Maggie's Farm

U. Maryland professor gets $600k grant to make math more ‘diverse’ and ‘equitable’

 Multicultural Education Fails

Books Canada is banning 

 The Things We Can't Say - As the culture war permeates American life, combatants set their sights on the ways we express ourselves.

 As Trump predicted, Washington and Jefferson are next

 Is The Gig Economy On The Verge Of Destruction?

" right-wing domination of the news media."

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

 Ardern at UN: we are at war, so censorship is necessary

What does it mean to be thin skinned? Surely, it means being hypersensitive to insults. And that means, being constantly on the lookout for offensive remarks or even offensive looks. 

 U. Pennsylvania’s ‘Climate Week’ to feature a Mexican dance to butterflies

 Watching Girls Die Online - Female starvation as spectacle has a very long history. But now ‘thinfluencers’ have millions of followers.

 'Meetups with Mandy': CDC launches publicity campaign to regain public trust

 Pundits disappointed that COVID now indistinguishable from colds and allergies

 Boiling Over - Recent litigation points to parents’ rising frustrations with gender and sexuality curricula in public schools.

 Two-thirds of borrowers would boycott paying student loans: survey

 US teenagers more likely than others to exaggerate their maths abilities

 Math professors: Incoming students can’t even add fractions, subtract

 It Begins: Australia’s Fifth-Largest Bank Announces Digital-Only Transactions – Will Phase Out Cash, Cheque, and Phone Payments in All 80 Branches Starting Next Year

 Is That a Spy in Your Car? America is already beholden to China for antibiotics, lithium batteries, and 5G equipment. Now they are cornering the market on an important technology used in self-driving vehicles.

 Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time - The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.

Columbia quietly closes down Teachers College project that ruined countless lives

 'Unique' New Drug Is More Effective Than Ozempic For Weight Loss

 Detransitioner Sues Doctors Who Cut Off Her Breasts At 16

 The Migrant Surge Is Coming To The Classroom

 Auto Workers Go on Strike

" On Power Line I have repeatedly asked who in his right mind would go to work for the Minneapolis police department. "

 A disturbing killing, and the media won't touch it

Diversity Ditching is becoming a trend in companies 

Video about the endangered Palm Cockatoo

 Brilliant: Doctors Open Therapy Center For Men That's An MMA Octagon With A 'Therapy' Sign Out Front

 Experts want to take uteruses out of women and put them into men

 American Despotism: The Historic Roots of the Constitutional Crisis. Communists have received protective treatment while anti-communists have been vilified.

 It's the Economy, Stupid.

 Chicago Mayor Johnson Moves Toward City-Run Grocery Stores

 Online Censorship Going to Supreme Court. Plus: Nothing Burger for Hunter :: Rare Win for CA Parents :: Putin & Kim Bro Out

 TGIF: Stranger Things - Hunter’s smoking gun. JFK’s magic bullets. Aliens in Mexico. Disappearing books in Toronto. Plus, Taylor Swift saves journalism.

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

 Lampedusa, Italy, shows America the future of lawless immigration

This is a song for an opera, Clari. It came to mind after 8 hours in hospital yesterday repairing 3 hernias. Really nice to get home:

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home

A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there

Which seek thro' the world, is ne'er met elsewhere

Home! Home!

Sweet, sweet home!

There's no place like home

There's no place like home!

An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain

Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again

The birds singing gaily that came at my call

And gave me the peace of mind dearer than all

Home, home, sweet, sweet home

There's no place like home, there's no place like home!

Good luck with that. AI is just a slightly new software thingy. In fact, IBM has worked on  more human-like computer interfaces for decades.

Can you really define what is AI and what is just clever software stuff? Plus it's world-wide now, and you can't insulate the US from internet things without a police state. 

 Senate starts to fracture over how to govern AI

 You Can Be Addicted to Weed. I Was When I Was 12.

 The CDC Pushing COVID Vaccines for Those as Young as 6 Months for Cold Season. COVID is back and we’re all going to die or something.

 Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Ravaged Failed State Of Libya With Flooding

 Brooklyn middle school takes ‘math’ out of its name after students fail

 The conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever. Why did it break through after decades of effort — and what comes next?

 CVS And Cigna Charge $6,000 For $55 Generics

" The Times will never change, of course. It is not a newspaper, it is a political operation. But we can still enjoy a laugh at their expense."

Infanticide:  WE ARE REPAGANIZING

 The Return of Urban Retail Deserts - Stores fleeing from rising theft will leave residents in cities like New York with fewer places to shop, less merchandise to buy, and higher prices to pay.

 Quebec's Language Restrictions Limit Freedom of Expression. One Montreal restaurant was cited for having "fish and chips" on its menu.

