Maggie's Farm

 Gossip as a Literary Genre, or Gossip as “L’Écriture feminine”? Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”

 New Research Sheds Light On Mysterious Origin Off Stonehenge's 'Altar Stone'

 Gender differences in beauty concerns start surprisingly early, study finds

 Feminism linked to increased hookup culture endorsement among women, study shows

 Excellent advice no matter it you like the man or not!

 Where Columbia’s ousted president went wrong - And how university campuses can do better this fall.

 How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

 3 Simple Habits to Improve Your Critical Thinking

 Lacking purpose later in life could signal cognitive decline

Scaling the Heights of Physics: James D. Bjorken 1934–2024

CBP Found Discriminating Against Pregnant Employees

 ‘Friends no longer speak to me’: How it feels to be a British Jew after October 7

 Academic: Genetically Engineer Shorter People To Battle “Climate Change”

 UT faculty council committee says the school should be ‘patient’ with Pro-Palestine encampments

Eric Adams Pinpoints Cause of Migrant Violence

 America is turning into the EU. Democrats are steering the US towards European-style censorship, technocratic rule and economic decline.

 The Unthinkable Just Became Thinkable for Google

 The press doesn't care if Kamala Harris lie

 Harris campaign ID requirement at Arizona rally draws calls of hypocrisy

 Walz Lied About Drunk Driving, Says ... CNN

 Kamala Harris must speak to the press

 Taliban Parade American Equipment Biden Left Behind to Celebrate Three Years in Power

Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust

 The surprising truth about loneliness in America

 NYC Migrant Crisis To Cost Staggering $5 Billion For Shelters, Security And Food

 Most grades don’t match test scores: Is that a problem?

  61-Year-Old Brit Gets 18 Month Prison Sentence For Chanting "Who The F**k Is Allah"

 The Front Page: Truth and Lies on the Campaign Trail. Plus. . .

 Thierry Breton's Threat to Elon Musk Seems to Have Backfired

 “Fearless,” then, is a giant step in Kamala Harris’s ongoing redefinition, her miraculous transformation from political liability to electoral juggernaut. 

 Classical music as medicine: Mood-boosting tunes synchronize the brain

 The Top Five Climate Science Scandals - When self-correction in science goes wrong

 Big Media conducted polls to determine which climate terms induced the most hysteria but a new study shows all those efforts didn’t pay off

AOL claims Polar Bears are decreasing.

It's a lie. They have doubled since hunting was banned

 Pro-Palestinian students plan to skip classes: ‘We need a disruption’

 The kingmaker of chaos: George Soros’s failed experiments threaten his kingdom

 A growing number of Americans aren’t simply out of a job. They’re no longer fit for work.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of medical groups over “gender-affirming care” for minors.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

 7 Takeaways From Trump’s ‘Conversation’ With Elon Musk

 “We are Monitoring”: EU Censor Threatens Musk Ahead of the Trump Interview

 What Would Ruthless Republicans Do?

Media Bias? Call It by Its True Name: Regime Propaganda

Elites decide Hunter Biden can finally be a scandal now that Joe is out

 NY Times Seems Upset Musk Threw Trump “Softball Questions”

 Elon Challenges Kamala to Twitter/X Talk

 How many people are actually influenced by the New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, the ladies of the View, and so on?

Why People Don’t Like Illegal Immigration

I like legal immigration 

 TWO CANDIDATES, NOT ONE DAY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR:

 European Union Tyrants Send Letter to Elon Musk – DEMAND X Owner Elon Musk CENSOR President Donald Trump During Upcoming Interview Tonight

 Elon Musk To Disgraced Former Scottish Minister Threatening Legal Action: “Make my day”

 Google Admits to Changing Search Results for ‘Trump Assassination’ Searches and Much More

 Meta, Google, and TikTok take down posts that have led to real-world violence, but X pushes back as Elon Musk tweets insults at the UK's prime minister and posts 'civil war is inevitable.'

 We Need a Badass in the White House

Joseph Klein: "my disgust with Trump is deeper, more personal. He made a mockery of the values and issues and study to which I devoted my life..."

That is immature 

Trump on X Taps Into a Voting Bloc That Legacy Media Doesn't Even Know Exists

 The 7 States That Will Decide the Election

 Kamala the Seductress

 Van Jones: Harris Is Getting More Attention, Doesn’t Need to Talk to Press Right Now

That's true 

 “I think the one advantage that Harris may have is that there’s less than 100 days to go,” 

True - no time to learn about her

 You can tell it’s a working-class election by Harris and Walz’s dishonesty and lies

 Golly, Why Are Kamala's Politics So Hard to Pin Down?

