Maggie's Farm

But this might be her best (very) short story: Where are You Going, Where Have You been?

Popovers are a great thing, but we found out last night that there is a way to ruin them. 

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 Rick Moranis Is 71! Inside His Quiet Life Since Leaving Hollywood 28 Years Ago

What Happened To Bitcoin?

 Conservative Weakness - More divided than their opponents

 Ever More Audacious Efforts To Suppress Mainstream Conservative Speech

 TGIF: WWIII May Come Tomorrow, But. . .Google remembers it's a workplace. NPR CEO is the gift that keeps on giving. Why does Kari Lake sound reasonable on abortion? And much more.

 Columbia, Google’s crackdown on pro-Hamas protesters: Is that common sense we finally smell?

 DANIEL HANNAN: Why, despite two welcome victories, I fear we'll NEVER beat the woke nightmare. And the next generation will be even MORE intolerant

 Who Is Katherine Maher?

 The 'Better' Civilians of Gaza

My pic from a recent  hike. Those are Pileated holes

 How Often Do Happy Couples Have Sex? Sex is an integral part of most relationships, but how much is enough?

 ‘Sweden has been vindicated on Covid’ - Martin Kulldorff on why lockdowns were a disaster for public health.

William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God 

AI can get you sued 

 ‘Non-binary, neurodivergent’ activist ordering psychiatrists to push ‘gender affirming’ surgery over therapy

 New York College Suspends Professor "Energized" By Hamas Attack On Israel

 Google FIRES 28 employees over their involvement in $1.2B Israel contract protest inside New York and California offices

With Skunk Cabbage. The size of the trees is evidence that this land was a field of some sort not too long ago. Sheep or probably milk cows, because the hill and valley land would not have worked for hayfield.

"Character is destiny."

Heraclitus 

Yeah, it is hyperbole but he was likely making an argument against Fate.  OK, but who you are is fated too, isn't it?

We tend to be skeptical about that notion, although we do not live on "junk food". Is a Wendy's burger junk food?

Food is not medicine.   Most people don't need it but it's ok to use a multivitamin. 

 Remote workers brace for harsh reality check and are committing career suicide: study

 Understanding Current Events First Requires Knowledge of History

 Taylor Swift’s Experience Proves You Can’t Placate The Radical Left

 The psychology of cancel culture: New study pinpoints key drivers

Here's the REAL Reason the Soros-Bought NYC Prosecutor Put Trump on Trial. Try Not to Laugh.

 Trump Apocalypse Hysteria Is Spiraling Into Madness. Do you think they really believe this stuff?

 Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Imports Over 950,000 Foreign Nationals to U.S., Exceeding Population of South Dakota

 California is the homeland of progressive anti-Semitism. Even Jewish progressives are waking up to the reality of anti-Semitic hate on the Left

 Tucker Carlson’s Turn. A Stabbing in Sydney. Plus. . . Book bans. The widening war in the Middle East. TikTok employees say they worked for bosses in Beijing. The Free Press’s first rodeo. And more.

But I am catching up: A Man in Full

Tom Wolfe was a sly observer of people like the journalist that he was.

You can't leave it to the computers

 An 85-year-old woman was handcuffed to a chair during an armed home invasion. She killed the robber and survived.

 Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

 DR MAX PEMBERTON: It's time to prescribe some tough love: How work can help cure the mental health epidemic

 The Prophets: Eric Hoffer - In 1951, a book by an unschooled dockworker predicted the forces that would give rise to radical politics on the left, populism on the right—and a president like Donald Trump.

 The Bargain with Government Is Coming Apart

 Rebranding DEI: How Colleges Are Getting Around State Bans

 Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff?

 'Revolutionary Suicide': UCLA Psychiatrists Cheer Self-Immolation in Leaked Audio. Med school talk glorified self-harm, violated CDC guidance, experts say

 The NPR Fallout. Iran’s Attack. Plus. . .A sneak peek from our debate in Dallas. Heartbreak for the ‘Golden Bachelor.’ And more.

 "This Person Is A Crazy Racist": New NPR CEO Exposed As Woke Activist

 The Week In Doom: Follow The Science Edition

 Biden Admin Locking Down HALF of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve From Energy Development

The Group Quota Regime 

 Ontario resident who wants both a vagina and penis wins public funding for unique surgery

JK Rowling and the Cass report reckoning

 The Inevitable Result of Intersectional Gender Studies

 The Arsonist - Tucker Carlson whitewashed murderers to set fire to evangelical-Jewish relations

 It increasingly feels as though the Biden administration is sacrificing Israel at the altar of electoral calculation. 

 REMINDER: The Biden Administration Granted Iran Billions in New Sanctions Relief Just One Month Ago

 A SLOW-MOTION WAR

We got together - friends, cousins, relatives, etc from all over the country for my father-in-law's funeral down in New Jersey for a few days. Montclair is pleasant.

Roman Catholic funeral Mass in their family church (had not been there since marrying), then trooped through charming Paterson to the cemetery to bury the ashes, then a fine buffet lunch with an open bar of course - and my daughters made a slide show. Spend a few days mostly with all of my wife's mostly Irish relations. A jolly crew. They all loved the old shanachie, who would have been 97 this week.

It was a family and friends reunion. Had some of my sibs and my grandkids there too, which makes things perfect. 

For the Mass, you must do approved readings and sing approved songs. My son did the eulogy and my daughters did the readings. At the lunch, people stood up and told stories. So good and right. Celebratory of a well-lived life. 

Many readers know this tear-jerker which is mostly scriptural lines:

The Woodbridge (NJ) Train Disaster of 1951

Podcast and transcript

Cool dancing, but not really traditional. This style was invented in the Ivory Coast in the 1950s.

Just too many places to go and too much to do.

Photo is a female. Males are more conspicuous. 

These little diving ducks winter across the US and northern Mexico, wherever they can find open water. Though legal, nobody hunts them.

They are on the move now to their breeding grounds in northwestern Canada and Alaska.  

About Buffleheads 

Crew errors, no deaths