Maggie's Farm

Polyamory: She wants a husband, and new lovers too

Gee, how unusual to want that sometimes. All humans are polyamorous. You either turn hot romance into a loyal bond - or you don't.

First world problems: “We built a luxury dream home but can only afford to have two children.

Inside the Fight to Stop Giraffes’ ‘Silent Extinction’

America Has Chosen Its Favorite Fast Food Place…Chick-Fil-A

Disney confirms selfie stick ban at theme parks

Never had a stick, and never went to a theme park

UK update: “teachers are free to take – and keep – any item from pupils’ lunchboxes if they think they are unhealthy or inappropriate.

The Future of Sex Is Terrifying - Proposed changes to U.S. sex-crime laws seek to set new sexual norms by criminalizing ordinary behavior.

America Loses Its Mind… TV Land Pulls Reruns of ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ …They’re Racist!

Confederate flag kills 7 in Alabama

Foley:

Liberals/progressives talk incessantly about racism, yet there are spectacularly few examples of the phenomenon, so they pounce on every conceivable black-white interaction–think Ferguson and Baltimore–even if the facts don’t support their immoral, divisive accusations.

Via Ace:

Let's sweep away the lies and just say it out loud:

90% of the left's attempts at social control are simply attempt to outlaw behaviors they perceived as favored or engaged in by 'traditional" "conservative" "old-school" "white" etc. people. Thus, a liberal can simultaneously demand that cigarettes be outlawed but marijuana be legalized.

Why? Because (in their conception of social reality) marijuana is a leftist intoxicant favored by the "counter-culture" while nicotine is a right-wing intoxicant favored by the "dominant culture."

"The Man" smokes cigars. "The Rebels" smoke weed.

That's all there is to it.

...It's absolute juvenile revenge fantasy, leftover from the '60s. That's all it is. The younger generation of activist are automatons acting out the revenge fantasies of their professors.

Video of the day: Northwestern University Professor Laura Kipnis on how campus feminism infantilizes women

Protecting Humanity from Ice Ages

Worth thinking about, but not on an emergency basis

The Media, the Court and the Slippery Sex Slope

About Justice Kennedy:  The Liberty to Take Liberties with Reality

Sultan:  It's not about gay marriage. It's not about cakes. It's about power.

Yup

Nonprofits win exemption to LA minimum wage increase

Ready for Uncle Joe’s White House Run?

An Inside Look at How Hillary Clinton Plays the Media - "Greta...is malleable."

Vote for Hillary Clinton, because she’s a woman.

What do we know about Hillary Clinton?

Email bombshells from Hillary's secret account show she didn't know when cabinet meetings were held

Maybe she wasn't invited

Dowager Empress of Chappaqua will get to the Big House before the White House.

Budowsky: Obama could sink 2016 Dems

Declaring ‘This Is What Change Looks Like,’ Obama Re-opening Cuba Embassy

That's ok with me

85% of Greeks Believe the Jews Have Too Much Power Over Global Finance

What to Do About an Imperial Iran

Try doing nothing

Can We Trust How Iran Would Spend Funds From a Nuclear Deal?

That's a tough question

Why Terrorists Want To See the End of Tunisia

I've been there. Interesting place. Good food. Aggressive salesmen in the souk. A brief clip of the souk in Tunis. Fun place, not mainly meant for tourists.

Poll: Nearly One in Three Americans Owns a Gun

Irish Pastor Faces Prison for Criticizing Islam

"What in the world can Chelsea Clinton tell people?

Boston doesn't want the Olympics

'Employee' Label Would End Uber as We Know It

“Time to legalize polygamy”

Reynolds: Are happier lawyers, cheaper legal fees on the horizon?

Justices take up dispute over union fees

Publishing Company Under Fire for Putting Warning Label on Constitution

LSU Prof Fired for Telling Jokes Is Latest Victim of College Anti-Sex Hysteria

Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles?