It's on purpose 

 JD Vance Continues to Own the Libs With His Sunday Show Appearances

 The Oppressive Exuberance of the Harris-Walz Pageant

 The Scramble For Europe

 The Star Tennis Player Who Survived the ‘Titanic’ and Went On to Win Olympic Gold

 Real Women Don't Cook

The Western World Is Insane

 Olympics Pres: We Would Screen Out Men if Science Could Tell Men and Women Apart

 Politics has no place in the doctor’s office

 Climate Fear-Mongering Fail: Great Barrier Reef Sees Third Record Year Of Coral Growth

What is Bari Weiss doing with The Free Press? 

" Very scary things are happening in the United Kingdom. Sir Mark Rowley, Met Police Commissioner, has threatened to jail U.S. citizens over online posts he deems hateful or disinformation. "

 A dispatch from London on the brink of chaos

The UK:  Officialdom’s dumbest belief is that the solution to social tensions is censorship.

 Who are the folks who show up at a Kamala Harris rally?

 Dems’ childish obsession with Momala and ‘daddy’ Walz is beyond bizarre

Things Trump is doing wrong 

 A Guide to Building Muscle Mass Over the Age of 40 - It's possible to replicate (or even topple) 20-year-old you. Here's how.

 There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent

 The Rise of Neotoddlerism - How society encourages activists to behave like infants

 Coffee for the Brain - Evidence is mounting that moderate coffee consumption may improve cognition.

 Brits Are Being Arrested for Social Media Posts Now

 The New Yorker’s Fact Crisis - Is Masha Gessen’s performative anti-Zionism an exception to the magazine’s commitment to factual accuracy and independent style, or a reflection of broader decay?

 TGIF: To the Window, to the Walz - Kamala picks the coach. Cori goes out screaming. Trump goes berserk. RFK Jr. and the tale of the bear. The GLAAD CEO lives large. And much, much more.

 Inequality As a Left-Wing Principle

Everybody knew about Biden 

 Joe Biden’s Schedule This Week Included Two Phone Calls, One Meeting and Then Off to the Beach

Fine with me 

Tim Walz’s ‘Church’ Is About What You’d Expect

 New Fragments of Euripides Discovered

I don't need to visit Dubai 

 Astronauts trapped in space by Boeing's faulty Starliner are given horrifying news about potential return to Earth

 How Did Planned Parenthood Become One of the Country’s Largest Suppliers of Testosterone?

 The Front Page: Do the Childless Have a Stake in Our Future? The Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. An ISIS plot against Taylor Swift. Does ‘mental health’ make us sick? And much more.

People not being Tim Walz

 The media are scared to ask Kamala Harris questions.

 Excessive Internet Use Disrupts Key Parts Of The Teenage Brain

 Biden admin will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat climate change

 Up Close With Chris Rufo

 Video: Daniel Greenfield Exposes the Left’s 200-Year War on America

 Niall Ferguson: Welcome to Pandemonium. Plus.

Media Lets Kamala Do Another Basement Campaign

 Kamala Harris and the Masque of Magical Thinking

The Democrats have mutated into the party of nowhere, so it is not surprising that they prefer pleasing fantasy to sobering reality. By Roger Kimball

Lunacy with bats 

 Should You Always Forgive?

 Teenage Girls Need Judy Blume More Than Ever. In the seventies, nobody told girls what growing up was like. Now, we just tell girls it’s horrible.

 Chinese-made humanoid robots raise alarms in Congress

 Furious bikers turn on Harley Davidson boss for 'going woke' after he publicly promoted DEI programs, LGBT policies and climate change issues

 The Energy Transition Ain't Happening: "Green" Economy In Retreat

 The Farce of Academic Activism: When Universities Pander to Ideologues

 You are the enemy: Racism is defined at the discretion of the regime.

 The Daily Chart: Deregulate Housing

 Keep America Weird. Plus. . .

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

Joe Rogan Goes Live on Netflix… and Liberals Lose Their Minds

Some of Kamala Harris' ideas you might disagree with 

 Hoping to avoid Clinton’s 2016 mistakes, Harris courts three ‘rust belt’ states

 Muscle Over Medicine: Why Ozempic Alone Won’t Cut It For Weight Loss

 Determinism Addendum

 Study: Trust in Medical Establishment Collapsed During COVID Pandemic–Only 4 in 10 Americans Now Say They Trust Doctors

 More on the Male Olympic Boxer Knocking Out First Female Opponent in Under a Minute

The Daily Chart: What Institutional Collapse Looks Like

 Learn This Term: ‘Whole of Society’. You cannot understand what’s going on with American politics today without it 

 Abigail Shrier: Republicans, You’re Going After Kamala All Wrong. The GOP can complain about a ‘coup’ and call Harris a ‘DEI hire.’ But it won’t win them votes

 How Harris Can Beat Trump—and How Trump Can Beat Harris

 TGIF: The Global Gayborhood - The veepstakes, the creepstakes, Donald Trump’s minority outreach, God and Grindr at the Olympics, Russia swaps good guys for bad guys, and much more.

