#1 Brahmin-craft
I am not sure what kind of sorcery Brahmin Handbags is using to enchant their purses, but they have clearly bewitched my wife.
Sometimes we will be driving along and I will see out of the corner of my eye that she is just gazing at her purse. Looking at how it glints in the sun. Beaming at it. I haven’t caught her her talking to her purses…yet.
She would probably tell you that every tenth thing out of my mouth is some sort of philosophical musing. Every tenth thing out of hers is, “Isn’t it so pretty.”
It’s sorcery, I tells ya.
#2 Cultural appropriation lunch #945:
If you carefully unpack the left’s doctrine of “cultural appropriation,” as I do here, you find that it isn’t just dumb—it is evil.
One of the best ways to fight evil is with joy, and I take special joy in making meals that mix foods from as many cultures—because they’re delicious, and because I like fighting evil. Here is one from a while back:
Mexican tortilla chip nachos with Cincinnati chili, Irish and English cheddars, and a sauce made from Thai sriracha, French mayonnaise, and Chinese mustard, topped with Greek olives and Korean-style sweet daikon and jalapeños (which the Koreans first had to culturally appropriate from the Mexicans, I guess).
Bite on that, you leftist assassins of everything that is good in human life.
#3 Over a century of stupidity
Changing the clocks for Daylight Saving/Standard Time kills a few thousand people each year, mostly from accidents and heart attacks due to sleep deprivation and confusion. How many more people have to be sacrificed on government's altar of bad ideas?
We are going to be repeating this mindless ritual in a little over a month. When people complain about it, as I certainly will, there will also be the backlash of people defending the practice.
To my ears, this amounts to little more than a reflexive defense of the status quo. This is just how we do things. Who are you to question the experts? Who are you to question the government? “If my lord chooses to have me die, that is his right.”
Once government turns a stupid idea into a law, it never goes away. Please don’t defend the practice.
I am enjoying your posts and I took a look at the handbag link. Not for me living out of a suitcase in El Salvador currently and they were pretty. You cross posted a song today and I started a playlist. Any more music suggestions?
Love fighting evil with joy. It's the best way. The cultural appropropriation topic is interesting because it's like racism: there's a true situation where groups of people have taken credit for the cultural creativity and traditions of another in a steal and using kind of way that isn't respectful, but outright theft. At the same time, the real oppressors continue to use and exploit, while everyday people become afraid to engage in wholesome cultural APPRECIATION! Our family has many lineages within it, so we've had lots of conversations of all the fusions we could do, and also if we add in our past lives that we feel a resonance with, it's interesting.