Douglas Murray says that Americans have lost faith in institutions because of Fauci’s lying. It’s much worse than that.
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Sperm counts and fertility have been dropping for a hundred years. This could become a problem.
Playing Chicken Run today, Sparky snatched the prize five times.
When the chicken was gone, pepperoni was the prize. It’s aromatic, so got Sparky’s attention. I was concerned that it might mix up Sparky’s innards, so today, we switched to kielbasa.
Beyond the Black: Americans Push Back
We all need to refuse to consent. Since politicians are nothing more than bullies, such defiance will quickly cause them to back off. Both Illinois and St. Louis this week clearly proved this.
Good, we need more of this and perhaps the government will get back to just doing it’s job. This is not just happening in America.
“When my peers are found responsible for multiple instances of inadequate citation, they are often suspended for an academic year,” wrote the student who sits on Harvard’s honor council, which adjudicates peer academic-integrity violations. “When the president of their university is found responsible for the same types of infractions, the fellows of the Corporation ‘unanimously stand in support of’ her,” as the body declared in a Dec. 12 statement.
I found a deer skull in the woods. This counts as Sparky’s Christmas present. We are leaving it outside for now because nobody wants a skull dragged around the house. Well, Sparky does. It might get mounted in his crate. Sparky would like that.
Sparky got his present today, on Russian Christmas, so that may be a cosmic sign that he’s Russian. That would explain a lot. He only understands English when it suits him and he likes bread and salt. Sparky is warm-hearted, fatalistic and reckless, so the epitome of the Russian soul.
Sparky and I have the outline of a good game.
This is the Deadbolt. An FPV camera is mounted on the front and a tray is placed on the roof rack. A piece of chicken is placed in the bait tray.
My advantage is that Sparky gets skittish when Deadbolt is coming at him and the Deadbolt can drive under a couch to be safe.
Why do so many New Years resolutions fail?
Until recently, psychologists believed that self-control—the ability to stick to and ultimately achieve long-term goals—worked like a muscle. Success was about whether you had enough willpower to achieve your goals. But new research suggests that keeping our resolutions depends more on the situations we choose to put ourselves in.
Psychology and other soft sciences shouldn’t get too fond of analogies or their theories. They liked this so much that for decades, tons of papers were written about this explained human nature.
This Financial Times article on 10 trends in 2024 is worth reading because FT is pretty balanced and insightful. To summarize:
If 2024 is set to be tumultuous and unpredictable, just wait until 2025 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again this year.
His adversaries don’t have a history of accepting his victories with equanimity.