Maggie's Farm

Checking In With The "Smart" People At Harvard

Sounds more like sociocultural fashion than anything data-based. Maybe that's the idea. Many elite institutions began as religious ones and, without the religion, other things need to fill the existential vacuum.

But where is the "veritas"? 

Why do boats and ships have a gender? 

What is 5200? 

1.85 million illegal border crossings projected, 10,000 in one camp

We can not hire enough employees. Does anybody want to work? I mean, who can speak good English or do arithmetic?

Our government has screwed us.  Scott, at around the 19 minute point, or just go for the whole thing.

You know what I mean if you are trying to run a business today. 

The very American heroism of Todd Beamer

Physicists Have Successfully Advanced a Key Device For Producing Fusion Power

Scientists Figured Out How And When Our Sun Will Die, And It's Going to Be Epic

He explains why hard work is not White Supremacism, at the 18 min. mark

China's Marxist "Profound Revolution" Is Here, And Nobody In The West Is Ready

At Taki

Are there two tendencies? Those who want something from government, and those who say they want to be left alone? 

But not theirs, of course.

Revisiting Orwell's work on the anniversary of the barnyard classic.

Sadly I can not understand this:

Pretty cool. Slow trawler - 7-9 k. Take the tour:

A high school in Kentucky is having a "furry" problem

Only in America 

As Scott Adams says, "being yourself" is idiotic and infantile. Be your best, most adaptive self if you want to. 

Graveyard of Narratives

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If you watch a few of this guy's Youtubes about his boat (as posted yesterday), you quickly see why fiberglass took over recreational boating. It's normal to term such vessels "project boats," and that's for sure.

However charming and quaint, wooden boats were never build to last forever. His lovely wooden 1930s cruiser, like many restored (aka rebuilt) wooden boats, is a sight for sore eyes. On the other hand, his boat is his home and his entire lifestyle.

I believe he is a professional carpenter, a semi-professional electrician, and repairs his cars and knows engines.

All the same, people who do those sorts of deeply impractical things make life more charming for the rest of us.

Not that guy's boat, but a 1939 wooden Chris Craft (for sale):

Beato looks under the hood of a Beatles tune.  Yes, he also finds George Martin (the "fifth Beatle) under the hood. However, Martin saw something great to work with.

Taliban Terrorists Celebrate in Clown World

Are they "terrorists," or just Islamists? 

At BB, of course

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