Maggie's Farm

Using the internet is NOT bad for your mental health: Study across 168 countries finds no 'smoking gun' linking technology and wellbeing

 Byron Wien’s 20 Life Lessons

 Beliefs about Emotions Influence How People Feel, Act and Relate to Others. Thinking about a range of emotions as friends rather than foes improves the quality of our life

 Minor, in a Major Key - The movie Chevalier tells us little that is true about a second-rate composer—but it is a peerless example of hatred for the Western past.

 The Fight for the Future of Publishing - Ideological fanatics and fear have crippled the major houses. But new book publishers are rising up to take the risks they won’t.

 Lonely on campus: Students are siloed, silenced. Afraid to offend each other, college students are "siloed and silenced," creating an epidemic of loneliness on campus, writes Samuel Abrams, a professor of political science at Sarah Lawrence, on RealClearEducation.

 Pro-Israel teacher hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students riot: ‘They want her fired’

How The Democratic Party Faked An American Insurrection

 We Are Governed By Ignorant Fools

 How multiculturalism fuels hate - This elite ideology has cultivated and inflamed ethnic tensions.

 Hate Is Good: Laws Which Ban “Hate” Speech Are Bad: Ireland’s New “Hate” Laws Are Tyrannical

 Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins - The First Amendment does not give carte blanche to intimidation and harassment, writes Ilya Shapiro.

 The New Normal? Election results in the Netherlands and Argentina provide evidence of the vigour and variety of the New Right and its global reach.

 ‘Now and Then:’ How the Beatles Created Magic on Their New ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Albums, Via a Little MAL-ware

 Stop following this common piece of career and life advice, says behavior expert: It’s not ‘the solution to everything’

To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more.

DISNEY ‘FESSES UP

Who was Dianne Feinstein? 

 OpenAI Tried to Fire Altman Because He Was About to Wake Up the Monster

 New study finds ChatGPT gives better advice than professional columnists

 In Incredible Black Friday Sale, Lockheed Martin Offering 2 Wars For Price Of 1

  Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Caught on Hidden Camera Admitting January 6 Was a Hoax

The Fall of Minneapolis

I stupidly did it by mistake this year, and it turned out better than ever:  How To Roast a Turkey Upside Down

 12 Phrases Shakespeare Coined That We Still Use Today

 Chess wrongly perceived as a ‘brilliance’ game, leaving girls out

 Over Half of Americans Own a Gun or Know Someone Who Owns a Gun

A Dirty Little Secret About Drudge

 Rush of the Net Zero lemmings

 Prepare for a New, Less Affluent America

 Thank NY’s criminal justice ‘reforms’ for this double murder

 Lafayette College students are being taught that modern museums are instruments of “power,” entrenched in “violence” and colonialism, according to a new anthropology course offered this fall.

 Pride Santa and the Pride Christmas Nutcracker

 Derek Chauvin Stabbed in Federal Prison; Cop Convicted in George Floyd Death Given “Life-Saving Measures” Before Being Taken to Hospital

 Kamala Harris Should Have Checked the Background of Her Thanksgiving Photo

 The ‘Complexity’ of Idiocy - The Left is less a political movement than a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility

Sheesh 

 Liberals Once Embraced Interracial Marriages Like Mine. What Changed?My wife is black. I’m white. When we got married in 2007, progressives cheered. Today, they wonder if I’m up to parenting my own kids.

 Vivek Ramaswamy reveals his campaign has become a social-media stunt

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 Ireland's prime minister condemns anti-immigrant protesters in Dublin

 Violent clashes erupt in Dublin after stabbing of 5 people, as police blame ‘far-right ideology’

 On Eve Of Hostage Release, Hamas Calls For Supporters To Rise Up

 Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Stuart on gratitude 

1952 -  How to Explain Thanksgiving to French People?

 Foreign students should love Thanksgiving

 Aquaculture Accounts for Half of the World's Fish Supply

 The Decadence of Common-Good Capitalism

 Why New York is objectively America’s worst state

 The Fall of Minneapolis

 Judge Obliterates Oregon's Newest Gun Grab

 These classical teaching programs meet a growing demand

What is Left and Right? 

 The cause of free speech threatens to become the exclusive property of conservatives.

 Scientific censorship appears to be increasing. 

 'The Science' Suffers from Self-Inflicted Political Wounds. A separation of science and politics might be called for.

 Leftist Attempts to Destroy Elon Musk Won't Work in Time for 2024

 Ask every automaker – Tesla excused – that’s been pushed to make EVs before there was demand to support it.

