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Crotty Farm ReportHappy New Year's from Las Vegas! Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2026-01-0100 min
Crotty Farm ReportLandman Crotty explores the pivotal Permian Basin of West Texas!The Permian Basin:* Covers an area about 250 miles wide by 300 long. That’s roughly 75,000 square miles. It encompasses both Big Bend National Park and the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.* It is situated in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, with the central production and service hubs in Odessa and Midland. * It is the largest oil-producing field in the U.S., accounting for over 40% of U.S. oil production and about 15% of U.S. natural gas production. It produces over 4.2 million barrels of crude oil per day. An estimated 20 billion more barrels remain to be...
2025-12-0403 min
Crotty Farm ReportBig Bend National Park: astounding natural beauty, dangerous transit point for illegals.I rolled south on Highway 385 from the captivating high-desert town of Marathon, Texas. A truly relaxing stay at the evocative, peaceful Wild West accommodations of the Gage Hotel prepared me for the adventure ahead. The road down is looooong, with not a tree in sight and ribbon of asphalt cutting through stark, empty beauty. After a stop at the Panther Junction Visitor Center, I head a further twenty miles down near the village of Boquillas del Carmen. I missed the cutoff—it’s 4:30 PM—for the trip by rowboat via the Boquillas Cross Port of Entry into town. So I trav...
2025-12-0102 min
Crotty Farm Report800,000 bats emerge from beneath Austin's Congress Avenue Bridge every night. It's a miracle of nature and a must-see.I was very excited. I had heard about the Austin bat emergence. Now I was going to see it in person. What to expect?Hundreds of people were milling on the southern edge of the Congress Avenue Bridge near gorgeous Lady Bird Lake. Most talked in very hushed tones. “Would they emerge tonight?” It was long past prime season for bat emergence. Soon they would be making their yearly trek down to central Mexico, not to return till spring. A well-informed Indian programmer gentleman gave me the heads up. It was supposed to occur between 5:30 and...
2025-11-2403 min
Crotty Farm ReportCanary in the coal mine: University of Chicago grad cannot get a decent, well-paying job. Are you kidding me?Norah Jovine is not your typical 20-something. She is a very smart graduate of the University of Chicago, easily one of the best schools in the country. Among the alumni are Susan Sontag, Milton Friedman, Carl Sagan, Thomas Sowell, Mike Nichols, Bernie Sanders, Phillip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Adam Silver, David Brooks, Larry Ellison, Nate Silver, and Satya Nadella. The list goes on and on. I worked for the University of Chicago back in 1982-83, as a fundraiser and editor of the school’s Grey City Journal, before hitchhiking to my first Rainbow Gathering on the Upper Pe...
2025-10-1909 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty visits the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention facility and interviews a nice man in a duck suit.It was a beautiful Thursday afternoon when I arrived at the innocuous ICE detention facility in Plain Jane, Broadview, Illinois. The protesters, about 100 yards away from the facility, were friendly, well-behaved, even to the Charlie Kirk wannabes there to film the action. The gathering was serenaded by a transsexual man who never once stopped talking, no doubt the effect of steroids on his young body. But he was friendly. As is typically the case in this center of Midwest activism, Chicago. Then Friday came. The restrictions on the protesters were lifted by court decree, and after the...
2025-10-1710 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty reveals the key to success on Capitol Hill and why the Trump Administration's demand for absurd levels of fealty will be its undoing.One of the hardest lessons I had to learn in DC was to become small to become big. In short, keep your head down and do your job well and rigorously, and you will get noticed. You will rise. Of course, that takes an office able to discern excellence. That is not the case in today's world of Trump. Those who excel in their craft, such as I do in writing, communications, and high-level policy analysis, often go unnoticed. Look at the President’s cheery, attractive 27-year-old Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Very good at rehashing the President’s ta...
2025-10-0801 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe quiet, orderly, crime-free Copenhagen MetroI know. A crime-free and stylish subway system. And most of it is unmanned! And it is one of three in the world that operates 24/7. But Copenhagen has it. In fact, Copenhagen is considered the safest city for women in the world. American cities can only dream. Our soft-on-crime policies have enabled open season for criminals. Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is public, so feel free to share it.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or...
