Maggie's Farm

 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

 Europe's Lost World - And The Megaflood That Ended It

Need a $480 t-shirt? 

 Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first

 ‘I Have a Dream’ + 60: Dr. King would be proud of America’s progress

 What Is Emotional Intelligence?

 No Masks, Please, We’re Rational. Maskaholics are incorrigible. The rest of us should pay them no heed.

 Sam Quinones: Drug Addiction Driving "Homeless" Crisis. University of California, San Francisco Spreads Disinformation About Causes Of Street Addiction Crisis

Some fun at Wide Awake Media 

 A Conservative Billionaire’s Unrestricted Gift to Harvard

 Those awful paper straws? They might kill you

  Robo-Forklifts That Can't Get Sick Nor Unionize Hit Warehouse Floors

 Free Speech Suppressed Everywhere You Turn

 UK police investigate wrongthink

 Democrats Have Broken America: Where’s the Outrage?

 Times Square back to the bad old days: ‘It’s a sh-thole’

VDH: Save the Rule of Law By Destroying It? We're reaching the point where the once unbelievable has become the banal

 Jemele Hill Labels Nikki Haley Racist for Suggesting Indian-American Kamala Harris Is Incompetent

Project Veritas v. James O’Keefe: Parties “engaged in productive discussions to attempt to resolve this case”

 Washington power company raises rates to cover increased expense due to climate legislation—AG's office instructs them not to tell consumers reason for higher prices

 ‘Legal’ concerns halt NIH $154 million ‘false information’ program

 US-Ukraine Brass Write off Counteroffensive After 57.000 Casualties, Focus on Force-Drafting New Conscripts for 2024

 We are not empty. The concept of the atomic void is one of the most repeated mistakes in popular science. Molecules are packed with stuff

 ‘Pro­fes­sion of the cen­tury’: why so many people are retrain­ing as ther­ap­ists. Work­ers from farm­ers to invest­ment bankers are ditch­ing long-held jobs to enter the industry

Denmark Caves, Restores Blasphemy Prosecutions

 THE GLOBAL WARMING INDUSTRY IS CORRUPT

 New York City’s got it all wrong with its ‘right to shelter’

 Alice Cooper Versus Carlos Santana

 ‘No Hose, No Gun’: Police Alternatives for Mental-Health Crises Fall Short

 Salena Zito: Everyone’s tired of politics. Everyone outside of the media-​activist-pundit bubble, that is

 When Trans Activism Becomes Government Policy - Even as other nations finally move to protect dysphoric youth from disfiguring treatments, Canadian politicians and educators continue to promote state-funded ‘gender journeys.’

AMERICA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE TERRIBLE

Or is it the kids? 

 THE DAILY CHART: TOTAL CLIMATE CRAZINESS

 The Biden Admin Is Going After Another Common Household Item in the Name of Climate Change

 First they came for Chapelle, then they came for Santana

I Know That Arguing With Leftists Is a Pointless Waste of Time, but Dr. Bourbon Makes Me 'Talkative'

 The Bidens: "Stone Cold Crooked" (8) -- This Is Getting Ridiculous

 The mugshot heard ‘round the world: Eight truths that the mugshot reveals

Approximately half of all first marriages end in divorce, with subsequent marriages failing at even higher rates.

 The Trouble with Chesterton's Fence - We sometimes should tear it down

The Big Baby Generation. 

 Gender-affirming treatment: life-saver or child-abuse

 Soros-Funded NGOs Demand Crackdown On Free Speech As Politicians Spread Hate Misinformation

 Medieval EU Censorship Regime Goes Into Full Effect

 Secret Letter To CDC: Top Epidemiologist Suggests Agency Misrepresented Scientific Data To Support Mask Narrative

 Jordan Peterson Goes to ‘War’. The psychologist sells out auditoriums. But he can be stripped of his clinical license because of his tweets. He tells TFP why he won’t back down.

 TGIF: Everyone Gets a Mugshot

Whoever thought of a ship with sails? 

 Flushing our prescription drugs into coastal Florida 

 ‘They Lied by Omission’: Female Detransitioner Sues Doctors Who Enabled Her Teen Gender Transition

 AMA: Taxpayers should fund uterus transplants for males

 Retail Shrinkage

USD rejects request to host Matt Walsh talk titled ‘It’s your fault you’re offended’

"Unlivable": Minneapolis slips into hellhole status

 New York to Business Owners: The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

 Only Paved Road Out of Maui’s Devastated Town of Lahaina Was Barricaded During Wildfire Evacuation

 Anybody notice what went on at the Darien Gap this weekend?

