Maggie's Farm

Rush is right: What Have We Learned Since Saturday? The Left’s Hatred Cannot Be Alleviated

The hate is terrible.  Why can't people with different views tolerate each other?  I can, no problem. Just change the subject when they get rabid. NEVER argue. It's not worth it because views arrived at by emotion or fashion can not be changed with logic.

Ineffective people seek somebody to blame

The cup trick.  He explains it, sort of.

I thought this piece in TNR was preposterous: Who Killed New York City?

Perhaps the author has not read about what Manhattan was like in the David Dinkins era. You can keep that kind of gritty if you want it with the muggings and the morning dead in the parks from gunshot and ODs. What is most obnoxious about the false-sentimentality of it is that the author seems to see Manhattan as NYC.

The author needs to get off the magic island and hike around like the Forgotten New York guy does.  There are a lot of neighborhoods in New York, most not Dinkins-era gritty anymore but many fairly rugged and ungentrified. Regular people live there. Millions of them.

Steve Miller, not Steve Bannon, should be Trump's brain

Stephen Miller is historically correct.  Lady Liberty was designed by the French as an inspirational symbol for the US illuminating the whole world with the idea of individual liberty so the world could enjoy the freedom of Americans - not as a welcome mat. 

Emma Lazarus' sentimental poem was a 1903 addition to the site of the statue, for some reason. 

What should America's immigration policies be? Let the American people decide. Who else should?

Good summary of the crazy story: Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT Scammers

It's difficult to image a more unappealing bunch of people. But not to worry - her brother is on the case.

Alone, they are bigger than Canada's entire stock market.

Related, should Google be a regulated utility? 

From 2015

h/t Q&O

"Enjoy every sandwich."

- Warren Zevon's advice to fans as he was dying of cancer

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

- Albert Einstein

At age 36, his eighth Wimbledon win. 

You knew about that remarkable feat already, but it seemed like a good opportunity to re-post David Foster Wallace's 2008 The String Theory - What happens when all of a man's intelligence and athleticism is focused on placing a fuzzy yellow ball where his opponent is not? An obsessive inquiry (with footnotes), into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.

It's all a mystery to me: Our Significant Insignificance: The Universe and Us

Fun podcast:  The John Batchelor Show: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss and Richard Dawkins.

The laws of nature come into existence when a universe comes into existence? 

From a commenter on HuffPost Ventures Out to Discover There’s a Whole Country Between the Coasts:

 I wonder what @HuffPost will discover on their tour across the Midwest. Can we hashtag this and start a trend?

— basic becky (@Tiffany1985B) July 13, 2017

Report: saw a truck with a gun rack.
Literally. Shaking.

— Texas Guy (@Collinsdw) July 13, 2017

#HuffPoInTheHeartland

Tried to merge in traffic, driver motioned for us to go ahead. Patriarchy even on the highways.

— Lizzy Lou Who???? (@_wintergirl93) July 13, 2017

That random stranger told me to have a nice day. I blew my rape whistle in their face. #HuffPoInTheHeartland

— Dizzy Dee (@ihate_everyone2) July 13, 2017