Maggie's Farm

Of course it's good to walk a lot. Swimming is good too. If general mobility is your goal, that's good.

Despite the article, I've never heard of anybody who lost fat by doing either of those things. Well, maybe if you decide to give a month to hiking the Appalachian trail you will lose fat. 

I sort of admire, or envy, people who do not think about their fitness.  

 How Fit Can You Get From Just Walking? Walking is good for you, obviously. But can it whip you into shape?

Nope. Unless feeble, walks are recreation and not "exercise." 

"Barcelona, then, was a Catalonian Pyongyang: and it is important to recall that Orwell approved of it. At this stage of his development, he was an enthusiastic totalitarian, and the shallowness of his belief that such uniformity was a triumph for freedom and equality is rather startling in a man who, a very few years later, was to be the greatest literary scourge of totalitarianism in the world."

Hanania:

 President of the University of Chicago with the best statement yet on the protests: “I believe the protesters should also consider that an encampment, with all the etymological connections of the word to military origins, is a way of using force of a kind rather than reason to persuade others… those violating university policy should expect to face disciplinary consequences.”

"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."

Columbia protestors throw world's biggest toddler tantrum when the cops show up

 New York's Finest Clear Out Columbia Rat's Nest in Record Time

  'Free Palestine' Brownshirts Need a Heavy Dose of Consequences

 Since When Does Criminal Law Not Apply to College Campus Protests?

 UCLA Pro-Hamas Mob Issue List of Demands, Including Zip Ties and Gas Masks. At a press conference, they also demanded UCLA divest, disclose, and abolish policing.

DeSantis Takes Down Reporter Who Accuses Him of Crushing Campus Protests

 Columbia Classmates Call for Intifada. I Just Want to Attend College.

 Nancy Pelosi Has a Meltdown After MSNBC Challenges Her Talking Points

 Trapped by court case, Trump turns Big Apple into his political playground

 The children protesting on American campuses are making incoherent noises in order to attract more attention to their riotous behavior, and thus, to obscure the fact that they are really trying to mask Palestinian shame. 

The Wolves in Colorado 

 AI and the End of the Human Writer - If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

 Here's What Happened When a Mom of a 'Trans' Student Tried Scolding a Teacher for 'Misgendering' Her Kid

New York City to pay over $2 million settlement for discrimination against white educators

 Surprise, Surprise: Pro-Hamas Agitators on Campus Have a New 'Demand'

 The NYPD Comes for Columbia’s Occupation. Plus. . .

 University of Florida "Is Not a Day Care" - There Are Consequences for Protests

Related: Protesters wanted free food 

"... campus riots like the ones at Columbia could be a disaster for the Democratic Party. That is what happened in the late 60s. Voters hate these childish and destructive outbursts. "

Stuart's Wednesday Miscellany 

 "There Is No Crime": Dershowitz Says Bragg’s Case Against Trump Will Fail

  NATO Chief Confirms

Ukraine Will Become a Member of NATO — Pushing US Closer to Nuclear War with Russia

Why?

What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought

 Why Is Israel Singled Out As The Uniquely Hated State?

 Losing Face, Cosmetically

 'Chestfeeding' And Other Transgender Terms Banned In NHS By UK Government

 Things Worth Remembering: Allan Bloom on the ‘Charmed Years’ of College

Glenn Reynolds:  Notes on the Asylum Where I Was Raised. In which I visit the Harvard protests, among other things

 Will Gen-Z cancel America?

 It Took Ten Years For Powerful People To See That Leftism Has Crossed A Red Line

Do you hate getting your "physicals"?

 You have to discuss your life in detail, and expose your physical condition. Yes, they like to be Psychiatrists too if they are smart. I will submit to it every two years or so. One problem is that they always find something to look into even if it doesn't matter. But sometimes it really does... You do not want to end up like my brother-in-law who I thought was the fittest guy in the family.

My doctor is a gym rat - more so than I am -  and about 50% grey haired. Looks awesome, and I do not. My fasting glucose was a bit high, so he asked me about my food habits. I told him that, normally, I have 2 coffees for breakfast. He said he was the same. I told him that lunch makes me sleepy, so I usually only have a banana except on weekends. He said he was the same. He asked me what I had for supper last night. I said Thai take out. Cashew Beef I think, which I shared with Mrs.

I told him my appreciation for beer and wine. He thought that was fine. 

Then we discussed my blessed Ambien for sleep, especially on planes. He thought that was good, and gave me five refills. I told him that low-dose Doxepin works, but produces too many bad dreams for me.

Yeah, I have to recheck my glucose. 

Journolist 2.0 

 Iowa State to close DEI office, eliminate five positions

 DEI Was Supposed to Help People Like Me. It Didn’t. My bosses wanted my Caribbean face at diversity training sessions. What they didn’t want were my actual viewpoints.

 UCLA Students Forced To Take Mandatory 'Fat Positivity' Class

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

'there have been reports that many of the students at the big Columbia Camp-In are just there because it is cool to shout slogans, wave flags, and wear keffiyehs. You know, cuz it's counter-cultural and cutting edge and stuff.'   

 George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

 Shadow financiers of ‘spontaneous’ student campus protests

 Texas Shows How to Prevent a Campus Takeover

Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs

TNR really despises suburbs 

" Turns out that living in near-Utopia has the worst possible effect: you decide to strive for a different Utopia altogether."