 Despite budget crisis, Penn State offers in-state tuition to illegal immigrants

 Misinformation: Joe Biden Lies About Debate Questions in Social Media Posts

Worse than a lie 

 United Nations Countering 'Deadly Disinformation' Through Creation Of 'Digital Army'

 The Top 3 Censored Topics in America in 2023

 Biden Admin 'Welds Open Floodgates' At Arizona Border, Allowing Illegalss To Pour Into US

 Swank Parisian avenue reduced to unbelievable migrant squalor, and river pollution calls 2024 Olympics into question

 Green Party’s trans court case is a sign of things to come

 The Female Pickup Artists - A new group of influencers is peddling an old strategy: the art of entrapping a man.

 I’m 23 Years Old. And I’ve Bought a Farm.

 Chinese parents around the US are launching programs and schools to defend traditional values like hard work and meritocracy.

Canadian "health care" is fast-tracking euthanasia

 The Business of Treating Anxiety

" It has been observed that the demand for racism outstrips the supply, and hence the need for defining racism down .."

 ‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited - Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement.

 “What’s the ‘anti-racist’ perspective on the atomic mass of boron?”

 San Fran State hires ‘anti-racist’ engineering dean

 Cancer Biologist Applicants at San Diego State University Subjected to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Litmus Test

 Why Has Biden Declared War on Natural Gas?

 Public Employee Unions Rule California

 Biden is Doing Everything Possible to Open Up the Border. The invasion is coming from inside the White House.

 Vivek Ramaswamy: My 10 truths for the 2024 campaign

Deindustrializing Germany 

400,000 Ukrainian deaths, 13,000,000 Ukrainian refugees who will never return, maybe 40-50,000 Russian military dead.

Why is the US contributing to this? I annoyed lots of people on this topic from the beginning, but it is nuts.  Good interview.

 Prince Immediately Regrets Waking Rachel Zegler With A Kiss After She Starts Ranting About The Patriarchy

 ‘Minuteman’ mascot scrapped at Calif. school

 Old School higher ed

 The American Propaganda Media

 14 American Cities Aim to Ban Meat, Dairy, Private Cars by 2030

Good luck with that 

 Runaway AI Train

" And all of this is illegal and unconstitutional."

 Washington Democrat Governor Inslee: “We Need to Decarbonize Our Economy so These Fires Don’t Ravage Us”

 California’s Heat-Pump Fantasy - Regulators move to phase out gas furnaces for an electric-powered appliance that will raise costs, cause more climate damage per pound than carbon—and won’t even keep people warm.

'Children Were Incinerated To Ash': Livid Hawaiians Slam Biden For Cracking Jokes, Lying About Wife

 RFK Jr. Blasts Biden's Approving F-16s For Ukraine "A Disaster For Humanity" 

 David Sacks: Sadly, Ukraine Will Be Destroyed Before Washington Admits We Need A Diplomatic Solution

 The musical legacy of Robbie Robertson is a monument to the possibilities of American song.

 How August Wilson became one of the country’s most influential playwrights

 Why Do Some People Think Cilantro Tastes Like Soap? If you hate cilantro, this could be why.

 The Booming Business of American Anxiety - A flurry of companies and entrepreneurs aim to fill the demand for mental-health help

 ‘Barren’ Disney Theme Parks Blamed on Climate Change

Everything is caused by climate change 

 "Leave Neutrality Behind": Soros-Backed UT Austin Initiative Embraces Advocacy Journalism

Propaganda, in other words 

Maui response is a disaster

 PBS reporter wigging that OK "narrowing" definition of "man" and "woman"

 SWEDEN GOES NUCLEAR

 The Green Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think -- Or Not

 Joe Rogan Blasts the Left’s Obsession With Climate Change: ‘You’re Not Saving Jack Sh*t!’

  Signal and Noise - Can we keep climate science separate from misinformation?

Politico:  There’s Only One Way to Control AI: Nationalization

Lefty: There's no way to control ____________ without nationalization 

 No Quality in Socialist Equality

 The Town Without Zoning - Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?

Andrew C. McCarthy:  The Flaw in Trump’s Georgia Indictment

 Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears scolds ‘scorched earth’ 2024 GOP

 Ramaswamy's 15 Minutes Have Begun. Can He Sustain It?

 China and America-- Decoupling Scientific Research

The great Grizzly Bear comeback 

Fact is, Grizzlies do not prefer mountains. They like river bottoms and damp prairies. 

The trans Ideology Cult Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Absurdity

 Net Zero Is Stalling Out. What Now?

