Maggie's Farm

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.

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

She has opinions.

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... 

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

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.

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. 

Omicron coverage reveals how the establishment, media keep us scared

Good story.

I wonder how he supports his life. 

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.

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

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