Maggie's Farm

 It's Time to Rehabilitate 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'

 Not just light: Everything is a wave, including you

 After a 15-year decline, more colleges have become hostile to free speech

 WILL ANYONE PAY A PRICE FOR SUPPRESSING FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

  We should be so lucky as to have robber barons again.

 At Canada’s National Gallery, Ideological Enforcers Are Pushing Out Veteran Curators

 The Detroit school board voted to remove Dr. Ben Carson's name from the Benjamin Carson High School of Science & Medicine.

 My take: fusion "breakthrough" a total dud

Germany Experiences Coldest Winter in a Decade as Energy Crisis Worsens

 Scholars work at ‘Decolonizing Light’ to combat ‘colonialism in contemporary physics’

 Puberty Blockers Were Never Reversible Or Temporary

 Dictionary redefining ‘man’ and ‘woman’ is what happens when you reject reality for one group’s fantasy

 Finally, The Gibson’s Bakery Family Has Been Paid By Oberlin College

 Salt Lake City Faces Toxic Dust Storms Amid Declining Water Levels

 Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic

Twitter Broke Its Own Rules To Ban Trump While Keeping World Leaders Who "Incited Violence"

 Voters, 2-1, say ‘amnesty’ makes illegal immigration ‘worse’

 Biden Completely Falls Apart in Battle With Teleprompter in Front of African Leaders

 Putin’s Troops And Tanks Are Dying In Ukraine 

 U.S. cable warns of major barriers to tracking Ukraine aid. The State Department cable surfaces amid growing calls for strict oversight of the money and weapons flowing to Ukraine.

 The Lost History of Cat Domestication Can Finally Be Told

Scientists Super Enthused Over Nuclear Fusion, Drag Climate Cult Beliefs Into Concern

 Scientists have made a breakthrough in fusion — but don’t get carried away

 Real Life Does Not Fit The Narrative. This past summer, I threw my phone in a drawer and headed for the mountains of Montana. That's true. It's also a metaphor.

 It is almost as though the purpose of the stories we are told is to obscure reality, not to reveal it. Because to observe reality is to trust your own perceptions. You might even start to notice that most stories are not tidy parables with morals. “The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright,” Dillard writes. A satisfying true story tends to be complicated and irreducible. Reality is messy. People have obscure and contradictory motives; we misbehave, screw up, and rarely do what we should.

NYC recommends wearing masks outside

 Pete Bootiejudge Wants You to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, But Personally Takes Taxpayer-Provided Private Jets For His Many, Many Pointless Travel Opportunities

 Parents of Bankman-Fried, Professors, Face Scrutiny

Fusion breakthrough?

 Greenland Study Shows Country Was Warmer and More Lush Two Million Years Ago

 Times Change, Principles Endure. Bill Bennett’s Book of Virtues at 30

 Can This Man Stop Lying?

 LA Brings Mask Mandates Back As Cult Begins Locking Down Again

Candadian media 

Bari Weiss:  The State of the Black-Jewish Relationship in America

‘False’: Elon Musk slaps Adam Schiff’s hate speech claims with an inconvenient fact

 ‘Great Barrington Declaration’ Co-Author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Invited to Twitter Headquarters to Review Twitter’s Internal Slack Messages Regarding Content Modulation

 Democrats demanding censorship

 Cooking the Books: Why Republicans Always Come up Short

 Russians Mock Biden For Leaving Behind a “Hero, a Decorated Marine” For “a Black Lesbian Hooked On Drugs”…

 Common Sense Is Now The Free Press

 Bob Dylan’s ‘Time Out of Mind’ Focus of Latest Bootleg Series. Fragments, due out Jan. 27, features a freshly remixed version of the 1997 Album of the Year Grammy-winning classic as well as unreleased recordings, outtakes, live recordings and more from the era

 CPS: Mom Can’t Let Her 3 Kids—Ages 6, 8, and 9—Play Outside by Themselves.

 Shoplifting Drives Up Prices at Walmart

 Law professor sues to stop New York’s regulation of ‘hateful conduct’ speech

 Looking For The Official Party Line On Energy Storage

 Biden handing $36 BILLION to Teamsters pension fund

  Biden Puts American Lives at Risk For Pothead WNBA Player. Biden swaps terrorist arms dealer for America hating WNBA player.

NYT: Tim Keller on forgiveness 

A puppy escaped from his collar in New York City. He swam across the Hudson River and ended up in New Jersey.

