Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results
A Conservative urban agenda
One thing I saw on Father's Day

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Thursday, January 20. 2022

Homelessness

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Tuesday, January 18. 2022

What happened to the Atlantic magazine?

At Commentary,  The Atlantic’s Nervous Breakdown. Yes, read the whole thing.


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Monday, January 17. 2022

Dog

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Endemic COVID

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The importance of Rev. King

Powerline: The prophetic voice


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Sunday, January 16. 2022

Electricity

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Thursday, January 13. 2022

The Laurentide Ice Sheet


Looking at the Musk Ox video took me to the Laurentide Ice Age, just a few years ago when NYC was under a mile of glacier.


That glacier created the modern Great Lakes, Cape Cod, and Long Island. This was during the Pleistocene, when great mammals occupied North America - Mastodons, Camels, and other critters like Musk Ox. Also, humans from Siberia. Wooly Mammoths in New Jersey.  Climate change, for the  better.

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How Progressives Ruined American Cities

Michael Shellenberger: The San Fransicko author on fighting homelessness and mental illnesses without shredding civil liberties.



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Wednesday, January 5. 2022

Law Prof Amy Wax speaks out

She has opinions.



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Tuesday, January 4. 2022

Covid and your nutty aunt

Amusing whether you agree or not, from Z-Man at Taki:



 Up until fairly recently, it was possible to get along with the crazy aunt or the old left-wing college buddy by avoiding certain topics. The cost of tolerating these mentally unstable people and keeping them from going berserk was to walk on eggshells around them in normal conversation. If you avoided their trigger topics, their insanity was for all practical purposes a private affair. It stayed in their head.


Social media changed this... 


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Thursday, December 30. 2021

Bari Weiss' 2021 essay selections

Excellent selections - check them out:  Our Favorite Essays of 2021, Many of which were published by outlets that didn’t exist a year ago.






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Saturday, December 25. 2021

How Jesus changed the world

The Advent of Christ Changed the World Forever


His story continues to change it. Over 2 billion Christians in the world today partaking of the Message of truth and grace.


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Thursday, December 23. 2021

One mistake

One mistake can destroy a useful and happy life.


But how does one plan a life which is free of mistakes? The more responsibility one takes on, the more likelihood for mistakes. 



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Elon Musk's interview with the Babylon Bee

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Wednesday, December 22. 2021

Omicron phobia, #2

Omicron coverage reveals how the establishment, media keep us scared


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Tuesday, December 21. 2021

Modern-day Huckleberry Finn paddles 7,500 miles across America

Good story.


I wonder how he supports his life. 


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Sunday, December 19. 2021

Omicron phobia


What is known? And does anybody really care anymore? Gauteng’s Omicron Wave Is Already Peaking. Why?


I think the News needs a new exciting topic. Weather is too dull right now.


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Dystopian novels

Via ZH. It's hyperbole, but I get the point:


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Thursday, December 16. 2021

Media disinformation

Greenwald: The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC News Tells Four Blatant Lies in a Two-Minute Clip


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Tuesday, December 14. 2021

Is COVID over?

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Saturday, December 11. 2021

Whale, plus dolphins

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Tuesday, December 7. 2021

Is Omicron a good thing?

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Monday, December 6. 2021

Yes, I got my booster

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Sunday, December 5. 2021

QQQ

"Liberals have invented whole college majors -- psychology, sociology and women's studies -- to prove that nothing is anybody's fault."


P. J. O'Rourke, via Nothing is Anybody's Fault 

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So should the Pulitzer committee strip the Post and the Times of their 2018 prize?

At Instapundit


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