We’ve survived. Driving should be out of the question but after two years of quarantine most subjects can handle this. NOT the moron across the street who was trying to drive at 6:45 this morning After listening to 15 minutes of failure Kim and I got up, got dressed, and went out to “help.” We got him out of his ruts and onto the street and away he went. Not ONCE during the entire 5 minute episode did the individual speak to us, although we DID get an up-thumb as he drove away. By the time we got back to our door we heard him stuck again. He’d veered off the path about 200m from where we’d helped.

It get’s better.

About 90 minutes later he got stuck AGAIN on our street. We AGAIN went to help but others had already dislodged him by the time we got there. He drove to the end of the street, turned around … and got stuck AGAIN!

We’re done.

But don’t worry. Help IS on the way. This actual Cambridge research paper argues that in order to solve climate change we need to take an “authoritarian approach” and go full-blown 1984 😑

Nearly 140 Scientific Papers Detail The Minuscule Effect CO2 Has On Earth’s Temperature.

WE KNOW:  Climate Change Weekly #422: Being a Climate Alarmist Means Never Having to Admit You’re Wrong.

What annoys me is these aren’t even GOOD slide shows: UK PM Boris Johnson Duped by UK Activists’ Climate slides – Climate Depot’s Point-By-Point Rebuttal to Help Deprogram the Propaganda Johnson Absorbed.

As the bleak mid-winter approaches I found this read a tad disturbing, but somehow necessary. Grim Tidings. Please read it.

and for something more positive thereafter: ‘Whiplash’ and What The Federalist Got Wrong About Masculinity.

and we’ll close today with a repeat of a repeat of Heinlein:

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”