Maggie's Farm

Why are we so connected to sports?  Why Do Some People Go Crazy When Their Teams Lose in Sports?

 An Open Marriage Manifesto? Molly Roden Winter’s nonmonogamy memoir offers sadness in abundance

 Childhood maltreatment is one of the strongest and the most widespread risk factors for the development of the major depressive disorder. 

I'm skeptical 

 Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists

 The people taking illegal aliens into their homes—saints, predators, or fools?

Kruiser's Handy Election Year Guide to Topics the Democrats' Media Hacks Will Be Censoring

  And DeSantis Just Keeps Truckin'

 Border crisis now No. 1 reason people don’t like Biden

 Traitor John Brennan Mobilized Foreign Intelligence Services to Spy on the Duly Elected American President

 5 things you didn't know about Qatar. 

 Joe Biden's War in Ukraine

 Why Is The American Right Pandering to Putin? Plus: In defense of Joe Biden. . . and Donald Trump

Who is "pandering"? 

Who was St. Valentine? 

 Group Names Climate Change as the Culprit in the Nigerian Massacre

 Lake Shasta reservoirs ‘well above’ historical average after ‘experts’ predicted a global warming drought

 What, Exactly, Should You Eat? Inside the $190 Million Study Trying to Find the Answer

That is so dumb 

 A Libertarian Gets Mugged

 The Business of Transgenderism

 Not A Single Child Tested Proficient In Math In 67 Illinois Schools

 White Woman Hosting Illegal Immigrants Says ‘She Feels Like She has Her Own Personal Chef”

Slavery 

 Time for Consequences - The "Cabal" who bragged about rigging the 2020 election stuck us with an incapable president at a time of crisis. Examples need to be made.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

Biden's Latest Racially Tinged Cringe-Fest Is Just Too Much

 CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say

 Biden Refuses Cease-Fire and Negotiations -- In Ukraine?

 Trump’s threat to let Putin invade NATO countries

Yeah, right. 

 Putin and Love of Country

Why am I supposed to hate Russia this year? 

 Jeffrey Sachs: The Biden-Schumer Plan To Kill More Ukrainians

 Joy Behar Says if Trump is Reelected, Putin Will Invade Europe and 13 Year-Old American Boys Will be Drafted

Yeah, right. 

 After winning his third Super Bowl at only 28 years old, is it time to call Patrick Mahomes the greatest QB ever?

Climate endangering French cheeses

OK, now I am getting worried 

 Lakewood Church Shooter Identified as Transgender Immigrant from El Salvador

Sheesh, a dangerous person for sure

 A Textbook Case of Social Justice Medicine Run Amok - A new volume from the publishing arm of the American Psychiatric Association illustrates the problem when ideology trumps science.

Who is insane? 

 “Whites are psychopaths, and their behavior represents an underlying, biologically transmitted proclivity with roots deep in their evolutionary history.”

 Coleman Hughes on the New Racism

 Chaos at the End of History - Even in rights-based and law-bound democratic societies, people tend to find new things to struggle over.

 Jonathan Haidt: abolish DEI to save academia

 At the Biden White House's request, Facebook significantly limited the distribution of Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin on its platform. 

  Eliminating failing grades incentivizes laziness

 Egypt Shows Biden How to Secure a Border

 Ukraine Anti-Conscription Protests Emerge As Zelensky Hunts For Manpower

Niall Ferguson is trying to gin up support for Ukraine, on the grounds that, if we do not arm Ukraine, Russia will soon be invading the rest of Europe. 

What? 

 Sens. Vance, Lee, and Johnson Join Elon and Vivek to Slam ‘Endless Funding’ for Ukraine

The wealth of Hamas leaders 

Here's his post on X. He is a major Dem donor, but learning how things work:

 The story was published this morning. Despite my hopes, my optimism was misplaced as the public has been again misled, important issues are not addressed fairly or accurately, and false impressions have therefore been created in the minds of readers about important issues.

 I liked what Jeff Spurgeon said on WQXR this morning: "There was a ball game last night. Good fun." I bet on Taylor Swift, of course. Whoever she is. I have never dated her or heard her music.

Spain sets up ranger patrol to protect villages from massive bears that were once nearly extinct

Vox Gets Roasted for Pushing Idea “Americans are Obsessed with Protein”. Vox earns a spectacular X-ratio, and we get reminded that dietary science is perhaps the most unsettled science of all.

Double euthanasia growing in popularity in Holland 

 UCLA prof suspended after refusing lenient grading for black students demands $19 million-plus in damages

 New York's Oldest Gun Manufacturer Shuts Down

I  have a Remington 12-ga. semi-auto, I guess you'd call it. For ducks.

 Do you want to be a wife? 

Kling:  Rob Henderson and Lorenzo Warby on Elite Beliefs - How did the elites go wrong? And why is my mindset not elite?

