Fitting

Growing up a misfit in rural North Florida caused me to have plenty of maladaptive and antisocial tendencies.

I still don’t believe that’s an excuse for me to be a jerk and an asshole to others. Entirely too many people allow their trauma to be used as an excuse for why they should be permitted to abuse and bully anyone they dislike. Many — perhaps most — of these people are on the left.

Growing up rough sucks. I didn’t enjoy getting out of bed in the morning every day to go to a place where I knew I was gonna get my ass kicked, only to come home to a father who told me I wasn’t manly enough. (How can an eight-year-old be “manly” anyway?) But that’s what happened and I still don’t let it be an excuse to be a trash human now.

A whole hell of a lot of you do, though.

Racing

I researched this a few weeks ago. It’s true.

(I think most scientists are in fact lying about race, but not as the racists imagine. Yeah, there are definite genetic clusters that correspond to colloquial races. But it’s not clear what those genetic clusters actually do, if anything. I know the scientists believe they are lying for a good cause. But I’m not so sure.)

Alan Dean

I read that book too. Can’t recall the name of it but I also remember it pretty distinctly.

Worse Than That

Oh, it was even worse than that. Remember “no one NEEDS to be in person” and “socially promiscuous” and “you’re killing gramma if you don’t want to stay cooped up in the house for years.” That stuff was ubiquitous and it was FUCKING INSANE.

Immunity

That idea was always ludicrous as that’s just not how immune systems work at all. But many Covidians believe it and are still spouting it against all evidence.