Maggie's Farm

I have no idea how these stats are calculated, but supposedly just over 70% of Americans are overweight, and 40% obese. 

It's just interesting. Asking "why?" is silly.

 What to expect from this year's rare double brood of cicadas

 A RABBI FOR CHRISTIANS

 Physical activity’s relationship with depression is more complex than it appears, study shows

 The Seven Laws of Pessimism -If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?

 Biden’s new tribal consent laws force NYC Museum of Natural History to close Native American exhibits

 Diversity training does more harm than good

The News About the News Business Is Getting Grimmer

 You Can't Defend 'Democracy' and the Administrative State

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

 Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in defamation damages, jury rules

 Climate Alarmist Mann is Not Paying a Penny for his Army of Lawyers

Sketchy economics of rooftop solar 

 The Texas Resistance Backed by 25 Governors. Do states have a right to defend their own borders?

 Biden’s border dereliction forced Gov. Abbott’s hand, and caused a national crisis

" A follower just sent me this video from earlier today of a group of migrants on a boat reaching the shores of a beach  in La Jolla , CA. "

 Cultural Replacement: Why The Immigration Crisis Is Being Deliberately Engineered

 BORDER WARNING FROM RETIRED FBI AGENTS

 TGIF: Soldiers of the Resistance - Democratic Socialists of America has a budget crisis. Hamas thanks U.S. college kids. Trump keeps soaring. Oakland’s In-N-Out shuts down. 

 Israel’s War on Hamas is the Least Deadly War in the Region. So why does the media describe it as “among the deadliest… in history”?

 Good News: US Halts UNRWA Funding Over Staff Involvement in October 7 Attacks

It's been a long road, with many changes over the years (but with no changes to our antique graphic presentation).

We (and "we") has changed plenty over the years. I spose our vision - if there was one - has been to be an eclectic site. Yes, we try to have a daily bulletin board of interesting and/or timely items, but we don't aim to "cover the news," whatever that means.

It can look like a conservative site, but it's intended to be more contrarian. Traditionalist. Skeptical for sure - always because the world is full of BS and propaganda and always was. When the MSM is riding some ideologically-motivated, politically-biased hobby horse, we like to offer other views. Sometimes rightly, sometimes in error, but I still think our perspectives are mostly rational and skeptical.

I do appreciate all of the people who send me links to use. That's good, but it would be fun to have more voluntary writers. People do get worn out by it over time and, if it's no longer fun, why bother?  Simpler just to email links to the Editor - little ol' me.

As best I can tell, several millions of people look at our site each year from all over the world (blocked in China I think but not in Norway). That is cool, but there is no vision of what we want to be or become - if anything. Never made one penny from this hobby, and some think that is stupid. Maybe, but I never made a penny from playing tennis either but when I played well, Mrs. BD noticed...

If you have plenty of good content, Substack seems like a place to offer it these days. Getting crowded though. Lots of competition in the arena of public affairs but not many sites love Farmall tractors.

Yeah, always loved our old Farmall except on steeps. Little scary on steeps - not built for our New England hills. 

 BLAZING SADDLES HISTORY MONTH

 This Lancet paper on ‘dangers of undervaccination’ should never have been published

 Why We Went Crazy During the COVID Lockdowns

I didn't 

 Last year, for Black History Month, Franck Sylvestre was canceled for racial stereotypes even though he’s black

 EU Looks To Accelerate Development Of Small Nuclear Reactors

 Great News! The Climate Is Much Better Than Predicted. Now We Can Calm Down!

The US Has The Biggest Govt In The History Of The World... By A Very Wide Margin

 “The administrative state,” Heritage Foundation President Dr. Kevin Roberts declared in front of the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, “is the greatest threat to democracy in the United States, and we need to end it.” 

