Killer Doctors

Yet another scientific hoax has been debunked. It turns out that white doctors don’t murder black babies in maternity wards. We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. The study that was quoted from here to the Moon purporting that white doctors kill black babies en masse has been disproved:

There’s a whole thread at the link. Shocking, I know. Who could have thought that white doctors can actually control themselves and abstain from homiciding poor, innocent black babies?

Who Fights on Russia’s Side?

Thank you, Biden-Harris administration.

Now I want to hear once again why a Harris administration would be bad for Russia.

Bomb Hoaxes

All of the “bomb threats” in Ohio turned out to be hoaxes. With origins in one particular other country.

Eating Cats

There are cultures where people eat cats, dogs, bats, pangolins, etc. Horse meat is sold at supermarkets in Canada. If you say that pointing this out is dehumanizing, this can only mean that you consider your own diet to be the only one fit for humans and everybody who eats something you don’t is not human.

This is the problem with repeating somebody else’s talking points. You don’t give yourself a chance to think about what you are actually saying. Talking points are cringe. All of them, left and right. If you’ve heard an expression repeated several times on TV or social media, that’s reason not to use it.

The News Cycle

Wait, what? Another assassination attempt on Trump?

I’ve had an intensely relaxing family weekend and avoided all US news. What exactly did I miss?

Seriously, one can’t turn away for three minutes around here. The news cycle goes faster than the washer drum.

Worth a Fig

These were grown outdoors in Kharkiv, which has the same climate as Montreal, Canada. It took 15 years to adapt these figs to Ukrainian climate.

I love figs with an uncommon passion but they’re expensive around here.

Is It Shameful to Have Children?

Everybody is crapping on the article because of the title but if you read it, it offers good insights. The author relays her conversations with a bunch of people who definitely shouldn’t be procreating. These are very messed up, unhappy people. Almost all are children of immigrants. Nobody talks about the trauma of the people dragged around in childhood and thrust into a society where they can’t begin to figure out who they are but this article puts it on full display. All of the stories in the article taken together show that equating “a better life” with “buying a better car” is a fallacy.

When a young person says, “I don’t want to have children”, it’s a way of saying “my parents hurt me badly.” Most of the people featured in the article will grow up and have children. We should all hope that their pain weakens by that time.

People Start Noticing

I loved Matt Walsh’s movie Am I Racist? It depicts how the most unpleasant thing I’ve been subjected to at work is a scam. It feels very enjoyable to see the abuse inflicted to me regularly exposed and mocked.

If people at work were forced to watch this movie against their will, I’d be completely opposed. I’m a conservative but I have enormously more respect for individual choice than liberals who think it’s fine to make people read, watch and say things they don’t support or believe.

The movie dramatically abbreviated the time it usually takes us to go from “this is a tiny, insignificant thing that only happens on campuses” to “God, this is terrible, how did we get here?” Usually, people pretend nothing is happening until it’s too late to reverse it.

Christian Worldview

This is a famous quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

He was a great reporter of the facts he observed but not a profound thinker. But this quote is great illustration of the Russian paganism we discussed recently. “There is no rain, I must have done something wrong”, “I’m sick, I must have done something wrong” – these are some of the earliest manifestations of the humanity trying to understand its condition and gain a measure of control over a confusing, terrifying world.

Contrast this with the Christian worldview in its daring departure from the childish narcissism of “I triggered the hurricane because I misbehaved.” There’s an acceptance that terrible things will happen even to wonderful people and we’ll never understand why beyond knowing that this is what human life is supposed to be. Living in the world that is bigger than superstition, infantile bargaining, or the narcissism of looking for answers to anything in your ever-precious self requires more strength and gives more freedom. It’s a great gift but also a great limitation for the reach of the insatiable human hubris.

“Thy will be done” is a terrifying proposition for people who haven’t evolved to accepting that they don’t control God. To those who can relinquish the superstitious illusion of control, it’s a path into true freedom and great calmness.

Kamala’s Ukraine Ad

I won’t link to it here because my nervous system can’t handle having this garbage anywhere around me but I just saw Kamala’s ad about Ukraine. That absolute monster is using the tragedy and the devastation of my country as a backdrop for her silly political sloganeering.

The ad literally shows buildings exploding in the background as some stupid talking point about Trump is being delivered. We are a prop for her.

The sheer callousness and inhumanity of this are really getting to me. I wish I’d never seen it.