Maggie's Farm

Readers may recall for no reason that I like my Alfa. Not flashy, but zippy, with a happy real rumble, and it's never had any problem. But needed a new battery, cuz with temps below 30 F it won't start so I brought it to the dealer yesterday, and they offered me a ride back home which I accepted.

OK, you can't just pick up a new 12 V battery and pop it in yourself anymore. On a small boat you can, but not on these computer cars.

Car is off warrantee, or I think so. Picked it up this morning. New battery installed and calibrated, car washed inside and out, washer fluid refilled, tires filled up. "No charge, thanks for coming."

 What is toxic ‘breadcrumbing’? Experts share signs and how to address it

 School Assigns 11-Year-Old Girl to Sleep With Boy

 Mayor Adams’ hotel-for-migrants money pit

 ‘Decolonization’ dominates Georgetown international relations curriculum

 The extensive rot at the heart of Human Rights Watch.

The obesity pay gap? 

 Congressional Campus Antisemitism Hearing: “The three presidents were, frankly, fairly pathetic”

 Billionaire Bill Ackman says Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents ‘must all resign in disgrace’

 Pope Francis Calls Climate Change A ‘Religious Problem’

Why John Kerry Would Force Poor People To Burn Wood And Dung - The main alternatives to coal are oil and natural gas; he says he's against them, too.

 Zero Public EV Chargers Built Since Congress Approved $7.5 Billion To Expand Network

 What Climate Crisis? Private Jet Demand Surges 

 Greenie jets bound for COP28 stuck on the tarmac, covered in snow in Munich

 Kendi: White People Can't Connect to Humanity

Californians are Suing to Stop the Planting of Trees

 Out: Tripledemic. In: Syndemic

 Surprise: People With Gender Dysphoria Are Mentally Ill, and Remain So After Transition

 How millennials learned to dread motherhood

 Disney CEO Admits ‘Wokeness’ Made Company ‘Broke’

 UF Western Civ center wraps up second semester, plans dozens of new classes for spring

If you aren’t talking about Chinese emissions, everything you are saying about global warming is a joke. 

Parents of Chiefs Fan in Team-Colors Facepaint Threaten Massive Lawsuit Against Deadspin

 EPA Seems to Be Setting Up U.S. to Join the Globalist “War on Meat”

VDH:  Weimar America

 Campus antisemitism has become systemic due to ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’

 Biden to phase out American (coal) power

 Israel Expands Ground Operations To Whole Of Gaza, Seeking "Total Victory"

 Even Hateful Protests Are Protected, Free Speech Group Reminds Congress

Feeding the Birds in England is 'Anti-Social Behavior'

UK:  Bans on festive markets and vegans up in arms about pigs in blankets jokes mean I’m dreaming of a woke free Christmas

 Not getting dressed is a disaster for mood and self-esteem, and productivity

Nostalgia for what? 

 "Since college, I have had an 'obese' to 'morbidly obese' body mass index — a measure that is at best inaccurate and at worst racist."

 Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Declares War on Juror #1

 Easy A’s in Ivy League Women and Gender Studies

 Yale Awards 80 Percent Of Grades In The A Range

 If you have nothing better to do with your mind, you might try torturing it with the question of why so many of today’s American marriages end up in divorce. 

 CDC is slammed for confusing and woke new guidance for winter vaccines that describes women as 'pregnant people'

 Climatism Has Gone From Virtue-Signaling To Vice-Signaling

 EPAs Own Data Shows Only 19% of All Climate Stations Reported Warming Since 1948

 Elon Musk has a big X on his back as Bob Iger pulls ads from platform

 Woke Disney’s New Kids’ Christmas Film Features Homosexual Parents, Sexually Charged Dialogue

 The Scariest SCOTUS Case This Term - Moore v. United States will determine if the IRS can tax income you have never received.

To those who never listen to NPR in car or wherever: Try it for a week or so. Educational...