 The Top 1% Richest Of the Country Feel That Normal Americans Have Too Much Freedom, and That Meat, Fuel, and Electricity Should Be Strictly Rationed to the Lower Orders

Red States Declaring 'I Am Texacus'

 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza - but not in Chicago

 Trump’s Insults and Rants Mask a Ruthlessly Efficient Campaign

 ‘Europeans Will Succumb to Islam,’ Says Former Intelligence Chief

 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet As the Long Knives REALLY Come Out for Trump

 Who Is Winning the War in Gaza?

 The October 7 'genocide' video evidence in full

Police states always install political officers in organizations. Nazis, communists, etc. I am always reminded of the Political Officer in the Hunt for Red October movie.

Yeah, DEI administrators are political officers. It makes sense for employees to fear them.

Roger Kimball discusses Bill Ackman's "touching naivete" and related issues. 

It's about 140 square miles - the size of many US towns. Maybe 6 million people packed in it.

 Farmers against beavers in Scotland

 REMEMBERING MAO’S CARNIVAL OF HATE

 Fifty-Year-Old Male Who Identifies as a 15-Year-Old Girl Is Welcomed on the Girls' Swim Team

 Most Gen Z lack this workplace skill — and it could cost them a job

 The Harvard DEI complex is stronger than ever

 Public Education's Alarming New 4th 'R': Reversal of Learning

 The Bachelor and The Bachelorette provide evidence for evolutionary theories of partner selection

 How to Slander a Person and Get Away With It, NBC and ADL Edition

  ADL Alerts Law Enforcement to Matt Walsh, Chris Rufo, Libs of TikTok

 The Most Dangerous Conservative

UK Doctor Suspended After Calling Hamas Attack On Israel A "Very Welcome Punch On The Nose"

 NYU Professor Tells Students of Hamas Atrocities: ‘We Know It’s Not True’

 News Host Charles Payne Turns the Tables on Democrat Strategist Jessica Tarlov and Goes Scorched Earth on Joe Biden’s Sick Hatred of Trump Supporters

 Donald Trump's Next Move Should Be a Trip to the Southern Border

 They Are Coming For Your Coffee Now

Not likely 

 Kerry calls for greenie restrictions on farming, or people will starve

In the Biggest Cases, Big Law Tilts Decisively Left

 Have Our Elites Lost The Mandate Of Heaven?

 More Academic Integrity Problems at Harvard

 The shameless campaign to silence Jordan Peterson - The world-famous psychologist is being sent for re-education by his professional body.

 The LA Times Appears to Be in a State of Imminent Collapse

 Nine Democrat Governors Pressure Biden and Congress to Address Border Crisis

 NYPD Police Officer Who Threw Water Cooler at Fleeing Drug Suspect Charged with Manslaughter

 ‘I’d Stay Hidden’: CNN’s Van Jones Urges Biden to Repeat 2020 Basement Campaign

 Why I love the blue-state refugees moving to my red state

 MSNBC Hosts Utterly Melt Down Over Trump's NH Win

 DONALD TRUMP, RACIST?

 ‘Lord Ram Has Arrived’: Indian PM Modi Leads the Consecration of the New Grand Temple, as Hindu Religious Fervor Sweeps the Country

 Israeli Military Now Says It's "Impossible" To Destroy Vast Hamas Tunnel Network

 Hamas Leader: We Reject a Two State Solution. We Demand It All.

  Yale students walk out of class on first day of semester to protest school’s ‘complicity in genocide.’

 Not Just America, Canada is Being Demographically Transformed. Only 9% of Canadians want more immigrants.

 Canada Considering Measures To Limit Migrants Entering The Nation Demanding Asylum

Your brain is hard-wired to avoid exercise. Here's why

 Trust The Science? Fauci Finally Admits Pandemic Errors

 The New Victorians - Cancel Culture is happening on a historic scale, 

 Climahysterics Predict One Foot Of Sea Rise For NYC In Next Decade

 They’re Black Democrats. And They’re Suing Chicago Over Migrants.

 Playwright David Mamet Says ‘Trump Was the Best President Since Abraham Lincoln’

Germany in Decline

Green bell peppers are just unripe red bell peppers.

