Crotty Farm Report

Here is the story, infused with Hegelian dialectic and “beautiful” singing by Crotty. Connie Connors did the packing. Production by the esteemed Michael Rosario, the legendary “Puerto Rican Man.” Thank you to the inimitable Michael Kassner for granting me a port in the storm of Manhattan long past its cool date. My time was well spent. From the confines of my groovy Manhattan bachelor pad, I launc...

Zephaniah Kingsley was a slaver. He bought and sold slaves. His unique selling proposition was that he upgraded his offerings—teaching them English, an applicable agricultural trade—thereby dramatically increasing the price he received at auction. Slaving was the primary focus of the Zephaniah plantation on Fort George Island, deep in the bayous of Jacksonville, Florida. The plantation was only ac...

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The estate that came to be known as “Mar-a-Lago,” sea to lake, was constructed for the socialite and business executive Marjorie Merriweather Post between 1924 and 1927, during the Florida land craze. The daughter of C.W. Post, she was best known as the owner and director of Postum Cereal Company, which acquired some of the nation's top brands, including Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, Jell-O, Maxwell Hous...

It was long drive from Omaha. But I achieved what I sought: multiple sightings of gator plus the added bonus of impressive Everglades bird life. Look below. I highly recommend a day trip to the Everglades. Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is p...

Here’s a closer look. God Bless America! Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe

Many of you may not realize it, but on Saturday morning, an anti-life narcissist set off a huge bomb that killed himself and severely damaged a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. The event has shaken the lovely, bucolic, historic desert Mecca. There’s talk of shutting down the thoroughfare that crosses in front of the clinic. The killer, Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, believed that humans need...

A two-block walk from the St. Louis Four Seasons Hotel stands the Union Electric Light and Power Company’s Ashley Street Powerhouse, a staggering emblem of industrial confidence and might. Built in 1902 in the Renaissance Revival style, the classical detailing of this preposterously large generating station stands in marked contrast to the rusting industrial appurtenances protruding beyond its fal...

It’s not hard to see how Democrats could start winning elections again: adopt Bill Clinton's Democratic Centrist playbook. The Democrats won in 1992 on a simple mantra: “It’s the economy, stupid.” But they won Clinton a second term because they governed from the center. That means jettisoning for all time this absurdly racist, sexist obsession with DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). When Bill...

Astor Place, once the epicenter of counter-cultural activity in NYC, has been made achingly safe for the square coeds of NYU. The Donut Pub, open 24 hours, is one of the last all-night outposts for an Instagram-happy cohort that goes to bed at a reasonable hour. Still, for outright food porn, it’s hard to beat. Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support...

In 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the consulate as a “spy hub” after a NYC police officer was found spying for China. In September 2024, Linda Sun, Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Kathy Hochul, was found to have worked to keep the governor from attending an event hosted by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office of New York. Consul General Huang Ping gave Sun direct orders and b...

I took a day trip across the border to check out the sights and sounds of the Baja Peninsula. The Colorado River was found to be dry, but the surroundings were quite enlivening. The passage across the border at Calexico was pretty straightforward. Contrary to stereotype, they did a full inspection of my car. I am not sure exactly what they were looking for since the drug traffic was going north, b...

The Salton Sea, California's largest body of inland water, lies 227 feet below sea level in the middle of the Mojave Desert. There is enough lithium at the bottom of the Sea to power nearly 400 million electric vehicles. They say you can fish and swim in the Salton Sea, but I wouldn’t trust it. There is that foul smell, plus the highly saline Sea is ground zero for an uptick in child respiratory i...

Pictured below: the grifter-in-chief and his designated bagman. Mr. President, please spare us the phony concern about Hunter Biden’s fragile sobriety. Your blanket pardon of your son had little to do with his welfare but, instead, served one overarching purpose: to eliminate any possibility that you, your brother Jim, let alone Hunter and other family members would go to prison for selling access...