 Your tax dollars at work: Minnesota is spending millions to fund marijuana companies

Chronic Absenteeism in DC Schools Was at 43% This Year (Where Are The Parents?)

 Hell Freezes Over: Maher Is Onboard With This Part of Trump's Education Policy

 Businesses Begin Abandoning DEI Initiatives

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

 The Left’s fear of fascism under Trump is the ultimate example of projection

 Another Lie! Joe Biden Claims He “Taught at the University of Pennsylvania For Four Years” 

He's always been like that

 Rogan: Democrats Have "No Cards To Play" For 2024, Except Imprisoning Trump

 Déjà Vu All Over Again: Hamas Ends 'Pause' With Rocket Fire

 Save The Salmon, Kill The Humans?

 CNN: ‘It’s Time to Limit Travel’ for Climate Change

 Mark Steyn Vs. The Appalling Michael Mann

 Don't Introspect!

 Entire Board Of Major UK Charity Sacked For Being White

 HBCU fired professor for complaining about inflated grades: report

 The ‘American Dream’ is not about getting rich

Dreams differ 

 TGIF: You Win Some, You Newsom: Ron and Gav get Trumped. Segregationists take back our schools. Capitalists win back AI. Elon, unplugged. Plus, shenanigans at the UN, the WHO, and the CIA.

 The left disgustingly dances on Kissinger’s grave because it hates America

VDH:  The Unhinged Among Us - Is the pro-Hamas crowd ignorant of Middle East history? 

 Pro-Hamas Protesters Get Violent, Try And Stop NYC Tree Lighting

 India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October

DeSantis DOMINATES in Red State-Blue State Debate With Newsom

 Gavin Newsom Is Not Ready for Prime Time

 The Athens of Asia: A History of Gaza. For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.

 Israel Had Hamas' Lethal Attack Blueprint a Year Ago: NY Times

 The first women-led armored battle in history - And not just Israel's history. History period. An interview with six women soldiers who drove their tanks into battle early in the morning of October 7th

 Hearing grammatical errors affects your heart rate variability

Doctors lobbying for Medicare for All should be careful what they wish for

 Coal Dust Is Claimed To Kill Old People: A New Instance of the Epidemiologist Fallacy

 UN: Okay, Maybe the Planet Isn't Warming That Quickly

 No proof face masks ever worked against Covid, claims UKHSA boss 

...  converting this building has shown that retrofitting a central heat pump system like this for such buildings is infeasible to the point of being ludicrous.  But of course, this is New York, and nobody is allowed to say that.

 One Example of How Media Creates Racial Panic

 PSNI treating Belfast 'Irish lives matter' graffiti as 'hate incident'

 ‘Don’t Advertise…. Go F*** Yourself:’Elon Musk Lashes Out at Companies ‘Blackmailing’ X/Twitter

 Douglas Murray: Wartime Diary - ‘As the helicopters carrying the released hostages landed, traffic stopped. People got out of their cars and broke into song.’

Using the internet is NOT bad for your mental health: Study across 168 countries finds no 'smoking gun' linking technology and wellbeing

 Byron Wien’s 20 Life Lessons

 Beliefs about Emotions Influence How People Feel, Act and Relate to Others. Thinking about a range of emotions as friends rather than foes improves the quality of our life

 Minor, in a Major Key - The movie Chevalier tells us little that is true about a second-rate composer—but it is a peerless example of hatred for the Western past.

 The Fight for the Future of Publishing - Ideological fanatics and fear have crippled the major houses. But new book publishers are rising up to take the risks they won’t.

 Lonely on campus: Students are siloed, silenced. Afraid to offend each other, college students are "siloed and silenced," creating an epidemic of loneliness on campus, writes Samuel Abrams, a professor of political science at Sarah Lawrence, on RealClearEducation.

 Pro-Israel teacher hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students riot: ‘They want her fired’

How The Democratic Party Faked An American Insurrection

 We Are Governed By Ignorant Fools

 How multiculturalism fuels hate - This elite ideology has cultivated and inflamed ethnic tensions.