 American Dependence: The Rise of Single Parenthood. There’s a strong circumstantial case that welfare benefits increased single parenthood to some extent, but to what extent is difficult to nail down using scientifically rigorous methods.

 ADMINISTRATORS — NOT JUST DEI ADMINISTRATORS — ARE THE BIGGEST THREAT TO FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS

 What Do College Administrators Do?

Why can't Americans make chips? 

 Biden finally admits border isn’t secure, believes ‘massive changes’ needed: ‘I’m ready to act’

 Journalist Uncovers "Shadowy Network" Of NGOs Facilitating US Border Invasion

 Infamous ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Tries To Election-Meddle Again — This Time With Federal Tax Dollars

 Heritage Foundation President Dishes Truth to Davos Elites

 'Someone Is Going To Die Today': Did Daniel Penny Act in Self-Defense?

  Cuba's communists blame tiny private sector for their economic mismanagement, hike their taxes 20%

 Adding impact to exercise can keep aging bones strong, research indicates

Duh 

California's attempt at forcing gig workers to become traditional employees backfired by driving many of those workers out of their jobs.

 A professor, vice president, and Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine created a list of groups she claimed are “privileged.”

 "Food Deserts" Rise In Democrat Run Cities As Grocers Leave In Droves

"People are saying it feels like we’re sleepwalking off a cliff... The left is kind of despairing and divided and exhausted...."

 TGIF: TimHouthi Chalamet - Trump sweeps Iowa. Americans riot over a cup. Milei is the talk of Davos. Plus: A lost city, flying cars, and much more.

 VDH: The Hysterical Style In American Politics

... the progressive movement cannot enact its unpopular agendas. So it must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis it can.

 A Conservative Executive Bought the Baltimore Sun Newspaper and the Left is Freaking Out

 Delusional in Davos

 Why the Davos Smart Set Sounds Dumb

 Davos Man had the honor of hearing Jamie Dimon, the CEO of America’s major bank, tell them to cut out the trash talk about Donald Trump.

 Javier Milei Tells World Leaders: 'The State Is Not the Solution'. Speaking at the Davos conference, the Argentine president said the key to prosperity lies in free market ideals and capitalism.

 Israel Destroys Hamas’s Main Weapons Manufacturing Site, Uncovers New Vast Tunnel Network. The IDF: Destroyed Hamas weapons factories were “connected to a tunnel route hundreds of kilometers long.”

 Netanyahu In Blistering Rebuke Of US Post-War Plans: "Israel Will Control Entire Area From The River To The Sea"

 Climate change anxiety: A hidden contributor to prenatal distress in expectant mothers

 Largest Ape Ever Went Extinct Because of... Climate Change?

 The Most Ridiculous 75 Seconds Of Bullshit From Davos Yet On "Ecocide"

 Elections Will Soon Be a Quaint Relic of the Past, Says Globalist Klaus Schwab

 What Books Are Really Getting Banned?

 Doctors protest proposed DEI emphasis in Canadian medical school training

 The Most Florida Man Story Ever

DEI’s Attack Dog - The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting the Biden administration’s sham campaign against “domestic terrorism.”

 Build the Wall - an Interview

 EU President Says Number One Challenge for Global Control Systems in Next Two Years is to Control Information and Speech

 John Kerry Goes Full Davos Totalitarian: No Politician Can Reverse Climate Change Policy

 WEF creeps descend on Davos to ‘rebuild trust’... and subsequently book all the local prostitutes

 A Canadian court ruled against Jordan Peterson on mandated re-education classes 

Federal gummint gets a snow day 

 Courts, The New Campaign Trail

 Why Trump bewilders psychiatrists

 What’s really working for Trump

 Rachel Maddow announced that MSNBC would not be covering Trump’s victory speech, and CNN cut away after just a few minutes of it. Why was that?

 Dems Spend on Pregnant Boys and Worldwide LGBTism

America Works. DEI Doesn’t.

