Maggie's Farm

Update on John Waters, Singular Maniac

Graphene Can Help Quench the World’s Thirst

 ‘A night of erotic freedom’ at NYC’s most exclusive sex party

 How Tourism Is Killing Venice

Venice is just a big museum now: Disney Venice 

 Idaho’s $4.3 Million Solar Project Generates Enough Energy to Run ONE Microwave Oven

Ontario's electric costs 

A brief history of cannibalism 

Beyond chopped liver, Passover dishes from Jews around the globe, even India and Iraq

Another fun website: American Council on Science and Health

A sample from above: Technophobia: A Key Tenet Of The Organic Food Religion

Another:  More Adults Could Prevent Heart Disease With Statins

 The Unavoidable Pension Crisis

 Why Is the ‘Right Side of History’ Losing? Democrats refuse to confront the meaning of their own failure.

 Is the Alt-Left driving the Democrat party?

 WHY IS BIG BUSINESS SO LIBERAL?

 DEMOCRATS: THE PARTY OF HATE

 DAVID HOROWITZ: RUSSIA CONTROVERSY 'PURE INVENTION' TO DESTROY TRUMP

Gorsuch was  President Trump’s sanest decision

 Democrats Lose Chomsky As Russian Conspiracy Meltdown Continues

 National security reporter Sara Carter reports that US spy agencies intercept and unmask congressional figures as often as once a month.

 America can't right every wrong: Opposing view

The Government Doesn’t Care About You

Steyn:  "The left doesn't want to win the debate. They want to cancel the debate."

 Live Performance and Q&A With the Banjoist Béla Fleck

 Why French Fries Are More of a "Superfood" Than Kale

 Section of 2nd Temple-era column found at Temple Mount dig

 Gender "Educator:" It is "Repulsive" and "Hurtful" and "Damaging" To Ask a Person What Sex Xer Child Is

Chelsea Clinton Gives Advice on How Millennial Women Can Be as Successful as Her

Taibbi:  Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives

At this point, anti-Trump Russia hysteria smells like Ben Rhodes-style echo chamber - Media reporting on what other media are saying creates endless cycle of news stories about news stories:

 I see something similar unfolding now as during the Iran deal. Whether Rhodes was or is involved is not clear, though he has been particularly active in attacking the Trump administration. But the methodology is the same, a fact-free narrative endlessly parroted by the media in a circular fashion so that media reporting on what other media are saying creates an endless cycle of news stories about news stories.

It’s worth noting that while the media shows keen interest in building up the anti-Trump collusion narrative, it seems highly motivated to tear down the improper surveillance narrative asserted by Congressman Devin Nunes and others. The media worries more about whether Trump’s tweets about “wiretapping” were accurate than whether the powers of our spy agencies were abused for political purposes, and whether the Obama administration deliberately tried to undermine the incoming president.

Real Collusion: the Clinton and Podesta Record

Bombshell: The Obama Spying Scandal Started Long Before Trump

 Susan Rice's alleged unmasking requests not so routine, ex-officials say

 Eerie Prescience of Donald Trump

Krauthammer’s Take: Sunni States Ready for Peace with Israel but ‘Hostage to the Palestinians’

Nobody can stand the Palis 

 American culture, economics and religion can’t survive the rule of Anti-America. That is what we saw in the Obama years. But Anti-America would do even worse if Republicans got serious about a reform agenda. That’s one reason why Democrats are beginning to engage in a political secession.

Immigration enforcement, school choice and big government cuts frighten them worse than anything.

The left reshaped the culture until an ideological conflict became a culture war. The Two Americas have less in common than the North and the South did. The divisions accelerated sharply throughout the last century. In this century, the division is becoming an irresolvable political conflict. A civil war.

Professor: Republicans Criticize Susan Rice Because They ‘Hate And Fear Black Women’

"I hope Susan Rice was keeping tabs on Trump’s Russia ties."

Theresa May slams 'ridiculous' decision not to include Easter in egg hunt title

Why France Is Revolting against the Ancien Régime

 Is Europe Choosing To Disappear?

 No modern, affluent society ever stopped having children before.

 How 1,600 People Went Missing from Our Public Lands Without a Trace

It's called wilderness for a reason 

 Are Frogs Vanishing or Taking over the World?

 Lady Deborah Moody, the Dangerous Woman Who Started a Colonial Town

Why not make murder illegal? 

 Trump Immigration Enforcement Spurs Gang Tattoo Removal Boom

 Did you ever wonder why Chicago’s crime is out of control?

A book:  Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces 

 After a Historic March, What’s Next for Women?

How about championing Islamic women? 

 I Never Meet With Young Women Alone

All-star panel examines 'organized neurosis' of PC campuses

 After Middlebury: Campus as “Holy Space”

Jordan Peterson Shouted Down at McMaster University in Ontario

What is Hotep Nation?

Goodbye Connecticut — Darien Resident Says Gift Tax Forcing Him To Leave

Blue states kill the goosies that lay the golden eggs. That's Blue politics 

 Some thoughts on Equal Pay Day, an annual event that spreads statistical misinformation about the gender pay gap

 Take Two-and-a-Half Minutes to See How Hypocritical Democrats Are on Filibustering Supreme Court Nominees

 CNN’s Jim Sciutto: Susan Rice News ‘Appears to Be a Story Largely Ginned Up, Partly as a Distraction’

 Susan Rice Ordered Spy Agencies To Produce ‘Detailed Spreadsheets’ Involving Trump

 SUSAN RICE IN CROSSHAIRS AS POTENTIAL FELON

 Dems want Devin Nunes removed, but can’t unhear unmasking allegations

Spectator:

... no one is supposed to notice that one government did interfere in the U.S. election — ours. For months and months, the Obama administration was spying on Trump and leaking hints of its investigation to the press in the hopes of helping Hillary, who, by the way, colluded in the effort. Yet even the ruthless partisan Adam Schiff can’t “definitively” cite a single proof of collusion on Trump’s part, as he reluctantly acknowledged on Sunday. Given all the spying and leaking on Trump, wouldn’t we know by now if they had any evidence of collusion?

To say that Trump in this matter is more sinned against than sinning is an understatement. He was the blatant victim of political espionage and criminal leaking by the Obama administration, then when he complained about it, he was smeared anew. 

This is a big deal 

Cernovic:

"Maggie Haberman had it.  She will not run any articles that are critical of the Obama administration." "Eli Lake had it.  He didn't want to run it and Bloomberg didn't want to run it because it vindicates Trump's claim that he had been spied upon.  And Eli Lake is a 'never Trumper.'  Bloomberg was a 'never Trump' publication."

"I'm showing you the politics of 'real journalism'.  'Real journalism' is that Bloomberg had it and the New York Times had it but they wouldn't run it because  they don't want to run any stories that would make Obama look bad or that will vindicate Trump.  They only want to run stories that make Trump look bad so that's why they sat on it."

"So where did I get the story?  I didn't get it from the intelligence community.  Everybody's trying to figure out where I got it from.  I got it from somebody who works in one of those media companies.  I have spies in every media organization.  I got people in news rooms.  I got it from a source within the news room who said 'Cernovich, they're sitting on this story, they're not going to run it, so you can run it'."

 Swedish employees agree to free microchip implants designed for office work

 Cubans Want Capitalism

CO2: The EU Casts Stones From Its Glass House

The IDF's smallest drone

 Turkey's Struggling Economy

 Venezuela is becoming a failed state

Here Come the Pizza Gestapo

 PETA Says Milk is a ‘Symbol of White Supremacy’

Why domesticated foxes are bad pets 

Warren:  “Ethics are for people who have no morals”

 5 Reasons It's Dumb To Panic Over Global Warming

 Climate News This Week: What Was Important?

 The Climate Yawns - Donald Trump is no more a planet wrecker than Barack Obama (as measured to the third decimal).

 People are fleeing the New York metro at an alarming rate

The decay of the northeast corridor 

 In defense of northern New Jersey

Z-man:

... this reality denying madness we see going on with Progressives, has a late phase degeneracy vibe to it. Most of this nonsense is happening in well insulated compounds like the college campus. The Progs have total control so all of their worst instincts are free to run riot. It’s not some new phase in the long civil war, but the final burst of maniacal lunacy before there is the knock on the door and reality bursts in.

 Jeff Sessions laid down the law on immigration, here’s the list of counties and cities who aren’t working with ICE

 Sessions And Kelly Tell California Justice She Should Know Better

Klavan:  Obama Spied, Media Lied

Evelyn Farkas Blames “Fake News” and “Russians” for Recent Media Assault 

Baltimore Mayor Supported $15 Minimum Wage Until She Learned What It Would Do to City’s Economy

 Psychologist Analyzes Trump’s Election And The Progressive Left

LA Times really really hates Trump 

Trump is undoing more things than he is doing

That's good 

 Welcome To Londonistan: 423 New Mosques; 500 Closed Churches

England:  Street preachers who quoted Bible convicted in modern day heresy trial

 Breastfeeding Is Not The Only Decent Way to Feed a Child

Reader recommendation:  'A French Village,' Streaming on Amazon, Examines Life After Evil Triumphs

 10 Things We All Did in School That Are Banned for Kids Today

We boys pulled girls' pigtails.  That's how we showed we liked them.

California Transgender Inmates May Soon Be Given Bras, Mascara, Lip Gloss

Z-man's  Essential Knowledge: Part VIII

Ditto to that, but it makes me feel ignorant. 

 Mexico City metro's 'penis seat' sparks debate

 Seattle is the biggest water polluter

 Baby boomers ruined America, according to this Generation X 

SDA:

 So you drastically expand the definition of "sexual harassment," and then promote an ethic that says that all accusations must be believed, and then you're shocked that workplace men don't want to hang out with women?

A Tale of Two Bell Curves

Now Murray is KKK 

All he did was to wonder why jews and asians have higher average IQs, and why blacks and latinos have lower. 

Charles Krauthammer: The road to single-payer health care

"That picture of Hillary is so freaky. Is that real? Where'd you get it?"