 Cleveland State cancels Justice John Marshall from law school name

 Rachel Levine Enlists Doctors as Evangelists to Preach the Gospel of Transgenderism

 Yes, it is grooming

 Sick in Canada? Just Kill Yourself - How a country's totalitarian odyssey evolved into a dystopian hellscape.

 The Lying Media Told Me Not To Watch Netflix’s ‘Ancient Apocalypse,’ So I Did

It's science fiction. Why not? 

 Elon Musk's second installment of 'Twitter Files' reveals 'secret blacklists,' Bari Weiss reports

 Right Wacks Off, Goes Blind

Haha 

Aaron Judge Signs 9 Year $360M Contract with Yankees

 Teacher refuses to teach grammar, claiming it is part of white supremacy

 The Brains of Teenagers Look Disturbingly Different After Lockdown

 EU Threatens to Shut Down Twitter as Musk Eases Censorship Rules

 Are We Living in a ‘Post-Truth’ Society?

 ACLU Threatens To Sue Hospital If It Doesn’t Perform Transgender Surgeries…

 The Hijacking of Pediatric Medicine. The American Academy of Pediatrics claims to support the health of all children. Many doctors are appalled by its prescriptions.

 Our Lying Idiot Media Really Is That Dumb

 East Wall and the Plantations: Ireland and Its New Migrants. Recent protests in Dublin reveal a government indifferent to Irish history and people.

 Trump's losing Senate record

 Honor those killed at Pearl Harbor, pleads USS Arizona survivor

Streetlights in a bunch of major cities are turning purple. Is it just a fluke?

Did COVID lockdowns accomplish anything? 

I ignored them 

 San Francisco's Tenderloin Center closes - did it do any good?

 Over the last eleven years, electric vehicles in the US have saved Two. Days. Worth. Of. Gasoline.

 FTX Crypto Fraudsters Targeted Poor Black Neighborhoods In PR-Lobbying Effort. Father of FTX CEO, Stanford Professor Joseph Bankman, oversaw intertwined philanthropic and regulatory efforts

 The Moral Vanity of Sam Bankman-Fried. The FTX founder has given effective altruism a bad name. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea.

 Med school ‘stigmatized white people’ during all-day DEI ‘retreat’: report

 New York Democrats Push for Reparations

 Congress’s Media Cartels

No Grizzlies in Colorado 

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: SCRUTON ON FOUCAULT

Kinless seniors 

 ‘Human Composting’ Promoted in New York Times

Too toxic, isn't it? 

 ACLU against freedom

 At Last, Mainstream Journalists Are Starting to Report the Truth About Youth Gender Clinics

 New York’s new online ‘hate speech’ law is dumb and dangerous

 Anti-racism means not being good at things?

 EVERY NPR STORY YOU’VE EVER HEARD

TRUMP IS FINISHED

 France Bans Short-Haul Domestic Flights... Because 'Climate Change'

Reviewer not impressed by Dylan's new book 

Eternal Youth and Living Death - Pop-culture has never seen anything like this!

WSJ: The Power of Mattering at Work. For employees, knowing that they are valued can be key to job satisfaction and mental health

 Global Warming? Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover At 56-Year High

 Former executive at Twitter deems witty satire ‘dangerous’

 MSM Journos Have Meltdown Over Taibbi-Twitter Biden Bombshell

 Twitter Was Permanently Censoring Users At The Request Of The DNC And Biden Campaign…

California all set to pony up reparations and...HOW much was that again?

 Hillary Clinton Says Saving Unborn Babies from Abortion Is Like…Terrorists Killing, Raping Women

 Finnish PM Says Ukraine Shows That Europe Isn't Strong Enough Without the U.S.

Thirteen Lives: Ron Howard On Directing The Thai Cave Drama (video)

 A vision of a colonial-era country mansion inside an East Side apartment lobby

The Elites’ War On Food

 Dark Patterns Past, Present, and Future - The evolution of tricky user interfaces

 The Confession of Sam Bankman-Fried. The fallen crypto titan admits it all, but is he conning himself?

WSJ:  Psychos in the C-Suite - While they don’t seem to feel shame, they are preoccupied with being thought of as highly moral.

 Teachers Continue to Groom Small Children

 The Ministry of Truth was far more sinister than we were told

 The Freak-Out Begins After Elon Musk Drops Explosive Hunter Biden Files

 Lavrov Announces Russia, China Are Stepping Up Military Cooperation

Did Monet invent Impressionsm with one picture?

 Man Slips Into Deep Depression After Finishing Last Of Thanksgiving Leftovers

 Fuck David Mamet - America’s most daring and insightful playwright tried to warn us that we were going haywire. By making him a hate object, American theater has made us all poorer.

