The Crowhill Journal

In case you haven’t heard, some troop of morons has taken over a few city blocks in Seattle and declared a new nation — the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ.

It’s not at all amusing that so many of our elected officials have been revealed as thoroughly incompetent at almost every level of analysis, but it is quite amusing that two of the first things the residents of CHAZ did were to create a border and to make a police force.

P&C drink and review Semi Charmed Pale Ale from Key Brewing and discuss all the fun issues and contradictions that go along with time travel.

First, there are problems with physics about location, inertia and conservation of mass. Then there are all the fun philosophical questions, like the predestination paradox, the ontological paradox, the grandfather paradox, the idea of stealing from the future, the “kill Hitler” paradox, the butterfly effect, and more. Then there’s the alleged solution of multiple timelines and multiple universes.

Then the boys discuss their favorite time travel vacations, and highlight the man of the week.

“Silence = murder.”

I saw a sign with that slogan in my town. I’ve seen many more pictures with similar slogans.

So you must speak!!

But “incorrect” speech will get you banned, shunned, fired, and you’ll probably get death threats.

This adds up to a simple paradigm: you must agree with the fashionable interpretation of the facts, or your life is over.

I don’t know enough about the French Revolution to say if the tweet is correct, but it certainly resonates. I can easily see how we’d get to such a point.

The boys drink and review Grubby Thicket Brown Ale from 7 Locks Brewing, then discuss sayings from the Bible.

Most of us know lots of phrases from the Bible without even knowing it. [The general public, that is. Not the well-educated readers of the Crowhill blog.]

Writing on the wall, turn the other cheek, a fly in the ointment, skin of your teeth, the scape goat, a leopard can’t change his spots, bite the dust, letter of the law, salt of the earth, and many many more.

P&C discuss how our culture is steeped in the Bible, and how it provides a common frame of reference.

Injustice, then protests, then riots, with incompetence all around.

After George Floyd was apparently murdered by a cop, large crowds protested the abuse and lack of justice. Good.

But then the troublemakers showed up — burning, looting, throwing stones.

It seemed to take too long to charge the offending officers, but now they have been arrested. What else do the protesters want? What is the “justice” that the crowds want now?

P&C say that everyone involved in this mess has done it wrong. The four officers were clearly wrong. The media has been atrociously wrong, as usual. Politicians have shown themselves to be an impotent clown show. And the protesters themselves have not done well.

Two weeks ago, anyone who went to a park to play catch with their daughter, or who wanted to open their business, or to go to church, was labeled by the media as a threat to society. They wanted to kill grandma and bring pestilence and plague on all of society. Suddenly, the rules have changed, and the protesters aren’t subject to Karen’s wrath. Why?

One of the worst aspects of this story is the immediate assumption of racism. It was a white cop killing a black man. Therefore, to some, it must be racism. Why is that the automatic assumption? What if it was a black cop killing a white man, or a white cop killing a white man? What’s the justification for immediately assuming that the cop was motivated by racism?

Now that the cops have been arrested, the protests have turned away from a message P&C can support, and have started going into the fantasy land of “cops are hunting us” and other demonstrably false nonsense from the black lives matter crowd.