 During an interview in 2019 Kamala Harris was asked if she smoked pot growing up...

 After Immigrant Stabbed Kids, UK Gov Cracks Down on Protesters

 Netanyahu Is Winning

 The Feckless Lebanese State

 Can Blue States Build?

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

White Dudes for Kamala. Plus...

Settler Colonialists In Israel And The United States

 Judge Tosses Former 'Disinformation' Chief's Defamation Suit, Says She Really Was a Censor

 The left is breaking all the rules they claim to uphold to keep Donald Trump down

 Kamala Harris Vows to Confiscate Guns in Atlanta Campaign Speech

NYT: The brutal capitalism in Venezuela

 Expert Reveals Vital Survival Tip if You Unexpectedly Fall in Deep Water

 10 Things They Don't Tell You About Your First Job

 Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Dancing Drag Queens And Bizarre Symbology

 The Government Is Choking Off Wineries

People moving to Red States

 Yellen: By the Way, We're Going to Need Another $3 Trillion per Year for Climate Change

76% of U.S. Income Taxes Go Toward Servicing Our Debt

 Are The Washington Post and The New York Times treating the rise of Kamala Harris quite differently?

 Is DEI DIEing?

Pritzker: JD Vance Is "Just Weird," "Known For Obsession With Couches," "Cat Ladies"

The Middle East on the Brink. Plus. . .Cat ladies, unite! NYU students embrace ‘armed struggle.’ A wild Olympics opening ceremony. And much more.

 Baby talk - When babies are born, they cry in the accent of their mother tongue: how does language begin in the womb

This weightlifting workout in your 60s can preserve strength for years. Older people had stronger leg muscles years after a 12-month weightlifting program than those who did moderate strength training

 Does Disney's Dramatic Decline Reflect Growing Public Opposition To Woke Activism?

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

Racism And Sexism: The Campaign Theme Of The Harris-Whoever Ticket

 A country that picks its leader on DEI grounds is doomed

 To prove fealty to Kamala Harris, the media gaslights voters by rewriting her past

 Bottled-Up Bottlenoses: The Ugly Truth Behind Our Love of Dolphins - Dolphins are the smiling ambassadors of the sea, but a growing chorus of scientists, trainers and advocates say it’s time to end their captivity

 “The Strange Death of Environmentalism”

Re zoning in the US

The supposedly unhappy Zoomer generation

 Some professors are also worried about job security if they publish unpopular results.

 93% Of Top-Ranked University Presidents Donate To Democrats

NASA says no return date yet for astronauts and troubled Boeing capsule at space station

 New Chevron Decision Will Increase Postal Competition

 TGIF: The Week Unburdened by the Week That Has Been - Biden’s out. Kamala leans into the meme. Cheatle quits. The sharks are on cocaine. CrowdStrike has a CrowdStroke. The Olympics are here! J.D. Vance’s couch. And much, much more…

Newsom Orders All California's Homeless Encampments Removed

Trump, the Magic Candidate - No one is safe from his spell.

The Current Thing: Kamala Harris- The Democrats are so 20th century

The media’s flip to Harris was predictable

 Inside the plot to gaslight Americans about Kamala and re-write her story... and it starts with insisting she was never 'Border Czar' or the 'most liberal' Senator

 Calling Kamala a "DEI Hire" is "Extremely Offensive and Dehumanizing"

 10 Questions We Dare the Media to Ask Kamala Harris

Paliwood in action

 Biden Administration Launches A Great Leap Forward Into Green Energy

Wiseman:  History Will Forget Who Shot Trump. Plus. .

The Atlantic: JD Vance likes Mountain Dew

 America First and the Role of Unions

 ICYMI: Biden’s Withdrawal Was Scripted Long Ago - “His decision is … an act of self-sacrifice that places him in the company of George Washington.”

European Leaders Laugh Behind Kamala's Back

Kiev Mayor Klitschko Speculated That Zelensky Might Agree To Territorial Compromises With Russia

 Breaching, ‘pissed off’ humpback whale topples boat, throws fishermen into sea off New Hampshire coast: video

The New Girl Disorder - Why are young women so prominent in anti-Israel protests?

 'I Lost My Son': Musk Says He Was Tricked Into Approving Puberty Blockers

Why are there so few conservative professors?