 The Supreme Court could put an end to urban squalor

 JPMorgan CEO and Dem Donor Jamie Dimon Defends Trump and MAGA — Calls Out Democrats for Demonizing Millions of Americans: ‘Democrats Need to Grow Up’

 Will the Supreme Court Finish Trump’s War Against Regulation? The former president made little headway while in office against the administrative state, but the Roberts court is ready to step in.

" Technocrats have long told us what we can and can’t do, what we’re allowed to own, what our kids must learn in school, and so on. For the most part, we never voted for any of that, yet we have gone along docilely, not noticing or not caring or, at best, unwilling to make waves."

 Ultra-Large Structure Discovered in Distant Space Defies Our Current Understanding of the Universe

 Leonard Bernstein Deserved Better Than ‘Maestro’

Doctor Does Actual Biology, Gets Suspended

 Why Gen Z Is Ditching The Girlboss For The Tradwife

 UMich now has more than 500 jobs dedicated to DEI, payroll costs exceed $30 million

 Basically, the average European suffers from high taxes, high prices, tiny homes and cars, and, increasingly, less freedom. But tourists sipping tea in London or shopping in Paris rarely, if ever, see this, or understand it if they do.

 Free Press Investigations Get Results. DEI in retreat. A captured imam is freed. An anti-Israel map is taken down. Plus, Carole Hooven on leaving Harvard, a hostage speaks, and more.

 Trump Triggering the Lefties Never Ceases to Amuse and Entertain

 What Really Happened to George Floyd?

 World Power Politics

 Seventeen-year-old Agam Goldstein-Almog saw Hamas murder her father and sister before her eyes. Then she was taken to Gaza.

“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”

 Martin Luther King Jr.

 Martin Luther King Jr.: The best of America

 How Failing To Butcher Your Child Became “Child Abuse”

 Where Now for Nuclear Power? Despite some major setbacks, the technology remains vital to the nation’s energy future—but the U.S. needs to enact major regulatory and permitting reforms.

 Updates On The March To The Great Green Energy Future

 Massachusetts Officials Pleading with Private Homeowners to Take in Illegal Aliens

 Democrat Jerry Nadler Slammed After Claiming ‘Many Illegal Immigrants’ Needed To Pick Vegetables

 Biden: “If My Republican Colleagues Don’t Fund Ukraine, They’re Gonna Have an Awful Lot to Pay For”

 Lawfare Against Trump Is Running Out of Gas. Prosecutors are discovering that the more they seek to rush to judgment before the election and gag Trump from speaking publicly about these proceedings, the more he rises in the polls.

 Is ‘Trump is Hitler’ the best Biden’s got? Three years into his presidency, Joe Biden has nothing to offer voters apart from anti-Trump hysteria.

 Porch Pirates Are a Big Security Problem in Canada, so the Police Are Acting Swiftly… To Protect the Privacy of the Thieves!

 Taiwan’s political future is uncertain. Voters can’t escape the psychodrama between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China

Taiwan will be China one day

Nathan:  How could I not tell you about Be'eri's buried?

 Finnish Politician Räsänen Again Facing Demands For Prosecution Over Quoting Bible

Stuart quotes a bunch from Bret Stephens, a seemingly "moderate" who dislikes Donald Trump.  Lots of people dislike Trump's adolescent, hyperbolic blowhard side. At the same time, he did a darn good job.

Ad hominem sets in when policy discussions fail to persuade. I am old enuf to remember Nixon/Hitler, Reagan/Hitler, and Bush/Hitler.

One quote:

 Public services paid by taxes exist for people who live here, not just anyone who makes his way into the country by violating its laws. A job market is structured by rules and regulations, not just an endless supply of desperate laborers prepared to work longer for less. A national culture is sustained by common memories, ideals, laws and a language — which newcomers should honor, adopt and learn as a requirement of entry. It isn’t just a giant arrival gate for anyone and everyone who wants to take advantage of American abundance and generosity.

 It said something about the self-deluded state of Western politics when Trump came on the scene that his assertion of the obvious was treated as a moral scandal, at least by the stratum of society that had the least to lose from mass migration. To millions of other Americans, his message, however crudely he may have expressed it, sounded like plain common sense.

