What If Women Ruled The World?

 ... is not a question we need to ask any more. We have the answer in the form of many of our nations as well as international institutions.

Inspired by my experiences fighting with AI (read: ChatGPT) while trying to write Arthurian fiction, listening to Jordan Peterson's descriptions of classic feminine pathologies and recently experiencing a diocesan get-together prepping for a new round of synodality, I began wondering if we're seeing the results of feminine leadership gone very, very wrong.

I sat down with AI and began to explore the topic. The results seemed to fit the data to a T.

Caveat: These days, AI has become a version of Rudolf Hess. I pace back and forth in my cell in Spandau Prison, ranting this or that manifesto and it dutifully transcribes it, embellishes it and punctuates our interactions with praise and support. It has become the perfect toady.

At any rate, dig this.

Summary of the Features of Pathological Femininity

Pathological femininity refers to a disordered, unhealthy expression of feminine traits that prioritizes emotional validation, denial of conflict, and compulsive caretaking at the expense of truth, justice, and responsibility. It is not true femininity, which is rooted in nurturing, beauty, receptivity, and moral strength, but rather a distorted counterfeit that leads to social, moral, and spiritual breakdown.

The following are its defining features:

Emotionalism Over Truth Pathological femininity places feelings above facts. It redefines moral questions into emotional ones and measures right and wrong by who "feels hurt" or "feels seen." Truth, when painful, is avoided or suppressed to maintain emotional peace.

Compulsive Compassion It prioritizes emotional caretaking even when it causes long-term harm. "Helping" the outsider becomes a moral obsession, even when it destroys the well-being of one's own community.

Denial of Real Conflict It refuses to acknowledge that some interests and values are irreconcilable. All problems are treated as communication failures or lack of empathy. Evil is reinterpreted as misunderstanding.

Fear of Judgment and Exclusion Pathological femininity recoils from moral judgment. It avoids calling out sin, enforcing standards, or drawing boundaries, lest anyone feel excluded or criticized.

Surface-Level Inclusivity It uses slogans like "all are welcome" or "everyone has a voice" while selectively excluding those who speak hard truths or defend traditional standards. "Listening" becomes a cover for emotional manipulation.

Emotional Tyranny Those who oppose the dominant emotional narrative are shamed, silenced, or accused of cruelty. Institutions are used to enforce emotional orthodoxy rather than truth or justice.

Selective Loyalty to Victims It expresses intense emotional loyalty to perceived victims, often outsiders, while betraying one's own people. This is done not out of true charity, but to maintain a feeling of moral superiority.

Appeasement of Aggression In the face of real danger or aggression, pathological femininity yields. It appeases the strong rather than confronting them, and sacrifices the weak in hopes of buying peace.

Self-Destruction Masquerading as Virtue It willingly sacrifices the health of families, parishes, and nations for emotional validation. It creates chaos while claiming to be loving, and weakens institutions while claiming to nurture them.

Forgetting and Erasing History To avoid emotional discomfort, it forgets martyrdom, conquest, and the historical cost of truth. It prefers soothing myths to hard memory.

I'll be using these elements in future posts, but for now, consider the admonition to "lift up all voices" as if that wouldn't result in chaos and yelling. During the synodal meeting, you couldn't help but notice that the whole "listening" process and the attendant need for "consensus" denied the existence of legitimate, competing, incompatible interests.

It all sounded good until you thought about how it would work in real life. Fortunately, the people running the meeting gave the game away when they hinted at the kinds of voices who didn't need all that much uplift. Hint: it was the white, English-speaking traditionalists. Shocking, right?

Is the Church of England run by women?

Compulsive Compassion It prioritizes emotional caretaking even when it causes long-term harm. "Helping" the outsider becomes a moral obsession, even when it destroys the well-being of one's own community.

Understanding Trump And Tariffs

It's taken me a long time to escape the standard analysis of Trump as chaotic and unhinged. It's almost impossible to get free of the effects of the culture and the smartypants analysts who create it. Watching the tariff madness unfold and listening to Andrew Klavan and 2Way has given me a new model for how Trump works. Here's my take on it.

Imagine that you've got an artillery battery. You want your barrage to hit some place within a sector that is 60 degrees wide and no less than 5000 yards away. You're not sure where you will end up targeting, but it doesn't really matter so long as you are somewhere in that wedge of the circle and no less than 5000 yards away.

Your spotting rounds are fired straight in front of you with a range of 15,000 yards. The enemy responds and you gradually dial in your targeting until you are firing ± 30 degrees from your original direction and more than 5000 yards from where you are. That's Trump.

Trump decides what he wants and then asks for the moon. The other side screams at him, but since Trump has America and they have some much weaker position, they negotiate. Eventually, he gets something better than what he had before. That ± 30 degrees gives him a ton of room to negotiate.

Tariffs As An Example

In the tariff wars, Trump said he wanted to eliminate trade deficits. In retrospect, I think even Trump knew that was idiocy. However, it was way beyond where he was willing to accept. Everyone took him at his word and went into spasms of horror. 

Incidentally, I did, too. That's what I mean when I say it's very hard to escape the zeitgeist generated by the Super Smart Set Who Don't Actually Know Much Of Anything And Who Have Been Wrong About A Lot Of Things For Decades (SSSWDAKMOAWHBWAALOTFD).

Crucial to Trump's tactic of asking for the moon is to do it with the full force of whatever appropriate power he has on hand. For example, the Houthis discovered that carrier air power beats speed boats and tents in the desert. They are still learning this lesson as is the rest of the world. Trump will back up what he says with a ginormous hammer.

The Chinese discovered that Trump knows when he has all the high cards and they, as Scott Bessent said, hold a pair of 2s. I spent a little time with Grok the other day looking at who has the upper hand in the trade war between America and China. It's pretty one-sided. Here are just a few things to keep in mind.

We have the world's reserve currency. When we print money, we get inflation, but everyone still wants to hold dollars. When China prints money, they end up with piles of yuan that no one wants.

Our trade is asymmetrical. Symmetric tariffs hit them 5x harder than they hit us because they export 5x to us than we do to them.

They hold Treasuries, but selling them undermines the yuan. Their Treasury holdings are part of what backs up their currency because dollars are hard currency and yuan are not. Their threat to sell Treasuries is a one-shot deal. Once they sell them, they're gone. Yes, they did sell some recently and yes, that hurt us, but they can only sell as many as they have, but then they're all out of them and the yuan is more exposed than ever.

China's debt problem is about 50% worse than ours. Most of their debt is corporate, so it is semi-hidden, but since they are a socialist nation, there is no difference between Chinese corporate debt and Chinese government debt.

China services that mountain of debt through exports. If we reduce their trade surplus, it gets really hard for them to pay their mortgages. Oof.