 The Fake News Crisis

 McCaskill: I’m filibustering Gorsuch over his “stunning lack of humanity”

 BREAKING=> KREMLIN CONNECTION CONFIRMED! Podesta Company Paid One Billion Rubles from Russian Govt.

 'Russiagate' Is Failing And Its Supporters Are Getting Concerned:

Though the leaders of the US security services have denied the President’s allegation that they wire-tapped him – though they were careful not to deny that they mounted surveillance on him and his associates – the President’s claim that they did, in effect smoked them out.

Thus former DNI James Clapper admitted that he had seen no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians up to the point of his retirement on 20th January 2017, and former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell more recently has publicly trashed the whole story of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Possibly the single most important admission that no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians has been found came however from within the FBI itself, though it has gone almost completely unnoticed...

Heard from Axelrod on CNN (at the gym this morning): "Trump Administration paralyzed by deepening Russia scandals."

 The object of the Left’s game is to nullify Trump’s presidency, whether by impeachment or withering rebuke.

 Democrats Know the Election Was Legitimate but Persist in a Dangerous Fraud

... attention to the Kremlin was bad news for Clinton. It invited scrutiny of the Clinton Foundation’s corrupt foreign dealings; the sulfurous interplay of Putin cronies, Bill Clinton’s lucrative speech racket, and Hillary’s biddable State Department that resulted in Russia’s acquisition of major U.S. uranium supplies; the embarrassing “Russian reset” whereby, during Clinton’s State Department stewardship, the supine Obama administration watched Putin capture territory in Eastern Europe and muscle into the Middle East, while arming and aligning with Iran; and the intriguing relationship between Podesta (the Clinton-campaign chairman and former Obama White House official) and Putin’s circle — specifically, a $35 million investment by a Putin-created venture capital firm, Rusano, into a small Massachusetts energy company, Joule Energy, just two months after Podesta joined Joule’s board.

Drudge:

DNC Perez Unleashed: 'Trump Didn't Win Election'...

Republicans 'Don't Give A S**t About People'...

Dems Demand Investigation Over Mnuchin’s ‘Lego Batman’ Joke

 Chris Matthews: Ivanka Trump Scares Me Really, Really Bad

Her beauty scares me 

 Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers

 Israeli report: Thousands of Chinese jihadists are fighting in Syria

 On display at Arab Summit: division and declining influence

What people wore during Jesus' time 

At Black Rock, machines take over money management 

 Pothole Coast Highway - With its dams and roads crumbling, California faces an infrastructure crisis.

 Man Self-Identifies as Hen

Keep him away from Col. Sanders 

 Transgender WWII veteran comes out as a woman at 90

 When a Man in a Women’s Restroom is Finally Seen as Wrong

 5-Year-Old Girl Suspended from School for Pretending a Stick Was a Gun

Insanity is contagious 

College plans to fire professor who taught ‘Men in Literature’ class

Faculty forced to pledge allegiance to diversity or lose their jobs nationwide

Good grief. An oath of allegiance to what?

 Leftists Flip Off Memorial Dedicated To Victims Of Communism

 THE WORLD’S FIRST STATE OF THE CLIMATE SURVEY BASED ON OBSERVATIONS ONLY

 Reflections on Mark Steyn’s ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’ about Dr. Michael Mann

 U.S. College Grads See Slim-to-Nothing Wage Gains Since Recession

 ‘Buy America’ is a form of impoverishing economic poison, and legalizes discrimination based on national origin

 It Took Three People Two Months to Create Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Logo

Not from the Onion:  CNN Investigates Russian Salad Dressing After Sean Spicer Mentions it in Press Briefing

 TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS QUIETLY DOING GOOD THINGS

 Cuba reforms are stalling

 What a World Led by China Might Look Like - The Trump administration may be accelerating "Easternization," argues Gideon Rachman.

 Lone Wolves No More - The Decline of a Myth

 Trump's Inherited North Korea Crisis, and Lessons on Iran

Peterson is a harsh speaker of truth

People dress sloppy on flights so they can sleep comfortably. It's unpleasant,though. 

When children came together when I was a child it was usually to argue about the rules of games and beat the crap out of each other.

Seven Ways You’re Ruining Your Steak Dinner

CONSUMER ALERT: 'CAN YOU HEAR ME' SCAMS

An Army of Straw Men Keeps Campus Intolerance Alive

Gotta protect the students from the KKK 

Wellesley too 

These people are evil 

 ‘Free’ Camille Paglia!

 Evidence of employers paying women 20% less than men for the exact same work is as elusive as Bigfoot sightings

Computer lab for indigenous only 

 'Originalism' — another word for the rule of law

Investors not worried about the Maldives 

The Overton Window: How the Left turns the unthinkable into the uncontroversial

Money for nothing: Cuomo’s $25 billion upstate-jobs failure

 What If the Health-Care Collapse Saves Trump's Presidency?

President Trump And Making America Great Again — Swiss-Style

 Did Obamacare Create the Expectation of Universal Health Coverage? And did Obamacare solidify the belief that the federal government should provide it?

 UPDATE: President Obama’s Own Defense Deputy Admits Obama White House Spied on Candidate/President-Elect Trump…