?"
Well, somebody faked a similar ad for Aston Martin, and Aston Martin is not amused (below the fold) Continue reading "Remember this ad?" The first episode of the Twilight Zone: Where is Everybody?
with Rod Serling's 1959 intro to the series, at Am Digest
The politics of DetroitFrom How the Democrats Destroyed Detroit: Detroit has some of the highest big city property taxes in the nation, and property assessments remain overly inflated, amounting to as much as ten times the market price of the property, according to recent research compiled by two Michigan professors.
Posted by The News Junkie
in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects
at
17:22
| Comments (11)
| Trackbacks (0)
Myths of American ‘Cowboy Capitalism’
If you ask me, America could use more cowboy capitalism. The only jobs that 74,000 pages of regs provide is jobs for lawyers. Furthermore, stifling regs just put us on The Road to Oligarchy because rules, laws, and regs always end up raising the barriers to entry of upstarts. See Subway Restaurant Founder Slams Destructive Federal Regulations
« previous page
(Page 752 of 1538, totaling 38429 entries)
» next page
|