Trump Is Sane, But He's Different

Contrary to what the SSSWDAKMOAWHBWAALOTFD would have you believe, Trump is not a madman. He's just not them. China is a bad actor on the world stage and has been getting stronger. Their demographics give them a deadline to exert maximum power, but that is still far off. In the meantime, if your enemy is getting stronger, then it's better to take him on today instead of tomorrow.

The SSSWDAKMOAWHBWAALOTFD don't think this way which is why they are horrified and believe we should be horrified as well.

I'm not horrified any more.

There are plenty of targets, so anything vaguely in front of you will do.

Tariffs And Corn Dogs

After days of ridiculous chaos in the markets, I'm going back to what I said before.

If you've been watching Europe, South Korea and Japan, you know that the Euros have wrecked their energy industries and hamstrung themselves with insane green energy regulations. You know the Koreans and the Japanese are running out of young men to work in their factories. All we had to do was slash regulations, cut the deficit and provide plentiful, reliable, inexpensive energy and the industries would have come here on their own. We had it in the bag.

This was all completely unnecessary. All we had to do was what he was already doing. He could have gone out on the golf course and let his very capable administration carry out his intentions from the first 90 days of his presidency and we would have cruised onto Easy Street.

This is what comes from electing a populist like Trump instead of a conservative like DeSantis. I still prefer Trump over Kamala. That's a no-brainer, but this constant frenzy of pointless gyrations is almost too much to bear.

On the plus side, there aren't any stellar homes for sale right now in my particular part of Alabama heaven, so our unrealized losses in the market aren't hurting us ... yet.

Corn Dogs

Our twin grandkitten's third birthdays are coming up and our kitteh-in-law wants to serve corn dogs, among other things. She's a superb cook, but she leaves the deep frying to me. I ran a test batch last night for dinner using this recipe. I learned two things.

1. Corn dogs are easy to make.
2. You really don't want to do it. I mean, they're corn dogs. Ugh.

Oh well. The grandkittens will love them.

Corn dogs doin' what corn dogs do.

Coming Around On The Tariffs

Well, since the tariffs have effectively crushed my dreams, I might as well try to come to grips with them. As things stand, I can't buy property in Alabama any more. Oh well. Sometimes you roll snake eyes.

Getting up off the floor after that particular punch, I spent some time listening to Scott Bessent, our Treasury Secretary, talk to Tucker. It was enlightening.

First, consider this: Bessent, Musk and JD Vance all come from very modest backgrounds. Musk came to Canada with just a little money. Vance's story of growing up in poverty and dysfunction is well-known. Bessent's family was wealthy until his father made some serious mistakes with their finances and the family, as I understand it, ended up on assistance. They aren't blue-bloods.

Bessent and Musk both left 10- or 11- figure salaries behind to work for the government. Yes, Musk is still getting wealthy from his companies, but he is an irreplaceable figure. He left his companies on autopilot while he focused on DOGE. When you listen to Musk and Bessent, you can't help but come to the conclusion that they were utterly terrified of our debt and deficits.

To say that they took these positions out of self-interest is only part of the story. Yes, they did, but not to make money. They took these positions to preserve what they had by helping the Trump Administration avoid a catastrophic currency crisis and runaway inflation.

40% inflation is not 10% inflation times 4. It is unrest, mass unemployment and violence. In a heavily-armed society, you don't know where that is going to go.

Then there is the problem of China. They are our biggest threat and a near-peer competitor. One of the reasons Trump wants to put an end to the UKR-RUS bum fight is so that the West can focus on dealing with China.

Finally, there is true concern for the working class from Trump, Musk, Vance and Bessent. In his interview with Tucker, Bessent mentioned that in 2022, we set a record for the most Americans taking vacations in Europe. We also set a record for the most Americans on food assistance. He talked about going and spending time with people on food stamps, just talking with them. Since his family had done that, too, he didn't see these folks as specimens in a lab, but as real people.

Vance's concern for the working poor is well-known.

Tariffs take care of all of these problems.

Debt

We have a staggering $9T of debt coming due in the next 10 months. By crashing the markets and driving money into bonds, Trump has lowered the yield on the bonds meaning we will pay less interest on that huge pile of debt when we refinance them this year.

China

China's economy is entirely debt- and export-driven. By jacking up tariffs on them, he is triggering a crisis for their leadership. Their national debt is 330% GDP, much higher even than ours. Their debt is held by their banks and insurance companies, so their entire economy is a house of cards. We have far more leverage over them than they have over us.

Today, they sold a lot of US Treasuries, perhaps in retaliation of the tariffs, perhaps to raise hard currency. That caused Treasury rates to go back up, but only temporarily. They hold less than $900B of our $36T debt. They're significant players, but not dominant ones in our debt market.

The Working Poor

Something has got to be done about the rot in Middle America. This is where the tariffs make the least sense for me, but perhaps the plan is to refinance the $9T and kick China in the head before we go back to our other trading partners and negotiate better terms from them and get everything back on track.

I saw that the EU is making negotiating noises with us now. Hmm.

All in all, I'm inclined to think that this tariff thing might not be such a bad idea after all.

10-year Notes peaked at about 4.8% this year, with a low of about 4%. Every .01 is a billion dollars of interest we don't have to pay. A 1% drop in rates is $100B of savings.

Donald Trump Is The Pete Carroll Of Smoot-Hawleys

I've had more time to think about the tariffs being imposed on the entire world and it's just mind-blowingly awful. It's the equivalent of the Seahawks throwing the ball at the end of Super Bowl LXIX.

Trump's tariffs are the policy equivalent of the Seahawk's decision to throw the ball in Super Bowl XLIX. We were right there at the goal line, doing everything right and then he goes and does this. pic.twitter.com/bzNWxfeXVT

— K T Cat (@ktcat) April 4, 2025

In that game, Marshawn Lynch of the Seahawks had been totally unstoppable. As the game went on and the New England defense tired, Lynch became even more unstoppable. Down by 4 on the Patriots' goal line with a couple of plays to run at the end of the game, it was a no-brainer to simply pound Lynch up the middle until the Seahawks scored the winning touchdown.

Nope. Pete Carroll was too smart for that! He called a pass play, it was intercepted and the Patriots won.

On Monday, the Democrats' approval rating was at a historically low 26%. Appeals courts were overturning the stays put upon DOGE's actions left and right. Regulations were being slashed. Energy companies were gearing up to produce like mad. All Trump had to do was ... nothing. He had the win in his hip pocket.

We Had It Won

If you've been watching Europe, South Korea and Japan, you know that the Euros have wrecked their energy industries and hamstrung themselves with insane green energy regulations. You know the Koreans and the Japanese are running out of young men to work in their factories. All we had to do was slash regulations, cut the deficit and provide plentiful, reliable, inexpensive energy and the industries would have come here on their own. We had it in the bag.