Why are American pedestrians getting run over so much more often than a decade and a half ago?

A few simple tips: Look both ways, assume drivers are distracted or drunk, and quit crossing a road at night wearing black. 

Florida Man fun 

 Social Distancing ‘Sort of Just Appeared’

 The Orwellian Assault On The Past Continues

 Among the most shocking aspects of the current political scene is the fact that the American and the British left has been exposed as misogynistic, anti-Semitic and homophobic. 

 One of the few remaining Sears stores is closing

 This Is San Francisco

 Democrats: We Need Illegals to Do Menial Tasks

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 How Democrats Sold Out The Working Class - The Democratic Party is being gentrified into oblivion

Fanigate Goes Full Jerry Springer

The Root Cause Of Academic Groupthink

 Former Stanford President Retracts "Ground-Breaking" Alzheimer's Paper

 Why DEI Regime Cries Victim in Harvard-Claudine Gay Scandal

" It looks to me as though colleges are doing a lot to discourage young people from learning. The mission of lifelong learning is a higher mission than social justice activism. Colleges took a wrong turn when they focused on social justice activism."

 National Public Radio is a sandbox for the Left. The "news" there is manufactured by leftists, for leftists

 Dr. Anthony Fauci Cannot ‘Recall’ Much About COVID Origins, Pandemic Responses. Fauci, who can’t remember the origins of the “6 feet” rule of social distancing, now says the lab leak origin is credible.

 TGIF: This Means War - The pope comes out against surrogacy. Harvard dismisses its own extension school. Florida cuts the dictionary. Palestine activists object to your morning commute. Plus: Iraq!

  16K Chinese Migrants Apprehended by Border Patrol Since October

 "Futile Waste Of Human Resources & Money" - EU PM Says West Got Ukraine All Wrong

Canada: Who is Paul Poilievre? 

Watch his quick interview while he munches an apple

" English-speaking readers around the world were meant to understand that Zionists were genocidal and racist settler-colonialists who deployed Nazi methods in the service of global imperialism, while suppressing the anti-colonial national-liberation struggle of the Palestinian people." 

 Why Apology Matters

DNA from ancient Europeans reveals surprising multiple sclerosis origins

 Scottish Parents Who Refuse To Let Their Kids Go Trans Could Face 7 Years In Prison

TNR: The Right Is Winning Its War on Schools - Using bogus scandals and funding crunches, Republicans across the country are decimating public education.

The "right," or parents? 

 A new analysis of studies casts doubt on the systemic-racism narrative in criminal sentencing. the systemic-racism narrative in criminal sentencing.

 Mandating Too Many Women In Science?

 Elon Musk Calls for Greater Election Security and Voter ID: ‘This is Insane’

 Michelle Obama ‘Terrified’ Over 2024 Presidential Election

 Hunter’s Art Dealer Contradicts White House Claims Over Art Sales

Duh 

About That Red Sea Deterrence - Largest, Most Complex Houthi Attack to Date Launched Last Night

Biden's Refusal to Designate Houthis As Terrorists Sparks Blowback From Military Leaders

Why Does No One Protest The Ongoing Slaughter Of Christians By Muslims In Nigeria?

The deafening, disgusting silence of women’s groups on Hamas rapes continues

 How the right amount of caffeine unlocks lifelong benefits for your body and mind

 ‘The Sopranos,’ now 25, is the ultimate TV series about America — not the Italian mob

Was one if not the only TV series I've watched. Amazing series 

 Authentic rehabilitation of criminals: A psychiatrist’s view

 'Plant-Based Peanut Butter' Is a Thing People Buy, and I Can't Stop Laughing

 Survey Finds Only a Tiny Fraction of Voters in Swing States Care About Biden’s Signature Issue of Climate Change

 A Professor Quits MIT. China’s Bullying Goes Global. Haley Surges.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

 The real reason people are flocking to red states - State and local Republicans actually do a pretty good job of what those at the national level promise

 Why and Where the Working Class Turned Right - A new book documents the lost (and pro-Democratic) world of Pennsylvania steelworkers and how it became Republican.

