The Post-Partisan Emporium

Slack! An Irreverent Proposal John Michael Greer For quite some time now, utterances from the elite classes of the industrial world have had a sidelong relationship at best to the reality that most of us inhabit.  Recent weeks have seen the surreal quality of official pronouncements slam into overdrive, however. I first noted some time ago that the most difficult job in the world these days must be writing satire for online parody websites such as  The Onion  and  The Babylon Bee;  the struggle to come up with stories more absurd than the latest official pronouncements has got to be appallingly stressful. “I can’t be overdrawn, I still have checks left!” At this point, though, I’m sorry to say the  Onion  and the  Bee  have been left behind in the dust. Here in the United States, we’ve got Nancy Pelosi  insisting with a straight face  that expanding federal expenditures without raising taxes doesn’t increase the federal deficit. Her...

American Treatment Kit Movement Begins in Hawaii? The Chloroquine Wars Part LXXIX Mathew Crawford "Ua Kuluma Ke Kanaka I Ke Aloha. It is natural for people to behave in a loving way." -Hawaiian proverb Sunday afternoon I got a call from Honolulu Fire Department Captain Ka’imi Pelekai. He shared with me that the firefighters are fighting vaccine mandates with a lawsuit (Pfizer has been added to the suit over  the use of fetal cells in vaccine testing ). Such mandates for an experimental program strike me as disturbingly dangerous and immoral---particularly given the lack of long term safety data or time for fertility studies. But the veteran firefighter also had something extremely positive to share with me---one of the best things I've heard about during the entirety of 2021. In order to keep hospitalizations and mortality down, the firefighters have banded together and established a nonprofit ( freecovidhelp.org ) organization that designed and intends to deliver their o...