Romanticism / J.M.W. Turner/ Rain Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway

Taking a week off to burn up some time and to help out as I can.  Problem is that “as I can” becomes somewhat limited due to age and infirmity.  Sigh.  But today is planned as a straight rest day.  I genuinely hope that it pans out that way.  I am doing a distilling run today to get 500ml of “high test” (>85% EtOH).  I now know the truth of why moonshining remains so popular among the non-striving.  You can say that you are doing something when you really aren’t.

Today's subject and thought exercise is an extension of yesterday’s post.  Ugo did a post over at his place concerning the nature of the nagging revulsion that seems to be the burden of those of us at this end of the blogosphere.

I think that with the increasing nastiness of the vaccine “debate” folks are beginning to sort themselves out into subtribes.  I really have no problem with this phenomenon.  The actual human reaction engendered by the inability to accept others is usually coercion and violence and that has to be taken into consideration.  I think that this kind of thing will probably take a nasty turn in the none-too-distant future.