Why the Vandals Decided to Sack Rome

Felt a little bit better yesterday but still über-fragile.

Talked some more about Ken Burns’ Holocaust documentary with Neighbor and Mrs. Ed (who happened to materialize in one of my favorite hiking spots—wait! Can it be…?), and my eyes filled up with tears.

They hate us. They really, really hate us.

Interestingly, the rise in European anti-Semitism seems to be positively correlated with immigration rates from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

I don’t know what one does about that.

Clearly, these people need refuge from the political- and climate-wrought disasters besieging the geographical areas where their DNA traditionally pooled.

And, anyway, if refuge isn’t freely offered, then within one or two generations, you’re just gonna see the 21st-century equivalent of the Vandal hordes sacking Rome. Because they can’t stay where they were; they’ve got to go someplace else.

But this is the story—unreported by the American media—behind the rise of all those right-wing parties in places like Hungary, Poland, Austria, and (ulp) Sweden.

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What else?

The last day of summer was spectacularly lovely: