Some good questions have accumulated, and I’m posting the answers here.

I don’t. And you shouldn’t. Because they aren’t asking for advice. If anybody brings such a situation to you, it’s not because they seek guidance. The only thing they want is to triangulate you into their sexual fetish. I very strongly recommend leaving any such discussion unless you are crystal clear that you want to participate in the game of a psychosexual threesome where your role is that of a voyeur.

We have the St Louis Institute of Psychoanalysis nearby. I’m sure there’s something like this in your town. Go to the website and choose whomever has the face you believe you could trust.

For most people, the best life is in the place where they were born, surrounded by the people and things they’ve always known. While there’s always going to be a minority for whom this is not as necessary or maybe even unadvisable, we should try to organize our shared life in a way that makes this scenario possible for the majority. The nation-state level is not enough. We need to preserve small communities, townships, villages. All with their own flavor, their own local jokes, celebrations, landmarks, and history.

Save for the names, I wouldn’t be able to determine with ease whether the following news item is from today or the book Days of Rage that traces the trajectory of leftist violence in the 1970s:

This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.

Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One…

— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) October 4, 2025

There is the same tacit understanding that leftists should be allowed to do these things. The same reluctance by the police to do anything. The same indifference of the media

These people only ever get rewarded. For decades, all they’ve got is rewards. Why, then, would they stop?

But again, screens, you know. We went to the library this morning and met Klara’s earliest friend. She’s in a public school, and she and Klara grew apart because they don’t see each other that often. The girl was at the library with her new best friend, a they/them. And with the they/them’s mother whom I do not want anywhere in the vicinity of my child because the reasons behind the they/themness of her 8-year-old are written with glowing neon letters all over her.

So let’s say you avoid screens. How do you avoid all this in actual life? People aren’t even waiting until the poor children enter puberty. They unleash all this on them from the cradle.

At the university event that I’m attending with Klara, our table was placed next to Sex Studies. The entire organizing idea of Sex Studies is that there is no sex, so their table looks like it threw up trans flags.

Thankfully, nobody is approaching them, so they have no opportunity to deliver their promotional speech in front of my child.

Klara’s school had no class on Thursday and Friday.

On Thursday, I took her to work with me in the morning, and then N took over because I had a budget meeting. It’s mega hot, so no outdoor activities are possible. He took her to an entertainment center and the bookstore.

On Friday, we played dolly hotel, cooked together, and then I took her to the library and the kids’ gym. Then we played balloon volleyball. N finished working and joined the dolly hotel festivities.

Today, I have an event at work, so we are going to the farmer’s market, then to my event, and then to the book fair in town. After that, we will come home and clean together. In the evening, we are going to the Y.

Tomorrow we have a visiting priest at church for the Sunday service. Then we have the Fall church picnic. After that, I have my livestream, and N will be entertaining Klara at the trampoline park.

Of course, it would all be easier if we didn’t have to hide indoors from the heat. In the endless summer months that last well into November, we have to come up with indoors activities daily, and that does become daunting.

Those Netflix shows are garbage but they aren’t what’s causing the trouble. Or rather, the reason why they have such an importance to children isn’t that Netflix cunningly ties them to a device. No child with more fun options will choose to stare at screens.

I’m still listening to Days of Rage and it’s making me angry. It turns out that all of this already happened. There was a BLM (called BLA) back in the 1970s. People weren’t allowed to say openly that it was violent and terrible. Everybody had to pretend that running around murdering people was a normal reaction to invented racist abuses. The Left glorified cop killers. NYTimes ran cover for them.

I understand why the Left needs an ever-growing supply of immigrants. It needs a fresh audience to put on the same boring play. That they’ve been singing the same song for fifty years, and we are all sitting here, listening to it, scared to interrupt, it’s a real letdown.

Today we talked about the Des Moines superintendent who turned out to be even shadier we initially thought.

I’m being ravaged by a major heatwave but I did all I could to sound alive.

We are doing a live stream on Sunday, too, because the media group is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Thirty years ago, I thought today I’d be a professional translator of fiction in America and my wonderful husband would drive me around in a white car. I’m not a translator but close enough, the husband is as wonderful as planned but his car is sea-wave blue-green, and I actually learned to drive myself (which was never the plan).

“Today, like five years ago, a controversial man has been transformed overnight into a one-dimensional saint, marshaled in a culture war that precludes measured thought. Once again, Americans are being asked to genuflect before an idol.” pic.twitter.com/CC1d8FG1Ll

— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) October 2, 2025

I guess it’s progress that the libs have started to acknowledge that George Floyd was “controversial.” But equating a violent criminal with law-abiding and non-violent people like Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska is precisely why I always say that analogy is a tool of an impotent brain. Some analogies work but most are an expression of a weak, flailing brain that can’t process complexity.

It’s funny that this author accuses others of being incapable of “measured thought” in a piece where he demonstrates childish levels of intellectual sophistication.

Human safari continues:

Russians continue to post videos about their "fun" of having safari on civilians in my hometown of Kherson. this city has suffered enormously after liberation from Russians in 2022, 2/3s left the city to difficult conditions of life under shelling or after losing home. Around a… pic.twitter.com/CxpZUgIVM1

— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) October 3, 2025

I could post these videos daily because there are so many of them. The subservient cucks who were throwing fits about the Russian soldier hunted by a Ukrainian drone are studiously avoiding this information.

I checked and this doesn’t seem to be a comedy sketch:

This is absolutely bizarre. A local councillors tells a TV interviewer that she was "born and bred here", then checks herself as if she has said something terrible, and then the interviewer weighs in against her for saying it. Truly extraordinary. pic.twitter.com/yGOvirwqMy

— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) October 3, 2025

I have no idea what happened to these people. They are in the grip of intense collective madness.