Maggie's Farm

Las Vegas Strip Club Posts Ads Seeking High School Graduates: ‘Pay Your Way Through College’

TS Eliot and Student-Loan Deadbeats: Fashionable Theft

Feds Spend $150,000 to Teach Rural Mainers How to Cook

Why Does author Ursula K. Le Guin Hate Amazon?

Are Evangelicals Winning the World? Why are parts of Germany formerly under the enforced secularism of the Communist party rediscovering charismatic religion?

‘Wounded Warrior’ Charity Fights—To Get Rich

Liberal Author And Princeton Professor Laments The Death Of A Dinosaur

This is where American women find themselves after a century of feminism. The role models for their daughters are lesbians and lunatics, but no one is allowed to mention that these women are lesbians and lunatics.

Building the New Dark-Age Mind - America’s descent into the Dark Ages will not end well. It never has in the past.

The Hartford Way: Keep Raising Taxes In Connecticut

Does Illegal Immigration Explain the Disconnect Between Jobs and Wages?

NYPD Chief Bratton Says Hiring Black Officers Is Difficult Because “So Many Have Spent Time In Jail”…

Rubio Pushes Back Against NYT Story Citing Financial Imprudence

Fun Fact Of The Day: John Kerry’s Yacht Is 87 Times More Expensive, And Over 3 Times The Size Of Rubio’s “Luxury Speedboat”

Nothing More than Feelings: The Liberal’s Policy Yardstick

When Liberal Pieties Collide

The Right Way and Wrong Way to Win the Presidency - Hillary Clinton appears to be taking the easy path. It would be the wrong one

As ISIS brutalizes women, a pathetic feminist silence

Time to be honest about Israel's capital

Inside Mosul: What's life like under Islamic State?

Image via Theo

Made in Brooklyn, Again - The borough’s historic Navy Yard is bringing industrial jobs back to the city.

Corning’s Latest Magic: Turning Glass Into Cash

Your little black swimsuit

It's water season in New England

A Crisis at the Edge of Physics

Baron von Steuben, father of the US Army

Major Medical Journal Retracts Numerous Scientific Papers After Fake Peer-Review Scandal

5 wealthy families who lost their fortunes

5 Things to Do While You Wait on God - Your life may not yet look like you'd hoped, but that doesn’t mean God isn’t still at work.

Since the first rule of Asshole™ club is never wondering if you’re an Asshole™, you probably aren’t one.

It's always somebody else

McArdle: Real New Yorkers Can Say Goodbye to All That

Home truths about why English-speaking students are turning away from foreign languages

Also, it is challenging

Why Communism Killed the American Muse - This is an important one.  So I want you to pour yourself a martini, get a nice comfy couch and light up a cigar

The Progressive Crime Wave

Global Warming: The Theory that Predicts Nothing and Explains Everything

Honest Leftist Admits Desire for Spite-Driven Tax Policy

If you aren’t terrified yet, wait until they start applying these lunatic principles to surgeons and airline pilots.

Epstein: The "Income Inequality" Warriors

One of the groups with whom Romney did worst was female “low-information voters.”

"Hillary Clinton coming to DC tonight for some le$bian love."

Hillary Up to Her Old Tricks… “Ordinary Couple” at Campaign Stop Were Democratic Plants

´New York Times´ shows its ´gotcha´ colors

Something Marvelous Happened at the Turkey Ballot Box Today: Islamists Lose Parliament

Syria: Islamic State Executes 3 Pigeons On “Spying” Charges… Yes, Spy Pigeons…

Review: The Iliad, Translated by Peter Green

1908 Sears Motor Buggy: Still in the Original Family and Still Running

UK Anglicans are in serious decline, say researchers

FAQs re sea turtles

Students With Failing Knowledge of U.S. History Miss Significance of Magna Carta

For the first time ever a computer has managed to develop a new scientific theory using only its artificial intelligence, and with no help from human beings.

No help?

