Here’s one of the best summaries I’ve seen in a while, of relatively current news, and without a lot of hype (IMO).

(Maybe mentioning “Mush Brains” [sic] came close to hype, but that’s just me thinking of Trump as a mentally defective, parentally abused victim, but which the world would have been better…[Read more]

Separation of Church and State, even as a meaning-distilled colloquialism not explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution, has entered a new phase of religious, cultural evolution in USA. Behind the scenes, Trump’s “I dunno who that is” Project 2025,  is likely celebrating. So must some of 6-3 SCOTUS. I predict time will soon enable some of these…[Read more]

Environment: New AI agent tallies a gadget’s emissions in the time it takes to brew tea.

Great idea, as long AI is not the one in control of the gadgets or the decision to use them. Human control freaks are bad enough without being given SkyNet Terminator capabilities:

Air Conditioning? It’s I…[Read more]

Reg:

The Trad part will disappear when they discover that the urine in wool and cotton diapers consists of more than “salt and water,” is more odiferous, and doesn’t just drip-dry away. And Trad Life is more than Laura Ingalls gambolling down the prairie hill with her doggie Bandit with a happy ending. As the diaper prices in the story show, it…[Read more]

The idea of me having a trad wife is abhorrent to me. There is nothing empowering or endearing about such a relationship.

SimonPaynton:

And they’re going to all this expense and trouble over a single study of 66 infants from China (home of the human pin cushion and accupuncture disinformation) alleging a connection between plasticizers in disposable diapers and DNA damage.

Obviously, Trads also have a contempt for scientific method and causal connections.

SimonPaynton:

I couldn’t respond on your message, so I’ll have to do it here:

TradWives/TradMoms and TradHusbands/TradDads hold their children and other parents in contempt if they support this:

MAHA (and Marxist) moms are outfitting their babies in ‘healthier’ wool diapers — that don’t need to be washed for a month
By Karen Fischer…[Read more]

Jake:

You were right about the Renaissance coming before the Reformation. They did kind of run parallel on the historic timeline, though.

* I should indicate that a parallel to the counter-reformation is quite possible if imams and Islamists see the hand writing on the wall. They will demonize Jews even more and ascribe the apostasy and movement against Islam as being demonic and zionist and take measures to prevent further flight.