How often do you see acknowledgements that social defeat and social depression are rampant in America? If you do a search for social defeat, you find hundreds of links to studies of rodents. Here, we demonstrate that social defeat stress (R-SDS) impairs goal-directed motivation in male mice. “Social defeat is initiated when a male rodent is introduced into the home cage of an older, aggressive, dominant male.” “The social defeat stress model.” And so on. When applied to humans, the definitions are generalized in psychological terms: “The definition of Social ..read more

Summer has unofficially arrived with its lazy heat, and with that, changes to our thermostats and routines. Dads begin their yearly campaign of HVAC vigilance, eyeing exterior doors with fiduciary suspicion. We exercise outdoors in the cool of morning to escape sweltry afternoons. Kids attend camps to preserve moms’ sanity. Traffic is calmer, but interstates rev up into sun-baked infernos. Days are now wonderfully or unnaturally long, depending on your affinity for these alterations. Our world is engulfed in its own season, though it’s largely devoid of the barefoot pleasures summer brings. Th ..read more

Going really fast is very illegal. In fact, so is going even a little faster than whatever the speed limit is. EV people ought to think about this a little. In many states, anything much over 80 can land you in jail – and your vehicle in the impound lot. Even 1 MPH faster than whatever the posted limit happens to be in every state can result in what is styled a “ticket” – the term used to describe the money you’ll be obliged to hand over for “speeding,” defined as driving even 1 MPH faster than whatever the government says is lawful. But EV people – many of them ..read more

Efforts by Biden regime appointees in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)  and Border Patrol to release millions of illegal entrants into local US communities have been blocked by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit brought against the Biden DHS by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody.  Americans do not know what is going on because there is no American media to tell them.  The US media–CNN, Fox News, ABC, NBC, NPR, NY Times, Washington Post– function as a propaganda ministry for the Biden regime and the elite establishment that the Biden regime front ..read more

At a time when organic farmers are going out of business and being gobbled up by corporate agribusinesses by the hundreds,1 draft regulation2,3,4 currently under consideration would legalize factory farm conditions for organic chickens, thereby pushing even more of the smaller organic farmers out. While the proposed rule claims to protect and improve “animal welfare,” all it will accomplish is the further destruction of independent organic farmers who do things right and therefore cannot compete with “organic” mega-corporations that can sell their foods at far lower prices because th ..read more

It’s not the Russians who are perverse and barbaric. It’s the Western regimes and their Nazi terrorist front in Ukraine. Western media would have its consumers believe that Russians are the most devious, perverse, and self-destructive people on Earth. Following a flood of jaw-dropping, biblical proportions in the Russian-controlled Kherson region this week, the Western media amplified the Kiev regime’s talking points, which is to say, the Kiev regime’s Western sponsors’ talking points. The Russians are destroying themselves for propaganda gain, according to those talking po ..read more

The U.S. has been working with the Saudis to end the war in Yemen and mediate between two rival generals in Sudan.  ~NPR Reuters refers to Prince Salman of Saudi Arabia as the ‘de-facto’ ruler:   De facto describes practices that exist in reality, whether or not they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms. A HIT!~ Blinken’s mission in Saudi Arabia is described as follows:   “The aims of the trip include regaining influence with Riyadh over oil prices, fending off Chinese and Russian influence in the region and nurturing hopes for an even ..read more

In these dogdays of summer, there is a new complacency over the financial and economic status of the Eurozone. Inflation is down, bank shares have rallied, and the end of further rises in interest rates is in sight. The lull in bad news conceals a deteriorating situation. In common with other markets, Eurozone bond yields are rising, and banks are now visibly trying to reduce their excessive balance sheet leverage. This is bound to lead to credit shortages in the coming months, maintaining or even driving interest rates higher. Contracting credit could lead to funding dislocations for highly i ..read more

I generally begin my articles with an appropriate quote, but attempting to find a quote concerning extreme racism against white people, especially white males, is almost impossible. In fact, site after site, ‘fact-checker’ after ‘fact-checker,’ fake black ‘leader’ after fake black ‘leader,’ ethnicity after ethnicity, and one stupid white leftist after another, claim there is no such thing as racism against any white person living today. This is convenient for hateful, ignorant, and agitating whores of hypocrisy of all stripes, as perpetrating and perpetuating harmful agendas does not require i ..read more

What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye. – JD Salinger Taylor Swift’s concerts have become cultural phenomenons, religious-like experiences for so many people worldwide, especially little girls. Happy moms post videos of their flushed, excited faces and near-hysteria at the first sight of their idol. It’s girl world, to be sure. But it’s also become, like so many other things in ..read more