 A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit.

 Palisades nuclear power plant lookin' to become the first recommissioned nuke in U.S. history

 Bernie Taupin, Elton John’s lyricist, would like to have a word

 Your Fault: Our ‘Climate Change’ Dystopian Future Is Here

Ames, Iowa, underrated mecca of science

The Dating Pool Dropouts - Young men today feel they must be six feet tall, make six figures, and have six inches downstairs to get a girlfriend—so many have given up trying

 Endangered Whales Unprotected With Wind Industry In Violation Of Sonar Limits, New Research Finds

 ‘Too rock heavy,’ too ableist, too white: Geoscience students identify concerns in field

 Democrats Froth and Seethe After John Kennedy Reads 'Gender Queer' During Senate Hearing

 Slate: Maybe some of these books really aren't suitable for younger kids

High stakes at New College

 Colleges making Gen Z mental health crisis worse with trigger warnings

 A Faculty Committee Recommended Censure, but She Was Suspended and Banished Instead

 "[E]ven if we spend another year between now and the election carefully analyzing the structure and shape of the madhouse we’re locked in, it’s still a madhouse."

 Massachusetts governor panics over migrant arrivals - demands ‘Right-to-Shelter’ law reform

Photo of true love from a pal in Colorado 

 Trail Life USA Celebrates 10 Years of Picking Up Where BSA Left Off

 Shostakovich in South Dakota - A manifesto for the future of American classical music

 Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years. A new interpretation of Isaac Newton’s writings clarifies what the father of classical mechanics meant in his first law of motion

 Feminists Are Outraged At Men Going Overseas To Find Traditional Wives

Italy is a good bet. 

 Academia becomes female

 ANALYSIS: Students are entering college unable to write

 A Kiss Is Just a Kiss. The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous.

Normal for Europeans, isn't it? 

Spiked:  The disturbing truth about Just Stop Oil

 Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream

No, a fad 

 Climate Change Calamities

 A blunt and chilling (but accurate) appraisal of where our government schools are taking us

 Amid another rise in cases, Covid’s new normal has set in

 The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back—and Won.

 Professor to ‘hold space’ for students of color: ‘I see your pain, grief, anger’

 Large Study Demystifies Female Squirting During Sex

 It’s called the Autonomous Weeder, a self-driving, tractor-sized robot that uses cameras, computers, and lasers to identify, target, and eliminate weeds without damaging crops or disrupting the soil biome.

 Are NFL Running Backs the New Face of America’s Labor Movement?

Scientism: The Great Grand Bluff Of Science

 Cochrane Review the latest scientific institution ruined by COVID ideology

 The 'Climate Emergency' Is a Hoax

 How Do You Really, Really Feel?

 More Climate Fairy Tales

 Florida set to introduce Classic Learning Test as alternative to SAT, ACT

 Students are entering college unable to write

GOV ABBOTT REACTS TO BIDEN’S ‘REMAIN IN TEXAS’ PROPOSAL

" This is what these Democrats voted for, at least when it was impacting only red areas along the border."

 BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PUSHES “INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE”

 6-year-old boy suspended and labeled ‘potentially dangerous’ for playing cops and robbers during recess

Never forget: It was Randi Weingarten and the Bidens who sacrificed a generation of kids

 MEET THE NEW PRINCIPAL OF JOHN GLENN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

 New Mexico Lawmakers Call For Governor's Impeachment Over 2A Overreach

 Are Emergency Powers A Test To See What Americans Will Put Up With?

 If it Saves One Life and Other Meretricious Lies

 The DEI Dieback

California Community Colleges system sued for imposing DEI standards on profs

 Leftist students call North Korean defector Yeonmi Park a 'liar,' destroy flyers for her event at Syracuse

 California’s Minority-Stress Experiment - Legislative efforts to combat “homophobia” and “transphobia” have produced few results besides stifling free speech.

 Director Is Baffled After Reporter Asks Why No Diversity in Film About 18th Century Denmark

 Chicago Fire - Brandon Johnson is on course to be the Windy City’s most damaging leader in living memory.

 Bill Maher to MSNBC’s Ari Melber: ‘Try to Understand Why’ So Many Support Trump

 What are Joe Biden’s unarticulated reasons for a very costly overseas intervention?

 The Toxic Gentleness of the American Theater - Woke Bolsheviks are destroying a once-great art form from within

 For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son. If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved.

