Day 704
Dead on arrival
The cheese metaphor is easy enough to grasp: Multiple layers of protection, imagined as cheese slices, block the spread of an unmitigated disaster. No one layer is perfect. Each has holes, and when the they align, fubar. But several layers combined — equity, expression, justice — plus lots of violin music, education, art, culture, ibogaine, etc., in addition to basic governing competence — significantly reduces overall risk.
This explains why we should all agree to keep Eric as far away from Ukraine policy as possible. In addition, there is no compelling reason to believe anything The Washington Post says about managing the disaster response1.