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I think it’s a good thing. Simple, unmessed with rainbows belong to everybody. By the way, has anybody explained the extreme attraction of small kids to rainbows?

This is simply criminal. He’s saying that the virus isn’t dangerous to children! He recognizes it! Yet they are getting ready to pump this untested “vaccine” with unknown long-term effects into kids. With zero benefit to the kids!

These are the same people who think there is overpopulation and we need to practice “degrowth.”

And the worst part, the absolute worst part is that there are many people who are such dumb, brainless robots that they will take their 5-year-olds to get pumped full of this shit.

I’m reading a bedtime story.

“This is why we decided to take a cab. . .”

“Mommy, what’s a cab?”

“It’s the same as taxi.”

“Mommy, what’s taxi?”

“It’s like Uber.”

“Ah, OK.”

“What’s weird,” said a colleague coming into my office, “is that at the end of each fiscal year we run out of money and end up not being able to pay our bills, begging for extensions, and borrowing from other departments. But this year, we paid everything and still have a lot of money left. I wonder what changed.”

“Yes, what could it be?” I said.

The really funny thing is that all of the stuff I’ve done as Chair has been extraordinarily easy. This recent project of getting a low-wage worker a higher salary and backpay, for instance, literally took under half an hour of effort on my part. Getting the book money for everybody – twenty minutes. Setting everybody up with a new printer – an hour.

I’ve been here for 12 years and there was never a red cent to buy anybody a book. And now we are so flush with cash that everybody got the books they wanted and there’s money for more. I’m practically begging people to ask me for more stuff. Technology, iPads, films, anything you want. It was all there this whole time but nobody bothered to grab it.

Got it? You can buy the cards deemed relevant but not the cards right next to them.

There’s obviously no reason to forbid the purchase of the “non-essential cards” other than to let people know who has the power and how far it stretches.

I highly recommend this article on the truly diseased and reprehensible Western attitudes toward China’s one-child policy. One would hope that Malthusianism would finally be abandoned but unfortunately it still has many adepts.

China reversed the policy, and that’s great. But the Westerners who applauded it are still in power here.

Masks are no longer required at my church. Everybody was maskless today, except for the children. All children except mine were masked. It’s not required. People are freely choosing to do that to their kids. And these are religious people whom one normally wouldn’t suspect of being big fans of MSNBC.

I truly despair sometimes.

The attacks on history, on historic figures, on the artistic canon, and the constant revelations of how these artists, politicians, thinkers, etc were really evil is all part of the attack on the nation-state.

The nation-state relies for its very existence on the shared stock of legitimating figures and events. “We” deserve to exist as a nation because “we” produced this great art, created this great culture, made these great achievements, and share this stuff that we all love. If there are no achievements, if the art is racist crap, if the founding fathers founded something rubbish, then there’s no reason why we should exist as a “we.” It’s easier to let go of something bad than of something good.

We are simply being schooled into letting go of the nation-state model of governance. Let’s stop denouncing these attacks as stupid. They are nefarious but definitely not dumb. They are very purposeful. You can’t fight something that you don’t understand. It’s time to start understanding.

And I’ve had it with my spell check correcting “nation-state” into “nation-ate.” It adds insult to injury.

As we have discussed on numerous occasions, we are experiencing a transition of one mode of governance to another. It’s a big change but it’s not unprecedented. Only 200 years ago we started to transition into the mode of governance that is now giving way to the next one.

Each form of governance derives its legitimacy from a different source. Monarchy, for example, derived its legitimacy from God’s will. The monarch was invested with power by God. Everybody accepted that, and the arrangement worked. Until near-uniform religiosity became impossible and a new kind of statehood arose.

Nation-state governments derived their legitimacy from representing the interests of the nation and finding a way to convince the people that they were acting in the interests of the citizens’ welfare. That’s why welfare in all its forms was born together with the nation-state and is dying with it. (Once again, police is welfare. Schools are welfare, etc).

The governing groups in the new model of statehood derive their legitimacy, meaning their entitlement to power, from superiority. That’s why they speak to us in the language of moral, intellectual and physical superiority. That’s why they educate their children to speak a language of moral superiority. That’s why they position themselves as the true judges of good and evil.

Have you, folks, heard of the tradition of putting dry ramen noodles into a lettuce salad? By dry I mean really dry, straight out of a package. Is it a regional thing?

I could go for some hot slurpy ramen noodles about now.