Scholar Speaks on Obama’s Red Mentor

Small Businesses Threatened With $36,500 IRS Fines For Helping Employees With Health Costs

Supremes: citizenship not necessary for voter registration

Bobby Jindal and Liberals’ Racist Double-Standard

Millennials in Shock Over Hillary's Cribs

Why Carly Fiorina’s feminism flummoxes liberals

Professor: ‘Whiteness’ Is ‘Terror,’ Confederate Flag Represents ‘Capitalism’

Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight - New stealth fighter is dead meat in an air battle

Europe’s dream is dying in Greece

A Greek Default Would Be a Valuable Lesson in Basic Economics

There is no democracy left in Europe, people have no direct say anymore, there’s just a two-pronged dictatorship

Israel says Syria's Assad may be left with rump state

Who Lost Iraq? Did George W. Bush create the Islamic State? Did Barack Obama? We asked the insiders to tell us who’s to blame.

Was Mohammad a Suicide?

Unpaid Internships Are Worth it: Suck it Up Millennials

Building a Wattle and Daub Shelter for Dummies

Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country

Why is that a bad thing?

It Was Always About The Christians

Kimball:  Thoughts on satire and Juvenal

Why the College Board's New Standards Would Make Teaching History Even Worse

Should We Lower the Age of Consent to Protect Teenagers?

A Lifestyle So Good, It’s Mandatory - In California, it’s lifestyle liberalism versus nicotine vapors.

Christian farm family penalized in gay wedding refusal decries ‘orchestrated set-up’

The Delusions of Left-Wing Identity Politics

‘Peak Leftism’?

Pope recruits Naomi Klein to fight Climate Change and Capitalism

Steyn:  Violent Extremistan vs the dar al Gay

Reality Is Now Discretionary

The Greek Crisis: Too Little Democracy, Too Much Bureaucracy

The Strategic Consequences of "Grexit"

The payoff for Iran

Saturday was New Haven, Sunday was NYC. Ah, Les Tres Riches Heures du Bird Dog. We went with dear friends to see DanceBrazil at the Joyce, then for early supper to the enjoyable and authentic Sicilian specialty restaurant Bar Eolo on 7th Ave. (Ask me for menu tips.)

We hadn't realized it was the day of the Gay Pride march on the West Side. By the time we sat down for supper outside, swarms - thousands - of gays were moving back uptown from their destination which I think had been the West Village. "Hi, Happy Pride!" Anyway, it made for some entertaining and curious people-watching.  I told Mrs. BD that my Mom would have loved that scene which seems exotic to me. My question was why and how do so many gays (male or female) look gay. No Gaydar required, believe me. It's, like, obvious.

I suspect my buddy expected me as a wacko Christian conservative (ie Evil Right Wing Nazi) to be hostile or uncomfortable. Naw. Christians get a kick (mostly) out of all of God's creation. It was just strange, and a colorful spectacle. I can say that we four felt like aliens from a straight bourgeois planet - which was fine. Overall, fun. Do male gays add more to life than those grim-looking lesbians with their fat girlfriends? I tend to think so. However, I saw a handful of those lesbian marchers whose feminine charms, IMO, were going to waste and I said so.

DanceBrazil was something else. Mrs. BD gave me some words: Muscular, acrobatic, quick, primitive, full-body dancing. She said they were all ballet-trained, but probably lifted weights too. These men and women are seriously strong. Exhausting to watch because of the intense physicality. Very good, high-energy high-intensity stuff.  Here's a clip from them a couple of years ago.

Also,  a few random pics below the fold - but none of the gay parade people really.

My college sex education: In her first year, a student finds a campus obsessed with hooking up — and utterly ignorant about real relationships and their consequences

How to Fail and Live to Talk About It: 10 Tips for Explaining Your Missteps Without Sounding Like a Train Wreck

It’s a Record: No Major Hurricane Has Struck U.S. Mainland in 10 Years

Are White Men Gods?

Our precious little snowflakes

The “journey” of a 10 year old transgender child. Somebody call the cops

California May Be About To Eliminate Most Exemptions For Mandatory Vaccination

Walmart Is Okay With ISIS, but Not the South

White House Wants Your Doctor To Warn You About “Climate Change”

Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country

Italian Schoolboys Forced to Wear Girls’ Clothes

Texas university's VP of diversity and inclusion to earn more than any governor

University of Wisconsin Bans RACIST Phrase: “Everybody Can Succeed”

The Phrase ‘Trigger Warning’ Is Now Also a Trigger

Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Island’s Debts Are ‘Not Payable’

The Confederate flag and Hamilton: Getting the nation’s symbols right

Liberals are playing a racial shell game:

 We live in a world where Bobby Jindal is a fake Indian, but it’s racist to say an older white woman isn’t a real one (the correct term being “Native American,” of course). Nikki Haley is a villain for “suppressing” her Indian roots, but Sen. Ted Cruz is a fraud for touting his Cuban roots. (Cruz was recently grilled by Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin about how authentically Cuban he really is. At least Halperin later apologized).

O’Reilly to Race-Baiters: ‘You Want a War, You Got a War’

Will Democrats Apologize for Slavery and Segregation? An open letter to DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Obama's Amazing Disgrace of a Eulogy

No, Mr. President, you can not make us all own Dylann Roof

Coming Right Up: Gay Divorce Court

Is gay marriage a victory for Big Government?

Historic Day for Gays, but Twinge of Loss for an Outsider Culture

Greenfield:  Be the Best Saboteur You Can Be

...the U.S. and its negotiating partners have given in to Iran’s
insistence that it will not allow inspections of its nuclear weapons
facilities

Following Fistfights with Uber Drivers, Paris's Taxi Motorists Strike on Thursday to Protest Newcomer's Arrival in the City

Raisins:  The New Deal policies that stacked the deck for producers are
increasingly outmoded. It’s time to re-think more than just the raisin
reserve.

Jesus never called anyone out for racism or our other popular sins. He did call people out for self-righteousness

Air conditioning and God

Elizabeth Gilbert's Diary of a Seductress

Many white people in Oregon have no idea that our schools and state are
immersed in white culture and are uncomfortable and harmful to our
students of colour

Is porn "bad for you"?

Swimming pools are full of pee

Bland school lunch? Bring salt and pepper

GMOs Have a PR Problem

How fainting couch feminism threatens freedom

Nationally recognized teacher removed from class after allegations of reading Mark Twain

Greens Aren’t Particularly Happy About Biofuels

EPA Commissar Gina McCarthy Denounces Hoax Doubters as Not “Normal Human Beings”

Otherkin - Heart of a Snowflake

The Other Bad Supreme Court Decision: Claims of Racism Can Be Filed Without Actual Proof of Racism

The Last Thing the Left Wants is Racial Healing

The Democrats Get Their Crazy On

Democrats Go Scorched-Earth on ‘War on Women’

Americans are delaying major life events because of money worries

Politico: Has not the time come for polygamy, social liberals?

When Erasing Symbols of Slavery, Don't Forget the Democratic Party

Michigan Professor Juan Cole Thinks the Charleston Race Murders Are My Fault

Matt Lewis and how he caused the Charleston shooting

Confederate Flag Purge Goes Nuts Almost Immediately, Hits Harmless Strategy Games

Now, About This Flag That Makes People Want to Shoot Other People, or Something…

On Obamacare, John Roberts helps overthrow the Constitution

Barack Obama is officially one of the most consequential presidents in American history

However King was decided, the future of American health care was going to come down to 2016

The One Number That Shows Why Jews Really Vote Liberal

Christian Carnage and Western Indifference

Turkey Chooses ISIS Over the Kurds

Deal with Iran could turn Middle East into a nuclear tinderbox

How Iranian Oil Tankers Keep Syria’s War Machine Alive

ISIS Giving Away Young Girls as Prizes in Qur’an Competition

Establishing a Palestinian Islamist State

Pic from  A Visit to the Le Creuset Factory

Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness

No, Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason

Quote from Ace:  "Did we ban all the things yet? I'm having a hard time keeping track."

Quote from Burge via Insty:  "No matter how low your opinion of Washington DC, it's nothing compared to Washington DC's low opinion of you."

Quote via Am Digest: "We aren’t giving up our right of free speech or, for that matter, any other rights you leftist schmucks deem inconvenient."

How Dumb Do You Have to Be to Be a Criminal?

America's Runaway Spending On the Elderly

The University of California’s Insane Speech Police

Greenfield: The Death of the Liberal

Another Racist To Be Evicted From American History: Woodrow Wilson

Apocalyptic Fear-mongering: Sometimes Rush Limbaugh is Right!

