Maggie's Farm

 The other lions got the tasty stuff

 The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for it

There is evidence that it's mostly imaginary 

 Hasbro Introduces New ‘Transition Me Elmo’ Doll

 Why the trans movement is so intolerant

 The Transgender Cult Owns the Democratic Party

 Injured North Carolina volleyball player urges transgender ban for female sports teams in schools

  Justin Trudeau Weeps as Twitter Slaps 'State Media' Label on CBC

 Establishment strikes out at Matt Walsh

 Fear of a Liberal Arts Education - The college where I teach, like so many others around the country, seems to want students to be informers instead of free thinkers.

Why We’re Not Liberals - Podhoretz podcast

Joe Biden Wants Homebuyers With Good Credit to Subsidize High Risk Mortgages

 Biden Signs Executive Order Creating ‘Office of Environmental Justice’

 The clock is ticking on the border

 Democrat Donors and a Chinese Secret Police Station

 A Brief History of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Weird, Wonderful Career

*The Two-Parent Privilege*

 All of our “theories of everything” are probably wrong. Here’s why

 Climate Change Activists Now Going After Rice – A Staple That Feeds Billions

  SFSU athletic director: ‘Common mistake’ to think men have physical advantages over women

 MAP: Transgenderism and “Queer Theory” in K-12 schools in all Continental United States

 Former Director Of National Intelligence Admits That Fauci Lied About Gain Of Function Research

 CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Finally Admits Vaccinated Individuals Can Spread COVID Virus

 WH Spox: “Happy Tax Day … I Know People Are Always Excited About This Day”

 How Bad Is Portland's Drug Problem? So Bad That It Closed a County Drug Center.

 Human tidal wave is waiting for border to open May 11 — Biden has no plan to stop it

 America, the World's Scold

Victor Davis Hanson: Can We Do Anything About America's Decline?

 Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket is turning into a space policy disaster.

Patrick is good

 The collector - David Fulton has owned some of history’s most treasured violins, violas, and cellos. Now he’s telling their stories—and his own.

 When Science Fiction Becomes Reality: Brave New World

 Pick a Practical Major, Like French

 The war on food continues

 Philosophy’s No-Go Zone - An MIT professor describes the outraged reaction from fellow philosophers when he argued that a woman is an adult human female.

 UN-Backed Report Suggests Normalizing Pedophilia, Decriminalizing All Sexual Activity

 Academic does research on political pressure in education. Guess what happened.

WSJ: The Companies That Give Everyone the Day Off When Life Gets Stressful

 New Chicago Mayor Warns Against Demonizing Thugs Who Beat Man - "It is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities"

 Russia steps up attacks on Bakhmut as Putin visits annexed regions of Ukraine

 Are ChiComs Staging Invasion of Mainland USA?

 Germany Closes Its Last Nuclear Power Plants - Electricity Bills To Spike Up To 45%

Courtly Love, Modernized

 Landmark surgery cures prostate cancer in under one hour

Hope that is true 

A Laser agricultural weeder - very cool 

 Why don’t today’s teens want to drive?

 Colorado becomes first transgender tourism state: Democratic Gov signs bill that allows children to travel for puberty blockers — even if drugs are banned where they live

 Elon Musk Says US Government Had Access To Private Twitter DMs

 Buttigieg: roads designed to kill Black people

 Ukraine ‘Apes’ India & China To Buy Cheap Russian Oil; Pocketed Millions Of USD By ‘Trading With Enemy’ — Hersh

Chess has a new popularity

A friend's new novel about ghosts:  A Windmill, A Knight, A Ghost, A Jerusalem  by Nathan Szajnberg

 Long-Delayed Robert Johnson Bio Published 

 Prep isn’t ‘back’ — it never left. Why aspirational dressing will be with us forever

 The Fast Casual Society - Our abandonment of standards of dress means the loss of expressive potential and our sense of occasion.

 The Babylon Bee Sues to Block California From Forcing It to Be Unfunny

 Budweiser Replaces Clydesdales With Cows Dressed As Horses

 A large-scale French study suggesting symptoms of so-called long COVID may be more due to psychological factors than to infection with the virus has sparked debate among patients and scientists.

 Yale Columnist Enraged by the Politeness of Pro-Life Students on Campus. “Their smug civility was infuriating; their invitations for debate, inflammatory.”

Sheesh 

NYC:  The Office of the Public Advocate is Closed to the Public

 $29 ham and cheese sandwich a total rip-off — so why are NYers eating it up?

 Why People Are Fleeing Blue Cities for Red States

 70 yrs ago today, Allen Dulles launched the CIA's mind control program MKULTRA.