 Hate Is Good: Laws Which Ban “Hate” Speech Are Bad: Ireland’s New “Hate” Laws Are Tyrannical

 Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins - The First Amendment does not give carte blanche to intimidation and harassment, writes Ilya Shapiro.

 The New Normal? Election results in the Netherlands and Argentina provide evidence of the vigour and variety of the New Right and its global reach.

 ‘Now and Then:’ How the Beatles Created Magic on Their New ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Albums, Via a Little MAL-ware

 Stop following this common piece of career and life advice, says behavior expert: It’s not ‘the solution to everything’

To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more.

DISNEY ‘FESSES UP

Who was Dianne Feinstein? 

 OpenAI Tried to Fire Altman Because He Was About to Wake Up the Monster

 New study finds ChatGPT gives better advice than professional columnists

 In Incredible Black Friday Sale, Lockheed Martin Offering 2 Wars For Price Of 1

  Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Caught on Hidden Camera Admitting January 6 Was a Hoax

The Fall of Minneapolis

I stupidly did it by mistake this year, and it turned out better than ever:  How To Roast a Turkey Upside Down

 12 Phrases Shakespeare Coined That We Still Use Today

 Chess wrongly perceived as a ‘brilliance’ game, leaving girls out

 Over Half of Americans Own a Gun or Know Someone Who Owns a Gun

A Dirty Little Secret About Drudge

 Rush of the Net Zero lemmings

 Prepare for a New, Less Affluent America

 Thank NY’s criminal justice ‘reforms’ for this double murder

 Lafayette College students are being taught that modern museums are instruments of “power,” entrenched in “violence” and colonialism, according to a new anthropology course offered this fall.

 Pride Santa and the Pride Christmas Nutcracker

 Derek Chauvin Stabbed in Federal Prison; Cop Convicted in George Floyd Death Given “Life-Saving Measures” Before Being Taken to Hospital

 Kamala Harris Should Have Checked the Background of Her Thanksgiving Photo

 The ‘Complexity’ of Idiocy - The Left is less a political movement than a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility

Sheesh 

 Liberals Once Embraced Interracial Marriages Like Mine. What Changed?My wife is black. I’m white. When we got married in 2007, progressives cheered. Today, they wonder if I’m up to parenting my own kids.

 Vivek Ramaswamy reveals his campaign has become a social-media stunt

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 Ireland's prime minister condemns anti-immigrant protesters in Dublin

 Violent clashes erupt in Dublin after stabbing of 5 people, as police blame ‘far-right ideology’

 On Eve Of Hostage Release, Hamas Calls For Supporters To Rise Up

 Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Stuart on gratitude 

1952 -  How to Explain Thanksgiving to French People?

 Foreign students should love Thanksgiving

 Aquaculture Accounts for Half of the World's Fish Supply

 The Decadence of Common-Good Capitalism

 Why New York is objectively America’s worst state

 The Fall of Minneapolis

 Judge Obliterates Oregon's Newest Gun Grab

 These classical teaching programs meet a growing demand

What is Left and Right? 

 The cause of free speech threatens to become the exclusive property of conservatives.

 Scientific censorship appears to be increasing. 

 'The Science' Suffers from Self-Inflicted Political Wounds. A separation of science and politics might be called for.

 Leftist Attempts to Destroy Elon Musk Won't Work in Time for 2024

 Ask every automaker – Tesla excused – that’s been pushed to make EVs before there was demand to support it.

 "Japs, Jewry And Trannies": Media Matters President's Bigoted Blogs Resurface Amid Spat With Musk

 Biden Getting Killed in Polls Because of Youth Dislike of Israel

 A Radical Democrat Proposal: Treat Black Voters Like They Matter

 German Priorities: Berlin Imposes a Spending Freeze Over Budget Crisis – AND ON THE SAME DAY, Releases a New 1.4B Military Aid Package to Ukraine

 A Self-Described Libertarian Wins In Argentina

JFK assassination: 60 years later we know the truth about the real killer

 LA Times Op-Ed: This Thanksgiving, Honor Turkeys By Not Eating Them

 What We’re Grateful For - Jonathan Haidt, Tyler Cowen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mayim Bialik, and Free Pressers weigh in. 

