A Sparrow, a Wren, and a Cardinal Walk into a Bar...

...or fly into my backyard. 

It feels, in my gut at least, it's peak birdsong season in Ohio right now. Last year I discovered the Merlin Bird app and it promises, from the comfort of your own lawn chair, to identify the symphony of voices that visit the backyard.  

I'm not sure of its accuracy given that the only constant (besides death and taxes) is the well-grounded American robin. This morning I received a house wren and house sparrow, an ovenbird, and a mourning dove. Then a couple minutes later I get a Cape May Warbler, House Finch, Blue Jay, Marsh Wren (in addition to the ubiquitous robin and house wren).  Apparently a whole lotta birdin' going on. Or it reveals the limits of the app.

Meanwhile in the fake world I see that Matt Taibbi is feeling the burn and becoming reasonably black-pilled. There was always the sense that Tucker was the canary in the calming and the canary has been taken offline. Taibbi describes looking for the ever elusive nugget of truth: 

"[T]hrough the Twitter Files experience, I kept thinking of the book [The Castle] by Kafka. I found myself behaving a lot like the main character in that book, the Land Surveyor, who kept throwing open doors with clownish self-importance, thinking that he had made an awesome discovery, only to find that there were 50 other levels that he had to get to before he even got to the bottom bureaucrat he needed to reach. That journey he imagined was just minutes away from getting to the decision-making official who could solve his employment situation in the Castle was actually lifetimes from even beginning. I think there’s something to that. Kafka was describing the position of the modern person, he himself was a bureaucrat in a system that was far more primitive than this one, but he was correct in predicting that any attempt to try to cut through it all would end a comedy.

[Walter Kirn]: We think we’re going to break through to the final revelation. I’m going to finally see that video, or, read that blog, or you hear that commentator that will make it all make sense.

[Matt Taibbi]: It never comes. It’s always over one more ledge… The idea that you’re going to summon all your strength to get there, well, in the process you’re going to waste everything in life. You’re going to miss everything trying to get to some truth that is never going to be accessible to you in this system. The truth is somewhere else, it’s within yourself."