Maggie's Farm

Give thanks: The world has actually gotten a lot better

 Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason

Cannibalism in South Africa

Thinking about moral licensing 

A mini ice age could be on the way and it’s going to get very, very cold

Is discussion of gender differences sexual harassment? 

Amazon Chose DC And NYC Because That’s Where The Childless Workaholics Live - The retail conglomerate has a notoriously brutal reputation for what it expects from its employees.

 PRESCHOOL: MUCH MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW

 Texas university: 'Toxic masculinity' 'plagues' society

 Ohio State student group: Ben Shapiro's words can 'threaten' 'mental safety'

From 1989:  U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

 Audit Cites Flaws In Costly California Bullet Train Project

Duh 

 THE RICH TURN TO THE DEMOCRATS

"During the Cold War, being a conservative was a moral cause. You were fighting Communist tyranny — aligned with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Lech Walesa..." "But you were somewhat marginalized in your own society. Liberals controlled the universities, the news media, the cultural high ground, so the right attracted many people with outsider personalities....

 FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE SENDS DEM VOTER FRAUD CHARGES TO FEDS

 MARCO RUBIO BOMBSHELL: Democrats Planned Voter Fraud Day After Midterm Election — And There’s Proof

 Dems in Florida Will Keep Counting Votes Until They Get the Result They Want

 Why the Brexit chaos has only just begun

 60% Of Italians Think EU Is Bad For Italy

Whitetail hunting in 1810

A brief Art History Timeline: Western Art Movements and Their Impact

Fashions come and go. All fun to look at. 

 Widow's and widower's Social Security Benefits in the US

 Mercury Intelligent Heated Jacket

Good grief 

 Homeless man and N.J. couple concocted story for GoFundMe fundraiser, prosecutor says

What Chico is doing for Paradise 

The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse than People Think

 Mountain of evidence shows the Department of Education’s prior approach to campus sexual assault was ‘widely criticized’ and ‘failing’

Not from The Onion: Can we "decolonize" space exploration? 

 Filmmaker Ami Horowitz: The Caravan is ‘Highly Organized,’ ‘Paid for by a Number of Organizations’

 Melania to Michelle Obama: Don’t Need Your Advice, I’m an ‘Independent Woman’

 Hillary Clinton Is History

 FEDERAL COURT SAYS CLINTON MUST ANSWER MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT HER EMAILS

It's all about her yoga sched, but can you image her in yoga? Or in yoga pants?

 France Has Neither Nationalism nor Patriotism

 College library: Thanksgiving a '#NationalDayofMourning'

Why can't people see that the Pilgrims were immigrants fleeing oppression?

 D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together

What UK Parents Are Doing About Today’s ‘Oppressive’ School System

 Anonymous professors attack colleague behind ‘grievance studies’ hoax as threat to university

 Men behind ‘Conceptual Penis’ hoax say academe trades respectability for ideological crusades

Humans Are Genetically Predisposed to Kill Each Other

Humans: Unusually Murderous Mammals, Typically Murderous Primates

Tourism pressures: Five places tackling too many visitors

"Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth's oceans are warming faster than previously thought now say their work contained inadvertent errors..."

 Coldest Temperature On Earth Recorded In Antarctica

 Amazon HQ2 Decision Provides Yet More Insights Into The Progressive Brain

Atlantic: Amazon’s HQ2 Will Only Worsen America’s ‘Great Divergence’ - In today’s economy, well-off people live in big cities, while everyone else gets pushed out. Bringing new Amazon offices to Virginia and New York could hasten the process.

So good jobs are a bad thing? 

 HOW GOOGLE AND AMAZON GOT AWAY WITH NOT BEING REGULATED

Is There a Charity “Crisis”? No—liberals would just prefer that the rich gave less and were taxed more.

Trump’s Trade Warrior - Meet Peter Navarro, the madman behind the president’s “madman theory” of global trade negotiation.

Hardball is working 

 It’s true that on the House side, Democratic gains were almost exclusively in the suburbs. But that’s no small thing. 

 Bob Woodward Is Right: The Press Is 'Emotionally Unhinged' About Trump

 No blue wave, but a tsunami of hate

 Arizona Illustrates the RINO Revenge

 Trump to nominate Neomi Rao to replace Brett Kavanaugh on D.C. Circuit

Judge Rao and  Regulating the Regulators

Trump Endorses 'First Step Act' Criminal Justice Reform Measure

What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

GE Is Now Trading Like Junk

I blame Immelt 

America Fails at Fitness

One British Company Wants To Implant Microchips Into "Hundreds Of Thousands" Of Global Workers

Into themselves, too?  You go first.

