Maggie's Farm

The wide stance on the front wheels is right for hilly New England. From haying at SWNF

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Men may never truly get over a relationship break-up, says study

David Warren's Household hints

Fats, butter, and oils: "They could see no link to coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, ischaemic stroke or type 2 diabetes"

Raising kids:  Finally, a complaint about “entitlement” we can all get behind

Finally, Unorganized Hancock hires a bass player

Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?

The Illogic of All Sex Laws - A new book traces a century of legislative prudery.

Mich. State students protest Boy Scouts for 'cultural appropriation'

If You Love Lions, Let People Hunt Them, The New York Times Says

My Tank: Driving the Sherman M-4A3

Obama, Clinton Foundation Donors Sold ‘Green’ Fuel to Military for $149 per Gallon - San Francisco’s Solazyme also received millions in stimulus funds from DOE

From Steyn:  "A Disgrace to the Profession" - The World's Scientists - in their own words - on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick and their Damage to Science

Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage

California has now banned use of the word “alien” (as in ‘illegal alien’) from Labor Laws because it discriminates against illegal aliens looking for jobs and gives preference to American citizens.

The ObamaCare Individual Mandate's Harsh Reality

The return of the Showtrial

The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails

Is Obama taking Hillary out?

Via Powerline:

Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show:

Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents’ plan to make college affordable: “Be good at sports.”

Carly Fiorina Shows How to Address the Left on Climate Change

Army Leaders: Changes to Basic Training Will Produce Better Soldiers

Cuban dissidents say being snubbed from Embassy opening is ‘slap in the face’

America Naively Swoons While Communist Cuba Cracks Down

The U.S. has been complacent and lazy in responding to cyberattacks

ISIS Organizing Small Armies Inside America

Why Iran’s Anti-Semitism Matters

How President Erdogan Mastered the Media - Turkey's once-feisty press has succumbed to an artful mix of bribery, muscle, and ideology.

Film preview:  The Unknowns is a documentary film by U.S. Army Veterans  Neal Schrodetzki and Ethan Morse.

Hamas has dug ‘several tunnels’ into Israel, in new Iran-funded war drive

AmazingRibs.com Is All About The Science Of Barbecue, Grilling, And Outdoor Cooking

Parenthood is worse than divorce, unemployment — even the death of a partner

Buffalo, NY: Where the Cool Kids Want to Live

Annie Lennox's daughter rescued after kayak capsizes; boyfriend still missing

No life-preserver? On a big strong river? I have kayaked on the Hudson. Best with a flotation device.

NC State receives approval for new dorm to house basketball players

Whatever happened to good old jock fraternities?

Peak Oilers Shut Up Forever Please

Renewables Offer No Bang for Your Megawatt

Tesla Burns Taxpayers' Dollars Like A Corvette Burns Gas

Tesla runs on coal

What Still Works in the USA?

Well, me, for starters

The Plight of the Unarmed Perp

New Yorker Writer Thinks 'Speech Nuts' Are Like 'Gun Nuts' - Kelefa Sanneh thinks the American devotion to free speech is overrated because there's less of it in Europe.

A Thoughtless Age - The West has cut ties with the great thinkers of the past.

Only an elite few ever studied these

Hillary Clinton’s higher education plan touches all the bases, except reality.

Liberals Can't Admit to Thinking Like Conservatives:

I'm an enormous fan of Jonathan Haidt's work. Nonetheless, I've always had two outstanding questions about it (and would note that these are not exactly questions of which Professor Haidt is unaware).  The first is simply whether his surveys capture the actual moral reasoning that people do, or represent people pretending to do the sort of moral reasoning they think they ought to do.

Is Hillary above the Law?

Why a huge Los Angeles crowd turned out for Bernie Sanders

"Trump is not a candidate, he's making an infomercial for a yet-to-be fully develped political reality show."

Because Nothing Says ‘Protecting Her Honor’ Like A Father Letting His Own Daughter Drown

Like Abraham and Isaac?