This is the first in a series of longer-form Crotty lectures on art, philosophy, and politics. Works referenced in this episode and for further study: The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages , by Harold Bloom. Lectures on Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy , by G.W.F Hegel. On the Use and Abuse of History for Life , by Friedrich Nietzsche Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thoug...

Subscribers to The Crotty Farm Report know that I drove from my CrottMo redoubt in Omaha’s Little Italy to New York to watch and celebrate Donald Trump’s reelection on November 5. Here is my historic report from Times Square: Subscribers may not know that I stayed a few more days to enjoy the afterglow of Trump's triumph. In my peregrinations around Gotham, I talked with a variety of working-class...

Though I drove from Omaha to Times Square to be in Donald Trump’s home city of New York, I didn't know if he would win. To protect my heart from a Cornhusker-level disappointment, I even disingenuously predicted Harris would somehow pull it out , given the vaunted Democratic ground game. But that ground game never materialized. The love for Harris just wasn’t there. Once again, the polls––which ha...

Like a good hedgehog, Kamala Harris has a singular, easy path to election victory: win the former blue wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and carry the purple dot of Omaha . Given that the Real Clear Politics (RCP) average shows Harris up in Michigan and Wisconsin (if barely) and by a lot in the tie-breaking Nebraska district of CD-2, her focused strategy seems, at least superfic...

In a nod to playwright Brian Friel, Crotty votes for the first time in his “home place” of Nebraska, having moved on from the hopeless, dysfunctional, one-party rule of Democrat-run California. It’s poetic justice that #Nebraska plays UCLA this Saturday at Memorial. #GBR. Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or pai...

On the historic day when Crotty turned in his California driver’s license to become a registered voter in the bluest speck of the blue dot, I am again joined by Marin County Rainbow Brother Duncan Sylvester for a fascinating, essential discussion that ranges from ancient religious art to Edward Hopper, Venus de Milo to Andy Warhol, Friedrich Nietzsche to Flannery O’Connor, Taylor Swift to Willa Ca...

On the day that Elon Musk’s Space X “toothpicks” welcomed home the Super Heavy booster of its Starship in South Texas, Crotty stared into the night sky at Chance Ridge in Elkhorn, Nebraska to witness another historic space event. This one was last seen by our ancestors 80,000 years ago: the return of the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet. Here we are, connected through space and time, made all the...

At 850 Jones St., a block from the famed Old Market in the railroad capital of Omaha––where westward construction of the transcontinental railroad commenced––resides the seemingly benign and innocuous Harriman Dispatch Center (or HDC). The HDC is the rail traffic control headquarters for the 160-year-old publicly traded United Pacific Railroad (ticker: UNP), aka “U.P.” Informally known as "The Bun...

Chicago is the most architecturally spectacular city in America, with signature masterworks by Jahn, Richardson, Sullivan, and van der Rohe, founder of the exquisite—when done right—International Style. The glory days of writers like Nelson Algren, Mike Royko, and Theodore Dreiser are long gone, as well as Machine legends like Jane Byrne, Richard Daley, and Ed Vrodolyak, who provided such a saucy...

Some Democrats are even trying to get “The Oracle of Omaha,” Warren Buffett, to display a blue dot outside his long-time Dundee home. But don’t bank on it. While a dot may perfectly symbolize Nebraska’s famously understated, self-effacing, and Stoic nature, The Oracle, whose Republican father represented CD-2 in the U.S. Congress, knows that Republicans buy Berkshire Hathaway stock too. Crotty Far...

You’ve seen the pitch from Jimmy “The Belly” Crotty above. Here’s Taylor’s (click on the requisite photo with cat): Unlike The Crotty, Ms. Swift publicly endorses a specific candidate while disingenuously calling upon everyone to register (even Trump voters, Tay?). She also indirectly peddles lies about Trump's actual positions on abortion, gay rights, and IVF. Crotty’s only wish is for free speec...