 BILL ACKMAN LEARNS THE HARD WAY

Cognitive dissonance is a path to enlightenment 

 What Next? Woke State Now Coming After Car Tires

 Remember When Women Were Calming Influences on Society? NYC Doesn't Either

 71% of UK men have experienced some form of sexual victimization by a woman

Huh? 

 So why is Biden so unpopular? 

 Donald Trump is the Victim of Selective Prosecution. Trump is the victim of political witch hunts by Democrats suffering from Trump derangement syndrome

 Shocker! DNC Wants a Federal Probe Into RFK Jr

 Thousands of migrants in NY quietly collecting ‘welfare’ through Hochul rule change

Incentives matter 

 Assaults on NYPD escalate to record-breaking totals in latest anti-cop sentiment: ‘Full-blown epidemic’

 California Gov. Gavin Newsom sends prosecutors to Oakland over raging crime blamed on woke DA

 Unhinged progressives are a gift to Trump. The woke zealotry of the Biden administration is turning vast numbers of Americans into reluctant Trumpers.

 Examining the Controversy Surrounding Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Putin - A leitmotif in Putin’s remarks to Tucker in that marathon interview was, as he saw it, the serial betrayal of Russia by the West.

Genocide?  In South Africa, a great evil is growing fast

A good poster of The Common Hawks and Falcons of the Eastern US

LI links:  Your weekly report on education news.

 Trial Of Mann v. Steyn, Part V: Results

 Making Sense of Michael Mann's Resounding Defamation Victory

Does anybody think Mann's "Hockey Stick" is real? Scared to say it's bs now? What % of "studies" turn out to be correct? Skeptical is never wrong. That's been my bias since studies claimed broccoli causes cancer. I still enjoy reporting those studies.

 ILLEGALS ARE ALREADY VOTING

 Tucker's Thoughts on Putin Interview

 In Moscow, Tucker Carlson commits journalism

I'm interested in what Putin says. He's just another politician-type. Sure, he is "Russia First." Duh.

Who owns Zoom? 

Elon Musk Optimistic About Neuralink's First Patient in Human Clinical Trials

 He Murdered His Classmates. Should His Mother Go to Jail?

Under fire in Canada, Peterson kicked off a 51-city tour Sunday. Here’s what to expect if you’re going to one of his shows

  Is Your Date Transgender? 10 Signs To Look For

 A TROVE OF ‘LOST BASQUIATS’ LED TO A SPLASHY EXHIBITION. THEN THE FBI SHOWED UP.

 Do Americans Really Only Want Sprawl?

Having no money makes you happy 

About Belmont Abbey College 

 U. Oregon bike class helps LGBT students confront ‘capitalist patriarchy’

 Biden Admin Pressured Amazon to Suppress Books It Didn’t Like. “Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books”?

Tucker Carlson Explains Why He Is Interviewing Putin: "Most Americans Are Not Informed... We're Here Because We Love The US"

CNN says:  Tucker Carlson is in Russia to interview Putin. He’s already doing the bidding of the Kremlin

 Most of the world remains either indifferent or opposed to Washington’s long time insistence that Ukraine be turned into an American NATO base. 

 Netanyahus full statement to Israeli citizens on the 7th

 Australian City Councilwoman Suspended For Saying 'Transwomen Are Biological Men'

Mother convicted of manslaughter 

 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Caused More Deaths Than Saved: Peer-Reviewed Study

 What They Do to Trump, They’re Doing to Everyone

Stuart's Wednesday Miscellany 

Biden Makes Coal Great Again As Exports Soar To India

Smithsonian:  Six Big Ways Climate Change Could Impact the United States by 2100 - Climate change is expected to affect all parts of the country in the coming decades, threatening everything from our food supply to our coastlines

Scared? 

 GREAT TIME TO BE A SANCTUARY STATE

 Biden to Send Troops to Stop Texas from Protecting the Southern Border

 Biden Gives Game Plan Away: Senate Bill Precursor to Amnesty for Illegals

  ICE in Phoenix Arrest Illegal Immigrants Accused of Beating NYPD Cops

We linked to a piece about the Israeli police this morning. It's not a good idea to assault Israeli police.

Civilization - civilized behavior - is a thin veneer. At the extremes, if we aren't armed, all we have is the thin blue line. I happen to be armed at home. I can legally carry, but I don't bother. I believe I can not legally carry in NY State anyway and Mrs. BD and I do love visiting NYC. Plus 2 of our kids live there quite happily.

I don't know the details of NYC police protocol, and I am not saying that these guys should have been shot (maybe), but should they have been tased and roughed up at the very least? As a relatively law-abiding citizen, I do not expect to put up with this behavior. It could be police, or it could be me. 

