The More! The Doom!

India's building cremation pyres in parking lots and parks now. The pyres referenced in the article look anything but makeshift to me. They could have done a neater job with the concrete underlayment, but the pyres themselves look well-finished and professional, with even a black tile surround.

What I'm starting to wonder now is where is all the seasoned wood for these cremations coming from? Open-air cremation is far and away the preferred type of funeral in India. I'm sure that there are entire warehouses filled with ready-to-use firewood, but there has to be a finite amount available, and I strongly suspect that use is outstripping production ATM. They are, dare I say it, burning through their reserves.

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Meanwhile, Gretchen Whitmer does her level best to turn Michigan into Little India. I'd not really mind, except that I have friends who live there, plus there are legal complications to restricting cross-border traffic between states, so that we get their spillover infecting us here in Indiana.

Then Rather Than Submit to Shame...

Yeehaw! "An act, law, treaty, order, rule, regulation, and any other governmental document of purported legal force (each a “Law,” and collectively, “Laws”) of the federal government that violates the 2nd Amendment [...] is null, void, and unenforceable". The Sheriff stands behind that. This is pretty much the boilerplate language from South Carolina's Nullification Act of 1832, in many ways an obvious choice for a model, given that it was never resolved in court.

Still, one is surprised by a display of heroism from county government. These are the guys who ordinarily worry about zoning ordinances, stop signs, and drainage, and here they are, stepping up to defend the fundamental rights of citizens from tyranny. I'm impressed.