 NASA's Ingenuity helicopter soars past 100 minutes of total Mars flight time

 The Earth Has No Average Temperature

The decline and fall of speech on campus

 America’s Institutions of Higher Indoctrination: A New Study Shows the Continued Decline of Free Speech on Campuses

 New Mexico Governor Declares Emergency, 'Suspends' Gun Rights in Shocking Move

 Teachers union chief calls private schools ‘fascist’ but sends her son to one

 California prof: Heterosexuality is ‘tragic’

 California passes bill punishing parents who don’t 'affirm' trans kids in custody battles

 Pundit Andrew Sullivan - who backed Biden in 2020 - calls for him to step down as he slams president's 'ancient, botoxed, fillered face' while insisting 'no-one rooted in human reality' believes he can last until 2028

DOES CONSERVATISM WORK?

Jacobson:  I’ve been speaking out against ADL since before it was cool to speak out against ADL

 LIBS OF TIKTOK: The ADL tried to deplatform me on X after defaming me, and now Elon Musk plans to expose them

 The ADL Has Lost Its Way. Elon Musk Is Right to Stand Up to Its Censorship

 At Harvard, Speech Is Not Free

Peterson:  I’m being professionally canceled for my moral stance on trans butchery

Stuart's Potpourri

 Sanctimony City: NYC’s Illegal Immigration Failure. New Yorkers weren't expecting they'd have to make good on the promise of sanctuary

 College presidents launch 'Campus Call for Free Expression'

 Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard. Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking.

 What happens when the local police just give up and disband?

 It was Vladimir Putin who initially noted that the West is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.

Why does every military expert on Youtube refer to that war as "us" and "we" vs Russia?

They never say "Ukraine." Ukraine is a puppet, getting slaughtered for nothing. I just do not understand. I do not feel like I am at war with anybody.

 'Margaritaville' singer Jimmy Buffett dies at 76

 Beatification novena for family of 9 martyred by Nazis begins Friday

 Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox. The true power of free expression is revealed even in defenses of speech advocating against it.

 A question of perennial interest is, why, in these times of unprecedented material prosperity and security, are so many people unhappy and depressed? That is a big question, but one part of the answer is that we are constantly bombarded with apocalyptic propaganda.

 Government minister says who should get to decide what speech is 'permitted'

COVID:  Public freakouts, burnout, and bullying: Bad behavior is here to stay

 The elites dearly miss having a pandemic on hand.

 As New York Public Schools Struggle With Learning Losses From Covid Shutdowns, State Is Withholding Students’ Test Scores 

 The Key to Understanding the Global Warming Fraud

 Canadian churches burned over bodies that weren't buried in the yard

 The insurance situation in California is still getting worse

 ACLU sues State of Indiana for refusing to spend taxpayer cash on sex change for transgender child killer Jonathan Richardson

 Time to Think by Hannah Barnes review – what went wrong at Gids (Tavistock)

 Philip Bump's no good, very bad credibility meltdown -- and WaPo's

 Oakland D.A.: White victims "harm" her office

 Despite the pope's yelling and the FBI's spying, traditional Catholic Latin Mass is booming

 Why Muslims hate dogs so much

Why is the IRS Buying .40-Caliber Submachine Guns?

 Why Some Employers Are Wary of Hiring People Who List Their ‘Pronouns’ on Resumes

 Yes, the pandemic-era school closures were a disaster

The Biden administration intends, in October, to release new Title IX regulations to deal with campus sexual assault and harassment. In their proposed form, the regulations strip from accused students virtually all of the procedural protections they currently have under Title IX...

 A Constitution for Teenage Happiness - Ruby LaRocca—the winner of our high school essay contest—urges her generation to read old books, memorize poems, and invite senior citizens to parties.

 NASA scientist suffers ‘climate grief,’ cries due to drought

 What Happens When Woke Writers and Editors Clash With Their Publisher? At Atlanta Magazine, It Wasn't Pretty.

 MASS GRAVES IN cANADA? APPARENTLY NOT

VDH:  From One Unapologetic Media Hoax to the Next - A discredited media has never expressed remorse for damage done

Is Taiwan an ally? No

Was Ukraine an ally? Nope. 

 Remember mask mandates. Remember the general hysteria over vaccines and mask mandates?

Has Fat Acceptance Gone Too Far?

 Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored?

 This couple tried to conceive for years — turns out, they were having sex all wrong

 10 Signs That US Culture Is Being Turned Completely Upside Down

Insanity update: Stuart's Potpourri 

 The Revolt of Religious Parents in Montgomery County - A fight over a school curriculum has made strange bedfellows of Muslims, Christians, and Latter-Day Saints.

 Judge Refuses to Define ‘Woman,’ Dismisses Lawsuit by Sorority Sisters Who Sought to Block Man from Joining

 Turley says there will be ‘substantial constitutional questions’ if Trump wins White House in 2024 amid indictments