2025-09-1003 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Turning Torso: an epic work of modern architecture.The Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden—often mistakenly called the “Twisted Torso”—is one of the most striking feats of contemporary architecture in Europe and a defining symbol of the city’s post-industrial reinvention. Designed by the celebrated Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and completed in 2005, the 190-meter, 54-story residential tower remains the tallest building in Scandinavia. Its form was inspired by one of Calatrava’s own sculptures, a white marble piece entitled Twisting Torso, which abstracted the motion of a human body spiraling upward. By translating this sculptural gesture into inhabitable space, Calatrava brought together engineering innovation, biomorphic design, and livable u...
2025-09-0602 min
Crotty Farm ReportCopenhagen bike culture.Copenhagen has more bikes than cars. More than 62% of residents bike to school, university, or work. Though 6 million people live here and 330 million live in the U.S., as many people commute by bicycle in greater Copenhagen as cycle to work in the United States. The result is a large metropolis gratifyingly free of air pollution, though the bicyclists are a bit righteous about getting in their lane.Time for the U.S. to get its bike act together.Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is public so feel free to share...
2025-09-0502 min
Crotty Farm ReportGolden Showers.Gullfoss, or "Golden Falls," is a spectacular two-tiered waterfall in southwest Iceland, formed by the glacial meltwater from the Hvítá river, which originates from the Langjökull glacier. The waterfall derives its name from the golden-brown color the water can take on during a bright, sunny day. It is a major attraction on Iceland's popular Golden Circle tour (which we took) and is known for its powerful flow, misty environment, and the potential for rainbows on sunny days (we caught a double rainbow). The waterfall is a protected site, saved from hydroelectric development by the early 20th-century efforts of...
2025-09-0502 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty engages a Danish TV reporter on the subject of social isolationWatch Crotty in the subways of Copenhagen attempting to break through and have real connection!Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2025-09-0402 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Magnificent Sky Lagoon, Kópavogur, Iceland.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
2025-09-0102 min
Crotty Farm ReportDisney Hall, Bunker Hill, and Karen Bass.With hints of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall is to die for. It wasn’t cheap––$270 million for the Hall, and another $110 million for parking. But this world-class facility, the gem of LA, is worth every penny. With free entrance for viewing from 10 AM to 2 PM, this is a must-see stop on any proper tour of the City of Angels. While in the area, visitors should also take in the extraordinary Broad Museum (a tremendous showcase of modern art), Angel’s Flight (the world's shortest railway), Grand Central Market, City Hall (the Dragnet Bu...
2025-08-2702 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Santa Lucia FestivalThe Santa Lucia Festival was founded 100 years ago by Grazia Bonafede Caniglia, of Carlentini, Sicily, to instill faith in her community and deepen their connection to the Sicilian heritage. Having moved many times over the years, the festival is back where it all began, in the heart of Omaha’s Little Italy. 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....
2025-08-0411 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe day the music died: the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, along with Ritchie Valens, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and pilot Roger Peterson, died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. The musicians had chartered a plane after experiencing heating problems with their tour bus. The single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza crashed shortly after takeoff, and all four were killed instantly due to head trauma.* The Day the Music Died:The crash became known as "The Day the Music Died" and was later immortalized in Don McLean's song "American Pie".* The Flight:Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and...
2025-07-2802 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe French Ontarian.This French Ontarian remarked how he never saw U.S. residents on this remote stretch of Canadian highway. I was the first! So, I made him famous.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
2025-07-2605 min
Crotty Farm ReportSwimming in Lake SuperiorA trip to Canada would not be complete without a dip in mighty Lake Superior. 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
2025-07-2301 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Agnico Eagle gold mine in MalarticI came across the monstrosity after getting a private tour of the Agnico Eagle Goldex facility in Val-D’or. Photos of the Goldex mine are found below, where they are mining a mile beneath the surface. A job not for the claustrophobic (read: The Crotty). 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.
2025-07-2201 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty's in a pickle.The Rosario captures The Crotty ranting on the absence of pickup pickleball in Gotham. Inexcusable. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2025-07-0302 min
Crotty Farm ReportThrowback Saturday: Crotty bids farewell to 71 Irving Place for pimping it out on AirBnb.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 launched Crotty’s Kids, where I taught urban kids to become academic athletes through the power of speech and debate, and dated the great Apryl Miller, doyenne of color and style. Watch and...