Dalrymple: Isis Happens - On the linguistic constructions of liberal intellectuals:

...  they laughed when I said how strange it was that I met many people who fell in with the wrong crowd but never any members of the wrong crowd itself.

The War Against the Swedish Flag - How love of country became racism.

China Steps Up the War on the Cross

White House Should Leave Politics Out of Iran Deal

5 Big Lessons from the First Gulf War

Major Jewish Groups Slam White House, Allies for Use of Antisemitic Language in Debate Over Iran Nuclear Deal

A Southern friend told me the menu she was cookin' up for a 25 person outdoor backyard party tomorrow:

Fried squash blossoms
Homemade barbecued ribs
Jalapeno-cheddar cornbread
Collards with bacon and maple syrup
Fried green tomatoes (from her garden) with buttermilk dressing
Caprese salad (also from her tomatoes)

S'mores for dessert

Cheap, simple, delicious, and fun. American (mostly),  I could see this for a country wedding menu.

Growing kids need breakfast. Adults do not, except athletes. A coffee and maybe a smoke is perfect, same as the Italians do.

If you listen to government experts, you can bet you'll be wrong every time: Gov’t recommendations on breakfast were based on basically nothing, probably wrong

I love a good diner breakfast (pancakes, bacon, fried eggs, hash browns with ketchup, white toast) about once a month, but I don't need it. It just makes me tired and useless. My trainer forces me to eat a hard-boiled egg after my morning work-out, so I do that.

Quote via reader:

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

Richard Feynman

Massive Study Confirms Our Universe Is 'Slowly Dying'

A University President Fights Campus Hypersensitivity with Free Speech

How Privileged Are You? - Check(list) your privilege.

My result was "not privileged."  I thought I was.

Frank Gifford — impact player on and off the field

DO COMPUTERS DIE OF OLD AGE? SHORT ANSWER: SADLY, YES

What Conservatives Hate About Common Core, and Why They’re Not Alone

California’s Uber Hunt - Golden State regulators and taxi companies want to bury the ridesharing company in paper.

The Democrats’ War on the Sharing Economy

People in my area share power tools, boats,

Google Inc. to Become Alphabet Inc. in Shakeup

No, Donald Trump, Single-Payer Health Care Doesn't 'Work Incredibly Well' In Canada & Scotland

Clinton to propose $350 billion college affordability plan

The Flawed ‘Missing Men’ Theory - Mandatory-sentencing laws need an overhaul, but the dissolution of black families in the U.S. predates them.

Liberals Can't Admit to Thinking Like Conservatives

Progressive policies drive more into poverty

Fiorina:  Making a good first impression

Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism

Inspired by Oscar Schindler, Jewish Businessman Leads Effort to Rescue Christian, Yazidi Girls From ISIS

THE PROFS WHO LOVE OBAMA’S IRAN DEAL - Meet the Mullahs’ academic cheerleaders.

Modern Middle East Studies vs. Scholarship

CIA Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: Finally Getting the Rest of the Story

The Secret Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians

Sonnet 119

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted
In the distraction of this maddening fever!
O benefit of ill! Now I find true
That better is by evil still made better;
And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
So I return rebuked to my content
  And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.

There's nothing more refreshing than a cold Borscht. A family member handed me an old recipe for it yesterday.

There are countless ways to make it, all from eastern Europe. I think I like it best with chunks, and with a dollop of sour cream on top, but the one pictured is excellent too.

Here's another Bird Dog favorite: Cold Zucchini Soup

In their list, this silly newspaper omitted cold Borsht and Zucchini Soup.

What are your favorite cold summer soups?

College placement exam comes under new scrutiny - Critics say Accuplacer forces many into remedial classes at state schools

Sounds like they weren't "college material"

The Unseen Consequences of Zero-Interest-Rate Policy

ZIRP is terrible

The Modesty of American Genius - David McCullough brings the Wright Brothers’ story to life for our time.

