Source: ZeroHedge.

At issue (as I see it): Adults, by default, have the right to choose whether or not to be vaccinated. That right can be taken away from them, but, in Virginia, only by the General Assembly.

The idea that society has a claim on its members is one of most pernicious ever conceived.

The late anthropologist David Graeber traces this idea to ancient antiquity and associates it with the evolutionary development of formal governments. His theory is that debt obligation is the original excuse for one part of society controlling the remainder. Oversimplified, the legitimacy of government boils down to, “You owe us.”

Continue reading “What Do I Owe You?” →

Source: ZeroHedge.

Fascinating conversation going on.

Source: Bacon’s Rebellion.

This story is a little short on background and depth, so I invite anyone who knows more about it to share their intelligence. I am a hard sell, though. Members of government ensconcing themselves in Plexiglas as a condition of work sounds to me like an End of Western Civilization moment.

It is not sex, but it is Caligula. Crazy beyond all belief.

I’ve seen hundreds of snowstorms in my life, but never one like today’s. Not a single snowflake, nary a flurry, yet hour after hour the landscape outside my windows turned whiter and whiter.

Invisible fall, visible deposit. I blame the president.

Source: ZeroHedge.

You could have predicted that Democrats’ projection of a “Big Lie” onto Donald Trump regarding the 2020 election would eventually become a “Big Lie” they told for themselves. It was predictable because merely accusing others of being liars normalizes the behavior of lying.

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Or not. The possibility of self-awareness — the end of tragedy — remains.

My wife came home from her daily grocery outing this morning and uttered a bewilderment as she leaned on her shoulder in the frame of the back door to the house before bundling into the kitchen. She said that to complete her shopping list she had to visit four different grocers. At one the produce shelves were empty, at another the meat shelves were empty, and so on. Not sparse, but empty.

Being the retired hunter in our household, I pretended nonchalance. I could still kill a moose barehanded, if I had to, after all. “Someone should tell Joe Biden,” I quipped.

Stumble Town, by the way, is the actual colloquial name of the old South Norfolk neighborhood where my Goddess of Gathering grew up. You could say the community was poor or backward in some ways (if you wanted to be unkind to good people) but even in Stumble Town 50 years ago an empty grocery shelf would have shocked everyone. There would have been gossip, maybe even a conspiracy theory or two.

My wife and I have sure seen hard times in our life together, but we have never seen any slack in the abundance around us. Until now.

It makes you wonder.

Source: PJ Media.

The story concerns a Rasmussen poll. The poll results interest me because I imagine the participants who expressed totalitarian views would object to being called totalitarians.

Source: Governor of Virginia (official website).

Although other executive actions have received more attention, the one that interests me most is Number Seven, Establishing the Commission On Human Trafficking Prevention and Survivor Support.

Human trafficking is modern day slavery. It doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Forming a commission to address the problem in Virginia may seem a modest action, but it is a first step that — not taken — might never have been noticed.

Source: PJ Media.

Is this good or bad? I don’t know.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, government-reported Covid-19 death metrics have been controversial for a variety of technical reasons.

The end of hospital data collection for Covid-19 deaths may mean the public will be less well-informed than otherwise. OR, it may mean that irrelevant data is finally being abandoned.

I doubt the latter but think the former wasn’t much help to begin with. What do you think?