The Sunday Snewz Issue No. 14
April 23, 2023: Why So Serious?
After reading the last issue of The Sunday Snewz, my husband said although he really enjoyed the editorial, the whole thing felt much too serious for a satirical publication. He suggested instead of discussing God, the resurrection and death, perhaps I should have written a separate essay specifically addressing those topics and stuck with more light-hearted issues, like Gwyneth Paltrow’s pussy and hidden images of butt holes on sauna doors. Maybe he’s right. It would be the first time in history but hey, there’s a first time for everything. (But considering I didn’t lose a single subscriber and actually gained a few new free and paid subscribers, I think Fatz is still batting zero;)
Or maybe I got caught up in the solemnity of the season or more likely, I spent too much time on social media. Whatever got hold of me, no excuses - I’ll do better next time. No more Miss Serious pants.
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And as long as we’re on the topic of engaging, I am super excited about the new Notes feature on Substack. Think of it as a Twitter type forum, minus the hateful, ideological strangers spitting in one another’s virtual faces. But seriously,
crushed it with this new feature. As I spend less and less time on Instagram, Notes is a place for me to spend my time more wisely. Plus, the people there seem to genuinely enjoy reading, learning and sharing differing view points. If you haven’t yet, be sure to download the Substack app and join me on Notes!By no means am I encouraging you to spend more time on your phone or social media. I’m simply substituting Notes for the one hour per day I used to spend on other SM platforms. It doesn’t leave me agitated, it helps me build my readership and it doesn’t suck me in to mindless scrolling.
Big wins all around!
I’ve been a big fan of both
and her husband Brett Weinstein for quite a number of years. Their co-authored book, A Hunter-Gather’s Guide to the 21st Century is something I’ve encouraged people to read since I first came across it several years ago. I’m also a regular listener of their podcast, The Dark Horse Podcast but mostly, I have a woman crush on Heather because she is so damn humbly confident and science-y. As someone who learned more about human biology, more specifically reproduction, in the backseat of a 1970 Chevy Chevelle than in Mr. Abbott's biology class, I admire her knowledge and the well respected position she holds in a field dominated by males.In her most recent article, from her Substack publication,
, Heather provides a scientific explanation as to the implications of living primarily indoors under artificial light and presents the benefits of exposure to both sunlight and moonlight. All things I have prompted people to do by walking regularly, gardening, holding off on sunglasses and sunblock for the first 45-60 mins. you're outdoors - but Heather's discussion on NIR (near infrared) in this article broadened my understanding of the processes going on under the hood that makes NIR essential. This one is definitely worth your time.
Great news to share on the Covid vaccine front. Although far from admitting any guilt in misleading the American people, the FDA this week changed its vaccination regimen under the guise of “simplification.” To be more specific, the monovalent vaccines are “no longer authorized for use in the U.S.” but the bivalent vaccine is available, but only for one dose- no boosters. Sure doesn’t sound like the science was settled now does it?
The unvaccinated, or as I like to call us, “the pure bloods” will now only be offered one dose, rather than the standard two doses of mRNA previously touted as necessary. Not sure this has any relevance whatsoever, as I’m pretty sure those who have managed to dodge the bullet this long aren’t in the market for even a single dose. Additionally, those under age 65 will no longer even be eligible for a second booster.
Although this is a yet another point of reckoning for people like me, who were shunned by family and so-called friends, labeled conspiracy theorists and risked our livelihoods because we called bullshit on the nonsensical Covid response, it’s an even brighter day for people who were considering continued boosters.
“Most Americans who have already received a bivalent booster will not be eligible for another dose for now," the agency said.
But from a personal standpoint, I have a few things to say…
At this point, every supposed conspiracy theory has been proven to be true. Masks never worked.
Natural immunity is superior to vaccination.
Recent studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the New England Journal of Medicine have both found that natural immunity provides greater protection from COVID-19 infection than multiple vaccine doses.
-Source: NIH National Library of Medicine
Adverse effects will always be part of any drug and the statement, "the science is settled,” is in fact the definition of anti-science. Science is never settled - by definition, dummy.
Blanket mandates on healthcare should always be questioned. Each human body is unique and medicine is as much an art as a science.
Something cannot be proven to be “safe and effective” if it has not been time tested and actually tested on the subjects its claiming to be safe and effect for. (Reminder - these vaccines were NEVER tested on pregnant women nor infants and yet bold face claims of safety were made and are still being made in the U.S.)
I am far beyond the stage of anger and have no interest in gloating or perpetuating the “us versus them” campaign that was ignited by our political and health officials. But I would ask all of you to keep this in mind for future states of emergency. There will be another one coming - you can bet your ass this wasn’t the last attempt at divide and conquer. Don’t let them get away with it.
