THE TAOS TATLER.

From the New York Post

Read the whole thing.

It will be making its way down here shortly.

On the eve of Election Day Bickerstaff recalls, when he was but a lad, his father telling his children not long after the 1964 election: “They told me if I voted for Goldwater there would be inflation, our cities would go up in flames, and crime would soar. I voted for Goldwater and by God, they were right.”

Has anything changed?

Barry Goldwater, a prophet without honor, not even in his own country.

Read how a woman who wants to be the next President of the United States, conducted an interview with the celebrated Muslim comedian Kareem Rahman. It consisted a couple of her incisive questions.

From THE Post:

Though he was initially told the vice president was going to argue against taking off shoes on airplanes, Rahman, who is Muslim and doesn’t eat pork as part of his faith observance, learned when the two sat down that Harris was instead going to deliver the take that “bacon is a spice.”

And:

The disagreement led to Rahman pausing the interview and asking for Harris to return to the topic of shoeless passengers on planes, prompting the veep to instead talk about how she like[s] anchovies on pizza.

Wow! What an intellect! She could have mopped the floor with President Trump if only  he had accepted one of her many invitations to debate him (not really).

From the excellent music blog, Slipped Disc:

As does this blogger, who will offer prayers for this superb musician. Readers are invited to do the same.

The Democratic nominee’s spokeswoman has made a statement for her, as she had difficulty putting her thoughts in order.

An excerpt:

Trump’s connections to fascism are easily proven. For instance, his second wife was Marla Maples, who was born in the town of Cohutta in Georgia. Cohutta is an anagram of “Taco Hut”, which is a conflation of Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. These are both examples of popular restaurants. It is in restaurants that one often finds sausages. The country most associated with sausages is Germany. And Germany was the home of the Third Reich.

You must read the whole thing.

With thanks to Messrs Tighe and Armstrong.

“[T]hey’re voting for Trump, but afraid to say so because it will affect their/friend/job/customers.”

If this is true, and it certainly appears to be, judging from this blogger’s experience, then maybe, just maybe, we will see a landslide this election. Musk is no dummy and his multiple successes prove that.

From Not the Bee. Pure gold.

Click above.

Read how justice was served when bureaucrats from the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation walked into the house of the much beloved Peanut the Squirrel’s owner unannounced, with no warrant or permission, scooped up the hapless squirrel, and a pet raccoon as well, because they thought there was a possibility these well-cared for pets might be rabid. The only way to find out though was to gas them both, which they did a few days later.

The owner insisted he was working on getting the forms necessary to prove the animals had had their shots, but that wasn’t sufficient, so RIP Peanuts and his raccoon pal.

No word yet after several days from officials of the results of the autopsy, but we may sleep better knowing the owner’s rights were steamrolled so to protect us from us a small possibility of these poor critters being infected.

Read more about all-too-powerful bureaucrats overstepping their bounds, without a by-your-leave or apology, in this Hot Air piece by David Strom.

From the New York Sun:

Wikipedia’s Neutrality Under Fire as Studies Find Left-Leaning Bias.

A pair of damning reports allege that open-sourced Wikipedia — a non-profit organization that was built on the tenets of political and ideological neutrality — has increasingly displayed bias favoring the left and progressive issues within its content.

Read the whole thing (link above).

The shame of Wikipedia was its original promise of well-written, scholarly accounts that were as neutral as possible, making it a valuable resource given the leftward bias of virtually all media organs.  That is no longer the case; its editorial staffers have over the years transformed Wikipedia from neutral to the left, making it no more useful than the New York Times and kin (Scientific American and National Geographic have become little more socialist propaganda journals).

On non-topical subjects, Wikipedia is still invaluable as a one-step factual resource. This blogger, who writes professionally on classical music is glad to have it available for looking up forgotten details about a piece of music, or biographical information on composers. On other matters however, and those about certain artists involved in controversy, Wikipedia is becoming increasingly useless.

What a pity. Wikipedia in its  present state is further proof that everything the left touchs dies.

Requiescat in pace, Wikipedia.