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 |
Wednesday, November 25. 2020The Bonnie Banks of Loch LomondWednesday morning linksThe blue turkey of South America How To Survive ‘Climate Change’ At Thanksgiving A book: How Textiles Made the World Multiple Editors At Random House Broke Down In Tears After Hearing The Company Will Publish Jordan Petersen’s Next Book…These people are not well in the head. Lynn Mahoney is a totalitarian thug. She’s also the President of SF State University. Here’s her most recent message to all of the students Rules are for the little people
Doctors Want Us to Know That the COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects Could Be Awful De Blasio Setting Up ‘COVID Checkpoints’ to Find NYC Travelers Violating Thanksgiving Quarantine New Mexico Governor Shuts Down Grocery Stores With New Public Health Order CDC May Shorten Their “14 Day Quarantine” Recommendation … France's Macron Lifts Lockdown Order, CDC May Shorten Self-Quarantine Timeline: Live Updates Tucker takes on how the election was really stolen Study: Media Suppression of 8 Key Stories 'Stole This Election' for Joe Biden When Will Biden Denounce Efforts To Silence Dissent? Marco Rubio: Biden’s Cabinet Is A Bunch Of Polite, Ivy League Caretakers Of American Decline Xi's Gotta Have It: China Welcomes Biden With Orders From Beijing With Love Incoming Biden NSA Said U.S. Should Encourage China’s Rise Tuesday, November 24. 2020Youth and quarantinesChildren of Quarantine: What does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain?
Bird of the Week: Eastern Wild Turkey, repostedAt the turn of the century, the Eastern Wild Turkey was nearly eradicated by hunting and habitat loss, and was entirely absent in the Northeast. By the mid 1800s, the woodlands of New England had disappeared for farming, charcoal production, and lumbering. But the woodlands have returned as farming moved west, and the wierd gobble now can be heard even in residential areas. Thanks to dramatically successful conservation and transplantation efforts, there are now estimated to be 7 million of these huge iridescent birds, which Ben Franklin felt to be so quintessentially American that he wanted one on the US Seal. (Video of the turkey's comeback here.) There are six species of wild turkey in the New World, and none elsewhere. (The domestic turkey is likely a descendent of the large Mexican species.) It is the Eastern which we feature here which has, in recent years, been transplanted successfully west of the Mississippi, and elsewhere. As a sought-after game bird, the turkey's habits have been much studied. They are wary and cautious. In most areas, there is a spring and a fall hunting season for turkey, and they are pursued with bow or shotgun. It is the one game bird which it is sporting to shoot on the ground. I have hunted them on a couple of occasions. Never managed to shoot one, though. Had a good time however, sitting at the base of a tree in camo, watching the other wild critters pass by. Does the wild turkey taste different from a supermarket bird? Yes - the wild turkey tastes like turkey and the supermarket bird tastes like a supermarket. The tail-fanning? That's part of the male's mating strut. The CLO page here, and the website of the worthy National Wild Turkey Federation here. Can you identify this big bird?
On a reader's deck in CT this week
Owls of New York City
The link yesterday was obsolete. Here's one that works.
Tuesday morning linksOne travel job that is booming during the pandemic is pet delivery specialist. Columbia Faculty Calls To "Cancel" Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Public Health Experts Say Postpone Christmas ‘No Masks, All Indoors’: Award-Winning Journalist Claims 22 People Attended Newsom Dinner, Not 12, $15k Bar Bill L.A. County Suspends Outdoor Dining At Restaurants Listen To The Science — It’s 100% Clear Kids Should Be In School SCHOOL SHUTDOWNS BORDER ON THE IRRATIONAL Sharpton Warns Vaccine Might Be Racial Hoax Like Tuskegee Syphilis Study Operation Warp Speed Chief Predicts Life Could Be Back To Normal Around May Biden To Appoint John Kerry As ‘Climate Czar’ And Add Him To The National Security Council Biden climate envoy John Kerry is a lifelong joke Top 10 inbound vs. top 10 outbound US states in 2019: How do they compare on a variety of measures? THE LEFT’S CLASS WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS Blackstone CEO And Trump Buddy Stephen Schwarzman Says Trump Lost NETANYAHU MET WITH CROWN PRINCE Wow Monday, November 23. 2020Owl pornWith the hoots, watch their sexual relations. She wants sex, but it's quick, no foreplay, and not much fun. Is she hooting for more and better?