Feminism being redefined on the college campus

Cheating is part of pro sports

LSU is Facing Bankruptcy but Building a Lazy River That Will Cost Millions

Watts:  My one-on-one meeting with Bill McKibben

A federal judge in New York, Kimba Wood (a Reagan appointee), has thrown out New York’s teacher exam as racially discriminatory

Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.

At Sea in an Alien Culture, Where ‘Normal’ Is Defined as ‘Deviant’

Why I defaulted on my student loans

Even Obama’s EPA Now Admits Fracking Hasn’t Harmed Water Supplies

The Democratic Party’s Growing Radicalism

The Incredible Entitlement of the Welfare Lobby

40 Years of Democrats Saying How Much They Want to Get Money Out of Politics

Report: Social Security overpaid nearly half on disability

Hillary’s Divisive, Reckless Rhetoric on Voting Rights

Scandals Only Make the Clintons Stronger

Poll: 13% of Illegal Aliens ADMIT They Vote

FAKE HATE: CAIR Activist Lied – Made Up Diet Coke Abuse Story …Update: It’s Not the First Time

Boat out from Fernandina, Florida to the island, along St Mary's River, up to Georgia. A famous place, but not too easy to visit so I'll give you a little tour.

- below the fold

The story

Also,  Brigadier General Ted Roosevelt Jr.'s service at Normandy was simply brilliant.

Genesis 3:8-15

3:8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

3:9 But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

3:10 He said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

3:11 He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

3:12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate."

3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."

3:14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."

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.

California drought and climate change

Why You're Fat (Compared to a Chimpanzee)

Good news: Prominent Republican earns flattering cover feature from Vanity Fair

Great news: Professor cleared of Title IX harassment charges for … criticizing Title IX

Israel:  United Church of Christ and The "Big Lie"

Ebb Tide in the Golden Country - All is not as it was for Jews in America

American universities are addicted to Chinese students.

Is ‘Deliberate Deception’ An Unfair Description Of ‘Official’ IPCC Climate Science?

The Problem With Biofuel Mandates

Natural maize vs wild maize

VDH:  Disasters at Home and Abroad - From ISIS at Ramadi to riots at home, nothing is going right.

The Founders’ Model of Welfare Actually Reduced Poverty

How Martin O'Malley can beat Hillary Clinton

Fiorina continues attack on Clinton

...here’s a Moscow supermarket circa 1990, filmed by Rick Suddeth. As you
can see, the egalitarian retail experience is leaving shoppers happier
and more morally elevated

The Delusional World Of Imperial Washington

17 miles of beach with excellent Atlantic body-surfing surf - and nobody on the entire thing but Mrs. BD (in photo) and me. Tempted to try some nude surfing but would hate to sunburn sensitive body parts. (Also, with a good wave ride you can scrape the sand.)

We are not accustomed to swimming and surfing in 75-degree ocean water, as Cape Codders. In warm surf, I get tired before I become hypothermic. That's good, but the warmth feels decadent.

I will throw some pics together when I get the chance.

Boyhood Under Attack: Why Boys Can't Just Be Boys Anymore(Bill Whittle video)

Happy Birthday Patrick Henry: "This Constitution is
said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these
features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful."

"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt."

Don't Ban Trans Fats

The guaranteed failure of Bill de Blasio’s plan to help failing schools

Average of 102 Climate Models Versus Reality

Black Workers Can No Longer Rely on Blue Jobs

Mexicans Discover Illegal Immigrants in Cancun, Not Amused

Say, Shouldn’t Illegal Aliens Be Given Political Clout?

Obama goes after the farmers

Deep secrets of racial profiling

The cash donations Hillary simply has no answer for

The Clintons’ Favorite Way to Lie

Forget 9/11, the Latest Airline Horror is a Muslim Woman Who Didn’t Get a Diet Coke

Meanwhile in the UK… be sure not to injure your rapist

The Islamic Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

THE WORLD SMELLS AMERICAN WEAKNESS

North Korean nuclear, missile experts visit Iran

Back from Cumberland Island.

Isaiah 6:1-8

6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple.

6:2 Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

6:3 And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory."

6:4 The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke.

6:5 And I said: "Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

6:6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.

6:7 The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: "Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out."

6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I; send me!"