Do you struggle to control your sexual urges? 

The Aussie gal who started the site Quillette 

 Dutch doctor faces first euthanasia prosecution

 Migrant Caravans Are the Tip of an Iceberg

 They’re Here!!! Caravan Migrants Reach US Border at San Diego, Climb Fence

 Ocasio-Cortez Is Upset World's Most Valuable Company Is Investing In NYC

What??? 

 NYC shouldn’t be begging for Amazon’s new jobs

Well, every city in the country wanted the Amazon HQ - but Amazon probably wanted to be in NYC anyway. So they had an auction of sorts.

 Democrats: ‘Cruel and Unscientific’ to Define Legal Sex by Biology

 Camille Paglia: It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World

"But on a trip to Europe, the president hardly said a word — and he still managed to outrage at almost every turn."

Maybe it's time to rebrand the Democrats as the party of the rich.

 Great minds think alike: Pope Francis Asks to See Michael Moore in Private and Tells Him that "Capitalism is a sin"

 Marco Rubio Reveals Broward and Palm Beach Counties’ Strategy to Steal the Election

 GOOD NEWS: House Democrats have readied more than 84 subpoenas to gridlock government and attack your President

An opportunity to throw a few coins to the now-homeless Gerard Vanderleun 

How five pals turned ‘Sex Island’ into a raunchy tourism empire for the rich

 Thought Crime at Victoria’s Secret

 Like explaining colors to a blind man - A color-blind one, that is.

Sudden illumination. We can all use those experiences.

 Less than a third of Americans, and only one in five teenagers, meet new physical fitness guidelines issued by the federal government 

 Fish, omega-3 may lower heart attack risk, studies find

Or this:  Vitamin D And Fish Oil Supplements Mostly Disappoint In Long-Awaited Research Results

 Lack of sunspots to bring record cold, warns NASA scientist

 Warmists Are Suddenly Coming Out In Favor Of Nuclear Power

 Surprise: Camp Fire Wildfire Not Caused By Your Use Of A Fossil Fueled Vehicle

 FACEBOOK FIRED VIRTUAL REALITY PIONEER FOR SUPPORTING TRUMP

 University of Texas says ‘meritocratic’ hiring is a ‘problem’

 FAKE RACIST HATE CRIMES NOW AN ANNUAL TRADITION AT KANSAS STATE

 UW mandates diversity training after professor pens article on 'sex differences'

 For Army Infantry’s 1st Women, Heavy Packs and the Weight of History

 What Does It Mean That There Is "No Evidence" To Support An Accusation?

PAGLIA:

 Wives returning from work to an apartment or house are expecting their husbands to fulfill all the emotional and conversational needs that were once fulfilled by other women of multiple generations throughout the agrarian workday in the fields or at home (where the burdens of childcare and eldercare were group shared). 

"If you are over the age of forty, one of the remarkable things to happen in your lifetime is the collapse of Buckley Conservatism. " 

Will Trump be the Last Republican President?

 Carlson Details Ugly Encounter With Avenatti's Latest Client, So Avenatti Posts Statement Attacking Carlson And His Kids

 THE WASHINGTON POST IS A PARTISAN RAG, CRITICS SAY

  1,282 out of 1,762 New Votes That Magically Appeared This Weekend in Georgia Went to Stacey Abrams

Provisional Ballot Boxes Discovered Inside AVIS Rental Car At Ft. Lauderdale Airport

 What Macron got wrong while lecturing Trump

Staring at boobs is just one of six easy ways men can live longer

 Why Can't Psychedelics (and Other Drugs) Just Be for Fun?

 Supermum Sue Radford is celebrating the birth of her 21st baby and says it ‘will be her LAST’ after 12-minute labour

 On Veterans Day, an open letter to my children on appreciating American patriots

 Religious Coalition For Reproductive Choice Holds ‘Blessing Service’ For New Abortion Clinic

Dalrymple:  Away, then, with your self-esteem, your true self and your authenticity, and all the bogus desiderata of modern psychology.

How Immigration Changes Britain

Harvard's Racist Diversity

Fired Oberlin College Prof. Joy Karega, who spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, sues for discrimination

 Conservative professor mulls defamation suit against Penn for saying she made up black student stats

LI:  Delusions of Diversity Week in Higher Education

Racists for voting for the hispanic guy 

 Caravan Decides: It’s California Or Bust

 The Always-Gloomy American Left

When liberals move to red states for jobs and lower taxes 

In New Hampshire, they term the Massachusetts immigrants "Massholes" 

 HAVE YOU NOTICED THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A LATE-FOUND VOTE-HOARD THAT GIVES VICTORY TO REPUBLICANS?