 "Japs, Jewry And Trannies": Media Matters President's Bigoted Blogs Resurface Amid Spat With Musk

 Biden Getting Killed in Polls Because of Youth Dislike of Israel

 A Radical Democrat Proposal: Treat Black Voters Like They Matter

 German Priorities: Berlin Imposes a Spending Freeze Over Budget Crisis – AND ON THE SAME DAY, Releases a New 1.4B Military Aid Package to Ukraine

 A Self-Described Libertarian Wins In Argentina

JFK assassination: 60 years later we know the truth about the real killer

 LA Times Op-Ed: This Thanksgiving, Honor Turkeys By Not Eating Them

 What We’re Grateful For - Jonathan Haidt, Tyler Cowen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mayim Bialik, and Free Pressers weigh in. 

 There Is No Good Way to Travel Anywhere in America. An Amtrak ride can go so, so wrong.

That "new" Beatles song 

What's up with the Mayo Clinic? 

 Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found.

 Scarborough: If Elected, Trump Will 'Execute' As Many People As He Can Get Away With!

 Why Democrats Became The Totalitarians They Warned Us About

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

 Cry no more for Argentina — it’s about to be a new model for economic reform

Another look at The Band 

 The Nation: We Need to Decolonize Thanksgiving

VDH:  Can We Save our Universities?

 Six Books That Might Change How You Think About Mental Illness - These individual, honest narratives can help dislodge oversimplifications about mental health.

 MURPHY'S LAW OF DUCK HUNTING

 Cheers! A bottle of Scotch whisky sells for a record $2.7 million at auction

Nobody will open that bottle 

This Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers

 One More Gone Woke: Girl Scouts Stick With BLM, Will Train to 'Decenter' Whiteness

Of course 

 New AARP Report Finds Family Caregivers Provide $600 Billion in Unpaid Care Across the U.S.

I don't get that viewpoint. 

Loneliness 

 NY Times: Pandemic Learning Loss is the 'Most Damaging Disruption' in the History of American Education

NYC:  Why Rikers Island is ripe for a rethink

Kmart pulls ‘Merry Ham-Mas’ bags in Australia over fears looks like a tribute to Hamas: ‘We got it wrong’

 ‘Church Shouldn’t Be Political,’ Says Pastor With BLM, Pride Flags On Building

 Why Don't Women Marry?

 The End of Feminism

 Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why I Am Now a Christian

 Young Americans Are Having Less And Less Sex, But It’s Not Because They’ve Found Jesus

 Sex With Dogs & Other Critters Back In Vogue, Thanks To Academic Peter Singer

 The Leaky Bucket Gets Leakier - Increasing fraud and overpayments since Covid are leeching U.S. welfare programs.

 Pervasive Government Surveillance To Achieve Human Perfection: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

 The FBI Needs Downsizing, Not $3.5 Billion for a New Headquarters

WaPo: Scoop! Hamas Wanted Major War!

Wondering WHY you overspend?

 Any activity is better for your heart than sitting

The neural impact of “generalized trauma event witnessing”: How violent news affects our mental health

Really? 

 How to Maintain Hope in an Age of Catastrophe - The psychoanalyst and author Robert Jay Lifton on what seventy years of studying both the victims and the perpetrators of horror has taught him about the human will to survive.

Is there any age without catastrophe? 

 Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

 UMich 'doubling down' on DEI with latest campus-wide initiative

 Top 100 Movie Dances

 What the Octopus Knows - A scuba-diving philosopher explores invertebrate intelligence and consciousness.

 Ohio schoolgirl says she was harassed by male who 'asked to join in' while she was changing in restroom - as dozens of students walk out to protest school's transgender bathroom policy

 American dad who moved to Sweden with his young daughter reveals the staggering differences in European school system that ultimately forced his family to RETURN to the US

 The Perils of Affective Polarization - Our increasing desire to isolate ourselves from supporters of the opposite party can have dire consequences

DOUGLAS MURRAY IN ISRAEL

 White House Aides "Simply Cannot Stomach" Biden's Israel Policy, Dissent Memos Leak, Revolt At State Dept

The Nation:  What It’s Like to Take Over the Statue of Liberty - Hundreds of Jewish Voice for Peace members calling for a Gaza cease-fire occupied the pedestal of the statue. This is how it happened.

 HITLER YOUTH AT MIT

 115 Million Years Ago An Entire Continent Vanished. Now We've Found Where It's Hiding

 Feds Say They Uncovered Prostitution Ring Serving Politicians, Military Officers, And Tech Execs

Is that still enforced in the US? 

 How to Deal with a Narcissist

What horses see 

 The Government Wants to Release Grizzly Bears WHERE?

A strange medical malpractice case 

 Hudson Booksellers blocks 'America First' authors: MTG, Mark Levin, Kari Lake, Judge Jeanine

Why some are really mad at Mr. Beast

 TGIF: Jihadis Get Lost in Translation. Anne Frank is offensive. Building wells is bad. Chinatown is evil. Silence is violence. War is peace.

