Took me years to realise that stopping your country being looted by outsiders isn’t a crime. At which point I re-evaluated Krugman.

Well yes, of course, AS LONG AS one knows what one’s definition of “moral” is…and then either sticks to it or (as is more than sometimes the case) tweaks it as needed.

(Keeping Humpty Dumpty’s pragmatic aphorism in mind, certainly.)

For example, in the US government’s war on government debt (and on the citizenry), “Biden” has hit upon the most ingenious (and time-honored) idea of encouraging (and enabling) the debt to evaporate by—yes that’s right—destroying the currency.

Simply because it works every time, I guess…
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-06-26/inflation-their-endgame

File under: “Damn the consequences, full steam ahead!!” (Or maybe that should be, “Where have you gone, Paul Krugman? O! Our nation lifts its lonely eyes to you….”)…. Or whatever…

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/077/866/658/original/aae99467d2b7d5b0.jpg

Author A : https://womendeliver.org/classmember/carly-manes/
Author B (Perhaps Illustrator): Goes by the name of ‘Emulsify’ — Do you think they’re trying to tell us something?

Google search on Ms Manes is Instructive.

https://www.takimag.com/article/watch-your-language/

“…if you want to revolt against the system, you first start by revolting against the language of the system. The word “racism” represents a social construct created by the ruling class to perpetuate their control of the masses. It can never be used against the system that created it. The so-called conservatives banging on about racism are just defending the moral framework of the left by validating the language.

On the other hand, the word “antiwhite” is like kryptonite. The reason the system cries out in pain when it hears that term used with regards to something like critical race theory is that it does real damage to their moral framing. It is a word outside of their control, so it can be used against them. Using the term on a person, calling them antiwhite, strips them of their moral authority, reducing them to a rank partisan.

All wars are moral wars. This is especially true in a culture war, where both sides must view every issue as a zero-sum game. If the other side is evil, there can be no compromise, as to compromise with evil is to endorse it. If the right, however defined, is to join the culture war, it must first reclaim the moral high ground, and that starts with reclaiming the language. Understand the language of the enemy and you understand his vulnerabilities and you can create the language weapons for the fight.”

https://vdare.com/articles/loudoun-county-s-revolt-against-critical-race-theory-dems-should-worry-gop-gap-should-wake-up

As usual, much of the GOP is worse than useless on this. Some good material on what a @#$^bag Glenn Youngkin is.

The volcano that recently came back to life in Iceland (an area where the North American plate is up against and separating from the Eurasian plate) has caught my attention, and there are lots of fascinating videos of the changing eruption, and of the progress of the lava that is pouring out and, at a steadily increasing rate of flow, filling valleys in the area. *

As with humans who get too close to wild animals, some of these videos are of tourists—it appears hundreds of tourists—young and old–are streaming into the site to observe this eruption—who are getting closer and closer—some within a few feet of the lava flows.

The hillsides of the valleys above the lava flows, where many of the observers are, are very uneven and covered with volcanic rocks and ankle-twisting rubble, and it seems to me that someone could very easily stumble, roll a little ways, and end up being dumped into the ever moving lava on the ground below.

Down in the valleys themselves some people are taking positions only a couple of feet away from the front of the lava, and could also very easily stumble and fall into it.

In addition to the danger from the lava itself, there are also the toxic fumes that are released as part of the eruption, as well as showers of sharp, volcanic glass that rain down on those who get too close to the eruption—great for your lungs and eyes I am sure.

Moreover, videos show that some few tourists are actually walking out on the still steaming, black broken crust of the lava, even though drone images of holes that have appeared in the crust have shown that rivers of molten lava are still flowing under these crusts.

The same obliviousness that is at work with people and wild animals?

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTTRb0Fgo8

Encountered one Black Bear at work while walking on a US Forest Circus road on the east side of WA Cascades, both of us were unarmed. Worst work encounter with wildlife was unexpectedly finding a nest of Yellow Jackets.

Well obviously there are no wolves in that area until credentialed experts inform us of their presence.

Here’s an example of something which didn’t officially exist until recently:

“In yet another example of long-delayed discovery, forms of high-altitude lightning were observed for at least a century before becoming officially real (as opposed to really real).”

https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/06/27/son-of-low-hanging-fruit-again/

“And I have never in 45 years seen one. I personally have no more proof that bears and mountain lions roam both my neighborhoods than I do for Big Foot.”

It’s probably a function of not only how much time you spend outdoors, but how you spend it.

If you are working in the back 40 with your chain saw, or driving along on your ATV, I would not be surprised. A lot of people who seem to see animals in their yards are also older sedentary folks who are quietly parked on their rear decks, or drinking coffee by the kitchen window, as that 14 point monster buck or bobcat emerges briefly from the woods and cuts across the back corner of the lawn.

I have only seen one wolf: and that was from a pretty good distance … as it stood facing out of the wood, looking at me as I roamed alone in the farm’s back fields, armed with a switch to swipe aimlessly at the timothy, and a Swiss army knife for nothing in particular. It was … rather disquieting.

My friend was turkey hunting from a blind about 200 yards from there when he perceived a wolf stalking back and forth behind his camouflage. A 12 gauge with number six shot suddenly seemed pitifully inadequate.

There are by the way, officially “No wolves in our area”. Those tracks are probably half breed wolf-dogs, or something. Pay it no mind. There is nothing there.