“No big deal. They’re just stealing an election right in front of our faces”

 Here We Go… Georgia Democrat Party Says Thousands of New “Absentee, Early, and Election Day Votes” Were Just Discovered in Several Counties

Russia Russia:  WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED SO FAR

 WSJ Calls It: Hillary Will Run Again In 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron: ‘Nationalism is Treason’

Maybe he forgot what his job was 

Our internet friend Gerard Vanderleun got out of Paradise just in time, seemingly with a laptop and the clothes on his back. He reports he got to his Mom's house in Chico.

Some video from the Camp Fire in Paradise. 

It's the second time smoke and horror have driven him from his home, if you recall his writings from Brooklyn Heights about 9-11. He was done with The Hive after that horror.

I wonder what it's like to lose your home, your neighborhood, your town, and everything you own.  I'm sure he will let us know because he likes to write.

Our best wishes to Gerard. 

 Coffee Is Awesome for Your Health, Says Longest-Running Study Ever

What the Beatles Sounded Like Unedited - Fifty years after its debut, The White Album has been reissued to include demos and sessions, giving listeners a wider lens through which to examine the seminal work from the band.

Vanderleun: I am outta here 

You can't say "Long time no see" anymore 

 Major Math Error Puts Widely-Cited Global Warming Study On Ice

Hold the Rush to Get Rid of Paper Textbooks

DARTMOUTH NIGHTMARE - It’s worse than you might think.

 College offers space to 'process' 'stressful' midterm election results

 China Infiltrates American Campuses

Tucker Carlson On Antifa: ‘They Were Threatening My Family To Get Me To Stop Talking’

 Jerry Nadler’s Loose Lips Reveal Democrat Strategy To Damage The Trump Administration

CITIZENSHIP AND CHOICE - How our current immigration system is a political scam.

Breaking=> Brenda Snipes Misses Deadline—Won´t Turn Over Ballots!–GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Is Filing Contempt of Court Against Snipes

Florida, again: A warning about mail-in and early voting

Florida: Counters caught filling out blank ballots 

 Hezbollah has more firepower than ‘95 percent of world’s conventional militaries,’ warns report

 Endorsing Dead People Is a Shrewd Political Strategy

 It's Time for Congress to Acknowledge the Collapse of Pot Prohibition

 University drops hiring requirement in order to increase faculty diversity

The old bumpersticker: When all else fails, lower your standards 

Jeff Sessions and  IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES

 Jeff Sessions is not a bad guy.  It's just that he is not nor was he prepared to be an executive.  He stumbled out of the gate and did not have the balance to recover.

 Progressives: White Women Need Accountability And ‘A Lot Of Learning’ After Failing To Vote Uniformly For Left-Wing Candidates

Leftist Mob Shows Up At Tucker Carlson´s Home: ´You Are Not Safe´

 The Shameful Election Coverage by Fox News

 Ted Cruz Won, But The Blood Is In The Water In Texas, And Democrats Smell It

 In the Senate, Democratic Fears Have Come to Pass

Trump Jabs Republicans Who Lost: 'Mia Love Gave Me No Love'

Admit it - Trump can be a terrible dick. I always liked Mia 

 The election was determined by the perception of character, and very little appeared to be about policy or agenda. 

The elections: pretty much as predicted and what I expected. No Blue Wave.

But,  Trump Makes History By Adding Seats to GOP Senate Majority in His First Midterm Election

NR:

 While conservatives have much reason to be encouraged by the Senate results, the bottom line is that the balance of power has shifted tonight, and now the Democrats decisively control one half of one branch of government, a part of the government with considerable power. Don’t be surprised if they use it as aggressively as they can against Donald Trump. 

THE KEY TO A LONG LIFE HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH ‘GOOD GENES’

The story behind Me and Bobby McGee

Note that Bobby was a gal 

 Why won’t liberals admit their homeless policies don’t work?

 Millennial Men Failing To Find Jobs Amid Hottest Market In Decades

 New Jersey Flirts With Requiring Dog Groomers to Obtain a License

 D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together

 Girl Scouts in lawsuit claim Boy Scouts will ‘marginalize’ them by rebranding

 Long Island City To Offer Amazon Huge Tax Incentives

Is that fair to regular people? 