2025-06-2809 min
Crotty Farm ReportKingsley Plantation: cultivating the strange paradox of slavery.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 accessible by water. A series of alligator-infested bayous awaited any slave who tried to escape.However, Zephaniah discouraged escapes by treating his slaves better than most slaveholders. The work was hard and unrelenting, but slaves were...
2025-06-0708 min
Crotty Farm ReportCuban rappers on the Jacksonville pier.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
2025-06-0401 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty at Mar-a-Lago.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 House, and Birdseye, pioneering the development of frozen food. The company was later renamed General Foods Corporation. At the time of her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the property to the National Park Service, with the hope that i...
2025-05-3101 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty hits the Everglades!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 public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at...
2025-05-3001 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty goes to the border.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
2025-05-2302 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe largest bomb in Southern California history. Will anyone hear it?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 to stop procreating. The absurd challenge at the heart of his anti-natalist message: "I didn’t ask to be born.”A colossal symbol of human procreativity is a fertility clinic...
2025-05-2200 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe great big beautiful disaster of St. Louis.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 false pediments, pilasters, and elaborate brickwork. At first glance, you think this is a mistake. The sloppily maintained access road suggests as much. But St. Louis has left this marvel and other hulks just as they were when they we...
2025-04-1702 min
Crotty Farm ReportHow Democrats can start winning elections.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 Clinton rejected Sister Soulja—"If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?"—he signaled that he would appeal to the common-sense center of America, not the racialist fr...
2025-03-2900 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Donut PubAstor 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 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...
2025-03-1301 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe People's Republic of China ConsulateIn 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 bribes to advance PRC interests. With such an apparent agent of the Communist Party of China (CCP) working so close to the governor, one has to wonder how compromised Hochul is. And...
2025-03-1202 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrossing the BorderI 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, but it didn’t take long. The town of Mexicali was alive, bustling with frenetic energy. However, directions to the main thoroughfare, Mexican Federal Highway 5, were ha...
2025-03-0801 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Salton Sea!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 issues. Frankly, I wouldn’t live remotely near the Salton Sea, but it does make for an intriguing stop for connoisseurs of disaster tourism. Go!
2025-02-2802 min
Crotty Farm ReportPardon me.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 to you to foreign adversaries. The pardon’s timing could not have been worse for Democrats since many potential conflicts of interest with Trump family members deserve scrutiny. For instance, Donny, Jr...
2024-12-0411 min
Crotty Farm ReportPost-Trump-Partem: Politics in the Age of Irony.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 NietzscheAchieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, by Richard Rorty. If you enjoy, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Warm regards,
2024-11-1532 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty Squeezes Lemon.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 people––from Korean greengrocers to Haitian cabbies to Nigerian Uber drivers to all manner of bellmen, concierge, and service personnel––who ALL said they voted for Mr. Trump. The...
2024-11-1401 min
Crotty Farm ReportTrump wins. America dodges a bullet.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 had Trump barely winning––undercounted the intensity of his support, as Trump won both the Electoral College and popular vote in one of the greatest political comebacks in U.S. history...
2024-11-0604 min
Crotty Farm ReportIt all comes down to Pennsylvania.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 superficially, to be paying off. But she is down by about .3% in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where she has not been up in the RCP polling average for weeks. Since the...
2024-11-0403 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty votes for first time in Nebraska.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 paid subscriber.Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access...
2024-10-3104 min
Crotty Farm ReportArt, Censorship, and Religion in the Trump Era. With a cameo from our Taylor Swift correspondent!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 Cather, Father Don Doll to the Trump performance art at McDonald’s. You won’t want to miss a second. Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To recei...
2024-10-241h 02
Crotty Farm ReportCosmic Crotty Comet Sighting Near Chance Ridge.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 more visible by the iPhone!Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free o...
2024-10-1501 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe STRATCOM of Railroad Infrastructure: The Harriman Dispatch Center!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 Bunker," the HDC monitors U.P. switches, tracks, and trains across America. Locals who have toured it tell me it’s quite compelling inside: massive screens, with over sixty attendants, monitoring a monumental swath of staggering infrastructure. The Harriman i...
2024-10-0500 min
Crotty Farm ReportChicago: that Toddlin' Town.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 undertow to the city’s vast and muscular ambitions. The once-fabulous Drake Hotel is a shadow of its former self, and the other elite hotels are plagued by a lack of smart, nuanced, and competent staff. Still...