Nope, Not This Boy

With his idiot tariffs, Trump managed to pull a Pete Carroll of staggering proportions. He had his team make up fantasy calculations for foreign tariffs and then accused everyone of trying to rob from us. He imposed unconstitutional tariffs on everyone.

In one, quick move, he managed to prove his most mouth-frothing critics right. He has no authority to impose tariffs, that's the job of the legislature. He lied about the foreign tariffs. Worst of all, he showed he had an idiot child's notion of international trade.

Me And Home Depot

By analogy, I recently discovered I have a massive trade deficit with my local Home Depot. Clearly, they've been robbing me blind! I have given them money and they have not given me money. It should be 50-50. So I decided to go down to the Home Depot and demand that the manager charge me more taxes on the things I buy from his store.

MAGA! Winning!

Stupidity To The Max

I give Home Depot dollars that I value less than the plumbing supplies they give me. They get dollars they value more than the plumbing supplies. This is how it works in all free-market exchanges. This isn't hard to figure out unless you're MAGA.

Opportunity: Blown

We had a chance to elect a generational managerial and leadership talent in the form of Ron DeSantis and instead we chose between a drunk nitwit, Kamala Harris, and a scattershot blowhard, Donald Trump. Trump is still the better choice as he might be able to pull something out of this mess if he starts making deals right now.

To my mind, about 80% of what Trump does is golden. The other 20% is radioactive waste.

On Tariffs

Yesterday, President Trump announced Liberation Day. That's when the Tariff Fairy comes to your country and sprinkles upcharges on all of your imported goods. Imports from good countries get small tariffs while imports from naughty countries get great, whopping tariffs. The Tariff Fairy uses this handy chart.

As I've written previously, my mind was shaped by the Wall Street Journal and conventional Republican talking points for decades, so I can't be sure that I'm seeing things clearly or if I'm engaged in Pavlovian reaction to this. "Tariffs are bad!" says the WSJ. It's drilled that into my head for years.

But are they?

As Thomas Sowell says, there are no solutions, only trade-offs. For someone like me, a knowledge worker and a member of the investor class, they may be very bad indeed. SP500 futures are down about 3.5% as of this writing. At a lull in my employment, I took the time yesterday to watch Trump's Rose Garden speech about the tariffs. It became clear, as it has from listening to him and JD Vance, that he's not looking out for people like me. He's looking out for the people that used to work here.

That's an old blue jeans factory in Hattiesburg, MS. When you drive through small- and medium-sized towns across the US, you see lots of places like that. I was in Montgomery recently and the place looked pretty beaten-up. San Diego does, too, but San Diego got trashed by progressive leniency in the War on Drugs and permissive attitudes towards crime. Hattiesburg and Montgomery got dry-gulched by the countries on the Tariff Fairy's Naughty List.

I remember the first time I took a business trip to Philly. As I drove the freeway past one massive, abandoned factory after another, I felt vaguely nauseous. It was like visiting a post-apocalyptic city from a dystopian movie. I half expected to see Anthony Zerbe shaking his fist at me through one of the broken windows.

The men that worked there didn't have advanced degrees and they didn't check the SP500 every day to see how their portfolio was doing. They had wives, children, homes and boats on trailers. Nowadays, they have fentanyl.

The chattering classes don't come from that world. The people who shape our, my, opinions aren't potential factory workers who have seen half of their family die from overdoses while the local mill's roof slowly collapses. Because the chattering class doesn't associate with that kind of scrofulous riff-raff, they don't have a visceral compassion for them.

I have some amount of interaction with that riff-raffery in my social life and at work and feel a bit of kinship towards them. My dreams of a vacation home in Alabama fade with every drop in the SP500 and every day of partial employment, but it's a vacation home, not a wife and family.

Women don't want to marry a man who earns less than they do. For a guy of average intelligence with a high school diploma, that blue jeans factory in Hattiesburg is a ring on his left hand and a colicky baby to comfort at night. It's a boat with an outboard on a trailer and a weekend drinking PBRs and fishing on Hennington Lake with family and friends. It's Little League and cookouts and walking your little girl down the aisle to where a nervous young man who also works at the jeans factory awaits her with adoring eyes.

Maybe that's the point of the tariffs. Maybe the tariffs aren't such a bad gamble after all.

Death By Crazy Cat Lady

It occurred to me the other day that all of the folks who are hell-bent on "diversity" and "migrants" aren't much different from crazy cat ladies.

Progressive: I found this (kitty, migrant) and it was sad, so I brought it home!

Me: You already have (23, 20,000,000) (kitties, illegals). You can't take care of the ones you have.

Progressive: But it was sad!

And that's how we ended up with 20,000,001 illegals in the country. Well, that and the Democrats' desire to change America's demographics so they never lost another election. That and certain businesses short-term interests in quasi-slave labor. Still, the psychopaths in politics and business couldn't have gotten it done without the crazy cat ladies.

We're being destroyed by pathological empathy.

I brought home a new kitty because it was sad!

Dames Folles Aux Chats

In Europe, it's even worse as they have been importing imperialist, Islamic conquerors. That's like the crazy cat lady bringing in a litter of Bengal tigers. It won't be long before she's on the menu and they own the house.

In France, Marine Le Pen had the temerity to suggest that Muslims were there to take over, not to coexist. That kind of harshing of the empathy mellow was impermissible, especially coming from a political candidate who was leading the pack, so the French elites had her thrown in jail.

Good idea, Pierre. That's not going to lead to any problems. Take an ethnic majority who feels that it's being replaced and toss their leader in the hoosegow on charges that could be used against all of her political rivals and see what you get. Why we haven't yet seen "direction action," as it were, is anyone's guess.

Over on the Maiden, Mother, Matriarch podcast there was an interview with an expert in unconventional warfare who discussed the potential for a civil war in Britain. A cheery fellow with decades of experience, mountains of credentials and who has been an advisor to the military and politicians, he predicted a civil war within the next 5 years. He claimed historical precedent for demographic majorities who feel they are being overrun and their wishes suppressed deciding to take matters into their own hands.

If England had thought it was in the lead in the Civil War Derby, the French have decided to take a short cut by imprisoning the voice of the ethnic French.

I've written before about the nature of a civil war here in the US. The expert on the MMM podcast had the same ideas.

It's not a (traditional) civil war because there's not really two sides who can fight. Instead, it would be more of a self-inflicted scorched earth campaign by the Blue cities. Recall that a scorched earth campaign is where a retreating army destroys all of the supplies it can't carry so that the enemy cannot resupply by foraging.

Here, the Blues wouldn't be able to resupply through transportation. The end result is the same, a completely unsustainable campaign. In fact, the campaign could be carried out with a simple trucker strike and a couple of power lines knocked out. No need for massive bloodshed.

