Snow Bust, 2023

An inch or two of snow last night followed by a deluge of rain. This morning the roads are wet and slushy and the schools have a delayed opening. We're disappointed. At first they told us to expect 6 inches of snow. We went and got our shovels and salt ready and gassed up the snowblower and everything. Middle Daughter (who would make a great television weather babe) is seriously pissed off. She's like that.

Mike Cernovich, as is his wont, has a great creative point:

My wife will go, “You wrote that in 10 minute?!” No. I walked for an hour and a half. Wrote it in my mind. Walking is the most important creative habit of the mind. Walk with no podcast no music. Or learn to dialogue with what you’re listening to. Like a conversation.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 27, 2023

Many a scene and article have we written while working out, or just going for a walk. We plotted Tye Dye Warrior, our story about a riverine battle in Vietnam, while on walks with our baby during the summer of 2007 and wrote it five years later. Hopped up on adrenaline while running, we came up with that whole 'Oley 51' thing in World War 1990: Nederland.

Hot Air reports on South Africa,' The government and the police have almost disappeared, the energy grid has imploded, half of the people in the country are out of work and the nation’s infrastructure has crumbled.' No surprise there. The African National Congress has always been an Afro-Marxist organization. Hot Air links to a long Twitter thread about the state of South Africa, we urge readers(s) to click on through and read both. Here's Vice on mass riots and looting last year. The ANC has run the country for nearly 30 years. 

Our man in Canada advises us that Justin is in the midst of a major scandal: 'There is a steady drip of revelations that Canada’s security agencies warned the Liberal party that some of its candidates were being helped by the Chinese government.' The Chicoms were working to elect MPs and Justin knew about it. In a decent country the cabinet and backbench would insist Justin resign. We scoff. The question isn't whether Canada can be saved, but should Canada be saved.

In The New Jew, Karol Markowicz makes a great point, 'A 2021 Pew study found that “If one excludes the Orthodox and looks only at non-Orthodox Jews who have gotten married since 2010, 72% are intermarried.” When being Jewish is about bagels, people realize they can have the bagels and not think about religion at all.' Ahem, we ourselves are the product of intermarriage, our mother was descended from a long line of Hudson River Valley Scots-Presbyterians who got an Irish land grant from Orange Billy after the Battle of the Boyne. It was by pure chance we met and fell in love with a nice Jewish girl from Delaware. 

And remember, you're only Jewish if your mother is Jewish. We actually converted and have the ceremonial nick to prove it, [Dude! Ew!-Ed] Otherwise we descend from respectable German Reform Jewry. We never even set foot inside a synagogue till we met that Delaware girl. Her mother was Conservative Jewish but spent her summers in an Orthodox synagogue in the South Bronx. Very Eastern European, real Fiddler on the Roof type stuff. Did Jerry Seinfeld ever go to schul? The best he could do was Schindler's List, which we've seen exactly once. 

In the Little Children novel and movie, Sarah is portrayed as not very attractive. However, we found Kate Winslet's Sarah to be kind of cute. We especially liked her choice of long-sleeved tops. Sarah gets the hots for former college QB Brad and is kind of shocked when he makes the first move. Sarah wonders what a jock and big man on campus like Brad wants with a book girl like her? Patrick Wilson doesn't play Brad as an Alpha Male at all. Instead, he's just a stay-at-home dad, as bored and frustrated as the academic Sarah. But Brad doesn't miss being a QB. In fact he says when his college football career was over, he 'didn't miss it' and 'he just stopped'. Brad isn't pining for the glory days. Overall, Brad is pretty passive, a point driven home much more in the book.