 There Is No Good Way to Travel Anywhere in America. An Amtrak ride can go so, so wrong.

That "new" Beatles song 

What's up with the Mayo Clinic? 

 Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found.

 Scarborough: If Elected, Trump Will 'Execute' As Many People As He Can Get Away With!

 Why Democrats Became The Totalitarians They Warned Us About

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

 Cry no more for Argentina — it’s about to be a new model for economic reform

Another look at The Band 

 The Nation: We Need to Decolonize Thanksgiving

VDH:  Can We Save our Universities?

 Six Books That Might Change How You Think About Mental Illness - These individual, honest narratives can help dislodge oversimplifications about mental health.

 MURPHY'S LAW OF DUCK HUNTING

 Cheers! A bottle of Scotch whisky sells for a record $2.7 million at auction

Nobody will open that bottle 

This Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers

 One More Gone Woke: Girl Scouts Stick With BLM, Will Train to 'Decenter' Whiteness

Of course 

 New AARP Report Finds Family Caregivers Provide $600 Billion in Unpaid Care Across the U.S.

I don't get that viewpoint. 

Loneliness 

 NY Times: Pandemic Learning Loss is the 'Most Damaging Disruption' in the History of American Education

NYC:  Why Rikers Island is ripe for a rethink

Kmart pulls ‘Merry Ham-Mas’ bags in Australia over fears looks like a tribute to Hamas: ‘We got it wrong’

 ‘Church Shouldn’t Be Political,’ Says Pastor With BLM, Pride Flags On Building

 Why Don't Women Marry?

 The End of Feminism

 Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why I Am Now a Christian

 Young Americans Are Having Less And Less Sex, But It’s Not Because They’ve Found Jesus

 Sex With Dogs & Other Critters Back In Vogue, Thanks To Academic Peter Singer

 The Leaky Bucket Gets Leakier - Increasing fraud and overpayments since Covid are leeching U.S. welfare programs.

 Pervasive Government Surveillance To Achieve Human Perfection: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

 The FBI Needs Downsizing, Not $3.5 Billion for a New Headquarters

WaPo: Scoop! Hamas Wanted Major War!

Wondering WHY you overspend?

 Any activity is better for your heart than sitting

The neural impact of “generalized trauma event witnessing”: How violent news affects our mental health

Really? 

 How to Maintain Hope in an Age of Catastrophe - The psychoanalyst and author Robert Jay Lifton on what seventy years of studying both the victims and the perpetrators of horror has taught him about the human will to survive.

Is there any age without catastrophe? 

 Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

 UMich 'doubling down' on DEI with latest campus-wide initiative

 Top 100 Movie Dances

 What the Octopus Knows - A scuba-diving philosopher explores invertebrate intelligence and consciousness.

 Ohio schoolgirl says she was harassed by male who 'asked to join in' while she was changing in restroom - as dozens of students walk out to protest school's transgender bathroom policy

 American dad who moved to Sweden with his young daughter reveals the staggering differences in European school system that ultimately forced his family to RETURN to the US

 The Perils of Affective Polarization - Our increasing desire to isolate ourselves from supporters of the opposite party can have dire consequences

DOUGLAS MURRAY IN ISRAEL

 White House Aides "Simply Cannot Stomach" Biden's Israel Policy, Dissent Memos Leak, Revolt At State Dept

The Nation:  What It’s Like to Take Over the Statue of Liberty - Hundreds of Jewish Voice for Peace members calling for a Gaza cease-fire occupied the pedestal of the statue. This is how it happened.