 COVID shutdowns were just the beginning. Climate lockdowns are next. Apart from the extreme limitations on personal freedom and travel, this means either a colder, hungrier population or massive depopulation.

 Meta paid people to literally do nothing

 Elon Musk Sounds The Alarm During Tucker Carlson Interview, Says AI Has Potential To Destroy Civilization

 Google CEO says he doesn't 'fully understand' how new AI program Bard works after it taught itself a foreign language it was not trained to and cited fake books to solve an economics problem

Hal? 

 IT’S GOOD TO KNOW FACTS

Meet the Australian lady behind your GPS 

WSJ: The Primary Breadwinner Is Disappearing From More Homes

 Protesters demand trans inmates be removed from all-female New Jersey prison, where 1 in 15 people were born male

 Thirty Years of Global Warming Prophecies

Meritocracy is racist 

 The Government’s Own Numbers Show Biden’s EV Mandate Is Crazy

Not serious 

 Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity. As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells now growing in labs are giving us our best glimpses of the forerunners of all complex life.

Who was David Reimer?

 Too much AI has big drawbacks for doctors — and their patients

 Progressives’ years-long campaign to get NYers to flee state is working

 Natural Gas Derangement Syndrome

Nellie always is amusing: TGIF: They Can’t Handle The Truth. A professor lies about race. A newspaper condemns a leak. A state cooks data to hide its missing students. Plus: the Dalai Lama. And much more.

 The College Kids Who Unionized Amazon

 Diversity or Merit

 Political scientist: DEI policies linked to decrease in free speech support on campus, surveys show

 Hamas Official: May Allah Bring Annihilation Upon The Jews….

 The Chicago Teachers Union Now Runs the Mayor’s Office

"You will probably not recognize the name of Audrey Hale. For reasons that are not perhaps as opaque as they seem, her name and her cause have been conveniently erased from public consciousness.  After all, she shot up a Christian school, murdering three children and three adults last week." 

Some guys want to be eunuchs 

 Image via Doug Ross

 Global Warming Blamed for Home Runs

 "Bali is part of a growing number of popular travel destinations that are fed up with overtourism

This guy is no ballerina 

How large is Mexico? 

 College students with intellectual disabilities deserve better standards, agency says

"You Just Lied!": Elon Crushes BBC Reporter's Claims About 'Hate Speech' On Twitter

 Pouty NPR Claims That Twitter's 'State-Affiliated Media' Designation Undermines NPR's Credibility

 The Media and Politicians Keep Trying To Censor Things That Turn Out To Be True. The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.

" Over the past three years, we reporters learned there were certain things that we weren’t allowed to say."

Why The People Who Cry "Hate Speech!" Are The Biggest Haters

The Pentagon Leak Is Really Bad, So Is Government’s Response

I believe nothing 

 Global Warming Blamed for Home Runs

 Stop freaking out over teenagers with fast-food jobs

 NYT gets what they wanted...good and hard

 Merit Over Identity - Dismantling DEI bureaucracies is the key to reviving American universities.

 The UK is among a number of countries with military special forces operating inside Ukraine, according to one of dozens of documents leaked online.

 It's 50 years since Picasso died, and a lot of people are using the occasion to womansplain what a bad boyfriend/husband he was.

 The Case Against ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’. Canada’s assisted-death law seems connected to the atomization of our society—as much a symptom of inhumanity as a cause.

Artificial Therapy

 Now, This Makes Sense – Marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid Explains Why She MadeBud Light the Brand for Woke Transvestites

 How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives

 CAN THE DEMOCRATS’ STRUCTURAL ADVANTAGES BE OVERCOME?

 Victor Davis Hanson: Fiddling America Away

 The Left has killed our great cities

 New York Times goes full Trump Derangement Syndrome

Likeable guy

 Then and Now - This is Easter, a holiday commemorating a miracle. That is good, because we are going to need one. 

 Mom Who Was Arrested for Letting 14-Year-Old Babysit Has Finally Been Cleared

 AI Therapy Is Here

 Get Serious: About Purpose. We have become a treatment-resistant Prozac Nation. But the practice of believing in something—anything—can pull us out.

 Is Therapy-Speak Making Us Selfish? Boundaries are important. But our relationships require a touch more compassion than some online blueprints offer.

Swiss government withdraws all recommendations for Covid vaccines

 The School That Couldn’t Quit Covid

 GERMANS HAVE GIVEN UP ON “GREEN” ENERGY

 The increasingly dangerous transgender movement sweeping America

 A Lot of the Trans Folks Are Self-Identifying as Violent Now

 BUD LIGHTHEADED

 American Politics Has Become Amplified Rage

  Scientific American Compares DeSantis to Mussolini. Florida’s governor is a “fascist” for listening to voter concerns about leftist indoctrination in schools.

