I SEE A BAD MOON RIS– SUPPLY CHAIN COMING UNGLUED AGAIN:  Container port snarls now nearing Covid highs.

AND: News / Spot rate surge to continue past Golden Week, with surcharges causing more pain.

ALL OF OUR PUNY COW FARTS ARE DWARFED BY A VOLCANO:  Hunga Tonga volcano: impact on record warming.

REALLY, DO WE? WHY IS EVERYONE ACTING LIKE THIS IS NEWS? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN HE CAMPAIGNED FROM HIS BASEMENT?  Why We Need to See the Visitor Logs for Biden’s Delaware Home. Yes, It Relates to His Health.

NOT THE FIRST TIME I’VE SEEN IT, AND MOST OF THE OTHER GUESSES ARE MORE DIRE:  From a physician: Parkinson’s disease might be Joe Biden’s BEST diagnosis.

And most of the specialists in my circle (look, science fiction writers have odd fans) have been guessing at Lewy body dementia. For a few months at least.

IN THE END AFRICA WINS:  Tough Question, Simple Answer.

Brutal and unflinching. My only quibble is I don’t think genetic. I’m sure cultural. But we’ve been misunderstanding culture, I think. Culture is almost a collective mind with its own subconscious. And no, not all cultures are alike. And no, culture is not just food and clothing and such. It’s an incredibly complex interlinking of language and things learned when too young to know we’re learning anything. It’s what makes acculturation of adults so hard — trust me, I lived it — and the absorption of large masses of third worlders impossible. And of course no one is studying it, because we confuse culture and race, imagine culture is entirely fungible and ethically neutral, and are generally ignoring the most important topic of research of our century. And that’s my opinion. But until we study and figure culture and a better way to bring large groups to contemporary culture short of the good ol’ tried and true kill everyone over 3 years of age, culture might as well be genetic. And may G-d have mercy on all our souls, given the open borders experiment.

IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. IT’S THE LEFT HOLDING ON BY EVERY MEANS NECESSARY, WHICH NECESSARILY INCLUDES EVERY DIRTY TRICK AND PROCEDURAL JIGGERY POCKERY:  Bad News From France.

It will surprise no one that they appear not to know any history. In this sort of circumstance, as tech innovation and the culture are turning completely, the longer you artificially hold on, the harder the fall.