Nuke plants would make everybody happy 

 Biden Regime to Reinstate COVID-19 Restrictions Beginning with Mask Mandate as “COVID Cases Rise”, Say TSA and Border Patrol Whistleblowers

I doubt that 

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

Let's force gov't censors to take Remedial Free Speech classes

China  Embracing Western Cultural Greatness

Vivek interviewed by the Breakfast Club (video) 

 "I'll Be Blunt, It's Failed," Says Congressional Ukraine Caucus Co-Chair On Offensive

 "The End Is Nearing" - Seymour Hersh Slams The White House's "Wishful Approach" To Ukraine War

About Linnaeus' life 

 My experience with a Hawaiian wildfire

 Let Me Help You Understand 'Rich Men North of Richmond'

 Award-Winning Comedy Writer Has Edinburgh Show Cancelled Because Of Views On Gender

 Feds paid $300,000 to study why white, male physicists don’t fight racism, sexism in STEM

Why the San Francisco Doom Loop tour is already sold out (and may be coming to NYC)

 The migrant public-health emergency creates a political emergency: Lawmakers must act

California now imports 30% of its power 

 Why Bill Watterson Vanished - The creator of Calvin and Hobbes is back, but the mystery is why disappeared in the first place.

Deep thoughts about Taylor Swift's success 

About dating apps 

 Many cancer drugs may end up doing absolutely nothing for patients, study reveals

Rachel Levine calls mothers as 'egg producers' while visiting a gender clinic

 Wanted: Single Male, No Smokers, Must Have Climate Anxiety

Was Obama the first gay President? 

Who cares? 

 Male Powerlifter Sets Female Record

 Massachusetts couple denied foster care eligibility because they are believing Catholics

Lib Nami Wolf decides Trump isn't so bad 

 Been almost a month enforcing San Diego's homeless ban

 BLUE CITIES: GETTING IT GOOD AND HARD

 Large Supermarket In Nation’s Capitol May Close Over $500K Worth Of Shoplifting

 I READ THE GEORGIA INDICTMENT, SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO

 WHERE IS HILLARY’S INDICTMENT ON THE SAME CHARGES AS TRUMP?

 ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Al Gore, his legal team and I tried to find uncounted presidential votes, lobbied officials and fought in the courts in 2000. The only difference now? The candidate's name is Donald Trump... That's why this prosecution is an outrage

 The European Union Is Finally Coming Around to Gene-Edited Seeds

I thought I had read all of Kurlansky's books, but I missed one of obvious interest: The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

From the American Indians to present, with plenty of NYC and colonial history, the story of the wonderful North American oyster. A few factoids I learned: the ancient Romans farmed oysters (European oysters are an entirely different critter, however); wild oyster beds are a thing of the distant past, as are 12" oysters; French chefs introduced Americans to eating raw oysters.

 Timing The Market: Why It's So Hard, In One Chart

 How the Internet obeys you

 Is your kid ready for a phone? AT&T thinks so, Thanks to an assist from the American Academy of Pediatrics…

FEMA's Maui relief efforts to be "culturally responsive"

 Oregon’s Brutally Hard Lesson about Decriminalizing Drugs

Ungovernable American Cities

They are governable 

 Nuclear Fusion Heats Up

Been hearing that for decades 

 Facebook Censors Accurate Information Linking Wind Energy To Whale Deaths

 Comments From Supporters Of EPA's New Power Plant Rule

  Anti-Ultra-low-emission-zone camera ninjas messing up London mayor's big plan

 Is This The Most Asinine Sentence Ever Written About ‘Climate Change’?

 THE PROPHET OF POWER DENSITY

 Hating fossil fuels is such a luxury belief

 'White People' Were the Only Slavers of History, Black Professor Claims

 Alan Dershowitz Predicts All Four Trump Trials Will Take Place Before 2024 Election, Adds ‘There’ll Be Some Convictions’

 Ukraine military's transgender spokes"woman" is simply insane

Save the Whales, Again

About Matrix IQ testing 

 Comments On The Insanity Of EPA's New Power Plant Rule

Virgin Atlantic Airways Ruined My Family's Trip With Intrusive Grooming

 The deadly consequences of cancel culture

 Socialist scholar Cornel West owes $500,000 in taxes

 But Can You Not See How Fascinating I Am?

 CNN Lectures People On The Use of Neopronouns

The Trouble with Daycare

 Universal Early Childhood Daycare Has Been Proven to Damage the Children Who Have Been Through It

 "Asylum seekers" have already worn out welcome in upstate New York

 Chuck Todd admits Gov. Abbott was 'right' about bussing migrants to blue cities: Dems are 'upset' at Biden

 Biden censors battered — expect an epic Supreme Court showdown

 Teamsters are losing their jobs — and there is one labor leader to blame

 Seattle cop's resignation letter excoriates city

 Imagine How the Maui Wildfires Would Be Covered if a Republican Were in the White House. Remember Katrina and Puerto Rico?