 George Floyd riots rewritten as "2020 fires"

 Dems play same old hand: The Trump Card

 Victor Davis Hanson expounds on the grave unfairness of President Trump’s indictment

 How Did George Soros’ Son Score So Many WH Meetings?

 Chinese Aircraft Carrier 'Seals Off' Taiwan, Sends 58 Planes To Buzz Island

Putin saved NATO 

 Law Prof Calls Out Stanford Students for ‘Infantile Protests’

 The Work Ethic in Today's America

A  Censored Generation

 The more you trust the media, the less accurate you are

 At MIT debate, DEI defenders concede diversity policies can make ‘things worse’

 Kudos to Cornell and Stanford for finally standing up for free speech

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: WE’RE IN A REVOLUTION

 You’re Being Played, Republicans!

 Chicago Crosses the Rubicon

 Politico: “That’s not how our system is supposed to work.”

 "Trump Can't Get A Fair Trial In NYC" - Dershowitz Warns "He'll Probably Be Convicted"

 For the left, putting Trump through a painful prosecution is the point

"The Last War We Can Afford To Fight": Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over De-Dollarization, Slams Biden Admin For Pissing Off World

 Why Some Cancers Shouldn't Be Treated

 The von Trapps of Harlem - Can ten earnest kids playing Bach become the next Kardashians?

 The People Reject Climate Fanaticism

 It’s now clear that heads of state around the world, from the U.S. and Canada to Britain and New Zealand, are working together to censor their political opponents, lie to the public, and crack down on free speech — all in the name of fighting “disinformation,” “extremism,” and “hate.” …

 Hamline University president to retire in wake of Islamic art controversy

 Libs Lose It After Twitter Slaps NPR With ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label

Megyn Kelly Joins Women Cheering Bearded Man Who IDed as Woman to Break Weightlifting Record, Mock Trans Athlete Policy

 Nike Women Picks Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney to Model New Activewear

 WPGA Shuts Down Hot Twitter Account After Man Wins Women’s Golf Event

 Disney vs ‘Don’t Say Gay’ — All the Latest

 SAN FRANCISCO, RIP?

 What Has Chicago Done?

 Randi Weingarten celebrating her Chicago mayoral win

 CNN Poll Finds 60% Of Americans Support Trump Indictment Even Though They Have No Clue What’s In It

 Judge Warns Trump To Refrain From Posting On Social Media, Claiming Messages Could Inflame Civil Unrest – Trump Posts Anyway

 Trump gets the Nixon treatment

 Trump’s Indictment is Missing a Crime

 No one is above the law? Gimme a break

Guardian:  Donald Trump’s prosecution is a triumph

 Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted. But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate.

 MSNBC’s Hayes: Lots of People, Including Me, Are ‘Permanently Scarred’ by Trump’s 2016 Victory

 Why Most Of The World Isn't On Board With The NATO-Russia War

To my mind, it killed the conservation "movement". Balanced conservation is not really a movement, because it matters to pretty much everybody.

I still do not buy the climate cult, but it makes money. I like all kinds of climates.

Yes, I know it's all about Get Bad Orange Man:

Who wants to run for public office with this kind of lawfare going on? It is surreal.

Despite his personality flaws, the swarms of bees that have attacked him since he came down the escalator have been remarkable. He's a target because he has a personal magnetism - maybe like Teddy Roosevent. A magnificently independent SOB.

Politics can be a rough game. Revenge politics and about 2024. DeSantis is next.

Oh yeah, and Trump is a Russian spy. 

 Scientists Create Lab-Grown Meatball from DNA of Extinct Woolly Mammoth to Spark Debate About ‘Climate Change Crisis’

I thought that was an April Fool

 Giorgia Meloni's government stands up for Italy's Mediterranean diet

 Blundering on the Brink - The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis

VDH:  Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would not survive...

Cornell University Draws The Line, Refuses To Insert 'Trigger Warnings' Before Class Discussions

 Does Stanford Have More Administrators Than Undergrads?

 Anheuser-Busch Defends Making Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney a Spokesperson

 Michigan State warns against using bigoted phrases like 'Christmas trees,' 'terrorist' or 'overweight'

 Boston Children's prepares for "drastic increase" in gender surgery for minors

 Why Renee Diresta Leads The Censorship Industry. How a former CIA fellow came to lead US government efforts to stamp out disfavored speech on the Internet