{"id":4919,"date":"2025-05-30T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2025-05-30T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:27:39","slug":"sitting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/sitting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four-day workweek, and I&#8217;m kind of shutting things down for the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to tune out some of the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still following a lot of what&#8217;s been put out on TheFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First notable one was this about the DSA folks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/dsa-torn-over-condemning-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who don&#8217;t want to condemn the shooting in DC<\/a>.  I shared the story on Facebook, quipping something about this being horseshoe theory in action, but I&#8217;m not sure that even fits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what do I do?  I&#8217;m tempted to retreat into the hedge Homer Simpson mem-style.  But, more likely, I&#8217;ll add DSA-aligned candidates to the never-support list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also really appreciated Kat Rosenfield&#8217;s piece <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/05\/the-fatal-attraction-of-victimising-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.  This is actually the sort of thing I was worried about when I was in college, and this sort of thing was just starting to seep into academia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SMDH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I told you so&#8221; is rarely helpful, and even more rarely appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also really appreciated <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/podcast\/2025\/05\/29\/david-stockman-trump-is-a-faker-on-the-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a> from Reason.  The hosts&#8217;  reaction reminds me of their <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reminded of their <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/podcast\/2024\/04\/18\/elica-le-bon-is-war-with-iran-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> about Iran.  This stuff really makes my brain hurt;  Is there a Murray Rothbard quote that kinda-sorta applies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Day off tomorrow, then the three-day-per-week exercise bit starts.  Ugh.  But I am kind of seeing benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More tomorrow, maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-day workweek, and I&#8217;m kind of shutting things down for the weekend. I&#8217;ve been trying to tune out some of the news. Still following a lot of what&#8217;s been put out on TheFP. First notable one was this about the DSA folks who don&#8217;t want to condemn the shooting in DC. I shared the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}