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

From naivete to skepticism. Likeable fellow:

 LOST EGYPTIAN CITY FOUND UNDERWATER AFTER 1200 YEARS

Is "Farm to Table" real? 

 The MSM is experiencing COVID nostalgia and keeps trying to simultaneously drum up fear while suppressing any of the growing questions about the censorship, lies, and dangerously stupid policies that the “experts” imposed on us.

 Amazon Makes Sweeping Overhauls Of Grocery Business To Compete With Walmart, Kroger

 The Problem with Modelling

 Doctors Sue California Regulators over Mandatory Implicit Bias Training for Physicians

 Brave University of Chicago student speaks out against the leftist war on whites

 UC faculty lead 'behind-the-scenes protest' over new equity-based math admissions requirements

 NY mayor to move 80 illegal alien adults to a popular family-friendly park in Brooklyn

 The Obama Factor - A Q&A with historian David Garrow

The Nation will not be happy until Trump is in jail

 ‘He’d Get My Vote. He’d Get My Vote Before Biden” – Joe Rogan Discusses Trump, Biden, and the Dangers of The Deep State

 US soldiers seen liberating thousands of Jews from Nazi train: Found video

 Senator Chris Murphy has proposed combating widespread loneliness in the country by creating a National Office of Loneliness.

Heat Pumps don't work in cold weather

 This is one of the stupidest articles I have ever seen on climate change

 There Is A Financial Crisis Brewing In Offshore Wind Energy

 Why the diversity-industrial complex bubble burst

  How the Left's obsession with wokery and race is turning New York into a crime-ravaged, drug-infested nightmare

 Catholic trade school forges ahead despite obstacles

If true, naval attack drones are tough 

 TGIF: Everyone’s a Fraud - Joe Biden. Dick Cheney. Taco Bell. The Trudeaus. People who hate the ‘Barbie’ movie. Oh yeah, and Donald Trump.

 Hunter Biden raked in millions during "summer of debauchery

"Not illegal, is it?

 Victor Davis Hanson: Two Sets Of Laws For Two Americas

Prof Jacobson re Trump: " That’s a perfectly good reason not to vote for somebody. But that doesn’t mean it’s a crime. And I think the criminalization of politics is a very negative trend in our society."

Powerline: " In sum, the indictment does not make out a case that Trump is a criminal who should go to prison. But it does make out a strong case that Trump is a dishonest egomaniac with terrible judgment who should never again be entrusted with a responsible government position."

Well, he is an immature jerk but he did a fine job as President 

 How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

 FINALLY! First new nuclear reactor in more than 30 years comes online

 A Racist Smear. A Tarnished Career. And the Suicide of Richard Bilkszto.

 The Medical Establishment Has Succumbed to Gender Madness 

 Being Drunk Excuses Crashing Semi

 Incandescent Light-Bulb Ban Started On August 1; Gas-Stove Ban Coming Next

 Nobel scientist’s speech canceled after criticizing climate alarmists

 Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Produce A Crippling Decline In Human Well-Being

 The unexpected pitfalls of work-from-home parenthood - For all its benefits, the practice can be a double-edged sword — especially for moms.

 America’s Failing Schools

 Study Huge Numbers Of Kids Permanently Damaged By Lockdowns

 UMich, NIH to spend nearly $80 million as part of ‘DEI 2.0’

 Workers to Employers: We’re Just Not That Into You. In the postpandemic economy, we’re living more and working less

Columbia Law Schools Tried to End-Run the Affirmative Action Ruling

Reynolds: Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone. Thoughts on education, age segregation, and politics

 Our Ongoing Cultural Revolution

 The Culture of Transgression - Our antinomian elite’s war against tradition has become a war against the working class

 US Economy Braces For Chaos As $1.5 Trillion Student-Loan Pause Ends

 Central Park among NYC areas considered to house migrants: ‘Everything is on the table'

RFK Jr was compulsive womanizer 

That is news? 

 Anything Democrats Don’t Like Is Now A ‘Threat To Democracy’

 Indicting Trump for political schemes overshadows the actual bad things in politics

 Not everything that’s bad in politics is illegal – especially in a country that has the First Amendment.

 Another Troubling Trump Indictment - Special counsel Jack Smith’s broad theory of fraud has dangerous implications.

 Special Counsel Jack Smith Has Done the Job He Was Hired to Do

 "Until it is proved otherwise, I will find it extremely hard to believe that the president was a party to his son’s nefarious schemes."

At Powerline.  I understand the crossing of the Rio Grande illegally, but how did all of those Africans get to NYC? Strange.

The Roosevelt, next to Grand Central Terminal, used to be a hotel. 