Prominent professor’s decades of research concludes global warming will not destroy Earth

New study: Electric cars may be worse for the environment than gas-powered

Hillary Clinton’s dodginess is overpowering her message

In Greece’s Equality-of-Outcome Mentality, a Default Is Morally Justified

Poll of U.S. Muslims Reveals Ominous Levels Of Support For Islamic Supremacists’ Doctrine of Shariah, Jihad

Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea - There’s a new national ideology forming in Russia—and “the Jews” play a big part in it.

NYC: Hooray for the High Bridge - A civic restoration project that deserves to be celebrated

Alibaba’s Jack Ma Buys $23 Million Property in New York’s Adirondacks - The Chinese billionaire has conservation plans for the 28,100-acre property.

How men and women differ on sex and relationships

America’s center on gun control might shock New York

Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' - The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story, writes Christopher Booker.

JP Morgan Chase Employees Effectively Required to Endorse Sodomy

When a Nobel Prize winner can be hounded from his university chair by the harridans of the Internet...

As we saw with Obama’s birth certificate, the only people who care about this flag are liberals and lunatics, the distinction between the two is impossible without professional training.

Now it’s serious: No more “Dukes of Hazzard” toys with the Confederate flag on the General Lee

"This is a new level of ‘P.C.’ idiocy. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of being insulted by morons."

Leftists Want Military Bases Named After Confederate Generals Renamed

The Cynical Political Double-Cross Of Young Americans

Hillary Clinton Takes Private Jet to Give Speech on Social Inequality

Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?

AMERICA'S MILITARY: A force adrift - HOW THE NATION IS FAILING TODAY'S TROOPS AND VETERANS

Former Obama aides say U.S. needs tougher Iran nuclear deal

Report: In 9 Years' Existence, UNHRC Condemned Israel More Times Than Rest of World Combined

Man Who Created The Pink Plastic Lawn Flamingo Dies

Medical marijuana offers only weedy health benefits

Big surprise

An orangutan steals crops from a poor farmer in Indonesia and is shot in retribution. Who is to blame?

How Megyn Kelly Became the New Star of Fox News

Doom: Warmists Proclaim Collapse Of Society By 2040

‘climate change…could wipe out health progress over the past 50 years’

Obama: ‘Within Our Children’s Lifetimes, On Our Current Pace, the Oceans Go Up Maybe 2, Maybe 3, Maybe 4 Feet’

Colby Cosh: Pope’s encyclical on climate change reads like the Unabomber Manifesto

The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis

Huffpo Writer: I Will Not Have Children So I Will Not Spread My ‘White Privilege’ Biologically

Our thanks to her for improving the gene pool

Keep the Confederate Flag Flying

It's not racist - it's rebel. Like the Gasden flag.

Liberals are still getting the South all wrong

There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation than Dixie.

SO WHAT IS AILING THE AMERICAN LAWYER?

Most illegal immigrants from border surge skipped court date after release, records show

The paradox of work is that many people hate their jobs, but they are considerably more miserable doing nothing.

Important news from WaPo: “There’s not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal”

What?

Michael Oren Finally Reveals the Truth About Obama and Israel, and Leftist Jews Can’t Stand It

Islamic State Drowns Iraqis in Cage, Blows Up Prisoners in Car w/RPG

The UK:  NEXT THEY’LL WANT YOU TO SURRENDER YOUR TEETH AND YOUR FISTS

Saul Bellow at 100 - Review: Zachary Leader, ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’

Theophilus North in Newport

Concerning the "Ecological" Path to Salvation

Pope Francis’s Relentless Pessimism Fuels His Faith in Politics

Pope Francis Is Wrong about Air Conditioning

Michael Lewis on Harvard admissions

Raisin justice - finally

The feds’ trans-fat ban boosts all the food conspiracy theories

So What Do Liberals Actually Want To Do About Guns?

How Liberals Manipulate Data About the Minimum Wage

Bonfire of the Vulgarians: Middle East Studies in Decline

Hillary! and the uranium

Mexico is Facing a Deadly Central American Migrants Crisis

Iranian Parliament Chants “Death to America” – Votes to Ban Nuclear Inspections

The Gaza War 2014 The War Israel Did Not Want and the Disaster It Averted 

Imperial Ambitions: Russia’s Military Buildup

China: Africa's New Power Broker

The Palestinians' Real Strategy

The Once Great City of Havana

Are Humanities Degrees Doomed? Experts Weigh In.