 Bari Weiss: End DEI. It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews—but America itself.

Stuart:  Should We End DEI?

Who is "we"? 

 Judge Engoron’s TDS-Afflicted Wife Regularly Flips Out on X

 Did you know that the UN runs the school system in Gaza?

What Is 'Rebecca Syndrome' and Is It Ruining Your Relationship?

Your Fault: Climate Doom Is Sexist

 COVID-19 Lockdowns Contributed To 'Collective Trauma' Among Americans: Psychologists

 Controlling Minds by Controlling Language

 You’ll Never Guess to Whom Hillary Clinton Compared Trump (Actually, You Will)

 Marjorie Taylor Greene Weighs In on GOP’s Complete Trainwreck Performance in General Election

 Why does the ‘party of abortion’ keep winning?

 Hamas to NYT: War of Annihilation Is Exactly What We Wanted

 WHO: Gaza Was Unicorns and Teddy Bears Until the Jews Bombed It

 Israel celebrates breaching ground Hamas didn’t foresee as war enters second month

 Zelensky goes on Meet the Press, calls on President Trump for help, and begs for money like a crackhead

 Henry Winkler’s Secret to Always Smelling Great - On the heels of a new memoir, the actor, producer and author talks about therapy, thinking about exercising and the legacy of The Fonz

 Does Elon Musk Have Too Much Power? Bari talks to Walter Isaacson. 

 Elon Musk’s free speech stance is ‘dangerous,’ Columbia journalism fellow says

 Stop clearing thousands of acres to build solar panels: Harvard study

 Progressive teachers want ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ banished from curriculum

 Ohio Voters Approve Radical Amendment Removing Limits on Abortion, Gender-Transition Procedures

Ugly, but it's up to the states 

 Bari Weiss: DEI is Undermining America

 Turley: This Is A Case Uniquely Created For Trump, "This Crosses The Line From Law To Entertainment"

 Trump Derangement Syndrome, Snobbery, and A Sophomoric View Of The Truth Behind Demands For Censorship

The Roots of Campus Hatred - Why have noxious ideas flourished at U.S. colleges? We have some answers.

 Sheena Josselyn, neuroscientist: ‘Eliminating a memory is fairly simple, once you have the right tools’

 Is Flossing A Waste Of Time?

 Sleep experts want to make standard time permanent after clocks fall back 

 How do you solve the problem of free will?

 Climate Cult Pushes Psychedelic Drugs To Deal With Climate Doom Anxiety

 Facebook Censors Nashville Trans Shooter Manifesto

 Liberals Shocked About Musk's Non-Woke Chatbot

 Now That Biden's Campaign Is Off the Rails, POLITICO Discovers He Might Be Corrupt

 Another Hugo Chavez-style idea on electricity rates from California's one-party regime

 The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites - Why does the world apply a special standard of conduct to Israel?

 Don Jr. Shares Viral Video from Germany: “If Necessary, We Must Use Violence to Institute Islamic State Once Muslims are a Majority”

 Anne Frank's Name to Be Removed From Day Care Center in Latest Woke Attempt to Erase History

 Obama: We Are All Complicit For the Violence in Israel-Hamas War

Fierce hand-to-hand combat in and around Gaza City can be expected to continue in the coming days

 The Ukraine war has no end in sight

 Oops. California's Carbon Emissions Went Up Anyway

 'Renewable Massacre': SolarEdge Melts Down After Weak Guidance 

The Wuhan Cover-Up: How Fauci Conspired With Virologists To Deceive The Public And Smear Critics

 Chicago’s Solution to Its Failing School System: Stop Grading Schools on Performance. It’s become abundantly clear that the greatest obstacle to educational reform is the government itself.

 TGIF: Useful Idiots - Terrorists have brainwashed America. A woke ‘Snow White’ has been canceled. Long live Queen Hillary. Plus: equitable bird names, Mike Johnson is poor, and much, much more.

 Biden Issues Government's First-Ever Artificial Intelligence Executive Order To 'Support Workers, Combat Discrimination'

THE FRUITS OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS

 Faced with rise in Jewish hate, Kamala Harris tackles made-up ‘Islamphobia’

 Victor Davis Hanson: One Sick War

Hamas Keeps Making a Clear Case for Destroying Hamas

What Happens When You Escape Death? The story of one man and a miracle drug.

 I get paid $150 an hour to cuddle — I’m solving the loneliness crisis for men and Gen Z women

 Homeschooling Has Increased by Over 50 Percent Since 2018. In some states, homeschooling has climbed by over 100 percent.

