Thursday, March 3. 2005
Dems gone psychotic - Byrd terms Repubs Nazis: Click here: Captain's Quarters and Dean claims Repubs "evil": Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story
Via Iowahawk:
MENTALLY DISTURBED NETWORK ANCHORMAN BUNGLES & HALLUCINATIONS "I believe in the dream, the magical mystical kingdom of CBS News. It may exist only in our minds, but that makes it no less real."
Dan Rather, quoted in upcoming New Yorker interview.
Wednesday, March 2. 2005
This is Brit grouse, not the Dog's beloved ruffed grouse, but might it apply? Click here: The New York Times > Science > Observatory: What's Good for the Grouse Campus conservatives getting louder: Click here: City Journal Winter 2005 | On Campus, Conservatives Talk Back by Brian C. Anderson Another knee-jerk Liberal yields to the wisdom of W: Click here: ProfessorBainbridge.com: Kinsley on Bush Jack Kelly on the "insurgency" - which is no insurgency - they are called terrorists, and darn few of them are Iraquis: Click here: toledoblade.com
Tuesday, March 1. 2005
First, Freedom - just as those evil neo-cons predicted, the dominoes are falling - Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon...Iran next? Let's hope so. It has to bring pleasure to every American heart to see tyranny fall.Even the NYT must admit it: Click here: The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Mideast Climate Change Second, Free Speech. Students (remember Mario Fazio or whatever his name was?) are rebelling against the Stalinist tendencies of the modern universities at the University of AlabamaClick here: The Volokh Conspiracy - and at Dartmouth Click here: The Volokh Conspiracy - and here Click here: The Volokh Conspiracy - Also:
What I did on Monday: Ate same old breakfast. Chewed on a bone for two hours. Got snow-pills caked between my paws - so came in and took a nap. Then back out to gnaw some more. Then back in. Exhausting day. Think I'll do the same today. Do you call this a life?
Monday, February 28. 2005
Snow Day, here in New England. Should be beautiful. Bird Dog will take a few more photos to demonstrate God's grandeur. Good site, plus lots of information about hops - the more the better, it seems: Click here: All About Beer Magazine-Online A brand-new blogger: Click here: TigerHawk Can't get decent crab-cakes in Yankee-land - they are full of bread crumbs, but these are the real thing from Chesapeake Bay: Click here: Faidleys Award Winning Crab Cakes
Sunday, February 27. 2005
Christian blogs and websites are proliferating like loaves and fishes. Here are a few good ones:
Saturday, February 26. 2005
One of the clueless gets a clue on the ongoing Harvard tempest in a teapot: Click here: The New Republic Online: Self Interest Immediately after claiming we don't do breaking news, I'll break that policy and post this remarkable development: Click here: Yahoo! News - Mubarak Orders Egypt Election Law Changes Does anything further need to be said?
Friday, February 25. 2005
Primates come down from trees to debate homosexuality: Click here: FOXNews.com - Anglican Church Asks U.S., Canada to Leave The American Library Association: Bravely leading the vanguard into the past: Click here: Library Journal - Revenge of the Blog People! Lighter fare - See video - The bird Einstein is good, but the Iams advt ain't bad either: Click here: Animal Planet :: Video :: Pet Star 3 Can't stop wondering...if America is so Evil, why does the whole world want to live here? One more example of media's reflexive anti-American bias:Click here: The Kerry Spot on National Review Online Race and Class and Education: The Left always makes every issue into a racial or class issue. It's a highly reductionistic, highly manipulative, and highly monotonous propaganda device. Bradley doesn't buy it: Click here: Commentary: Modern Myths about Race and School Performance
The Scrapple-Man reports on the Harvard flap: Click here: ScrappleFace: Harvard Chief Likens Women to Nazis, Saves Job
Euristan decides Bush was right...no - not that dumb goofy redneck Bible-thumping fascist cowboy who says nucular?: Click here: OpinionJournal - Featured Article Iranians like Americans. Are we supposed to be surprised that they can think for themselves?:Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story
Thank you baby for my tea. The Revolution is long past. Best Tea site on the web: Click here: Mighty Leaf Tea Company
Thursday, February 24. 2005
X-Rated. No, this isn't satire: Click here: AOL News - Court Rules Man Can Sue Over Surprise Pregnancy Thanks, pals- Canada refuses to help with missile shield. The Euristan community, including Canada, is either self-destructive or in a psychotic denial of the existence of evil: Click here: The Washington Times: AP Crybabies? Guess only a woman would be allowed to write this, eh?:Click here: Feminists Get Hysterical by Heather Mac Donald
Peggy Noonan on almost everything: Click here: OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
If 130 felons voted, does that put the Repub in? :Click here: GOP Says Felons Voted in Wash. Governor's Race
Tom Wolfe on Hunter Thompson: Click here: OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts -and Tim Blair also: Click here: Tim Blair
News Flash ! - Click here: Bob Dylan attacks modern rock bands - NME.COM
Wednesday, February 23. 2005
Dear Maggie's Farm Readers - I received the note below, and sent the money, in cash. Now I am beginning to wonder whether that was wise. I like to think of myself as being a trusting animal. I do have good pedigree, but have been insulated from bad Gods. I am not wealthy, but have carefully saved my weekly allowance. Advice? Am I being a paranoid Rottweiler? I have my retirement to consider. The Dog
Dear Sir:
I am Mugnbo Mibidgi, treasury secretary of the Republic of Nigeria. I need a trustworthy person to accept a transfer of $50 million for safekeeping. If you would be so kind as to wire transfer me $2,000 for my adminstrative expenses, I will send you these millions immediately.