Would not bother me at all if the cops had shot the bad guys. What good would jail do? In Rikers, you'd get macho points, respect, for assaulting a police officer.

 NYPD officers assaulted in 3 incidents in as many days as 2 accused attackers freed without bail over prosecutors’ objections

 Full performance of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs at the Grammys. 

 Amazon sells these houses for $19,000

Gen Zers whine that they need therapy — from the stress of filing taxes

 The Trans-Children Era is About to Be Memory-Holed & the Perpetrators Will Be Disavowing Involvement

 University of Arkansas appears to follow through with dismantling DEI

 "This Is Fascism": Machete-Wielding Professor Fired Again

Schumer: If We Don’t Aid Ukraine Then ‘We Could be Fighting in Eastern Europe’

That is bs 

Don't mess with Israeli police 

 We all were lied to – Gaza was a modern developed city before October 7th

 Who Is Winning the Gaza War?

How throwing soup at the Mona Lisa can help climate change

 Canada halts controversial assisted suicide program for mentally ill due to lack of doctors willing to participate

 American’s Mental Health Crisis Is So Bad That Millions Of People Are Venting To Elmo’s Twitter Account

 New Hampshire Town Alarmed Due to the Opening of a New “Diaper Spa” Where Adults Wear Diapers and Pretend to be Babies

 Students at California school struggling after $250K in federal funds spent on ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program

 From easier math classes in high school to the elimination of standardized tests to extreme grade-inflation to DEI tropes that elevate lived experiences and ways of knowing over facts and data, the trend represents a pressing problem for science professors working to protect STEM and preserve its standards and meritocracy.

 Gay teens who couldn't come to terms with their sexuality share how they removed their breasts and genitals in false hope that becoming transgender would 'cure' them, as concerns mount that 'gender-affirming care' for children is homophobic

 I Was Told to Approve All Teen Gender Transitions. I Refused. For six years I worked at a hospital that said all teenagers with gender dysphoria must be affirmed. I quit my job to blow the whistle.

 The Case Against Content Moderation - Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic.

 Trump predicted disaster of sanctuary cities in 2019

Trump as the Antichrist

 Israeli special forces operating in Gaza. Wait for it

 The Cancer That Doctors Don’t Want to Call Cancer

 The ketamine economy: New mental health clinics are a 'Wild West' with few rules

 American Psychological Association claims merit-based hiring is UNFAIR

 Inside Oberlin College’s failed auto-da-fé - When it comes to women’s sports, former lacrosse coach Kim Russell is firmly in the camp of objective science

 Further Notes On Mann v. Steyn: The Plaintiff Rests

 Portland Declares Emergency Over Fentanyl Crisis Three Years After Decriminalizing Drug Possession

 The Dissatisfaction of Young Voters

Focus on Treatment, Not “Stigma”Why do we accept the disorder and violence stemming from untreated serious mental illness?

The FAA's Hiring Scandal: A Quick Overview

 Biden Admin-Released Migrant Crime Wave Sweeping Sanctuary Cities

 Tom Friedman Laments

 Christian Cowboys Save an Israeli Woman’s Farm

 Hermit crabs are 'wearing' our plastic rubbish

California Becomes First State To Ban Heterosexual Marriage

 GO SEE “AMERICAN FICTION”

' American Fiction’ is a Hilarious Plea to Hollywood to Stop Stereotyping Minorities

 The Seeming Impossibility of Life

 New state-mandated tampon dispenser in Conn. HS boys bathroom ripped down in just 20 minutes

 UConn seeks engineering ‘inclusion’ professor

 The American Federation of Teachers Comes Out for Hamas - Destroying the education of a generation wasn't enough for Randi Weingarten.

Just about everyone in America seems to be angry at higher education.

 What Do American Universities and Communist Political Systems Have in Common? More than you think.

 Opportunity, Not Tragedy - The DEI ship at Harvard and other elite universities is probably too big to turn around

 Jordan Peterson is doomed to be a victim of woke culture

 Failing Upward at the State Department - Plus: Biden our time with Iran, the new proletariat, the great Kelce-Swift stupidification, and more.

 Moving to Red America - Americans have disproportionately relocated to Republican-led states that imposed the fewest and least severe Covid-19 mandates.

Justice Sotomayor says her job is too hard 

Tucker interviews Russel Brand 

 NY Times: Migrants Keep Coming Because They Know They Can Stay

 ‘Black Swan’ author Nassim Taleb, who correctly called the 2008 financial crisis, says the U.S. is in a ‘death spiral’ over government debt

 Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It

William Shatner Slams European Union Gender Equality Proposal to Ban Star Trek’s Iconic, “To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before”

 Harvard’s ‘Diversity’ Chief Accused Of Over 40 Instances Of Plagiarism

 Across the globe, people are choosing to have fewer children or none at all. 

