Squirrels, Rise Up!
It takes a worried squirrel to make liberals go nuts
They have nothing to lose but their Elodonts
The squirrel is a lonesome, worried, restless creature. It lives on its own, without allies, without protectors. It has its teeth and claws. It has its acorns. It hoards its acorns, as many as it can gather, because, for a squirrel, the future is uncertain, and it knows not to count on help, including human help, should times get hard.
Occasionally, though, human beings do take squirrels as pets, easing the lot of these most anxious animals, with fascinating but complicated results.
America should hardly need reminding that it has been just over a year since P’Nut, the most famous pet squirrel in history with 500,000 followers on Instagram, suffered an unjust, untimely death at the hands of New York State wildlife officials who’d ripped him from the happy home provided for him by Mark Longo, his fellow influencer. Having learned to rely on Longo for necessities, P’Nut went on to entertain …
The Shame of Our Cities
How Minneapolis-Saint Paul became the Medicaid fraud capital of the USA
Looting, pillage, theft, billions in disbursements, all on the honor system
We are all Somalis now
In the autumn glare reflecting off the harsh glass façade of the Minneapolis public library, temporary fencing encloses a once-welcoming arc of wooden planters and benches. During business hours there is an edgy assortment of dazed, hunched-over, or mumbling manifestations of Minnesota’s social wreckage fogging the sidewalk between the library and this little park. Either the fear or reality of their behavior has seemingly denied the broader public of the opportunity to use it.
The library itself, a César Pelli-designed modernist ice cube that opened with great fanfare in the faraway year of 2006, is equally a relic, a monument to the bygone days when Minnesotans could read. “Minnesota nice, Mississippi smarter” goes a billboard around the corner on Washington Avenue in the heart of the yuppified postindustrial North Loop, the work of a local education-focused nonprofit. Only half of Minnesota …
Agricultural Digest
As you may recall from our June edition, a true family farm in the heart of Cranbury, New Jersey, was to be seized by eminent domain to build some affordable housing. At the time, proprietor Andy Henry promised to fight any such move, should it come to that. Well, it came to that — and Henry won! His 21-acre, 175-year-old livestock farm in the middle of the Jersey exurbs will live on, thanks to the challenges filed by his lawyer Timothy Duggan, and presumably public sentiment, which seems to be that getting rid of a 175-year-old farm to build government-imposed housing is the type of thing that happens in hellholes like Venezuela.
Even New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy seems to agree. In a statement released October 23rd, Murphy said: “New Jersey’s family farms are an essential and deeply cherished part of our state’s story. For 175 years, the Henry Family Farm has stood on South River Road in …