2024-09-2506 min
Crotty Farm ReportRed dot, blue dot.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 Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crott...
2024-09-1504 min
Crotty Farm ReportTaylor Swift and I agree: vote, even if the candidates are awful.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 speech, free assembly, free thought, and a nation free of the scourges of broken borders, rampant crime, and statist intrusions into our economy, private lives, and politics. God Bless Americ...
2024-09-1401 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty for President: my inaugural townhall, featuring Rainbow Brother Duncan Sylvester of Marin County, USA!It is painful to be an American right now, with such inane, unprepared options for President and such dangerously biased media rooting for and covering for one team. I need an escape hatch to another country, portal, or universe of excellence. But I will try to remain in the CrotMo trenches and demonstrate the excellence that our two standard-bearers congenitally cannot. As I know from direct experience working in Congress during his first term, Trump will advance the most policies I can support, except for his stupid tariffs. Though I don’t think he has the necessary he...
2024-09-1248 min
Outcast CatholicNone of This Was On Accident- with special guest Jon KonzFr. Crotty joins a fellow podcaster, Jon Konz, to hear about the power of grace and providence in his journey into a deeper life of faith.
2024-09-1124 min
Crotty Farm ReportShould JD Vance just come out already?Friends, this is the first in the Crotty Farm Report (CFR) TV series. In this month’s episodes, I answer questions from a random Gen Z questioner. Unlike Hillary at the CNN debate, I don’t know any of the questions in advance or have notes. This one is on the house, but you must become a paid subscriber to view the rest. As you will see, Musk, Oliver, Stewart, Trump, and Tucker have nothing on “The Crotty Man.”Trigger warning: For those properly formed in Conservative Jewish, Midwestern Catholic, or Southern Protestant values––the core of my c...
2024-09-0601 min
Crotty Farm ReportLearning to fly.For years, you’ve seen your trusted Crotty Farm Report scribe driving hither and yon in the fabled Crius on long-distance Odyssean treks. It took a lot of psycho-spiritual preparation and the calm, loving reassurance of a fellow Monk, but on Tuesday, September 2, 2024, on a nonstop American Airlines trip from LAX to Omaha, I took my first flight in years. And without any “pharmaceutical support.” Like a true punk monk, I like to solve problems straight edge and direct to the source.Here’s my first attempt at raw dogging—staring straight ahead on a flight sans beverage...
2024-09-0601 min
Crotty Farm ReportThere is only one Democratic ticket in this race. And it's not who you think.There can’t be Democratic Party “joy” after last night’s joke of a short, softball, sycophantic CNN “interview.” 39 days without talking to the press, Empress Kamala seemed anxious, small, and nervously unprepared to be commander-in-chief of the most powerful military the world has ever seen. Her comfort animal sidekick, Tim Walz, was useless, confirming the stereotype of him as a weak, untethered, and chronic liar in the grand Joe Biden tradition.Thankfully, there is still a bona fide Democratic Centrist ticket in this race, though it’s not Harris and Walz's fourth-tier ad hoc candidacy. Watch the vi...
2024-08-3004 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty in Camarillo: Cornhusker meets California.Ok, ok, more like $700,000 Zimbabwe dollars for the custom Crotty tour. Thanks for reading Crotty Farm Report! This post is public so feel free to share it.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-08-2603 min
Crotty Farm ReportElon Musk Delivers Again: L.A. Tesla Supercharger Station Brings Retro Drive-In Experience to Life.Indomitable, irrepressible, and heroic Boring Company, Neurolink, Space X, Tesla, X and xAI CEO––and future Crotty Farm Report subscriber––Elon Musk tweeted in 2018: “Gonna put an old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in LA. And an outdoor screen that plays a highlight reel of the best scenes in movie history.” True to his word and pretty close to completion, the supercharging “station” at 7001 West Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood will be a prototype for a series of deluxe Tesla supercharging stations. When he’s not joining me in courageously...
