Maggie's Farm

Despite being a terrible person in some ways, White was not like Frank Gehry who always wants to make a Gehry statement. White just gave his clients whatever they wanted, and he knew how to do it. Shingle-style, neo-classical, whatever.

From our hike, Judson Memorial Church, just off Washinton Square. Mr. Rockefeller mostly paid for it, but White designed it. It's always been more service-oriented than Jesus-oriented, but it's still there.

 Tree-dwelling mammals endured after asteroid strike destroyed forests

Retail:  The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants. What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?

Melinda Gates' fancy wedding 

College enrollment and the pandemic 

WHY PEOPLE HATE THE MEDIA, CHAPTER 12,186

 Thousands register for geophysicist’s lecture after MIT caved to ‘Twitter mob’

Dr.  Michael Burry Drops Redpills In Epic Twitter Rant

Cool 

Wife Involved in Submarine Spy Case is Anti-Trump, Progressive, and ‘Very Liberal’. If the couple was MAGA you know the media would have this story plastered on the front pages and make it the lede.

 Achieving equity through mediocrity: Why elimination of gifted programs should worry us all

 Biden wants to snoop in nearly every American's bank account

What Is Critical Race Theory, Really? And why that’s often the wrong question

Yes, that wild and crazy guy designed this arch. From our hike:

Why Sam Harris is trying to rehabilitate the word ‘spirituality’ (video)

 High Drama: Weill Cornell Medicine Physician Assistant Saves Passenger on Airplane

 Manhattan Contrarian Celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Day

 'Shameful Past': Kamala Harris Criticizes European Explorers in Vicious Speech

Police showed up at this Aussie’s door to question him about Facebook posts which showed him at an "illegal" protest and his response is exactly what yours should be if this ever happens to you

 Americans Are Quitting Jobs at Record Rates: Labor Department

"Hiding the ball": Hunter Biden complicates WH's anti-corruption push

 Joe Biden could become embroiled in the FBI's probe into Hunter's finances, experts say: Emails reveal they SHARED bank accounts, paid each other's bills and the president may have even have funded his son's 2018 drug and prostitution binge

 Dems wonder: Why hasn't free money made us more popular?

 It's All Fake: Kamala Harris Used Child Actors Who Had To Audition For Weird NASA Promo

 Biden’s Education Department moves to install racial quotas in school discipline policies

China’s plan to build more coal-fired plants deals blow to UK’s Cop26 ambitions

 UK Readying New Law Mandating Home EV Chargers Be Shut Down During Peak Hours

 Ten EU countries push for nuclear power to be labelled as green energy as world faces energy crisis following years of pressure to move to eco-friendly sources

Ships Arrive From The Orient Laden With Pumpkin Spice

 Terrified Virginia Democrats Seek to Change Election Laws After Voting Has Already Started

 Garland Memo Fallout: RI Assoc. of School Committees To “Coordinate” With FBI And Gather Information On Public Meeting “Issues”

Why Are Moms Like Me Being Called Domestic Terrorists? Showing up to dress down school boards over their dereliction of duty isn't a crime. It's good parenting and good citizenship.

Revolt of the masses: The left has overplayed its hand

 California Mandates Gender Neutral Areas Of Stores, Bans Gas Powered Lawnmowers, Mandates Free Menstrual Products For Girls…

The Most Frightened Nation - Why the United Kingdom will never be the same

Ivanka and Jared get a hero's welcome in Jerusalem to celebrate Trump's signing of the Abraham Accords: Kushner tells the Knesset the Middle East is 'changing' after meeting former prime minister Netanyahu at glitzy reception

Mrs. BD always wants new adventures, but in many ways I hate traveling. It's the process - airplanes, airports, rental cars, luggage, etc. I am always glad I did it after getting through the guards at JFK and headed back to my own place.

Mrs. is the travel planner, and she is darn good at it. She uses Karen Brown a lot, and knows how to use miles for first class. For me, long-distance air travel is torture regardless of the class. I try Ambien and hope not to wake up. 