Why Erase Alexander Hamilton?

Most Americans do not understand SPF ratings, or how sunscreen is supposed to work. But they do care about “anti-aging” effects.

Obama Pressures Colleges to Adopt Unconstitutional "Speech Codes"

Arm Candy Report, Hollywood Division: Shiksas, Asians Out, Hot Yoga Instructors In

Are We Seeing the End of Homeopathy?

A “Heterosexual privilege” bulletin board was approved by the university’s Residence Life Coordinator for display
in a freshman hall on campus

California: Running On Empty

Most Millennials Want to Own Homes - They just don't think they can afford them.

How climate-change doubters lost a papal fight

i“Unless you accept the alarmist position and the dictates of the [Obama] administration, you cannot typically receive government funding”

The 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer shows the largest ever gap between trust in business and government since we began this study in 2001. This can be attributed to a continued destruction of trust in government that began in 2011...

Media spins horrific murder into a fight over a flag

It’s Official: Barack Emo Obama Disappointed By Entire World

Venezuela’s Economy Spirals

The Nature of the Abbas Regime

“Normative sociology, the study of what the causes of problems ought to be, greatly fascinates us all”

This is the first aerobatic ride of my 4-year-old daughter, Lea

Two Americas: How the Supreme Court Could Change Health Care

US  Immigration by the Numbers

The Creepy Consequences of Oppression Chic

The War on Comedy

Matt Ridley explains how he lost trust in climate science

Hillary: ‘We Have to Face Hard Truths About Race, Violence, Guns, Division’

One psychotic kid does something monstrous and it's a national crisis?

Dylann Roof’s Racist Massacre Was Universally Condemned — Why Are Liberal Pundits Pretending Otherwise?

Once Again, President Barack Obama Calls For The Abolition Of The Secret Service

Obama: Low-income Kids Do Worse in School at Month’s End Partly Because They’re ‘Getting Hungry,’ Food Stamps ‘Running Out’

It's Democrats, Not Republicans, Who Are The Extremists

Blumenthal email confirms: Libya was to be Hillary´s crowning accomplishment

Hungary to Build 175 km Border Fence to Ward Off Terrorist Migrants – Calls EU Immigration Plan “Bordering on Insanity”

Pentagon Unleashes Behemoth Bible Laying Out the Laws of War for US Soldiers

A trip into the heart of Palestine - A journey to the land that has seen many changes, where Arabs and Islam once prospered, is exhilarating and overwhelming at the same time

Is State Department skirting US law on sanctions?

WikiLeaks publishes more than 60,000 leaked diplomatic cables from Saudi Arabia

Judging Whether the Iran Deal Is Acceptable

Photo: Audubon's Hog Island Camp, Maine

50 years ago, Like a Rolling Stone

 "He headed back to Woodstock when the tour wrapped and continued to work on the piece. "The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out," he told Rolling Stone in 1988, "and when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much."

RIDING THE RUSSIAN RAILS

Delivering blocks of ice to an overheated city

Hillbilly banjo band heckles marathon runners

"What's your hurry?"

VEGAN Calls for Death to All Meat-Eaters

Benedict Option Baptists

I didn't know what Benedict Option meant

I didn't know what Pournelle's Law was either

Evidence Mounting that Michelle Obama's Signature School Lunch Policy is a Failure

Tests for teachers found to have too many white questions

CHARLIE HEBDO WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Obama on Charleston shooting: “Let’s be clear —this kind of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”

Mutilating Teenagers, to Thunderous Applause

Illegals: Enforcement? What Enforcement?

Border Patrol agents, facing scrutiny over shootings, have harsh words for their leaders

Congress Almost Always Rewards Failed Government Agencies. Here is Why

The OPM Hack is Just Awful

Oh, gee: the Democrats are ‘rebranding.’ AGAIN.

How Iran Dominates the Middle East

Defying Beijing, Hong Kong lawmakers reject election framework

Army Plans to Start Replacing M9 Pistol in 2018

Vietnam dissidents urge US help to boost human rights

For Marine unit, a lost reputation in Afghanistan