 THE DAILY CHART: PUBLIC SCHOOL REFUSENIKS

 What you are about to watch is the **final round** of the most prestigious national high school debate tournament...

 VICTORY! Orsted Abandons Whale-Killing Wind Energy Projects

 American Ornithological Society Cancels Birds Accused of Racism. They've run out of people to cancel.

 Speaker Mike Johnson Isn't Rich: Democrats Demand to Know Why

 The $1.8-Billion Lawsuit Over a Teacher Test - In the nineties, New York began requiring aspiring educators to take an exam. Thousands of people later claimed that the test was racially biased.

 Our Cultural Revolution

 Elon Musk, “The Degree to Which Twitter Was an Arm of the Govt, Was Not Well Understood by the Public”…

 Boston Children’s Hospital given $1.4 MILLION in taxpayer money for child sex changes

 White House slammed for ‘tone deaf’ unveiling of anti-Islamophobia strategy as antisemitism surges

 Dying to Please the Moderates - They love dead Jews

AOC Finally Wins The Anti-Semitism First Prize!

 Not Your Great-Grandmother’s Pogrom: Modern Russia’s Attacks on Jews Are Carried Out by Muslims

 'We May Never Know Exactly What Hamas Wants' Says Reporter In Front Of Hamas Holding 'Exterminate Jews From Existence' Banner

 Ukraine rathole: Zelensky advisor admits they're 'stealing like there's no tomorrow'

Photo: Plague doctor outfit - on sale in Venice 

COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure. A key lesson of the pandemic.

 The Great 'Green Energy Transition' That Wasn't

 The Climate is Indeed Changing – Grab a Warm Jacket

 World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm-Developer Abandons Two Major US Projects As Renewable Bust Erupts

The rats always win 

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

  Army Warned That Maine Gunman ‘Should Not Have a Weapon,’ Behaved ‘Erratically’ Months Before Shooting. Weeks before the shooting: “An alert was then sent to law enforcement warning that Card was ‘armed and dangerous.'”

 Muslim Scottish Labour Party Leader Denounces Scotland as Too ‘White’

 Federal Appeals Court Says Ex-Yale Student, Expelled Over Rape Accusation, Can Sue His Accuser for Defamation

Briggs:  What Scientists Know That Ain’t So

 NY’s taxes, biz mandates are driving out its Golden Goose — the finance industry

 Denmark takes forceful measures to integrate immigrants

That is not tolerant and multicultural 

 HOW THE HAMAS ATTACK TOOK ISRAEL BY SURPRISE

 Zelensky Advisor Admits Gov’t Officials ‘Stealing Like No Tomorrow’ as Biden Pushes for Billions More to Ukraine

 Wind companies losing billions, prompting fears a federal bailout could be coming

 Why is there an unex­pec­ted decline in demen­tia? Emer­ging research is chal­len­ging the belief that new cases of the con­di­tion will rise expo­nen­tially as people live longer — with evid­ence that the abso­lute risk is lower than it was a gen­er­a­tion ago.

Article gives the wrong impression. Vascular dementia numbers may go down for age - which is good - but not Alzheimers and similar. 

 The Long March Through The Institutions Is Over, And The Left Has Arrived At Their Destination

 Jen Psaki Warns Democrats that Speaker Mike Johnson Is Dangerous Because He Is a “Bible-Believing Christian”

Taki on Bankman-Fried 

 Indigenous Translations Will Be Added to Street Signs Around Cambridge

So Eliz. Warren won't get lost? 

Iran to Chair UN Human Rights Commission

 Harvard’s Double Standard on Free Speech - At the university, you’re free to excuse Hamas’s atrocities, but don’t dare say anything that offends leftists.

NYC Creates Office To Send Illegal Aliens Packing

VDH:  A Therapeutic Middle East Versus A Tragic One - The tragedy is that realist deterrence is moral, while naïve appeasement is immoral

 Legendary Flatiron Building To Be Converted To Luxury Residential Condos And Rentals

 ‘Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.’

School Vouchers Are So Popular Some Districts Are Running Out

 The Food Insecurity Scam Is Even Worse Than The Poverty Scam

 ADL removes Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik from ‘Glossary of Extremism’ after threat of legal action

 MARK STEYN GOES TO TRIAL

 The dangers of ‘decolonisation’ - Why the academic left has sided with Hamas's anti-Semitic barbarism.

 Accept That Savagery Is the True Nature of the World – and Deal With It

 The Death of Democrat Jewish Innocence

 Anti-Semitism on Campus

 A Different Concept of Death - An interview with author and intellectual Paul Berman about Hamas’s ideology and Western blindness.

 Democrats Splinter Over Israel as the Young, Diverse Left Rages at Biden

 Czech DM calls to exit UN for supporting Hamas, warns Holocaust is back