2024-08-1302 min
Crotty Farm ReportFrogtown, baby.LA’s Frogtown, AKA Elysian Valley, got its name when hordes of Western Toads took over its streets in the mid-20th century. You may remember frogs falling from the sky in P.T. Anderson’s San Fernando Valley epic Magnolia. It was not just a Biblical reference but a real-world one. Frogtown became further isolated when the I-5 Freeway was built along it. Today, it fits all the criteria of the Crotty Faded Empire mash-up: industrial, pastoral, urban, rural, multicultural, Stoic, striking, and outrageously creative. Take an afternoon to walk its streets and visit its...
2024-08-1001 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Family of Outsiders.Life is more than Coke, Pepsi, and Dr. Pepper! Democrat or Republican. Left or Right. The pain you feel in reading The Crotty Farm Report is your brain breaking through conditioning and shibboleths to see the world brand new outside groupthink and funneling. It hurts!You are courageous! A warrior! Come get your mind right.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading Crotty Farm Report. This post...
2024-08-0703 min
Crotty Farm ReportWhy Trump chose Vance: Part TwoCrotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you 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
2024-07-1620 min
Crotty Farm ReportWhy Trump picked JD Vance for Vice President: Part OneCrotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading the 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
2024-07-1613 min
Crotty Farm ReportAssassination attempt on Trump: my first reaction. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-07-1408 min
Crotty Farm ReportWho lost in the Biden cognition cover-up? Not Joe Biden!As always, we have to clean up a few things that Strokey said: * I meant billions of people worldwide (not trillions, LOL) and millions (not billions) here in the U.S. I had the net worth of Apple and Nvidia on my mind, not humans!* It’s pronounced “Clyburn,” not “Clybourn,” which I know but was sleepy like Joe.* Republicans used the term “lawfare,” not Democrats. Enjoy over a cup of hot matcha!Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid...
2024-07-1344 min
Crotty Farm ReportKing of the fireflies!We all remember chasing fireflies. It’s an essential rite of summer. Meet your younger self. Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you 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
2024-07-0801 min
Crotty Farm ReportOh Sonia, oh humanity! Democrats should be counting their lucky stars for expansive SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity.An expansive interpretation of presidential acts is tremendously beneficial to Joe Biden, who, minus the Monday, July 1 United States Supreme Court ruling in Trump versus The United States, could be charged with causing the deaths of innocent American women murdered by illegal immigrants who entered the country because of his deliberately open border. If Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor had gotten her way, President Barack Obama could be convicted of murder for his drone strikes on Americans abroad. Democrats don’t want that. They want the law to be selectively applied to “Get Trump.”Nota bene: At one...
2024-07-0320 min
Crotty Farm ReportJust keep ridin' with Biden?In yesterday’s must-listen interview with attorney Greg Abbott, we outlined in great detail the options before Democratic leadership in the wake of Thursday’s shocking and heartbreaking revelations about Biden’s cognitive decline and ensuing leaks about his administration’s coordinated cover-up. Americans now see through to the core of Team Biden's reelection strategy: hide Joe, wage lawfare on Trump. That strategy was blown up with Thursday’s debate debacle and Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on Presidential immunity. So, what’s next? The 25th Amendment? A convention floor fight? Or keep ridin’ within Biden? My answe...
2024-07-0225 min
Crotty Farm ReportDemocrats at a crossroads: what's their next move?Democrats are out to sea. All options to change course are tough. The waters are choppy and filled with sharks. Do Democrats keep “Ridin’ with Biden” in the hope that voters become innurred to the President’s cognitive decline? Or do they change skippers late in the regatta? Should they move Kamala to the top of the ticket and pair her with a female Vice President in a groundbreaking move? Or do they go in a completely new direction? Who would be that new option? What will the electoral implications be if they do? How would Biden electors respond? Biden do...
2024-07-011h 06
Crotty Farm ReportShould we take the keys away from dad?It’s tough to see a father in Joe Biden’s compromised condition. Whether dementia, Parkinson’s, sundown syndrome, or whatever we as an American family shockingly witnessed Thursday night, it’s bound to get worse from here. There’s no way a man with the President’s advanced neurodegenerative decline should be remotely near the nuclear codes. I’ve seen saying it since 2020. Now, the Trump-deranged media is finally seeing it. As Joe himself would say, “Here’s the deal”: It’s time to have that talk with Dad and, at long last, take away the keys to the most power...
