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A nest of Asian murder hornets mistaken for a piñata.

Monday, September 19th, 2022, whenever something like this meet the press thing happens, all

kinds of thoughts crowd into my head, unbidden.

And while one must always keep in mind that trenchant observation of Woodhouse, which is

that some minds are like the soup in a bad restaurant, better left unsteered, it remains

the case that other things simply must be responded to, you know?

So consider this nothing more than a set of related but still disconnected screenshots,

registered or taken over the course of a few days.

Scott Clark tweeted that our people were whining about the biased treatment we got at the

hands of NBC.

And I'm afraid that it was not the case that I was not non-plussed, so to speak.

He said this because so many of our people were whooping and hollering and saying things

like woot and yay, but I think that in all the excitement he must have gotten things confused

and turned around in his head.

His thought was that if we can't stand little media bigotry, how are we going to stand

against the likes of a Nero, hey?

If you can't run with men, how are you going to run with horses?

Jeremiah 12.5.

But we did run with men, so it remains to be seen whether we can do anything else.

Coming from scripture as it does, the structure of this argument is sound, but I'm afraid

his application is more or less cock-eyed, is misapplied.

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