Six climate headlines from 2009 that tell us something important about the run-up to the 2015 Paris climate conference

Dalrymple:  Activity Isn’t Working

It's puttering

St. Louis may build new football stadium with taxpayer dollars without taxpayer approval

7 Key Measures of California’s Transportation Challenges

Worried about your privilege? Want to be treated like an abused underclass? Start a business!

Government rules and regs are major obstacles to a new enterprise

Why Millennials Are Still Living with Their Parents

Shots Fired In Ferguson While CNN Interviews Police Chief On ‘Peaceful Protests’ On Mike Brown Anniversary

Judge Rules New York Teacher Exam Did Not Discriminate Against Minorities

1199:  The Union That Rules News York

Union organizers lose bid to represent women’s college professors against their will

The Overreach of Planned Parenthood And Their SJW Supporters

Free Contraception Can't End the Abortion Debate

Those poor single mothers wanted to be that

Social Security Facing Major Problems as It Turns 80

Carly Fiorina: The Ronda Rousey of Politics

Fiorina Fundraising Spikes After Debate

Scott Walker: Everything That Hillary Clinton Touches Is a Mess

Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism

Victor Davis Hanson: Demoting Old Idols Out Of PC Ignorance

2016: The die is cast

Is it?

Malaysian Mufti Denounces Intellect and Logic

Greece's Collapse Was a Reversion to the Mean… Who's Next?

I've been there twice - saw a bullfight, the markets, the beaches, and the Matisse Museum - but want to go back for a week or so bringing all the kids. 

Watch the video in the article. Lots of fine dining and wine. Top two on my travel bucket list: A week in a villa in Provence (or maybe somewhere north of Perugia) with all family, and 4 days grouse hunting in Scotland. Hey, it's almost the Glorious 12th

Good pals recently invited us to join them on this Viking trip. Would love to, but 8-10 days away is my max, and work is one of my joys so my need to get away is just for curiosity and education. No need to escape anything.

Speaking of travel, a daughter of mine found this note in some files I have been going through. My dad had sent me his travel plans in 2001 and my assistant tossed it in a file. They were in late-70s at the time with medical challenges they tried to ignore (Dad was half-blind but still working and Mom could be a space cadet) but they drove all over the world anyway same as my inlaws do now in their 80s).

It was their habit to go to Europe every early summer. They loved the canal barges in France almost as much as they loved small ships.

I suspect the deal was Sissinghurst for Royal Opera.

The sleek, no-frills esthetic of Modernism and the gray-flannel ’50s both influenced the utilitarian mindset that dictates the rules of usage in ‘The Elements of Style.’

For better or worse, I was raised on S&W. Dad made me read it in 6th Grade and quizzed us on word usage. White privilege, I spose.

Fermi Problem: The Logic of Lightning Safety

Stuck at home like a loser tonight with no date, no garden cocktail party, no cook-out to go to, and all your friends are on vacation to exciting places? Ain't That A Shame?  

(Search Youtube for Fats - so many great tunes)

How To Slice A Bagel Along A Mobius Strip — And Why

Is Our Universe a Fake?

Lion Hunting Is For Cowards

Artificial intelligence is already weirdly inhuman

EPA Dumps One Million Gallons of Wastewater Into Colorado River

Attorney General’s Charity Chief: Fraud Is “Surprisingly Common”

An ‘unarmed’ white teen was shot dead by police. His family asks: Where is the outrage?

Why White Men Get Shot by Cops

Ben Carson: Our Skin Does Not Make Us Who We Are, Our Brain Does

That’s Not Funny! Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.

 O, Utopia. Why must your sweet governance always turn so quickly from the Edenic to the Stalinist? The college revolutions of the 1960s—the ones that gave rise to the social-justice warriors of today’s campuses—were fueled by free speech. But once you’ve won a culture war, free speech is a nuisance, and “eliminating” language becomes a necessity.