The marketplace of misleading ideas - In the marketplace of ideas, are people shopping for truth?

 Inside The EU's War On Free Speech

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

Imagine how differently the press would have covered a near-assassination of Obama

‘Defenders of democracy’ staged a cover-up and coup

 WSJ: Dem Cover-Up of Biden Senility Began in October 2021

Anointing Harris Completes Divorce Between Dems, Working Class

Kamala Holds First Campaign Rally in Wisconsin High School Gym After the Coup to Force Biden Off the Ballot…and It’s Cringe

Kamala Harris will face ‘sexism,’ ‘racism’ in presidential bid, scholars say

Interviewing Palestinians

Polish MEP Gives Blistering Takedown of Ursula Von der Leyen, Exposes ‘Sick, Leftist Ideology’ Destroying Europe

 High hopes and security fears for next-gen nuclear reactors

Update on fact-checking

 New survey claims to show lack of knowledge of American history, civics among college students

Top Dems threatened to forcibly remove Biden from office unless he dropped out, set him up to fail at Trump debate: sources

Hmmm. Is that why the early debate?

Bari Weiss: Bari Weiss: The Era of the Noble Lie - Why do we have a crisis of trust? Because the experts keep lying. Joe Biden is only the latest example.

Doddering Biden lionized as 'selfless,' 'patriotic,' 'courageous'...

Well, it's gracious BS

TNR:

Harris’s own qualifications pale in comparison to the case against Trump. That case is simple and easy to make. Donald Trump is a fascist. He is a felon. He will be the oldest president in American history. All the Democrats need is someone who can repeat these facts again and again. Joe Biden sadly wasn’t that person. Kamala Harris is.

 The Wit and Wisdom of Kamala Harris

True Purpose Of NATO Remains USA Hegemony

Lost a bunch of my saved links this morning, doggone it. Here's what I have:

 Is Your Sex Drive Normal? Probably.

 Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists

 NASA Continues Its 15 Year Mission Of Failing At Big Science

Our ageing rockers

Kotkin:  Downtowns Don’t Matter Anymore

 Ford's Latest Pivot Shows That the EV Craze Has Fizzled Out

 Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals—who is ‘extreme?’

Chicago’s mayor blames Richard Nixon for the city’s gun violence

Heather Mac Donald - Edge of the Abyss: Our divides are as much epistemological as political.

Zuck Praises Trump As An American "Badass"

Was Covering Up Biden’s Condition a Quarter Billion Dollar Fraud?

It’s Shocking How Many Democrats Think the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

 Jill Biden Drops Out Of Presidential Race

New York Times Board Wants Kamala Harris Out of the Race

Dems Go Full Throttle On Kamala After Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Race

 “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.” 

Klavan:  The Appalling Display Of Christian White Nationalism At The RNC

Hillary Clinton being promoted as the way out of the Biden mess

Ready for Round 2: Why we Need Hillary more than ever

 The Nation: After Trump’s Speech, It’s Absurd to Suggest He Can’t Be Beaten

German State Cuts Benefits For 'Lazy' Migrants

Watch this skier outrun an avalanche

 Drowning Deaths Continue Post-Pandemic Rise

 On the Appalachian Trail, I Fell in Love With America. Plus…

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

University DEI plan says individualism, timeliness, part of white supremacy culture

NYC schools will have universal dress code for first time

1 in 3 Dems Believe Trump Assassination Was Staged. Is this really any crazier than the media claiming Putin rigged the 2016 election?

VDH:  Never in modern presidential history has a political party staged a veritable inside coup to remove their current president from his ongoing candidacy for his party’s nomination and reelection.

Hillbilly Elegy Blowing Up After Vance Pick

 Congrats, JD Vance! The New York Times Has Slimed You!

DEBUNKING THE TOP 10 FALSEHOODS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP WITH FACTS

A Kotkin review of the socioeconomic changes in the US

Great Moments in Maine Real Estate

The Ammo Grrrll meets retirement

What Would It Take To Recreate Bell Labs?

 DEI in Academia

 Abigail Shrier: California’s New Law Lets Schools Keep Secrets from Parents. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that keeps parents in the dark if their kids change gender identity at school.

 They're Beating Up on Opie for Creating a 'Monster'

Carnegie Mellon University prof says Trump assassination attempt was 'staged' like 'stupid Tubi movie set'

 Ear Trutherism Is Being Mainstreamed By AP, PBS, and Now WaPo's Jen Rubin

 Soft-Spoken Trump Appeals for Unity, Gives Personal Account of Shooting in Lengthy Convention Address

 The Next Four Months Will Be A Political War Without Limits

Xi Jinping and China: Running Out of Time, Ready to Strike

I missed it last night