Ask yourself if you should trust your government over your family (especially those of us with deep connections to the medical field who you previously trusted for health advice.)
Remind yourselves that money will always mean more to corporations than people. Always.
Fear will always result in hasty decisions.
Your health decisions should never be partisan based. WTAF does your political affiliation have to do with what you are willing to inject in your body? That’s insane. And come on all you Biden voters, just admit it - if Trump had been the lead drug dealer of this concoction, you would’ve refused it.
The further we get from the days of being labeled, censored, pitted against my own husband for speaking out against the bullying from our hospital, hiring an attorney in order for my physician husband not to lose his career, and having to grovel to the bureaucratic fucktards at Kootenai Health for a religious exemption based upon our strongly held beliefs against abortion and the use of aborted fetal cells for medical research, I can honestly say I understand why most people lost their minds. They were scared. They were promised things from officials who should have their best interests at heart but didn’t and were told they could resume life as usual if everyone just shut up and fell in line. It’s not what I ever would have done, but I get it.
But don’t ever fucking let this happen again!
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It is widely accepted now a days that wearing black face is no longer pc. Comedians like Jimmy Kimmel have been harassed to apologize for impersonations they did 30 years ago and according to the best and brightest over at CNN, Brownface. Blackface. They’re all offensive. To be honest, I really don’t care. The whole thing wreaks of over sensitivity and again, a world of young St. Georges in retirement, making up dragons to slay because they don’t have any real dragons to fight but I’ve been willing to keep quiet on that one. I really don’t have a dog in that fight.
My daughter who is Asian, has broken the rules a time or two on Halloween though. Her and her bestie used to pick a duo each year and do their best to really embody the characters. In 5th grade, it was George and Harold from Captain Underpants. (By the end of the night she resembled Bruno Mars more than George.) In the 7th grade it was Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro. The characters didn’t always require cultural appropriating someone’s skin color, as they also chose inanimate objects like Salt & Pepper (the spices not the band,) but when they did, we didn’t shut her down. It was all a matter of childhood imagination and fun, not a discreet form of racism. Besides, as Scarlett sees it, she has a free pass. Asians are right up in the Olympics of who is most oppressed, so she had every right to depict a character less racially denigrated than her. After the whole “China Virus” thing - come on. Plus, she has to have a higher GPA to attend Harvard for God’s sakes!
The whole issue of appropriating someone’s face got me thinking. Why is it not only acceptable but celebrated for men to be appropriating female faces? As someone pointed out to me recently on a Substack Note, we need to create the hastag, #femface and demand these attention seeking men stop wearing our faces. If appropriating someone’s face isn’t allowed for differing races, it sure as hell shouldn’t be acceptable for differing sexes either.
Portraying yourself as someone of a different race is not just a representation of a person but rather using someone’s skin tone as a costume. - CNN
How is this any different? Men are portraying themselves as someone of a different sex and using it as a costume. If someone can offer a valid counter argument, I’d love to hear it. But until someone convinces me there is a difference, I will be leading the charge to create the movement #femface. If you’re not a female by birth - you’re not allowed to wear our faces.
Join me and help spread the hashtag! And refuse to give your business to companies who want us to pretend men are women. Nike Women, Anheuser-Busch, Thrive Cosmetics, and Ulta, with their egregious podcast titled, The Beauty of Girlhood, featuring two biological males and no actual females. No surprises there, coming from the company who previously recorded a podcast titled, The Beauty of Fatness with Virgie Tovar, weight-based discrimination expert. Tovar compared herself to “any other disabled person” and encouraged young women (whatever that means) to be as fat and proud as possible.
#femface
Well, the cynical me was replaced this week with the me who finds art in life. William Blake speaks to happiness better than I, in this poem called, With Happiness Stretched Across the Hills
With happiness stretch'd across the hills
In a cloud that dewy sweetness distills,
With a blue sky spread over with wings
And a mild sun that mounts & sings,
With trees & fields full of Fairy elves
And little devils who fight for themselves--
Rememb'ring the Verses that Hayley sung
When my heart knock'd against the root of my tongue--
With Angels planted in Hawthorn bowers
And God himself in the passing hours,
With Silver Angels across my way
And Golden Demons that none can stay,
With my Father hovering upon the wind
And my Brother Robert just behind
And my Brother John, the evil one,
In a black cloud making his mone;
Tho' dead, they appear upon my path,
Notwithstanding my terrible wrath:
They beg, they intreat, they drop their tears,
Fill'd full of hopes, fill'd full of fears--
With a thousand Angels upon the Wind
Pouring disconsolate from behind
To drive them off, & before my way
A frowning Thistle implores my stay.
What to others a trifle appears
Fills me full of smiles or tears;
For double the vision my Eyes do see,
And a double vision is always with me.
With my inward Eye 'tis an old Man grey;
With my outward, a Thistle across my way.
"If thou goest back,' the thistle said,
"Thou art to endless woe betray'd;
For here does Theotormon lower
And here is Enitharmon's bower
And Los the terrible thus hath sworn,
Because thou backward dost return,
Poverty, Envy, old age & fear
Shall bring thy Wife upon a bier;
And Butts shall give what Fuseli gave,
A dark black Rock & a gloomy Cave.'
I struck the Thistle with my foot,
And broke him up from his delving root:
"Must the duties of life each other cross?
Must every joy be dung & dross?
Must my dear Butts feel cold neglect
Because I give Hayley his due respect?
Must Flaxman look upon me as wild,
And all my friends be with doubts beguil'd?
Must my Wife live in my Sister's bane,
Or my Sister survive on my Love's pain?
The curses of Los, the terrible shade,
And his dismal terrors make me afraid.'
So I spoke & struck in my wrath
The old man weltering upon my path.
Then Los appear'd in all his power:
In the Sun he appear'd, descending before
My face in fierce flames; in my double sight
'Twas outward a Sun, inward Los in his might.
"My hands are labour'd day & night,
And Ease comes never in my sight.
My Wife has no indulgence given
Except what comes to her from heaven.
We eat little, we drink less;
This Earth breeds not our happiness.
Another Sun feeds our life's streams,
We are not warmed with thy beams;
Thou measurest not the Time to me,
Nor yet the Space that I do see;
My Mind is not with thy light array'd,
Thy terrors shall not make me afraid.'
When I had my Defiance given,
The Sun stood trembling in heaven;
The Moon that glow'd remote below,
Became leprous & white as snow;
And every soul of men on the Earth
Felt affliction & sorrow & sickness & dearth.
Los flam'd in my path, & the Sun was hot
With the bows of my Mind & the Arrows of Thought--
My bowstring fierce with Ardour breathes,
My arrows glow in their golden sheaves;
My brother & father march before;
The heavens drop with human gore.
Now I a fourfold vision see,
And a fourfold vision is given to me;
'Tis fourfold in my supreme delight
And threefold in soft Beulah's night
And twofold Always. May God us keep
From Single vision & Newton's sleep!
Yes, but are you happy?
Happiness is a rather cheap emotion. It doesn’t take much to achieve it - play with a puppy, get a good deal on a dozen eggs at the grocery store or watch a video of little African kids jumping around, singing about going to school and viola’ - happiness abounds.
Happiness isn’t hard to come by, which in turn means it’s fleeting, as anything easy to come by is just as easy to lose. And while deep, lasting joy is ultimately the goal, happiness along the way sure helps.
As you watch the most recent cultural issues unfold, you need to ask one question, “Are they happy?” My guess is the answer is a resounding no. Kids walking out of my daughter’s high school at the end of the day look more like they just crawled out of bed, not attending classes - often times still in pajama bottoms and slippers. During an orchestra trip to Seattle last weekend, Scarlett’s teacher had to send strict instructions, “No pajamas! And if you look like a slob, you’ll be wearing concert clothes all weekend.” Sullen faces, abnormally pale skin from countless hours spent in front of screens or video games, and excessively high body fat. Not to mention they’re being sold a story of nihilism, climate catastrophe, systemic inequality, planet over-population and pointless, overly priced education.
The way I see it, for all of the inclusivity, anything-goes mentality meant to make everybody feel better - people sure don’t look like they feel better. Smiling, vibrant, energized, creative, enthusiastic, optimistic, hopeful, healthy and thriving? I just don’t see it.
Maybe, just maybe, creating a free-for-all within humanity has had the opposite effect than intended. Like children without boundaries, our society seems to be unaware of what’s in its own best interest.
Kids without rules and discipline feel out of control, they aren’t happy - kinda like what I see in society today.
So when it comes to the debates surrounding issues we are facing in our culture, don’t get caught up in the “I’m right - you’re wrong,” simplistic, circle jerk. Instead, ask the simple yet telling question,
“Yes, but are you really happy?”
Heying is great! Thanks for the roundup. Sounds like you’re doing right by your daughter.
I also liked Heather's great summary of the benefits of sunlight, not only UV rays for vitamin D3 but NIR rays for melatonin. Of course, there are probably many more benefits of sunshine that have yet to be discovered.