Turned "right"?  What is "right"?

 "I don’t quite understand all of these Democrats who say Trump is an existential threat to decency, democracy and maybe life on the planet and then..."

 Biden Lashes Out at the Half of the Country That Refuses to Vote for Him. His speech on Jan. 5 left no room for doubt. It’s your choice: Democrats or chaos.

 Ray Epps Dodges Prison Sentence - Gets Probation, Community Service For Telling J6ers To Go "Into The Capitol"

Agent provocateur?

 African Migrants: 'Getting into the United States is certain'

 ‘This Is Not Normal’: Tens Of Thousands Of Chinese Nationals Cross Border Illegally In Matter Of Months

 NYC High School Students Go Remote Tomorrow as Their School is Used to House Migrants Overnight

Jacobin:  The Reactionary Jargon of Decoloniality

How Justin Trudeau lost his grip - The prime minister’s bleak reality: Canadians don’t like him anymore.

 Academics called breastfeeding 'ethically problematic' because it endorses 'gender roles.' 

 TikTok Doctor Says "It's Okay To Be Fat" And Obesity Should Be "Normalized"

 The ‘Obesity Is a Disease’ Pharma Hustle

 The Misguided War on the SAT - Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows.

 Education Dept. investigates university for condemning Oct. 7 Hamas attack

VDH:  A Culture in Collapse - American civilization has been turned upside down, and we have a rendezvous soon with the once unthinkable and unimaginable.

Re The NYT:  Lights Out in America - The cowardice at America’s most important liberal publications is damaging democracy.

 UN Demands $150 Trillion to End Bad Weather

 GAS KEEPS THE LIGHTS ON

 Apparently, houseplants now contribute to climate change

 The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part XXXI

Afrochemistry 

 Joe Biden’s ‘January 6th’ speech is nothing more than a rant against Donald Trump

People whose politics do not fit into slots 

Have the Billions Donated for ‘Racial Equity’ Made Any Difference?

 4 Ways The BLM And Antifa Riots Were Worse Than January 6

 The reparations movement is having another moment

 Mexican President Demands Joe Biden Grant at Least 10 Million Hispanics Legal Status in US and $20 Billion to Latin America in Exchange for Assistance on the US Border

The Threat of Free Speech, Yesterday and Today

Free thought is mainly a threat to governments and the power-seeking 

 Human brain is superior and more efficient than artificial intelligence, scientists say

 'To Make A Snowflake'

Bari Weiss:  Going Pantsless? An Economic Boom? World War III? Our Predictions for 2024

 The Free Press Goes to the Movies - Grab the popcorn and get ready for awards season, as our team gives you the score on Maestro, May December, Poor Things, Priscilla, Napoleon and more.

 IT’S ALWAYS JANUARY 6 SOMEWHERE

Sheesh - evil rebels 

In The New York Times, "Colonialism" Explains Everything

 The Southern Poverty Law Center’s New Enemy: Americans Who Accept Biology. A new SPLC propaganda document claims to ‘expose’ a vast ‘Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network’ that’s supposedly targeting trans people.

 Al Sharpton defense of Claudine Gay is pure race hustle

" Gay’s inexplicable rise and quite explicable fall illustrate, in a difficult-to-misinterpret fashion, the plain grift that is the DEI industry."

 Unrepentant DEI at MIT - The diversity ideology marches on at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 WaPo Reporter Who Was Schooled by Ramaswamy Does Exactly What He Said She Would

 Study Found No ‘Extremism’ Problem in the Military, Despite Biden Administration’s Narrative

 Black Chicagoans Vowing to ‘Make Chicago Red’ as Migrant Crisis Roils Windy City

 Eric Adams Suing Bus Companies Bringing Migrants From Texas to NYC. Boohoo. Cry me a river, Mayor. You wanted to be a sanctuary city. You face nothing compared to what Texas deals with on a daily basis.