 HITLER YOUTH AT MIT

 115 Million Years Ago An Entire Continent Vanished. Now We've Found Where It's Hiding

 Feds Say They Uncovered Prostitution Ring Serving Politicians, Military Officers, And Tech Execs

Is that still enforced in the US? 

 How to Deal with a Narcissist

What horses see 

 The Government Wants to Release Grizzly Bears WHERE?

A strange medical malpractice case 

 Hudson Booksellers blocks 'America First' authors: MTG, Mark Levin, Kari Lake, Judge Jeanine

Why some are really mad at Mr. Beast

 TGIF: Jihadis Get Lost in Translation. Anne Frank is offensive. Building wells is bad. Chinatown is evil. Silence is violence. War is peace.

 Bari Weiss: End DEI. It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews—but America itself.

Stuart:  Should We End DEI?

Who is "we"? 

 Judge Engoron’s TDS-Afflicted Wife Regularly Flips Out on X

 Did you know that the UN runs the school system in Gaza?

What Is 'Rebecca Syndrome' and Is It Ruining Your Relationship?

Your Fault: Climate Doom Is Sexist

 COVID-19 Lockdowns Contributed To 'Collective Trauma' Among Americans: Psychologists

 Controlling Minds by Controlling Language

 You’ll Never Guess to Whom Hillary Clinton Compared Trump (Actually, You Will)

 Marjorie Taylor Greene Weighs In on GOP’s Complete Trainwreck Performance in General Election

 Why does the ‘party of abortion’ keep winning?

 Hamas to NYT: War of Annihilation Is Exactly What We Wanted

 WHO: Gaza Was Unicorns and Teddy Bears Until the Jews Bombed It

 Israel celebrates breaching ground Hamas didn’t foresee as war enters second month

 Zelensky goes on Meet the Press, calls on President Trump for help, and begs for money like a crackhead

 Henry Winkler’s Secret to Always Smelling Great - On the heels of a new memoir, the actor, producer and author talks about therapy, thinking about exercising and the legacy of The Fonz

 Does Elon Musk Have Too Much Power? Bari talks to Walter Isaacson. 

 Elon Musk’s free speech stance is ‘dangerous,’ Columbia journalism fellow says

 Stop clearing thousands of acres to build solar panels: Harvard study

 Progressive teachers want ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ banished from curriculum

 Ohio Voters Approve Radical Amendment Removing Limits on Abortion, Gender-Transition Procedures

Ugly, but it's up to the states 

 Bari Weiss: DEI is Undermining America

 Turley: This Is A Case Uniquely Created For Trump, "This Crosses The Line From Law To Entertainment"

 Trump Derangement Syndrome, Snobbery, and A Sophomoric View Of The Truth Behind Demands For Censorship

The Roots of Campus Hatred - Why have noxious ideas flourished at U.S. colleges? We have some answers.

 Sheena Josselyn, neuroscientist: ‘Eliminating a memory is fairly simple, once you have the right tools’

 Is Flossing A Waste Of Time?

 Sleep experts want to make standard time permanent after clocks fall back 

 How do you solve the problem of free will?

 Climate Cult Pushes Psychedelic Drugs To Deal With Climate Doom Anxiety

 Facebook Censors Nashville Trans Shooter Manifesto

 Liberals Shocked About Musk's Non-Woke Chatbot

 Now That Biden's Campaign Is Off the Rails, POLITICO Discovers He Might Be Corrupt

 Another Hugo Chavez-style idea on electricity rates from California's one-party regime

 The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites - Why does the world apply a special standard of conduct to Israel?

 Don Jr. Shares Viral Video from Germany: “If Necessary, We Must Use Violence to Institute Islamic State Once Muslims are a Majority”

 Anne Frank's Name to Be Removed From Day Care Center in Latest Woke Attempt to Erase History

 Obama: We Are All Complicit For the Violence in Israel-Hamas War

Fierce hand-to-hand combat in and around Gaza City can be expected to continue in the coming days

 The Ukraine war has no end in sight