Scott Adams wonders whether it's a female thing, at just past the 23 minute mark: Podcast 

Bored with their lives, maybe? Happy wife, happy life. I think mine is a good influence on me, but I never feel bored with life.

"Live and don't learn, that's us."

- Hobbes, the Tiger 

Humans Had Advanced Fishing Technology 12,000 Years Ago in Israel

A key part of the Big Bang remains troublingly elusive. Physicists still don't understand what happened in the instant after the Big Bang.

 14-Year-Old Girl Becomes Youngest to Sail 1,600 Miles Around Britain

 Drax’s renewable energy plant is UK’s biggest CO2 emitter, analysis claims

Havana Syndrome Hysteria and the Great Wild Goose Chase. Classified documents reveal skepticism of foreign actors & bolster the role of psychogenic illness

 Armed French Police Drag A British Man Off A Train Because He “Had The Wrong Kind Of Mask On”

When Fourth-Graders Can’t Read: One Phoenix School Has a New Way to Fight Pandemic Learning Loss, Students return to school two grade levels behind; adding literacy lessons to PE

 De Blasio’s final ‘gift’ to New York City is ruining its schools: Goodwin

Biden Criminalizes CRT Dissent. The administration has mobilized the FBI against parents who oppose critical race theory.

BRANDON—THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: “Let’s go Brandon”

Orchestrated crisis to bring tens of thousands of people to southern border in coming weeks

THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS ARE EVIL

 China arrests businessman for criticizing hit film

 US AC-130 Gunship Receives Laser Cannon 

From a week ago

Minetta Tavern, from our hike. It is on MacDougal St.

From our urban hike. You know about that joint don't ya? It's still there. What a great old city!

From the Maggie's hike

Good News: The World Finally Has a Malaria Vaccine. This is great progress, but there is even more in the vaccine pipeline.

There was a time when malaria was endemic in New England 

Who should take responsibility for your wellbeing?

Forty Years Fighting The Anti-Culture. The New Criterion, the culture journal that saw American barbarism coming, celebrates four decades of rigorous criticism this month.

 How left-wing protesters are justified, but angry moms are ‘domestic terrorists’

 FBI Creates Critical Race Theory Based Training Program…

 The Mob Attacking Trump's Lawyer Is More Dangerous Than Anything John Eastman Is Accused of Doing

Critical Race Theory’s new disguise - A rebranded campaign for 'equity' is just as divisive

 Atlanta hate hoax: Author of KKK notes turns out to be black woman

 Hamas Building a Second Front Against Israel in Lebanon

Why can't we all just get along? 

The Coasties suspect that an anchor might have popped a hole in a pipeline, and created a minor oil leak. Could be.

Unlike real seamen, I do not trust anchors in bigger water other than daytime lunch hooks. There are too many things that can disrupt an anchor, such as wind shifts, big waves, condition of the bottom, etc. It is not unusual for recreational boaters to dive down and check the bottom situation of their anchor. Commercial fishermen use 2 anchors, but the olde time Cape Cod fishermen would often prefer to run up on a beach than sleep on anchor on a bad night when they could not reach harbor.

For large vessels, there are now global positioning systems which will keep you precisely in place without anchor or mooring. 

This colorful species of the jay family is fairly common from the East coast of the US to the eastern edge of the Rockies. In winter here I occasionally find their feathers scattered around where a Sharp-Shinned Hawk has caught one for dinner.

Apparently some migrate and some don't. It is termed "partial migration."  I have seen large flocks migrating south along the Hudson River. However, there are always plenty of them around in a New England winter especially if you put bird food out. 

Factoid: they mate for life, like Canada Geese. How do they know who is who, because they all look the same?

The case of Harry Houdini

 The huge asteroid nobody saw coming

Art:  Is It Any Wonder That Ordinary People Are Losing Confidence in the Expertise of the Credentialed Elites?