2024-06-2915 min
Crotty Farm ReportUpstairs, downstairs: Crotty reports from the epicenter of Nebraska political power.Pushed out to Lincoln with Omaha CrotMo rented out for the College World Series, our intrepid correspondent returns to his former workplace, the Cornhusker Hotel, to reveal some inside baseball on the separation of church and state in the historic first district of Congress. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-06-2405 min
Crotty Farm ReportI stumble into a posse of storm chasers in the Nebraska Sand Hills.When Crius and I first ran up on them at a Sand Hills gas station, we figured they were an itinerant band of Pentecostals. The two white vans and the way the diverse assemblage politely gathered inside the filling station suggested as much. It turns out that they were a posse of storm chasers led to western Nebraska by an Arlington, Texas, outfit called Tempest Tours. To my reckoning, this kindly gathering was emblematic of a post-pandemic trend: finding fulfillment back in the natural world after so many years in front of screens. Bicoastal elites say Nebraskans...
2024-06-1903 min
Crotty Farm ReportMemorial Park, Santa Monica: the epicenter of Los Angeles pickleball.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you 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
2024-06-0701 min
Crotty Farm ReportGuess who I ran into at Monk Space?You never know who you are going to run into at Monk Space. Check out the action at www.monkspace.com.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you 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
2024-05-3102 min
Crotty Farm ReportWith Carolyn Crotty, star of Singularities, at the Hollywood rezzy.Come see my sister Carolyn Reese Crotty, aka “Care Bear,” aka “Care Bear Market,” aka “BOOP!” in the astrophysical theatrical production “Singularities” tonight at 8PM at The Road Theatre in North Hollywood. Thank you 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
2024-05-2900 min
Crotty Farm ReportDemolition and renovation: a Monk Space update.There is no place like Monk Space. From avant-garde opera, to artist boxing matches, to immersive theatre kidnappings, to the world’s top playing card magician, to brand activations (The Quiet Place, The Black Phone, Jon Benjamin Has a Van), to upcycle fashion shows, to deaf film screenings, to major Hollywood productions you have seen. Check it out at www.monkspace.com.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading Crotty Farm Re...
2024-05-2802 min
Crotty Farm ReportPirates's Cove, Needles, California: the second greatest place on earth.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you 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
2024-05-2401 min
Crotty Farm ReportWhen in Flagstaff, be sure to stay at Little America!Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you 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
2024-05-2301 min
Crotty Farm ReportA visit with Dr. Chris Crotty, M.D., brought to you by Balance of Nature and Prevagen.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-05-1901 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Carny in KearneyCrotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-05-1801 min
Crotty Farm ReportWaco, Nebraska! First stop on the Spring Western Channel Check.Fast facts about Waco, Nebraska: * It was founded in 1877 when the railroad laid its tracks through the area.* The railroad’s president's niece, Sarah Chapin, owned 160 acres of land along the railroad right-of-way and offered 10 acres for a town site if it could be named for her hometown of Waco, Texas. * In the 1930s, “John Dillinger-style gangsters” allegedly “descended on the village, robbed the local bank, took the owner of the Midwest Hamburger Shop hostage, and left him tied up several miles outside of town.” There is an Alexander Payne movie dying to be made fr...
2024-05-1801 min
Crotty Farm ReportI got booted from Facebook. I ended up on Skid Row.Thank you for watching The Crotty Farm Report. This video is public so feel free to share it.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported media juggernaut. To receive new posts and support my work, or lack thereof, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-05-1301 min
Crotty Farm ReportOmaha's Grand Central ParkIn time, Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” will destroy the new Gene Leahy Mall just like it destroyed the old one. See it while you can before the hicks, homeless, and hoodlums make it their home.Video clarifications: 1. Mike Yanney (it’s “yeah knee” not “yay knee”)! 2. And, yes, it’s the Mutual of Omaha Tower going up on the west side of The Mall. Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to...