 Transgender medical care is unethical pseudoscience

Students have no right not to be offended

 TGIF: Protest Edition - A week of opposition to the CCP, eating bugs, the University of California, railroad workers, Shopify, and euphoria. Plus: does Elon Musk already have the brain chip?

 Big law firm is ‘Big Brother,’ firing a partner for supporting the Dobbs decision

Martha MacCallum Leaves John Kirby Stuttering Over Differing Treatment of Twitter and Apple

 High School Student Violently Attacks English Teacher Reportedly After Poor Classroom Evaluation

 A highly civilized society is extremely difficult to create, but it is very easy to lose.

 Democrats: Get your freaking cities under control

Spectator:  The Europeans are complaining, again. They’re annoyed that American companies are making money defending them

Haiti is (still) falling apart 

 United Nations Adopts Resolution Calling Israel's Founding a 'Catastrophe'

 Swiss look to ban use of electric cars over the winter to save energy

Germany:  Adventures in Central Planning: Electric Vehicles and Energy Costs

A Corvette SUV? 

EU Threatens Musk With Twitter Ban Over Content Moderation

 Into the Paddy Wagon: Ireland Imposing Up to 5-Year Prison Term for 'Hate Speech'

 Elon Musk Was Right About “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” BLM Narrative – “The Whole Thing Was A Fiction”

Taibbi:  Be it Resolved: Don't Trust Mainstream Media

 Bachelor’s degrees have become optional for more jobs across industries

Liberal media say we should stop covering crime, because it’s hurting Dems 

 EUROPE’S DOWNWARD ENERGY SPIRAL

 What is the largest squid in the world?

Is Soccer boring? 

Apple Can’t Ignore Its Giant China Problem

 Law-Abiding Americans Had "Strong Appetite" For Guns On Black Friday

France:  A man won the legal right to not be 'fun' at work after refusing to embrace 'excessive alcoholism' and 'promiscuity'

Every party needs a pooper 

 Netherlands seizing, closing thousands of farms to fight climate change

 How Christians Became a Minority in the UK

 Political Hobbyism Has Entered the Workplace. A new style of activism in the white-collar workplace is reshaping corporate life.

 Elon Musk’s Twitter Team Begins Process of Reinstating 62,000 Suspended Accounts

 The Bureaucracy’s Democrat Majority Made America A One-Party Government

 Waiting for Thanksgiving dinner at a Bronx orphanage

 How was the universe created?

 Begun again, the lobster wars have

Is this the last Christmas for Sears?

 CNN: Daylight savings time is racist

 The Babylon Bee Publishes a Hysterical Spoof of a College English Course Description. Oh, Wait!

 Zero Republican professors found across 33 departments at seven universities

 New Twitter Sign-Ups Hit All-Time Record Despite Cancel Campaign

 This Is CNN: Ex-CIA Wonk Explains the Dangers of Free Speech

 New York Times notices 'political violence' and blames...Republicans

 Biden was unpopular with voters, but Trump dragged his party down just as much

 Trump Demands Kari Lake Be 'Installed' as Ariz. Governor

What? 

 From the outset of his political career, Donald Trump has compelled observers to continually revisit and thereby complicate their initial reactions to his seemingly straightforward and self-destructive displays.

 Millions of Ukrainians are without power as winter bites: Households facing bleak few months without light, water or heat as temperatures plummet

 Dutch Government to Shut Down 3,000 Farms to Comply with Global Warming Goals – As Food Prices See Highest Increase in Decades

America: "We are a country founded on violence."

 Elon Musk Announces ‘General Amnesty’ for Suspended Twitter Accounts and the Left Has Another Meltdown

 FAUCI: I’M A BUREAUCRAT, NOT A SCIENTIST

‘We don’t know the motive yet but DeSantis and the right are to blame for gay nightclub shooting’

 A Manifesto Has Been Found On The Walmart Shooter’s Phone – You Probably Won’t See Or Hear About This From The Corporate Media

 Colorado Club Shooter is Non-Binary, Uses They/Them Pronouns, and Addressed as ‘Mx.’ The left’s narrative is gone…again.

 NBC's "disinformation" reporter lives up to his title

 Biden: “The Idea We Still Allow Semi-Automatic Weapons To Be Purchased Is Sick”…

 Huge Swathes Of Ukraine Without Power & Water After New Russian Strikes

 Italians Who Refuse Job Offers Will Have Social Benefits Revoked, Meloni Warns