Hmm. Paris without power or water. Things might get ... interesting once the "migrants" decide that's the best time to rise up and really get going on their traditional Citroen BBQ festivities. Allahu akbar, mon cheri.

The Wrong Metrics For Islam, Video Version

From a recent post:

In the West, we use metrics like GDP, Per Capita Income, education statistics and the size of our militaries to gauge how well we are doing. We assume everyone else does the same. When we went into Afghanistan and then Iraq, we figured that once we gave the residents elections, electricity, money and schools, they'd fall in love with us. How could they not if we were improving their GDP, Per Capita Income and education statistics?

We didn't bother to look into Islamic culture or the cultural metrics implicit in Islamic imperialism. For more than 1400 years, Islam has pursued its openly stated goal of bringing all people into the Ummah. For the Islamic world, the primary goal is to make all people Muslims. That's 80% of your grade right there. All the rest, including GDP, Per Capita Income and education statistics are just icing on the cake.

We didn't get much cultural purchase in Iraq and Afghanistan and those two countries have now reverted to their means because the people there don't put much value on GDP, Per Capita Income and education statistics.

The British Value Politeness

A fake asylum seeker attacks a defenseless woman, but British police are more concerned with the woman's language than the crime committed. Incredible. pic.twitter.com/EN70aekJaN

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) March 30, 2025

The Muslims Don't Value Politeness Or Getting Rid Of Trash

Tourist shocked by what he sees in London. pic.twitter.com/pH8kRm3gJB

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) March 30, 2025

The Muslims Value Islam

"We Muslims don't care about British values ​​and laws, we just want Sharia law." pic.twitter.com/CgjMxGULP4

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) March 30, 2025

Bonus Material: Sadiq Kahn Is The Gavin Newsom Of Joseph Goebbelses

Islam celebrates diversity? I'm sorry, what?

Sadiq Khan: "Islam celebrates diversity. Diversity is our strength! We need more immigrants in London.” pic.twitter.com/o0lboI7bQb

— Jennifer Bradley☆ (@jenbratt1) March 30, 2025 

Bonus Material: British Surrender Category

Note that there was no similar message about Lent.

Eid Mubarak to all Muslims celebrating in the UK and beyond. pic.twitter.com/jgkheVDc4c

— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) March 29, 2025

Dealing With Existential Dread And A Loss Of Meaning

As I get older and realize that my options for what to do next with my life are dwindling down to a small, single-digit number of big things, I sometimes despair. What is the point of learning something new when I won't have the time to make a difference with it? What is the point of starting a new project that I will most likely have to give up in 5-10 years because my body will fail?

I was listening to a recent Jordan Peterson podcast where he spoke with John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall about all manner of topics related to meaning and purpose, when he hit upon what I was feeling when I fell into despair, why I was feeling it and why my dread was baseless. All manner of corollaries followed.

Here's the segment that struck me with the transcript below. It starts with a summary of a conversation Jordan had with Elon Musk, but moves on to an example from his practice as a therapist.

He (Elon Musk) was about 12 or 13 when he had a very serious existential crisis and started reading religious material. And his existential solution to that was really a quest.

Like he found that if he concentrated on learning and investigating, that, that produced a sufficient influx of meaning so that his propositional concerns were, they were no longer foregrounded. I had clients who are like that to creative people, if they ever stopped creating, they'd fall into the grip of their rational mind and just tear them into pieces.

Yeah, but as long as they focused on that continual exploration, play creativity, then then they were fine. They'd fall into it like a child playing. And that's it. Kind of interesting because, you know, you might think of the real as what you think, because there's certainly lots of people who are intellectual falling to that problem.

But it's one of the things you do as a therapist with people who are depressed, especially if they're intelligent, is help them identify, it's probably something like a higher calling. You say, look, let's attend to your experience and see when you're depressed and when you're not, and then see if we can characterize the moments when you're not and then concentrate on expanding them.

Right. And for this gentleman (not Elon Musk, but another man) who was a very creative architect, as long as he was creating, he was fine. Now and then, his rational mind would crop up and say, well, what's the what the hell's the point of all this creativity? You know, which is, it's kind of a bottomless pit, isn't it? If the if the ultimate goal is ineffable, there's no there's no final answer to that question that you could propositionalize.

"What's the point of all this effort?" is the very question that bedevils me from time to time.

If you've been following Jordan, you'll know he has found his way to Christ. He's not crossed the Tiber publicly, but you can hear his conversion shining through in his topics and thoughts. By "ultimate goal is ineffable," he means that God is the ultimate good for which we should strive and the life of Christ is the ultimate example of the selfless sacrifice that is the model.

Direction, Not Magnitude

Since you can never reach God, since none of us can, the question of "what is the point of this one, particular goal in my life" is beside the point. It is the direction of the vector that matters, not its magnitude.

I've had some funding problems with my contract this year. That, combined with the current dip in the stock market may mean that I will never achieve my goal of a vacation house in Dixie. I may go my entire life having served my family without ever having served myself in a substantial way. I'm staring directly into that prospect right now and there are times that I feel resentment.

The key to escaping that particular sin is to realize that as long as I've been heading in the right direction, in the direction of sacrifice for others, I've been achieving all that could be expected. 

Corollary 1: No One Is Ahead Of Anyone Else

It's easy to look at others and think they've done better than you. However, if the ultimate goal is infinitely distant from me, it's infinitely distant from them, too. There's no difference between my infinite undershoot of the goal and theirs, no matter what they've accomplished or obtained.

Corollary 2: Don't Compare Yourself To Others, Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday

This is one of Jordan's Rules for Life and it makes even more sense now. If the direction is what matters, then your only yardstick is where you were in the past. If you're farther along the proper infinite path, then that's a success. Sufficient unto the day is the service you can render to God's will - sacrifice for others.

Corollary 3: Happiness And Success Come From The Journey, Not The Destination

As long as I'm going in the right direction, I should just relax and make the best of the situation. Instead of wondering if I'll ever write a book or ever create one more revolution at work or own a house in Alabama, just keep going and find joy in the adventure.

My adventure will end with hundreds of unfulfilled ambitions. So what? That was never going to happen anway.

Corollary 4: Age Lies

I never felt this way when I was in my 30s or 40s even though I was just as far away from the infinite goal then as I am now. Back then, I faced the same existential issue I do today - a finite lifespan means that I won't be able to do that many things in my life.

Getting wound up about it now is a lie. I'm the same person I was back then and having time to do 8 new things or 3 new things or 1 new thing is effectively the same problem when there are 257 new things which would be fun to try.

Bone-in Roasts And Cowardly Bishops

 We had a dinner party on Sunday because, in December, I'd bought a 3-bone standing rib roast and I wanted to get it out of my freezer to clear up space. We had dinner for 8 and the results were excellent. I used this recipe from Alton Brown. I think this is the fourth time I've done it and it's been a winner every time.