 Ukrainians Begin To Despair As Bloody Counteroffensive Yields Small Gains

Millions of kids missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US

 UFT’s latest attack on Success Academy charters puts kids in real jeopardy

  UK Police Arrest Autistic Teen on ‘Suspicion of Homophobic Public Order Offence’ for Saying Cop Looked Like Lesbian

 Retractions of peer-reviewed scientific papers has risen 13,750% in this century

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

 CANDOR DIES IN “UPDATES”

  CNN Gets a Shock When They Venture out of Their Bubble and Talk to the American People

How Republicans are a threat to Democracy 

 Biden asks Congress for $40 BILLION in extra funds - including an extra $13 BILLION for Ukraine - teeing up potential showdown with Congress

 India Consumes 11x More Crude Oil From Russia, Exposing Ineffectiveness Of Western Sanctions

 Brandon Regime Finds Another To Let In More “Migrants”

 NBC’s Chuck Todd Forced to Admit GOP Governor Was Right: ‘And Sure Enough, Here We Are’

Is Race a thing?

 Beha­vi­oural sci­ent­ists suf­fer from bias too

 TGIF: Dark Brandon Edition - The war on porn and Shakespeare. The demise of ESG and fake meat. A big win for Dave Portnoy. DeSantis ‘reloads.’ And much more.

 Clicks of Desire - How the Internet obeys you

 Catholic couple sues Massachusetts after their foster parent application was denied because they do not support procedures to change a child's 'God-given sex' and believe in 'traditional' marriage

 Indoctrination, Intimidation & Intolerance: What Passes For Education Today

 Ditching Diversity Myths - In the workplace, deep-level similarity is more important than surface-level diversity.

  Emory Researchers Blame Black Diabetes Epidemic on White Supremacy

 Jack Smith's impossible task

 Moving to France Showed Me True Cost of ‘Free’ European Health Care, Child Care, and Retirement

Fake meat update

 Why Most Doctors now Choose Employment

 The Bud Light boycott inspires Native Americans trying to reclaim their brand

 THE RESILIENCE GAP - Has an obsession with avoiding harm done real damage to teenage girls?

‘Not a passing phase’: British museum organization doubles down on ‘antiracism’

 This Scientist Used To Spread Climate Change Alarmism. Now She's Trying To Debunk It. The doomsday consensus around climate change is "manufactured," says scientist Judith Curry.

 Which is more environmentally friendly, an energy source that uses one unit of land to produce one unit of electricity, or a source that uses 100 units of land to produce one unit of electricity?

 WIND ENERGY: A DOOMED INDUSTRY

 Kids almost NEVER transmitted Covid in schools, a major new study shows

 NYT: calling for genocide is "mostly peaceful" murder

 ‘Identity and Justice’ scholar explores ‘structural racism in chemistry’

 So, how are you all surviving the Hollywood strike?

Essays on politics and culture from Sasha Stone's Substack. A former Democrat and Leftist who escaped the bubble to get to know the other side of the country and to take a more critical look...

Her podcast note to David Brooks 

The best pizza ovens in 2023

Hand-scanning in supermarkets 

BB:  Report: Record Number Of People Following Their Hearts

COVID:  NO SCIENCE THEN, NO SCIENCE NOW

 Parents reveal why charters are luring kindergarteners away from NYC public schools

 PBS Rolls Out 'Climate Psychology Therapist' For Armageddon-Coping Session

 A Simple Law Is Doing the Impossible. It’s Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat. Pornhub has pulled out of multiple states rather than comply with age-verification laws.

 ‘This Is a Ploy’: California AG Launches Probe Into District that Voted to Alert Parents If Children Identify As Trans

 Legal Migrants Protest Illegal Aliens Living in Brooklyn Park

VDH:  The Remaking of America - Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault

 Asian Law Enforcement Officer Keeps to Faith After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for George Floyd’s Drug Overdose Death

 THE DAILY CHART: MEDIA MENDACITY

 It Sure Looks Like Gavin Newsom Is Looking for a Way Out of His Debate With Ron DeSantis

A new tick-borne disease: Alpha-gal. 

 Strange 'Tasks' Kindergartners Were Expected To Do In The 1950s

 Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Correcting the Record

 How Boycotting Woke Corporate Restored My Dignity

OK, but "her dignity"? 

Readjusting to the Office

 N.S. Lyons on the panic of the managerial class - He interprets recent political conflict

 Doctors Sue California Over Forced "Implicit Bias" DEI Training In Medicine

 Anthony Fauci’s Deceptions - A trove of emails, Slack messages, and other documents reveal Fauci’s behind-the-scenes involvement.

He lied for your own good 

 Remote Learning Damaged the Nation

 The Problem of Hyper-Individualism - Amid a national reckoning with loneliness, Americans should reject the forces driving them away from one another.

I don't see that 

 Costs Beginning To Change The Net Zero Debate In The UK

Ford Says Electric Cars Just Aren’t Affordable

 The war on truth

 Conservatives Can’t Play Political Hardball