New doc highlights Buckley-Vidal debates, a turning point in TV news history

The New York Times Gets Money in Politics All Wrong

The 2016 election for dummies

Democrats: They're All Socialists Now

The Return of the Silent Majority

Cheryl Mills To Destroy Emails About Boss Hillary Clinton

Clinton Campaign Deems GOP ‘Out of Touch,’ Hillary Selfies with Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Kris Jenner

Puerto Rico's 'death spiral' can be traced back to one mistake

Yazidi Child Soldiers Take Revenge on ISIS

Turkey and Its Kurds: At War Again

HIROSHIMA 70TH ANNIVERSARY: A JUST END TO WORLD WAR II

Constructing the Tallest Building in The World - 

Whole Foods’ $6 a Bottle ‘Asparagus Water’ a ‘Mistake’

Identify your life strengths

5 Effective Ways People with Thin Privilege Can Fight Fatphobia

Good grief

College Codes Make 'Color Blindness' a Microaggression

The Religion of Climate Change - Lending the power of the pulpit to the cause of environmental politics.

De-Policing: the Scariest Word of the Year

Why Alabama Lets More Convicted Felons Serve Their Time in the Community

The Twitter Mob: Society’s New Mechanism for Enforcing Morality

Public University Paying ‘Diversity Officer’ More than Congressmen Make

The Cost Of Over Insurance: National Health Expenditures Rising Again

DE BLASIO COUNTDOWN CLOCK

Bill Clinton Called Trump Before Campaign Announcement

Carly

Will Supreme Court End Political Subsidy to Aliens?

Inspectors So Far Denied Access to Iran’s Scientists

The Troubling Question in the French Jewish Community: Is It Time to Leave

Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory

Putin Lays Claim to North Pole

Obama Puts Fear Before Facts on Iran

iIsrael and Japan Are Finally Becoming Friends. Why?

Improving Ties between India and Israel

Did Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain Really “Just Get Along”?

Russia Is Running Out of Options in Ukraine

Socialism Crumbles In Venezuela, But Democrats Think It’s a Great Idea

How To Make Refrigerator Dill Pickles

How to make pickles

Pickled Peppers

How to Make home-canned Spiced Peaches!

Intro to home canning

Pickling Tips and Recipes

Graph above via Carpe

Giant Mystery Ring of Galaxies Should Not Exist

The Price of Matriarchy

Advertising the 1950s: These 60-Year-Old Car Ads Are Cool

‘Three Little Pigs’ — a fairy-tale nightmare for NYC schools

The Politics of Delusion - Mayor Bill de Blasio’s radical dreams are leading straight to chaos.

Kirsten Powers: I've got news for Democrats. It's a baby!

The Employment and Income Effects of Raising America’s Minimum Wage to $12 and to $15 per Hour

Professor arrested in racial profiling hoax

Mark Levin to Rising Generation: Will You Choose Freedom?

Crushing the Poor & Middle Class with the EPA

Hillary Clinton Put on Southern Accent for South Carolina Democratic Chairman

Britain Rolls Out Red Carpet for Illegal Immigrants From Africa

I Will Always Remember Where I Was When Cecil The Lion Was Killed

Tokyo Ascending: Abe’s New Defense Strategy

Assessing the Iran Nuclear Agreement and The Washington Institute’s Iran Study Group June 24 Policy Statement

Iran: U.S. Banned from Knowing Details of Iran Nuclear Inspection Agreement

Very Smart Diplomacy: Creating Desert Storm's Effective Coalition

State Department watered down human trafficking report

A wonderful, low-key place to get away to with plenty of good restaurants, lakes, ponds, bay, harbor, and Atlantic Ocean all within a couple of miles in the pine-scented, salt-sprayed National Seashore. Sea breezes, no bugs, genteel people but no rich jerks.

Pic is the harbor, not Cape Cod Bay.