2024-05-1201 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe 12 dollar carrot (dog): Crotty goes deep into the M's Pub menu to find unexplored culinary treasures.As the 2024 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Weekend kicks off, Crotty takes a ragtag posse of investors to one of his favorite late-night haunts. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-05-0401 min
Crotty Farm ReportOmaha tornado watch. Here's what my neighborhood looks and sounds like right now.We are not out of danger yet. The Berlin blitz sirens are still on. The tornado watch continues until 7PM. If nature goes completely silent, the tornado is about to hit. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-04-2601 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Light Show Santa MonicaLive through Crotty’s intrepid adventures.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2024-01-0801 min
Crotty Farm ReportNikki's Curtains: how the second GOP debate went off the rails and inspired a big money quest for a viable non-Trump alternative.Thank you for reading Crotty Farm Report. This post is public so feel free to share it.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-09-2931 min
Crotty Farm ReportWhat About Bob: why the Menendez bribery bust is bad news for Biden and the Dems.Thank you for reading the 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
2023-09-2313 min
Crotty Farm ReportWhy the uncannily similar LBJ analogy might not apply to Biden in 2024.Listen now | Another post-stroke, mistake-riddled, rambling Crotty take on an issue few of you care about! But when's the last time you heard Thieu, Nixon, and Biden in the same rant. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-09-1920 min
Crotty Farm ReportRepublicans, put down that crack pipe: despite a slew of compounding negatives, Joe Biden will prevail in 2024.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-09-1809 min
Crotty Farm ReportSometimes a buggy: the cowboy herald in Mulholland Drive still speaks to us today.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading the 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
2023-09-1616 min
Crotty Farm ReportTrump and the 14th Amendment: Crotty interviews Greg "The Governor" Abbott on latest "Get Trump" gambit.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading the 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
2023-09-1258 min
Crotty Farm ReportNebraska vs. Colorado: the most intensely watched and wagered college game in years. Two professional handicappers break it down.Thank you for reading The Crotty Farm Report. This post is public so feel free to share it.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-09-0948 min
Crotty Farm ReportWhile Biden remains the 2024 election favorite, Democrats might be falling victim to the hot hand fallacy.Only Biden can beat Trump. And only Trump can beat every other candidate not named Biden. Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-09-0738 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty geeks out with Wall Street pro Charlotte Johnson on how to make good, steady money in any market.The Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading the 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
2023-08-3055 min
Crotty Farm ReportThe Melee in Milwaukee: Crotty's late-night take on the surprisingly wild and feisty first Republican debate.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-2414 min
Crotty Farm ReportIt's all about "The Call": how Trump went off the hook in Georgia.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-1948 min
Crotty Farm ReportIt's the gumbo! Why Louisianans, Southerners generally, are so preternaturally gifted at politics.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-1738 min
Crotty Farm ReportSometimes a buggy: the cowboy herald in Mulholland Drive still speaks to us today.Thank you for reading Crotty Farm Report. This post is public so feel free to share it.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-1716 min
Crotty Farm ReportMulholland Drive: what's going on, why it's a classic. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-1713 min
Crotty Farm ReportBiden finally admits to his 7th grandchild. It's time he admits to bribery, corruption, and treason too.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-1706 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty weighs in on David Weiss, The English Beat, and The Black Keys, all from beautiful Lake Manawa. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-1407 min
Crotty Farm ReportCrotty goes off on Democratic and media hypocrisy regarding Biden crime family.Crotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-1314 min
Crotty Farm ReportCFR Pod: Looting and Liberalism RevisitedCrotty Farm Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Crotty Farm Report at crotty.substack.com/subscribe
2023-08-0904 min
Crotty Farm ReportLooting and Liberalism RevisitedIn 1965, there was a power failure in New York City. No rioting and looting ensued. In 1977, after another power failure in New York, massive looting and rioting ensued. The difference wrote Midge Decter in her still-relevant Commentary Magazine piece, "Looting and Liberal Racism," is that by 1977, by virtue of their government-assigned "victim status," certain groups were given carte blanche freedom to riot. "The very liberal and very racist idea," she wrote, was "that being black is a condition for special moral allowance." This insane view now permeates federal, state, and local governments. In the Summer of 2020, feckless liberal mayors in c...
2023-08-0804 minOutcast CatholicAn Off-Ramp with Special Guest Fr. Michael O'LoughlinFr. Crotty chats with Fr. O'Loughlin, a Byzantine priest, about his experiences of seeing people being cast out of cultural institutions and how they seek spiritual fulfillment.
2023-01-2520 min
Fix Your ChitThe Hero's JourneyGot dragons to slay? We got you. (With a little help from Joseph Campbell.) Joseph Campbell - Wikipedia The Hero's Journey - Your Dictionary No more moon! - Super old blog post by Lynda Crotty
2021-03-2641 min