Men can get pregnant 

Why Governor Newsom Must Veto AB 101, For Good

The LA Times Editorial Board believes AB 101 is flawed but can be rehabilitated. It cannot. Governor Newsom must veto this bill, for our good

 Covid-19 Lockdown Cost/Benefits: A Critical Assessment of the Literature

 Is There Any "Science" Behind Covid Mask Mandates?

 Sage Steele Suspended from ESPN for 'Controversial' Comments about Mandates, Obama, Female Reporters

Exactly who or what is the National School Boards Association?

 427,000 Parents Respond to National School Board Association Labeling Them 'Domestic Terrorists'

Biden Criminalizes CRT Dissent. The administration has mobilized the FBI against parents who oppose critical race theory.

 Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative Takes Another Stab Wound to the Gut

 Never mind the cost — just look at the absurd things Build Back Better would buy

US  Fifth Fleet's Task Force 59 Is a Good Start

 US Marine Corps signs new contract with Israeli defense company Smart Shooter

 Has Joe Biden just solved the China vs Taiwan problem?

 America's botched Afghanistan withdrawal: 'It’s even worse than people know'

Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor. "Whistleblower" Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse

The Worst Campus in America for Free Speech

University of Chicago professor describes being canceled, deplatformed over his views

MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me. Let’s make sure my cancellation is the last. That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob.

Glenn Reynolds: To reduce inequality, abolish Ivy League - Where the upper-middle class and rich go for taxpayer-subsidized, elitist networking.

 CONCERNED PARENTS, OR DOMESTIC TERRORISTS?

MERRICK GARLAND THREATENS AMERICA’S PARENTS [UPDATED]

Title lX:  Joe Biden Abandons Due Process

Manhattan Apartment Sales Surge to Three-Decade High. More apartments sold in the third quarter than at any other time in more than 30 years, as the New York market continues its recovery.

 In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Tierney explains that Fauci led the way toward unscientific reasoning

 Victor Davis Hanson: Why I Left National Review

The Nation:  The Past 2 Years Have Left Portland Reeling. What Kind of Recovery Comes Next?

Texas Officials Bracing for What May Be the Largest Group of Illegal Migrants EVER to Swarm Border

 China’s Belt and Road Faces Growing Opposition From Participating Countries as Debts Mount

On Commerce St, if I recall. Most of these places have good-sized gardens.

WSJ: The ACLU Decides ‘Woman’ Is a Bad Word

 Guns don't kill people, people kill people

 Here’s what NYC must do to deal with commuters who’ll never come back

 Minnesota school no longer gives grades of ‘F’ because of ‘systemic racism’

Biden's Justice Department Announces It Considers School Board Protests to Be Threats and Promises Action

 'It Doesn't Cost Zero': Chris Wallace Pushes Back Against Democrats' Myths

 Kash Patel to Newsmax: Durham's Subpoenas Show He's Following the Money

 George Soros contributes $500,000 to defeat police funding initiative in Austin

 My Life as a Ghostwriter

 Why Memory Worsens as You Age, and 5 Things You Can Do About It

Politics and architecture 

The limits of caring for others 

 ‘Right to repair’ law may run into the changing definition of ‘ownership’

 Fauci: I don't know if we'll be able to gather for Christmas this year

The Emerging Metropolitan Majority? A multiethnic, moderate coalition of New Yorkers wants order and opportunity

Hundreds of Afghan evacuees are leaving military bases without processing

Professor sues UCLA after refusing to grade Black students more leniently than peers

 Remember that 'Emergency Funding' the States Needed Last March? Here's What Happened to It

Kyrsten Sinema is holding firm on the spending madness

 Joe Biden caves to loony left: Goodwin

 More Indictments Are Coming; Unraveling the Origins of the Russia Collusion Hoax

 Stop Enabling the Antisemites Who Live Closest to Our Homes

 China Flies 77 Warplanes Over Taiwan…

We found a cozy cove