 TEXAS ELECTION WORKERS: WE'VE GOT A LOT OF ILLEGAL ALIENS VOTING

 Xinjiang: China's Muslim camp spending 'revealed'

 SHIN BET HEAD: ISRAEL THWARTED 480 PALESTINIAN TERROR ATTACKS IN PAST YEAR

Image via Pirate 

 The “Red Zone” In France Is So Dangerous that 100 Years After WWI It Is Still A No-Go Area

 College softball players to undergo diversity training for ‘insensitive’ Halloween costumes

What if we all stop apologizing? 

The Emperor’s Woke Clothes - How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?

 A Racial Shakedown in Portland

Google Goes Hard Left

It is for political protection. Cuz Big Corporations are evil, right? 

Amazon Said To Pick Long Island City As Second Headquarters

LIC, a once-industrial area of the western tip of Queens, is no longer cheap. I've been there. Some excellent bistros and high-rise luxury apartments. 20 years ago, that was unimaginable. If this happens, all those Amazonians will not be able to afford NYC. They will need to commute from Long Island.

 False Rape Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh Prove That Due Process Matters

 Vote GOP to end war on your men

 Beto O'Rourke Breaks Leftist Hearts, Announces He Won't Run For President In 2020

 Dilbert on Trump

Adams' concept of the "talent stack" is a good one. It helps me understand many things. What is my Talent Stack, and how does it effect my life? (Being a basically positive guy, he never talks about anybody's Weakness Stack which is also a major factor in life.) I also like his distinction between people who order their lives by "systems" and those who use "goals."  He thinks systems work better. I had never thought of that. I think he might be correct. It does apply to fitness programs.

When voting, remember Trump is Hitler 

 H’WOOD’S CLOSING ARGUMENT: WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

 We Already Know Who Lost The Midterms. We All Did.

How Far Have the Democrats Moved to the Left? Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get lots of attention, but the most significant shift is among voters, not candidates.

 Pro Wrestling Explains Why Trump Wins Every Battle With The Media

He's the PT Barnum of politics 

 Trump won because college-educated Americans are out of touch

"Why is (almost) nobody talking about Trump-Russia collusion? I'm ok either way, I just would like to know..."

Hey Michigan: John James is a star 

 There are currently at least four caravans marching to the US southern border with Mexico.

 Louis Farrakhan Visits Iran, calls for ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’

Toon above via Theo 

 Crafty Caterpillar Mimics Snake When Threatened

That Rat Cellphone Study – I’m Still Not Impressed

 RNAi Rollercoaster Begins to Reap Therapies

 Washington, D.C.'s New Biblical Museum Is a Winner for Jews and Christians

Sarah Lawrence Prof pens Op-Ed about lack of intellectual diversity, social justice warriors want him driven off campus

 2nd Kavanaugh Accuser Admits She Lied; Referred For Criminal Prosecution; Kamala's Office Involved

Jane Fonda SEEKS NEW SCRIPTWRITERS

Bloomberg: Climate Change Will Cause US Cities to be Overrun by Rats

 Warmists and Skeptics Should Agree That This is The Real Scandal in Climate Science

"The mystery of Donald Trump is what impels him to overturn the usual rules. Is it a dark sort of cunning or simple defects of character?"

Both. He is a natural politician. Character flaws seem to go with that. Plus he has dragon energy (11 rallies in 5 days!) 

"[T]he caravan was organized through social media in Honduras, initially planned as one of many such caravans that have left Central American in recent years."

Caravan splits up, rips Mexico for directing migrants toward ´route of death´

Via Insty:

... if the fact your country is poorer than the US qualifies you as refugees who cannot be turned away (really?) then we’ll have the entire world here.  That’s fine.  We’ll move en mass and found the US elsewhere.  Hey, there’s a ton more natural resources further south.  They can have our land.  We’ll take theirs  Within ten years, they’d be wanting in to our place again.  Easier if we just tell them to take  a hike…. in the other direction.

' I’ll Never Be the Same’: My Ukrainian Wife’s First Trip to the United States

Wonderful 

BLAMING SCHOOLS FOR THE “ACHIEVEMENT GAP” IS FOOLISH AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE

Governments Will Have To “Nudge” People To Eat Less Meat Or We’re All Doomed

 Woman who claimed Brett Kavanaugh raped her now says she made the whole thing up

A “news” story - NYT, not an opinion piece but front page “news”

October Payrolls Surge By 250K, Smashing Expectations As Wage Growth Soars

Trump is making Streisand fat 

Why Aren’t Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms?

 WERE OVER 10% OF MUSLIMS IN 1 BRITISH CITY IN GROOMING GANG?