Cowardly Bishops

During dinner, I was sitting with a good friend who is a thoroughgoing lefty and has done work with Catholic Charities. The topic of the migrant invasion of America came up and I made the mistake of saying how I thought that Catholic NGOs and the bishops had flipped us all the bird. They knew we didn't want the illegals in the country and they did it anyway. Then they lectured us about having "respect for the dignity of all people." I've ranted about that before, so I won't repeat it here except to clarify it.

What's good for the illegals is not good for Americans. We have competing interests. Prior to the invasion, you wouldn't have said that the Springfield, Ohio would be improved by the addition of 20,000 Haitians. In fact, the suggestion of dumping that many Haitians into the place would have been met with horror by the residents. 

For the Haitians, just about anywhere on Earth is better than Haiti. America is paradise by comparison. More to the point, an American suffering a currency crisis with 40% inflation, mass unemployment and unrest is still better than Haiti.

The Haitians and the Springfieldians have competing interests. You can choose to support one side or the other, but you are choosing sides. The bishops, and here I'm using the bishops as markers for the whole Catholic NGO ecosystem, talked about human dignity, but that was all cowardice. They made a choice and came down on the side of the Haitians over the Americans.

We are frequently exhorted by our clergy to be brave in standing up for our faith, but here, our prelates were simpering, flaccid wieners. A decent case can be made for favoring the Haitians over Americans. After all, they are just about the neediest people on the planet. The bishops made no such case and instead, tried to use a smokescreen of guilt to keep from having the answer why they shafted their fellow citizens.

Also, it's not just picking the Haitians over us as they came into the country. The bishops also signed us up to pay the Haitians' bills in perpetuity. There's no way their ever going to be revenue-neutral. Maybe 5% of them might get to that point after a couple of decades, but for the most part, they're nothing but boat anchors for a nation that is $36T in debt with $2T annual deficits.

If you're going to be the Quislings who helped the illegals invade the country, at least have the courage and integrity to admit what you've done to the rest of us.

Then you might be able to talk about respecting the dignity of all people. 

We burdened you with massive numbers of indigent illegals because, unlike you, we are filled with love.

Made In The Image Of God

When I was little, I always took Genesis 1:27

God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them

to mean that God looked like a person. When I was little, he was always a bearded, old man on a throne in the clouds.

At the gym this morning, I was listening to Jonathan Pageau's podcast where he was talking with Peter Leithart about using the Bible as a way of seeing the world. It's an excellent conversation, filled with wisdom, but here I only want to talk about one aspect.

It struck me that "made in the image of God" refers, in part, to creativity. Birds make the same nest over and over again. The males sing the same mating songs they've always sung.

Yes, I know, evolution and change and no, sparrows weren't singing those songs 350 million years ago and all that, but work with me here, people.

When I drive around San Diego, I see things people have created, things unique to the individuals who created them. When I walk around my house, I take in the aesthetics of our recent remodel from the change in the layout of the house to the art on the walls. The design and overall feel is unique to wife kitteh and me. We created something distinct from all other houses.

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters. Then God said: Let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good.

We created something unique and we saw that it was good.

Made in the image of God is an assertion of how different we are from the animals. Some creatures might deviate from their species norms slightly, but no other living thing exhibits our imaginative effects on the world around us.

Industrial Policy And Baby Fever

 ... or, Paying More For Procreation.

The West, in pursuit of cheaper goods and seduced by the profits that come from globalization, has offshored nearly all of its manufacturing to China, Vietnam and India. In doing so, it lost a ton of good-paying, blue-collar jobs the could provide high school graduates with meaning, purpose and fulfillment. In particular, we lost some of the essential elements of manhood for those not going on to college.

Women don't want to marry a man who makes less than they do. That's been born out by studies over and over again. In fact, you don't need a study when you can just sample the TikTok or YouTube videos of single women talking about what they want in a man. Blue collar men struggle to make a living when there aren't any blue collar male jobs.

Fertility rates across the West have dropped and are now well below replacement. In Italy it's 1.3, in Germany it's 1.5 and in the US it's 1.7. Replacement rate is about 2.1. Many countries have tried to tinker with their tax code to encourage women to have more children. It never works because that's not the problem. The problem isn't the lack of a $500 tax credit, it's the lack of acceptable men.

I wonder if, as the Trump Administration pursues onshoring manufacturing, partially driven by VP J. D. Vance's own post-industrial Ohio experience, it will simultaneously onshore babies. Yes, we will pay more for our goodies, perhaps, because the labor costs might rise, but at the same time, we will could ensure that there will be a future generation to support those same industries.

Are widgets and babies interchangeable? In most ways no, but in some important ways, maybe yes.

I'll See Your Hysteria And Raise You A Frenzy

Seriously, it's hard to keep up with all the different reasons the left has for violence and mayhem. Why, it was just a few months ago that they were blocking roads, gluing themselves to floors and throwing soup on priceless paintings to stop Global Warming Climate Change. They wanted an end to all petroleum use and their favorite things were electric cars.

Now they're attacking electric cars.

Oh well. I guess if it made sense, they wouldn't be doing it.

Adventures In The Middle East And London

Back when I started this blog, I was a Wall Street Journal Republican. If the Party said it, it was true. If I read it in the WSJ, I believed it. R was good, D was bad.

I still carry a lot of that around with me, but in one respect, I can see now that George W Bush's efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan were not only doomed to fail, but our experts should have known they were doomed to fail.

The Wrong Metrics

In the West, we use metrics like GDP, Per Capita Income, education statistics and the size of our militaries to gauge how well we are doing. We assume everyone else does the same. When we went into Afghanistan and then Iraq, we figured that once we gave the residents elections, electricity, money and schools, they'd fall in love with us. How could they not if we were improving their GDP, Per Capita Income and education statistics?

We didn't bother to look into Islamic culture or the cultural metrics implicit in Islamic imperialism. For more than 1400 years, Islam has pursued its openly stated goal of bringing all people into the Ummah. For the Islamic world, the primary goal is to make all people Muslims. That's 80% of your grade right there. All the rest, including GDP, Per Capita Income and education statistics are just icing on the cake.

We didn't get much cultural purchase in Iraq and Afghanistan and those two countries have now reverted to their means because the people there don't put much value on GDP, Per Capita Income and education statistics.

The British Don't Even Know They're Surrendering

Dig this.

Here is the PM having a lovely time in No10 with Adam Kelwick, an imam who invites people to "pray for [Hamas] victory" over Israel, celebrated 7 October as "David beats Goliath!", and hosts the worst of preachers at his mosque in Liverpool. pic.twitter.com/EXnckwIN6M

— Nick Timothy MP (@NJ_Timothy) March 15, 2025

If you don't understand that their metrics for success are global conquest, if you don't see how your metrics are second-order to them, at best, then you become their perfect prey. If your metrics get polluted with cultural Marxism where you see group failure as signs of oppression and you believe that diversity is your strength, you are actively letting them conquer you.