 Feminism has left middle-aged women like me single, childless and depressed

 A Principal Was Removed, Faced Threats for Making Racist Comments. There's Just One, Major Problem.

 A Culture of Grievance

 Thomas Jefferson High School Drops Out of Top Ten Nationwide After Adopting “Equity” Admissions Policy - “TJ for the first time dropped out of the top 10 of the US News list of top US high schools, falling from being number 1 2020-2022, to 5 in 2023, to now 14 in 2024”

 TGIF: Four More Years, Pause - Australia wants to jail Elon. Women tie their tubes. Mike Johnson is sticking around. Plus: China might not have been honest about the pandemic.

 ‘Social manias die quietly’. Lionel Shriver on why elites are rarely held accountable for their most damaging mistakes.

 Columbia's Tiananmen Square

 Ivy League grads risk losing prized jobs for schools allowing antisemitic protests to fester: Wall Street honchos

 Communist Coachella at Columbia. Plus. . .

 BIG PICTURE – Judge Cannon Unseals and Un-redacts Trump Legal Motion that Exposes DOJ Fraudulent Case Against Him

TRUMP IN THE SUPREME COURT

 Biden is Trying to Make Trump the Nelson Mandela of America

 The fantasy of open borders Mass migration will only lead to more suffering

IDF: The Rafah Op Will Come -- Very Soon

 In First, 17 Nations Release Joint Statement Demanding Hamas Release All Hostages

 Iran's Nightmares

 Four Thousand Years of Egyptian Women Pictured

Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes

 Why transgender madness is so rampant in Sweden

 Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”

 BBC rejoices as Britain commits economic suicide in pursuit of Net Zero

 The Impossible Heat Wave Era is Upon Us

Not where I live 

 Could EVs Compete In A True Free Market?

 Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill - Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.

 Aussie Senator Says Elon Musk Should "Be In Jail And The Key Be Thrown Away"

 This is not your 1992 Democrat Party

 Migrants Gone Wild On Streets Of Midtown Manhattan 

 They Aren’t Hiding it Anymore, Biden Wants Mass Amnesty Before Election 

 Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Yanks Support From Columbia University Over Antisemitism

 Columbia University's Pro-Hamas Activists Vow to Defend Camp Against Police Action

 NYPD chief swarmed by anti-Israel protesters and berated while seeking shelter in NYU building

 The United Nations Is Still Worthless

Neither is terrible, but both kinda bland for my taste. Baked Brie is a very good dessert.

What's the difference?

(As usual, I do not support the idea of cheese as an appetizer. Why eat a filling savory thing before a good hunk of meat or a stew? ) 

Size and shape of the hole, watering, etc. from an expert.

Good advice. 

Here's Columbia University President's letter. It's embarassingly limp and mealy-mouthed.

I have two degrees from that excellent university, so I care. Here's what I would have written, were I in her shoes:

Dear Members of the Columbia Community,

As of today anyone who disrupts our educational mission will be arrested by the NYPD, and expelled. Students and and parents have spent a lot of time and money to receive what we have to offer, and it is our job to provide that.

If anyone decides that disruptive protesting is more important than learning in our excellent institution, they should do it elsewhere.

Sincerely,

Columbia University President Bird Dog

 Tracking The Demise Of The U.S. Green Energy Transition

Atlantic:  IN PRAISE OF HEROIC MASCULINITY - Teach boys that strength can be a virtue.

 The cult of ‘my truth’ - NPR is only the latest institution to fall to woke relativism

 NPR Has a Trigger Warning on the Declaration of Independence

 The lawfare against Donald Trump hits new heights today

 The Kids Skipping Elite Colleges and Heading South.

More on the Yale Protest That Hospitalized Jewish Student

 They Were Assaulted on Campus for Being Jews. At Yale, Sahar Tartak was stabbed in the eye. At Columbia, Jonathan Lederer’s Israeli flag was burned and he was hit in the face.

 Double the Anti-Semitism

 Who Saved Salman Rushdie? Plus. . .Mike Johnson’s moment. Columbia’s radical chic. And why the Trump jury will restore your faith in America.

 Boredom and Gratitude

 Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Today Than At Any Time In 5,000 Years

 UCLA study: Gay couples at greater risk from climate change

 Bill Maher rages at Hollywood for putting kids at risk, calls Disney an aphrodisiac for pedophiles and slams Drag Queen Story Hour trend

 Bill Maher against Wokery

 The Trans Reckoning Is Here

Pro-Hamas Protests Rage Into the Night at Columbia University

 New anti-Israel tent city takes over Columbia University lawn days after NYPD raid as activists vow to stay ‘forever’

 The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?

" I considered moving out of the USA..."

 Democrats are taking from taxpayers to expand their own power

 Germany: Violent Migrant Crime Hit Record High in 2023

 How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing and Gaining Prosperity

 The Second Cold War Is Escalating Faster Than the First - To understand what is at stake in the fight against the axis of China, Russia and Iran, just read “The Lord of the Rings.

 As long as American officials are writing checks to Kyiv, Ukraine will continue to push for maximalist goals. 

 Turkish President Backs Hamas, Urges Palestinian Unity Against Israel