Wise old Doc Higgins reminds us never to confuse a correlation with causation, but this is interesting. It doesn't prove cause and effect, tho. Click here: Friends fortify women's hearts / The Washington Times INSIDER
Bambi Department: Tony, arriviste New England rural hamlet plans massacre of the innocents: Click here: Greenwich Time - Town baits areas for deer shooting
We like Ben! Finally, some truth and balance on the subject: Click here: Ben Shapiro: Ward Churchill, Lawrence Summers, and the hypocrisy of the academics
I can see a Romney-Condi ticket...but it's a little early to think about...or is it? Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story
Earth to Charlie Rangel: Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story The ailing Pope has some wise words about medical care - (always pleased when the Pope agrees with me!): Click here: Vatican Officials Decry 'Religion of Health'
This in from Doc Higgins, who swears he had nothing to do with any of these surgeries, which is probably true. His senile tremor is so bad, they haven't allowed him near the OR in ten years. If you are bored and really have nothing that you should be doing, take a peek: Click here: Awful Plastic Surgery
Tuesday, February 22. 2005
Maggie's Farm is pleased to be included in this week's New Blog Showcase, hosted by Celebrity Cola. I think we are witnessing the Big Bang of the expanding Blogosphere. We are called "idiosyncratic and eccentric" - Who, us? We may soon have more blogs than blog-readers in this world. Competition is good: http://celebritycola.blogspot.com/2005/02/new-blog-carnival-showcase.html
A word from Gwynnie, on the recent Environmental piece: Gwynnie read the Celebrity Cola article “The Apocalyptic Battle Between . . ..” and even though she’s only a corgi she perceptively notes that the only thing dumber than politicians talking about the environment is environmentalists talking about Christianity! She even remembered the blog which said Christian fundamentalists didn’t care about the environment because the earth would be destroyed anyway in the “end days”. She asks us to remember that Christians have waited 2000 years for the second coming of Jesus, and have no reason to believe it won’t be another 2000 years, and that their faith requires them to be faithful stewards of what God has given them.
Monday, February 21. 2005
Two interesting pieces about the Environmental Movement - is it a post-Enlightenment Pagan Religion, or is it fact-based? And whose "facts"? You will find no-one more conservation-minded than the Bird Dog, but when gummint gets involved, it becomes more about image and symbol than substance - to get our gullible votes, of course. Gummint and science don't mix - and when they do, politics wins. Consider bottle-recycling - what a joke! - cheap feeling of false virtue, but useless. The Bird Dog happens to believe that the real conservation issue in the US is urban/suburban sprawl, but how do you balance people's desires and freedom with land-protection, other than by buying the land up? Easier just to bitch about oil in Alaska - again, cheap and easy feeling of virtue, but meaningless. And of course it is far away ! (Good conservation news - we saw three Bald Eagles yesterday next to the Bear Mountain Bridge. Hudson Highlands - cool. Does anyone remember Dylan's "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Blues"? Quite humorous.) Well, the Bird Dog was on top of this story too - is this a story about envy and class-warfare, or a story about animal lovers? If about animal lovers, they had better be vegetarians, or they have no credibility with me. But, finally, a cause for which Civil Disobedience makes sense ( if only Gandhi could see this - he'd have a good laugh): Wonderful piece by Michael Dirda on Love - the scribblers really went all-out for Valentine's Day this year - see previous recent posts on Love - my theory is that these dudes use their columns as mass-mailing Valentine Cards to all of their cute girlfriends - using erudition as seduction. Been there.
Looks like about a foot of snow arrived overnite here in Yankeeland, and this morning there is a needling email from the in-laws with their weather report in Cabo. Why do so many of us Yankees love what others call "bad" weather? Is is because it demands more from us, or because it reminds us of the grandeur of God's Nature and God's Cosmos? Or is it sour grapes? Speaking of Cosmos, old Mr. Hubble took some nice snapshots:
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