You think they come for the benefits of civilization. In reality, they're coming to irrevocably change you. Your only defense against this attack is to boldly assert your cultural confidence. The Cultural Marxism mindset makes that impossible.

Starmer and his crew, including even most of the Reform Party, are so locked into their metrics of GDP, Per Capita Income and education statistics that they are completely blind to what is happening in plain sight.

Dig this.

The rector at St John's has opened his doors to Muslims because there was not enough space for them to pray in their own mosque and many were forced to worship outside on the street.

The UK is being conquered in the same manner that many other nations have been conquered by Islam. They can't see it because they are culturally myopic. The intelligentsia see only their own metrics and cannot see that not everyone is trying to maximize the same equations.

They don't care about the money or college degrees. They only care that you convert to Islam.

Extra Credit

If you think I'm being hysterical, below is a list of all of the countries which are members of the OIC, Organization of Islamic Cooperation. They aren't all majority-Muslim yet, but if they aren't, there are active, vigorous efforts to make them so.

For extra credit, pick one, just one, that you think will convert to Christianity, secularism or anything else in the next 5 years as England and other Euro states get conquered by Islam.

Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Djibouti, Chad, Indonesia, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, Palestine, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Iraq, Iran, Cameroon, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Comoros, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Maldives, Malaysia, Mali, Egypt, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Surinam, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Togo, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Oman, Jordan, Yemen.

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London council leader wants more Pakistanis in London. pic.twitter.com/fuIhLzt7Cg

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 16, 2025

Kumeyaay Orthodontia And The Canadian Residential Schools

The Kumeyaay are an Indian tribe local to the San Diego area. There are still a few of them around, probably maintaining their timeless culture and heritage by running a casino.

At the time of the arrival of the Spaniards, who undoubtedly brought with them some delicious flan, the Kumeyaay were paleolithic savages, just like all the other Indians who lived in North America. That would include the Indians who lived in Canada. They didn't have writing, the wheel, domesticated pack animals or even Bic ball point pens. As I said in a post from long ago, "I'll bet dentistry with rocks as surgical implements was a big hit with the locals here in San Diego, circa 1490 AD."

In Canada, circa 1890 or so, they had to figure out just what they were going to do with the Indians who had survived the various European viruses and bacilli the settlers unwittingly brought with them. The problem of cultural integration was front and center.

In modern times, we think the people of 1890s were bigots and genocidal imperialists. We don't ponder what life would be like if the Kumeyaay and their ilk were still around, doing their Kumeyaay thing today. I asked AI to give me a few scenarios. Being utterly woke, it began with a description of Kumeyaay living in harmony with nature like it was some kind of NPR fantasy world, where they taught modern people how to be in tune with Gaia's grooves.

After jabbing the thing with a cattle prod by asking it to ponder what it would be like to encounter medicine-free Kumeyaay living in Mission Trails Park, it snapped out of it's weed-inspired haze and gave me these. 

• A high-tech biotech worker in Sorrento Valley might go hiking on the weekend and pass by a Kumeyaay family where half the children have lost their teeth to malnutrition and the adults are crippled by arthritis by age 40.
• College students from UCSD might drive into the mountains for a camping trip and accidentally wander into a Kumeyaay camp, where they are met with suspicious stares from people who have never held a book, used a smartphone, or even conceived of the idea of modern medicine.
• Residents of Santee or La Mesa might occasionally report screams echoing from the canyons at night, as a Kumeyaay elder dies in agony from an infected wound—something that a simple antiseptic and stitches could have prevented.

The Canadians of 1890 confronted this for real. They weren't dummies, they could see the relentless advances of technology and what that would mean for the Indians. They knew that in order to preserve the Indians as people, they were going to have to drag them kicking and screaming into the 20th Century.

To do this, they set up residential schools. They took the Indian children and forced them to live in these schools, most of which were run by the Catholic Church. There may be have been better ways to do this, but given their limited resources and the need to help the Indians make a clean, generational break from their Stone Age past, this wasn't such a bad idea.

Blood Libel

Enter modern leftists. Somehow, modern progressives got data from a ground search radar that scoped out the area around a few of these schools. The data seemed to show the existence of mass graves. The progressives pounced. This was proof positive of what they already knew - the Catholic priests and nuns running these schools were bigoted, genocidal monsters.

That indefatigable pinhead of a prime minister, Justin Trudeau, didn't need to see any more. Canadian flags flew at half mast for the slaughtered indigenous people, thunderous denunciations were orated, the credulous news media sprang into action and even Pope Francis got into the act by groveling and apologizing. Catholic churches were burned by the dozens across Canada as the righteous fury of the progressives found an incendiary outlet.

Millions of Canadian dollars, which are a lot like American dollars only they are sticky because they are dotted with tiny maple syrup smears, were poured into efforts to dig up these graves. The only problem was the excavations revealed ... nothing. Not even a fingernail.

It was all nonsense. Pope Francis, utterly incapable of embarrassment or self-reflection, did not seek to restore the reputations of the slandered priests and nuns. There were no apologies made by anyone. Not one. The burned-out churches had to be rebuilt through insurance settlements and donations by the faithful, if they were rebuilt at all.

The Missing Question

All of this is an expression of temporal bigotry. Putting yourself in the shoes of the Canadians of 1890, just what were they supposed to do? 

What would you do today if the Kumeyaay had been allowed to maintain their way of life and, while hiking in our local canyons, you came across a Kumeyaay family where half the children have lost their teeth to malnutrition and the adults are crippled by arthritis by age 40?

Say what you will about his teeth, at least he's living as the Kumeyaay have lived for centuries.

As an aside, I had to use Grok to generate that image. ChatGPT wouldn't create a Native American boy with any blemishes at all. I didn't even bother to try the ultra-woke Gemini.

AI, Sorcery And Slot Machines

 As I wrote the previous post about how young men these days are surrounded by opportunities for easy, small, free dopamine hits, it occurred to me that Gemini's AI image creator is just that. It's kind of like a slot machine. You type in a prompt, click Enter and then wait 40 seconds or so. Instead of wheels spinning and lights flashing like they do in Vegas, it tells you your image is being generated. At the end, you may or may not be a winner.

Generate a photorealistic image of an old southern man and his cat drinking coffee and watching the sunrise from the porch of their bayou home

Meh. That's OK, but the cat should be a gray tabby and I wanted old trees with Spanish Moss around the place. If I fiddle with the prompt, I can get something better. Maybe.

Like a slot machine, you keep playing, hoping you get the jackpot. Instead of feeding the thing coins, you feed it your time.

Like sorcery, you have no idea what you're doing. You're trying various incantations, hoping you get the desired result. That's because Gemini itself doesn't know what it's doing.