For TG, easy and delicious
Thanksgiving supper is not about gourmet. Grandma made pudding out of cans. Monday morning linksJohn Cleese Savages Transgender Orthodoxy in Epic Tweetstorm Israeli scientists claim to reverse aging Harvard students want schools to hold Trump officials "accountable" For what? Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class subsidize the elite! Swarthmore College kids say their school is a hotbed of racism And why is Seattle a hotbed of racism? This ‘soak the rich’ tax would destroy economies of New York and New Jersey NY Times Comes Out To Defend Black Man Who Raped, Murdered And Buried A Girl Alive… Six months after George Floyd's death, Minneapolis reeling from rise in violence Protesters Gather In California Beach City To Defy Gov. Newsom’s Curfew Order COVID Deaths Mount In France & The Czech Republic As Lockdowns Fail SHUTDOWN BLUES UNICEF Finally Admits: "Schools Are Not Main Drivers Of COVID Among Children" Panic buying of toilet paper hits US stores again with new pandemic restrictions Joe Biden: Why Are Reporters Asking Me Questions? TRUMP TEAM DISOWNS POWELL Actually, It Makes Perfect Sense That Biden Would Get More Votes Than Obama China Joe To Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement Which No One Is Really Following Hong Kong: Making the World Safe for Autocracy Sunday, November 22. 2020400 hundred years agoAbout the Mayflower Compact. I suppose I had forgotten that only 23 of the 200 people on that boat were religious pilgrims, separatists. I had a separatist ancestor on that ship, but what does that mean? When you go back that far, how many hundreds of equal ancestors do you have? Ballerina with dementia hears the music, dancesFrom today's LectionaryMatthew 25:31-46 Jesus said, “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’ And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’ Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Saturday, November 21. 2020Coyote (1975)Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn, and Bob Dylan, with Gordon Lightfoot lurking (thanks, Gerard). She uses strange tuning.
Saturday morning links
In Somber Press Conference, Governor Newsom Announces COVID Has Killed Santa Entertainment Industry Workers Exempt From California Governor Gavin Newsom’s New Stay-At-Home Order Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Starts New Work On BP Oil Rig My first evil thought was to train one as a Pointer Book: How to Grow Old, by Cicero The Climate Scam: What We Are Up Against Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class subsidize the elite! America’s Worst Governor To Get International Emmy For … Leadership During The Pandemic The return of lockdown lunacy Fauci: I Completely Agree, Schools Should Be Our Priority In Keeping Things Open Fox News Host MacCallum And NYC Teachers Union Chief Argue Over Schools Closing During Second Coronavirus Surge In America More evidence that masks don't work Hillary Clinton is not happy with how 2020 is going Never happy Trump Announces New Measures to Lower Price of Prescription Drugs Still doing good things Williamson: ‘The Dumbest Coup’ Powerline: I believe Team Trump is doing the nation a service by litigating. Friday, November 20. 2020Friday morning linksK–12: Why John Saxon Is the Brightest Star in Math Education South Australia Police: ‘You Cannot Leave the House to Walk the Dog or to Exercise’ Top Pathologist Claims COVID-19 Is "The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated On An Unsuspecting Public" Senators release new evidence tying Hunter Biden business to communist China, Russian energy Ban Trump officials from campuses?
Team Trump: Evidence Shows 'More Than Double' the Vote Margin in Swing States Is From Illegal Ballots Show me Trump’s lawyers have not yet had their day in court, but they will have to do a great deal better than this if they hope to succeed. No kidding 3 Ways States Should Ensure Election Integrity In 2020 And Beyond Thursday, November 19. 2020Life in America: New furnace (actually, boiler)
I don't know what our readers have, but we have 4 zones. It would be better to have 6, but whatever. We didn't get into that. A new high-efficiency gas furnace is not cheap. And it is tiny. 48 hours with just fireplaces was a good reminder about how people lived in the past. A reminder of how good we have it. The wonderful installers asked me whether I wanted a new programmable thermostat for my work space. Nope. The antique one is great. Just turn the dial up, down, or off. I can do that.