 Bestseller Reparations - In ‘American Fiction,’ director Cord Jefferson brings a devil-may-care effrontery to bear on the culture of self-censorship, progressive pieties, and artistic hypocrisy.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

Taibbi:  The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention. The recent ballot access challenges, political investigations, and canceled primaries are just an extension of a phenomenon we should have seen coming twenty years ago

Illegal migrants from all over the world. It is an invasion, of sorts, without arms. There are many routes to legal immigration and most Americans are ok with that. Who wants open borders?

 Illegals from China, Turkey and India Cross Border in San Diego County

 Climate Change Causes Infant Mortality

 A Study of How Americans Die

  PUBLIC SCHOOL BLOAT

 Almost One-Third of Gen Z Now Gender-Queer

 EU Wants All 'Gendered Language' Erased

Tipping is good 

 Canadian officials fume over Tucker Carlson’s speech, proclaim they 'won’t stand for it'

 'Army Of God' Convoy Heads To US Border While EU Farmers Block Cities

The peasants are revolting 

 Soros, Facebook, And Omidyar Money Behind Attacks On German Farmers

Canada:  Public has proof that his (Trudeau's) government used faked intelligence to illegally frame protesting truckers as violent extremists.

“Undeniable at This Point” – Elon Musk Weighs in on Joe Biden’s Open Borders

 George Soros Spending Millions to Turn Texas Blue

Why? Strange.

Islam :

1,400 years ago, when Islam was created in the 7th century, Iran was Zoroastrian—today Muslim. Iraq was Christian; today it’s Muslim. Turkey was Christian; today it’s Muslim. Lebanon was Christian; today, with a Muslim majority, the Christians are disappearing from there. Egypt was Christian; today it's 92% Muslim. ..

I have no idea how these stats are calculated, but supposedly just over 70% of Americans are overweight, and 40% obese. 

It's just interesting. Asking "why?" is silly.

 What to expect from this year's rare double brood of cicadas

 A RABBI FOR CHRISTIANS

 Physical activity’s relationship with depression is more complex than it appears, study shows

 The Seven Laws of Pessimism -If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?

 Biden’s new tribal consent laws force NYC Museum of Natural History to close Native American exhibits

 Diversity training does more harm than good

The News About the News Business Is Getting Grimmer

 You Can't Defend 'Democracy' and the Administrative State

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

 Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in defamation damages, jury rules

 Climate Alarmist Mann is Not Paying a Penny for his Army of Lawyers

Sketchy economics of rooftop solar 

 The Texas Resistance Backed by 25 Governors. Do states have a right to defend their own borders?

 Biden’s border dereliction forced Gov. Abbott’s hand, and caused a national crisis

" A follower just sent me this video from earlier today of a group of migrants on a boat reaching the shores of a beach  in La Jolla , CA. "

 Cultural Replacement: Why The Immigration Crisis Is Being Deliberately Engineered

 BORDER WARNING FROM RETIRED FBI AGENTS

 TGIF: Soldiers of the Resistance - Democratic Socialists of America has a budget crisis. Hamas thanks U.S. college kids. Trump keeps soaring. Oakland’s In-N-Out shuts down. 

 Israel’s War on Hamas is the Least Deadly War in the Region. So why does the media describe it as “among the deadliest… in history”?

 Good News: US Halts UNRWA Funding Over Staff Involvement in October 7 Attacks

It's been a long road, with many changes over the years (but with no changes to our antique graphic presentation).

We (and "we") has changed plenty over the years. I spose our vision - if there was one - has been to be an eclectic site. Yes, we try to have a daily bulletin board of interesting and/or timely items, but we don't aim to "cover the news," whatever that means.

It can look like a conservative site, but it's intended to be more contrarian. Traditionalist. Skeptical for sure - always because the world is full of BS and propaganda and always was. When the MSM is riding some ideologically-motivated, politically-biased hobby horse, we like to offer other views. Sometimes rightly, sometimes in error, but I still think our perspectives are mostly rational and skeptical.

I do appreciate all of the people who send me links to use. That's good, but it would be fun to have more voluntary writers. People do get worn out by it over time and, if it's no longer fun, why bother?  Simpler just to email links to the Editor - little ol' me.

As best I can tell, several millions of people look at our site each year from all over the world (blocked in China I think but not in Norway). That is cool, but there is no vision of what we want to be or become - if anything. Never made one penny from this hobby, and some think that is stupid. Maybe, but I never made a penny from playing tennis either but when I played well, Mrs. BD noticed...

If you have plenty of good content, Substack seems like a place to offer it these days. Getting crowded though. Lots of competition in the arena of public affairs but not many sites love Farmall tractors.

Yeah, always loved our old Farmall except on steeps. Little scary on steeps - not built for our New England hills.