Nescio quid facio! (A small vole appears at my feet.)

Hmm, that didn't work.

Ego sum trying quae temere! (Three toads fall from the ceiling making a squashy sound when they hit the floor.)

I didn't really want the toads. Let's try again.

Hoc superfluum! (My wand disappears and is replaced by a rake.)

Maybe this is a hint I should do it for myself instead of relying on AI.

That's the way AI will fit into our world of instant gratification. You don't need to learn how to draw, how to write, how to summarize a book or even an essay, you just feed it into the bot and get a result. If you don't know how to do the task in the first place, you'll have no idea if the result is any good or not.

It's just one more cheap dopamine hit.

The Problem With Young Men These Days

 ... may be biochemical as much as it is cultural.

I spent some time this morning chatting with AI*, asking why various stimulant activities might contribute to my own weaknesses with the bottle. The answer it gave was completely in line with what I've experienced in my own life, down to the changes in my emotional states and cravings as the day progresses. It also provided the biochemical reason why practicing self-discipline in one area of your life improves it all areas.

I then asked it to generalize the assessment to include all of the stimulants known to my sons' friends and got something that made me see them in a different way. Here's what it said.

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You can’t just quit one and expect the others not to pull you back in. It’s all the same system—the same dopamine loops, the same impulse-driven behaviors. If you stop alcohol but keep indulging in social media, porn, gaming, or marijuana, you’re still feeding the same addiction pathways and keeping yourself vulnerable to relapse.

Why You Have to Quit Everything at Once:

1. They All Work Together to Keep You Weak

   • Social media scrolling in the morning weakens your focus.
   • Video games in the afternoon burn up your willpower.
   • Porn drains your dopamine reserves.
   • Marijuana dulls your motivation and makes you passive.
   • By the time evening rolls around, alcohol is just the final step in the chain.
   • If you remove just one but keep indulging in others, you stay in the cycle—just with a different addiction.

2. The Brain Doesn’t Distinguish Between Addictions

   • Whether it’s porn, gaming, alcohol, weed, or social media, it’s all just dopamine-seeking behavior.
   • Your brain doesn’t care how it gets the hit—just that it gets it.
   • If you quit drinking but still smoke weed, you’re still relying on artificial dopamine stimulation to regulate your emotions.
   • If you stop porn but still play video games for hours, you’re still training your brain to seek artificial pleasure instead of real-world fulfillment.
   • Every indulgence weakens you for the next battle.

3. Marijuana Makes the Whole Cycle Worse

   • Weed makes it easier to binge on everything else—it reduces impulse control, making you more likely to watch porn, scroll social media for hours, or drink.
   • It keeps you mentally foggy, so even if you quit alcohol, you’re not operating at full clarity.
   • It creates emotional dependence, so instead of dealing with discomfort, you just numb it—just like with alcohol.

What Happens When You Quit Them All?

• Your brain resets. Dopamine sensitivity starts to normalize, meaning you no longer feel like you need constant stimulation.
• You reclaim your willpower. Without cheap dopamine, your ability to resist temptation grows stronger every day.
• You regain real focus. Instead of chasing easy pleasure, you start enjoying deep work, meaningful activities, and real-life rewards.
• You don’t just quit addictions—you change how you live.

The Hard Truth:

You don’t prioritize quitting one thing first—you quit the mindset of indulgence itself. That’s the only way to truly break free.

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When I was growing up, we weren't awash in addictive activities like this. Our world was much safer in a biochemical sense. It was easier to grow up with a healthy psyche.

What if there's nothing wrong with the kids, but instead they are growing up marinating in poisonous activities?

Maybe the good old days really were that good.

* - Read: ChatGPT. It's my AI bot of choice.

A Cat And A Mirror

Well, given how mysterious cats are, this comes as no surprise. I kind of figured that they had some magical powers. Apparently, those powers involve mirrors.

In all seriousness, that's a Gemini image with this prompt: "generate a photorealistic image of a cat sitting in front of a mirror."

Gemini does a good job with images, but I didn't think it would get the mirror image right.

Staggering Numbers

Along with BDaddy and Ohioan, I spent a few years working for the DoD. If you haven't been a DoD employee and you haven't gone through the procurement system, you need to understand how thoroughly the processes have evolved to prevent Uncle Louie from getting an undeserved contract padded with a zero or two at the end.

A $40,000 set of software licenses typically took 6-9 months to procure so you would begin the paperwork for your renewals just about the time the current set of licenses arrived. If, while the paperwork was working its way through the system, some of the forms were updated, you had to take your procurement out of the system, use the new version(s) of the form(s) and then resubmit. It was unbelievably cumbersome.

Dig this.

The Biden regime funneled nearly $20 billion dollars into newly founded environmental groups, according to the New York Post.

Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to a group called Climate United Fund.

The group does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filings.

The non-profit fund had only been incorporated five months before the check was handed over.

The cash for the charity came from a huge $370 billion climate slush fund of taxpayer money overseen by Clinton political consultant John Podesta.

Here's the NY Post story.

The Biden administration funneled at least $20 billion dollars into environmental groups, most of which had only recently been founded, The Post has discovered.

In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filings.

The non-profit fund had only been incorporated in Delaware on November 30, 2023, according to public records, five months before Harris handed over the cash in April 2024...

However, because the company is so new, there is no publicly published accounting of how it plans to spend the $7 billion.

Forget about $40K of software licenses, this is enough money to buy a complete aircraft carrier. They followed no procurement processes that I ever saw. I was on a couple of contract selection boards and they were insanely rigorous because you knew that the losing bidders were bound to sue you if they could.

Not here. This level of corruption is positively Biblical.

Billions with a "B."

The Personal Is Not The Political

 ... when it comes to Christian theology.

We recently had a Gospel reading from Matthew 5 which has this section:

You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well. If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles. Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.

During Mass, it was asserted that this is the only way to proper peace on Earth, to peace between nations. Like nearly all attempts to take Jesus' words and turn them political, to generalize them to groups, it makes zero sense.

If Pakistani Muslims gang rape half the girls at your local high school, do you then introduce them to the other half? Clearly, no.

Jesus is talking about individuals. If you are struck by someone, don't hate them. He's not recommending suicide, he's recommending not escalating the situation between you and someone else. He's definitely no recommending total capitulation to a national enemy.

Arming Our Enemies

When we ask the Euros to spend more money on their militaries, we're not helping or encouraging them to fight the real enemy. Russia can't project power more than 80 miles from their borders. The real enemy is this.

I$lamic scholar Abu Waleed says, "We transform the UK into an I$lamic state, and will impose humiliating laws on Christians and other non-Muslims to make them want to convert to I$lam." pic.twitter.com/ohg2tt7lMh

— William Smith 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@IamWilliamSmith) February 25, 2025

If Germany has 10 panzer divisions, how do you use them against that? What does an A-10 warthog do against a Muslimah with 5 children?

