J6 Pipe Bomber Found?

The mysterious J6 Pipe bomber may have been identified. This  fascinating investigation by The Blaze is a must-read on this Saturday morning.

Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say.

A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect, according to a Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources.

A source close to a congressional investigation of Jan. 6 additionally told Blaze News evidence has emerged recently that pointed toward law enforcement possibly being involved in the planting of the pipe bombs.

The Most Outraged

People with more refined sensibilities and higher intellectual capacity perceive themselves as such. And they want to be recognized as smart, refined people.

But if they live in a culture where there’s a gigantic taboo on recognizing that more refined sensibilities and higher IQs exist, what will they do? They’ll try to attract attention to their very exceptional refinement by being more outraged than anybody else by the idea that refinement and intellect exist.

Welcome to America

I mean, good. Or whatever.

Can somebody explain why the travails of the Daarood clan should be of this momentous importance to Minneapolis?

Relationship Status

Q&A on Performative Behaviors

First of all, there’s always a small chance this is physical. Please make sure to bring this up to your GP.

If it’s not physical (and it probably isn’t), you will find the reason by answering the following questions:

What does this behavior allow you to do?

What does it allow you to avoid doing?

Who is the audience of the behavior?

To give an example, my mother suffered from horrific migraines for twenty years. The medical science was impotent to find a cause, let alone to offer relief. My mother’s very last migraine happened on the day before her youngest child moved out. Then she was cured. It’s a medical miracle.

The audience left, and the behavior was no longer needed. Mind you, this doesn’t mean the migraines weren’t real. They were very, very real. And so was the gain they brought her, outweighing the costs of the terrible suffering they inflicted.

With the accidents, you are either addressing somebody else or yourself. There’s something in your current situation that you want to change in the direction allowed to you by the accidents. Only you know what it is. When I advise people to remove themselves from the proximity of the sufferer, it’s not to be cruel. To the contrary, it might be very helpful to the sufferer to have the audience leave the theater.

Airbnb vs Hotels

For young, single, healthy people hotels are fine. But if you travel with a child and need to be able to eat healthy without going broke, Airbnb is the obvious choice.

It’s not a vacation if parents have to sleep in the same room with the child. What do you do, turn off the lights at 8 pm and sit there in complete silence? Never have any intimacy or even a conversation with your spouse? That sounds fun. Not.

It’s also not a vacation if whenever the child is hungry – which they tend to be at unpredictable times – you have to get dressed and trudge to a restaurant that is in no way guaranteed to have the food the child will actually eat.

And I’m not even talking about people like me who have to eat often, in small portions, and within a very limited range of possibilities. Yes, you can do room service, which brings me back to the point about going broke.

I stayed at an Airbnb in Madrid last week, and it was blissful not to have to go to restaurants at all. I was in complete control of my food supply and spent a ridiculously low amount of money cooking all of my own meals. My blood sugar remained perfect throughout the trip.

The Smart Crowd

Neither party offers or even tries to offer such people anything to slow down, let alone reverse, their economic downslide. But Democrats compensate the economic despoliation to which they subject the most high-IQ people by offering them endless possibilities to feel morally superior. This way, the smart crowd can still feel upper-class. It finds the economic trappings of upper-class life increasingly out of reach but at least it can lay claim to the refined sensibilities of the well-heeled.

Republicans don’t make a play for this group at all.

Flight of Imagination

Which state do you, people, think would suit me best? Where do you imagine me being completely in my element?

Yigal Amir

I watched a fascinating interview today with the wife of Yigal Amir, the murderer of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Her name is Larissa Trimbobler, and when she met Amir she was married to another man with whom she had four children. Larissa and her husband met Yigal Amir when they visited him in jail where he was serving a life sentence for assassinating Rabin.

Larissa dropped her husband and the father of her children and embarked on a long saga of trying to marry the jailed assassin. Then, she tried to get pregnant by him, which involved Amir trying to smuggle ziplock bags of sperm out of the jail. She did get pregnant and gave birth to Amir’s child at the age of forty. And she’s been waiting for him to get released (which isn’t too likely) ever since then.

Isn’t it a crazy story? If it were a novel, people would dismiss it as being too over the top but it’s completely real.

DSA Vatniks

To the surprise of exactly nobody, the DSA is supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: