Behave

Sapolsky's comprehensive, if not always comprehensible, tome is finally finished ... brain hopefully modified by the effort ... anyway, it has stretched the limits of current worldview, though a lingering concern about the source of so much knowledge about brains of sentient beings other than humans raises ethical objections ...

Meanwhile metaboils continue to erupt on the body politic, though whether the poisons are clearing societal systems is difficult to assess ... and maybe pushing the metaphor too far ... current narrative in BSA Iran conflict has BS Boil in Chief acknowledging Iran "proportionate response" as acceptable despite previous threats to target ancient cultural artefacts. .. international condemnation of such actions clearly seeing architecture as superior to human lives ... and some human lives more important than others ... how and when war itself will be seen as beyond the pale still unknown, though Sapolsky takes the question very seriously in his final chapter ... finding hope from the many exceptions to killing under orders, explicit and implicit. ..

In the village elders die, all too often in hospital, despite expressed wishes to pass at home ... preferably with someone there ... which is often tricky, given the numbers of people living alone and the uncertainty of time of dying ...

Media presents the latest drama in the Royal Family soap opera, with local social media expressing strong opinions on the state of the monarchy ... raising a question in the ongoing exploration of metaboils as to whether the fragrant, murdered, Princess of Hearts was that for all the wronged women who mourned her death ... though the boil image obviously inappropriate in her case ... anyway her second son and his American wife provide the entertainment as they plan their escape from their dysfunctional adopted family ... a contemporary Shakespearian feel to the story and an opportunity to take sides in a debate with zero real impact in the day to day lives of the international audience ... the question of what is real popping up along with musing on which poisons are being drawn into the boils represented by good Prince Hal ... and a glance at newspaper treatment of his fragrant wife, bringing her own American culture and mixed race heritage to a stage quite keen on genes from the Saxe-Coburg strain, not to mention Hal's Celtic tendency, a subject rarely discussed in polite society ... Canada seems a good choice for the maybe too modern branch of the Windsor Saxe-Coburgs ... or Hewitt Markles or whatever artificial names we might choose to define them ...

In other news, January weather continues mild, despite regular headlines from Express predicting massive snow events ... this rag and others regularly insert themselves unasked into social media newsfeeds. .. the billionaire owners determined to promote their agendas of fear to keep us indoors and passive ... though outdoors and active is the key to all-round health, of course!