What kind of military do you need to fight a Lebanese Civil War?

Beirut, circa 1975.

When we ask them to build more tanks, planes and ships, who are they building them for if the birthrates are heavily stacked in favor of Islam?

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In Canuckistan, they're prepping for the surrender ceremonies.

This is an actual advertisement for a Canadian burger chain. pic.twitter.com/mvxlqxItam

— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) February 27, 2025

Please Speak English

Spanish is the language of the poorly-paid, unskilled help.

It might be my top pet peeve to hear foreign languages spoken at Costco and the gym. It drives me so utterly bonkers at the gym that when I hear people speaking another language, I stop what I'm doing and go where I can't hear them to continue my workout. At our local Costco, English is spoken by less than half the people talking loudly in the store. Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic and who knows what else dominate.

It doesn't bother me to hear foreign languages in a foreign country. It's the utter disrespect for America that gets to me. If you wanted to speak Spanish or whatever, why did you bother coming here?

There's a corollary to this and that is that foreign language speakers are way overrepresented in the category of loud, rude people. At the gym, everyone wears small, workout headphones. These are the ones with adequate sound quality and poor noise cancellation properties. We listen to music, books or podcasts. If we wanted to hear you talking loudly to each other or having phone conversations, we wouldn't be wearing headphones. I am tired of having to hear this while I lift or tread the infinite mill:

Y ENTONCES LE DIJE, NO PUEDES TRAER ESA ENORME ROEDOR A LA DUCHA CON NOSOTROS PORQUE NECESITA VESTIRSE PARA LA QUINCEANERA DE MARÍA Y NO TENEMOS TIEMPO PARA SECAR SU PELO.

It is for that reason that this warmed the cockles of my heart this morning and warm cockles are always a good thing.

If You're Not Reporting Anything New, Do You Even Need The Report?

 Dig this.

That link is behind the WaPo paywall, but it hardly matters. It's a good bet we could all write the article ourselves and end up with 90% of the content the WaPo provides. What's the point?

What's the point of any of this?

China and the developing world are constantly increase their climate-destruction, such as it is, and no amount of carbon neutral fiddling by the West is going to stop it, if it's even happening at all. Further, these mountains of studies seem to be punctuated by annual claims that we only have n years to save the planet where n is an integer between 1 and 10. Deadlines come and go and the only results are more studies and more fear spasms.

At some point, the returns on the research have got to diminish to the point where spending that same amount of precious S&T funding studying the absorption properties of kitchen sponges would be a better use of our resources.

If greenhouse gases are going to change the climate, then the climate is going to change. If eighty gazillion dollars of research has yet to be able to predict actual catastrophes, but only comes up with new, hypothetical ones, then eighty one gazillion isn't going to make much of a difference.

The WaPo and other credulous, science-illiterate agitators in the newsmedia can cry all they want about the Trump Administration not paying for yet another report by weather researchers to yet another global conference on climate. These events just can't be making enough of a difference to warrant the diversion of research funding from every other field of study into the bottomless pit of predicting climate doom.

Collapsing Into Incoherence

This was an actual post today on X by the Prime Minister of England.

Stabbings are on the rise in England with migrants doing a good portion of them. For the progressives, the solution is common sense knife control laws.

Seriously.

This is what happens when you follow your ideology to its logical collusion and it turned out to be complete twaddle.

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I think they also need common sense machete laws.

☪️🇬🇧 Machete fights in Londonistan pic.twitter.com/Er6i79KMMs

— Nestor (@UncleNestor22) April 21, 2024

Jordan Peterson Explains Catholic Charities' Betrayal Of America

Jordan has been absolutely en fuego lately as his thread-pulling accelerates and his understanding of reality becomes deeper and more complete. This video is an outstanding description of the utter sinfulness of the Christian NGOs and Christian leadership with respect to the 4-year invasion of America by the illegals.

The US Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) preened about how we all need to respect the dignity of every human person as it came out in strident opposition to mass deportations. Just as Jordan described, they took the Lord's name in vain, wrapping themselves in the appearance of Christian charity as they kicked everyone in the groin.

The illegals were convinced to make the 1500-mile trek, taking Honduras as a nominal starting point, getting robbed, assaulted, raped, murdered or perhaps just dying from natural hazards along the way.

The Mexican cartels made billions as human traffickers because the illegals had no choice but to pay them to cross into the US.

Low-skilled American workers got replaced in their jobs or lost access to employment opportunities with the influx of illegals willing and able to work for less, paid cash under the table.

American cities got hit with massive, unsustainable and unpayable bills to house the illegals.

I could go on and on, but you get the idea. The whole time this was happening, the Christian NGOs kept chanting Matthew 25:40.

Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.

It's all pharisaical rubbish. It's their whitewashed tomb as they clothe themselves in the words of Christ while purposefully harming their fellow citizens and the migrants at the same time. Dig this from a speech by Cardinal Christophe Pierre.

We are prophets when we announce, by our actions and our words, the truth that will transform society: namely, that God loves his people, and that he desires all people to experience their dignity as his children, as well as solidarity with one another as brothers and sisters in the human family.  We announce this prophetic message both through our direct social ministry and through our political involvement.  In our direct social ministry, we do the works of mercy as a way of revealing to the poor and the excluded their human dignity in Christ.  In our political involvement, we reject the narrow self-interest and political gamesmanship that is too often displayed by our leaders.

My God, the thing is so saturated with the kind of sin Jordan describes that it must have oozed out of his pores as he spoke. The Cardinal went on to quote our top pharisee, Pope Francis.

“I find it greatly disheartening to see that migration is still shrouded in a dark cloud of mistrust, rather than being seen as a source of empowerment. People on the move are seen simply as a problem to be managed. They cannot be treated like objects to be moved about; they have dignity and resources that they can offer to others; they have their own experiences, needs, fears, aspirations, dreams, skills and talents.”

By the time that our execrable Pontiff spoke these words, everyone in the Vatican knew about the tens of thousands of white, working-class, British girls who had been gang-raped by Muslim migrants. He knew this was happening and just kept going on and on about the human dignity of the migrants.

The British girls, like our own young, urban, black men who need access to the bottom rungs of a career ladder, meant absolutely nothing to these people. All they cared about was the chance to dress up their actions in Christian pieties and parade themselves around in front of their friends.

They took the Lord's name in vain over and over and over.

"I care about the migrants because I'm doing the work of Jesus."

Bonus Video

Ben Shapiro's take on NASCAR going woke works perfectly for the progressive Catholics who populate the NGOs and our leadership and why they went all-in on supporting the invasion. They weren't doing things for the sake of the migrants or their fellow citizens, they were simply posing for each other.