Posted by Bird Dog
in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation
at
17:53
| Comments (26)
| Trackbacks (0)
Thursday morning linksMeteorologist Danielle Banks explains why one Alaska city will not see the sun until next year. George Mason U. professor finds Bible, reports it to ‘bias’ hotline Workers vs. Wokeness: Recognizing Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good Surprise: The "Smartest" People Are Actually Painfully Stupid Study Warns That New Work-From-Home Trend is Making People More "Racist" New York Times op-ed admits 'Trump was right,' Democrats 'wrong,' about keeping schools open. "Some things are true even though President Trump says them," Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote US COVID-19 Deaths Top 250,000 As Mortality Worst Since Spring: Live Updates Photos Emerge of CA Gov. Gavin Newsom's COVID Rule-BUSTING Double-Standard Dinner If the aim is to push individuals with Down Syndrome out of the workforce, I guess it’s a great idea. Biden Backs Relief For Student Debt, Everyone Who Paid Their Debt Gets Screwed… Mitt Romney Says 20 Years In Afghanistan Isn’t Long Enough Dems Reportedly Planning To ‘Californicate’ Georgia Runoff Elections The Democrats’ Guide to Losing Gracefully Trump’s Parting Gift to Biden: A More Stable Middle East. He was successful because only an iconoclastic president could have rejected false assumptions and failed strategies. Wednesday, November 18. 2020Bob interviewed in 1985Cagey, foolish, inarticulate, or what? The interviewer is sort of stupid, but it's interesting to see Bob. He has a killer smile, when he can. I think this at at his house in Malibu.
Here's I'll Remember You Wednesday morning linksLook Up! You Can See Entire Solar System This Week Book: 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project by Peter Wood South Dakota Nurse: Dying COVID-19 Patients ‘Still Don’t Believe The Virus Is Real’ "Schools Should Be the Last Things We Close, Not the First/Why do we keep asking children to bear the brunt of a lockdown?" Coronavirus tracked: Massive surge sees US set multiple world records for new daily cases NYC’s school leaders fail poor children even as they cry about ‘equity’ Bezos Gives $791 million to Climate Activists, Another $9 billion Planned Why Your Organization Should Not Do Diversity Training Enough with the Empathy Taking leave of the socialism of fools - On the echoes of fascism in the critics of Zionism. Barack Obama bashes America (again) Columbia Prof Urges Constitutional Amendment 'To Prevent Another Trump' THIS ELECTION HAS BEEN BAD FOR THE NARRATIVE Don't Buy the Debunked Dominion Voting Machine Conspiracy Theory. Trump's campaign officials and attorneys are peddling this nonsense with help from credulous Fox News hosts, but their theories don't stand up to scrutiny Lin Wood on Mark Levin Show: Trump Won a 70% Plus Landslide Election – He Probably Had 400 Electoral Votes I am a natural skeptic Tuesday, November 17. 2020Plymouth RockHow Fishele Died, and other vignettes
Posted by Bird Dog
in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation
at
15:56
| Comments (2)
| Trackbacks (0)
Tuesday morning linksHow Do Geese Know How to Fly South for the Winter? Oxford dictionaries change 'sexist' definitions of the word 'woman' after online petition Huck Finn, To Kill A Mockingbird, Other Classic Books Banned In California Schools For "Racism" Does Racism Explain Black Disadvantage? California’s Affirmative Action Proposition Failed Thanks To Latinos And Asians "It's going to be a tough winter," Whitmer enacts new restrictions for 3 weeks in Michigan Gov. Newsom Announces 94% Of Californians Under ‘Purple Tier’ Which Means Indoor Businesses Must Close New study: Lockdowns & masks are useless and might even increase COVID-19 spread Fauci: We Should Probably Wear Masks And Social Distance Even After Being Vaccinated A Quiet Totalitarian Revolution Dear Guardian readers, everything you think you know about who supports Trump is wrong. Love, The Guardian. " The people I know who voted for Biden are unusually quiet." CONSPIRACY THEORY, OR STOLEN ELECTION? Trump’s Pennsylvania Longshot - The Supreme Court will not decide this election. Senate Watch: 'More Than 600,000' Voters In Georgia Have Requested Mail-In Ballots For January Runoff Republicans Score Big Gains in House, Pelosi Barely Hanging On Monday, November 16. 2020Thanksgiving plans?None of my 5 sibs want to travel this year, and none of my kids either for complicated reasons (well, dau in law has a kid due around TG). So instead of our usual 30 people (including the jolly nieces and nephews), we are down to three - Mrs BD and me, and father-in-law. So last night out at a nice French dinner with father in law and one of his pals from the old folk's home, I suggested we do our local diner which is advertising their TG dinner. Who would bother with all of the chores and cooking for three or four people? That is too sad. Eat the food, then what? That is not fun. No welcome speeches? No lengthy prayers? No brats causing chaos? No fires blazing in our fireplaces? Nobody hacking on the piano? No silly indoor and outdoor games? And no classic family 1-hr after-dinner walk at dusk and in the rainy dark? The old guy thought the diner idea was a great idea. I said I'd sneak in some excellent Scotch, and I'm sure it would be a festive if well-separated crowd there. In fact, it might be memorable. Next year, God willing, back to normal. I have not seen my sisters or brother since Christmas.
« previous page
(Page 118 of 794, totaling 19826 entries)
» next page
|