But the magic words "I want asylum" trump all else. US immigration policies are set-ups for scamming. Everybody knows that.

Border official: three-quarters of migrants in the caravan are adult men

'Migrant Caravan' Members Sue Trump Over 'Shockingly Unconstitutional' Asylum Crackdown

 Tucker Carlson: Establishment Siding With Foreigners Over Its Own People, That Tells You Everything

Chart of sizes of world economies via Zero Hedge 

The Women Of Google Are Walking Out. Guess Why

I can't watch this sort of thing either 

Against factory-model schools 

 Dartmouth prof: 'If we don't abolish capitalism, capitalism will abolish us'

Guess what - no capitalism, no Dartmouth 

 New York Times Editorial Calls for Replacement of Whites

Racists 

 In These Outlier Congressional Districts, Density Doesn’t Equal Democrats

 OPINION: JANICE ROGERS BROWN — THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AMERICA NEEDS

 O’Keefe Strikes Again! Gillum Campaign Admits They Have to Lie About Who They Are, ‘Florida is a F*cked Up Cracker State’

Amusing brief video:  TRUMP IS FINISHED, BECAUSE THE MEDIA SAY SO!

 TRUMP RELEASES 'CLOSING' AD PROMISING HARD LINE BORDER STANCE, SETS OFF MEDIA FIRESTORM

"The utterance of “credible fear” and other “magic words” by migrants triggers protocols of U.S. asylum law that require adjudication before a court. The years-long process of adjudication poses a further problem for authorities when it comes to detention of these migrants, particularly those who arrive as part of a family unit."

How could anyone — even a not-very-bright person — imagine that granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens is actually in our Constitution?

If you are a Trump-hater, tell me what in this interview you feel is so hateable:

 Chocolate: Origins of delicacy pushed back in time

Rewriting Tangled up in Blue 

 Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal

 Food magazine editor resigns after joking about "killing vegans, one by one".

 Law of Self Defense: Using Your Gun to Defend Your Car — Just Don’t

 More On The "Morality" Of Throwing Money At The Problem Of Homelessness

 Don Lemon: “The Biggest Terror Threat in This Country Is White Men, Most of Them Radicalized on the Right”

If the Synagogue Shooter Were Muslim, the Media Would Be Defending Him

 SPLC Ties Trump to the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting, Even Though Shooter Hated Trump...

SOCIALISTS BACKING ACTUAL ANTI-SEMITIC CANDIDATE, PROTEST TRUMP OVER ANTI-SEMITISM

 Planned Parenthood Encourages Birth … for Illegal Aliens

 MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Compares Americans Concerned About Illegal Immigrants To Nazi Germany…

 The Democrats Have a Rich White Progressive Problem

 TRICK or TREAT? Democrats Promise American Horror Story if They Win in November

 Progressives Fed Up With Americans

 ‘The perfect safe surrogate,’ Pence delivers the traditional GOP message Trump won’t

  Jon Stewart Nails Journalists Covering Trump. CNN Proves Him Right.

 A Tale Of Two Acts Of Political Violence — And Proof Of Media Bias

 7 of the Best Military Recruitment Videos From Around the World

Europe:  Upholding the Jihadist’s Veto

 Woman who had sex with 20 ghosts is now engaged to a spirit

John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America's Most Courageous Teacher

 Florida’s Panama City, Torn Apart By Hurricane Michael, Now Managed By Retired 2-Star Army General

It's always good to see people making major contributions to their communities. The olde American Way.

Thinking about Tintoretto 

Choking to death on pancakes 

Never wolf your food.  Heimlich doesn't work for everything.

 Washington Post Super Excited To Ban “Assault Weapons”

 University Students Say Mandatory Diversity Training is Answer for Microaggressions

 Ahead of Halloween, universities nationwide warn against cultural appropriation

Isn't Halloween itself a cultural appropriation? 

 Princeton student gov issues checklist for 'inclusive' Halloween

Insane.  But what I worry about are Nanoaggressions 

Blame Trump du Jour:  Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This - The president and his supporters insisted that several thousand Honduran migrants were a looming menace—and the Pittsburgh gunman took that seriously.

 Donald Trump, America’s First Jewish President

 Trump Plans To End Birthright Citizenship For Children Of Illegal Immigrants: Axios

Probably unconstitutional but not a bad idea. It is heavily abused. 

 No, the Border is Not Secure. No, Troops Won’t Make a Difference.

 Why Democrats are staying silent about the migrant caravan

 "Organized Busing Operation" Exposed, Moving Migrants Closer To US Border