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

 It’s the Year of Universal School Choice, but Barriers Remain. Despite growing momentum, restrictions hinder full access to educational options.

 ‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work

 Where woke math goes to die

" The scientists we previously trusted are increasingly abandoning science and replacing it with leftist ideological dictates."

 The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Starts Today

 Does it seem as though every news story lately is on climate doom?

 New IPCC chief: stop with the apocalypse talk

 Climate protestors are on everyone's last nerve

 "Think of the Implications of Publishing", A whistleblower shares shocking details of corruption of peer review in climate science

 Companies With Good ESG Scores Pollute Just As Much As Those With Low Ones, New Analysis Finds

 Where Have You Gone Woodward and Bernstein?

 It’s Year 5 Of The Biden Crime Family Coverup

" At this point, it’s getting a little ridiculous and frankly, transparent, as to how hard the Biden administration seems to be working to try to take Trump out of the race with lawfare and indictments..."

In 2019, President Donald Trump was impeached for raising the issue of a potential corruption scandal involving Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Burisma. 

 Are You My Momager?

 The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church

 How Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.

 Diesel Generators Used to Charge Electric Garbage Trucks

 Transgender America Fights Back - From sanctuary states to the courts, lawyers and political allies resist Republican bans on transgender care for minors

Banks were suspicious  of the Bidens 

 As Oakland Slides Into Chaos, Its District Attorney Fights For Criminals

An Impoverished Europe

 Man who spent $14K to transform himself into collie steps out for first-ever walk in public

" . In the U.S., the EPA’s own ‘Heat Wave Index’ for the continental states shows that the 1930s was by far the hottest decade of the last century.”

 Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.

 The Return of MDMA - Some doctors are itching to prescribe ecstacy again. How do we avoid the regulatory mistakes of the '80s?

Neuroscientists shed new light on the roots of interpersonal neural synchrony during social interactions

 Scrappy local paper takes on San Francisco's homeless-industrial complex

 What History Teaches Us About the Importance of Academic Freedom - This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.

 How big tech and big money made our schools go woke

 Does Ukraine really have a neo-Nazi problem? US officials won’t say

" By allowing Ukraine to get involved in a conflict with Russia, Zelensky committed one of the greatest lunacies that can be perpetrated by a head of state. "

Boris Johnson on Barbie 

Politics of Autism 

Bummer: It’s Not Your Fault For The Summer Heat Wave

 A century of climate change and media alarmism

 Our schools are not OK

WEF advisor: COVID is a model for making change

Emails show the NYT got played by COVID ‘experts’

 Emails Show Fauci Knew From A 2020 Federalist Article That Masking Was Ineffective But Demanded It Anyway

 The Real Cost of an Open Border: How Americans are Paying the Price

Hunter Biden story is MAGA propaganda 

 The Bidens: "Stone Cold Crooked" 

  Biden-Harris Regime DENY Secret Service Protection for RFK Jr

The Nation:  The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement With UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workers. But the working class needs much more. And these moments when workers have huge strategic power in a tight labor market are fleeting.

 Harm City - Crime-ridden, dysfunctional Baltimore desperately needs new leadership—and more cops.

It feels good to me. There are only about 10 days/year when I do not hear somebody bitch about weather. New England.

" There are two classes in the Climate Cult: The Grifter Elites and the Brainwashed Faithful."

Sexy song:

Is Taylor Swift really Barbie?

 Scholars and activists in the field of fat studies do not believe that there is an obesity-related health crisis at all.

Well, everything is a "crisis", right? 

 DEI director fired for rejecting ‘toxic racist ideologies’ files wrongful termination lawsuit

Govt and scientists lied about the lab leak 

Governments lie

 E.U. Law Threatens Free Speech, Online Groups Say. The E.U.’s Digital Services Act will encourage censorship around the world and even in the U.S.

 TGIF: The ‘X’ Files

Why did Elon kill Twitter? How did Hunter Biden get rich off his art? Who put the Nazi symbol in DeSantis’s ad? Are aliens among us? The truth is in here…

 ‘Gender Clinics’ Shutting Down Due to Red State Bans

 California’s new math

Bud Light To Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees In Wake Of Disastrous Pro-Trans Marketing

Have to feel bad for them 

Baltimore update 

Sad 

 San Francisco Mayor: We Should ‘Get Rid of Most Taxes’ to Attract Businesses

  New York Post Editor Details Coordinated Social Media Censorship Of Biden Family Corruption

Why do so many people appear to want a government to determine what is true?  Strange, especially in the USA.

As American-bred, I never trust government. Government is another special interest group. Government people lie all the time, for their greater good.