The Slog sets out to investigate why one naff poem went around the World, and discovers more than he bargained for….in the shape of mysterious authorship, suspicious branding, rewriting of history, and familiar suspects involved in its success. It’s not one for the faint-hearted.

I’m going to embed here a YouTube video which has been up since May this year – when Covid19 was still being billed as The Grim Reaper by Fauci, Ferguson, Horby, Biden Associates. Bear that in mind as you watch it: it’s only 3.5 minutes long. I beg of you, watch it and listen to every word.

Seven months up on YouTube and still not taken down: must be something of a record. But this piece of 100%-proof pernicious Soviet-style propaganda is still up because that’s exactly where Google wants it to be.

Its basic tenet is that life was awful before Covid came along, but…

Philosophical days will appear again, that’s the prayer

Today looks contemplative and evenly timed; a contrasting reflection

Of the enduring chaos, the pain and confrontations of ideologies

Didactic lectures from misinterpreted ideas changed everything erroneously

Infantile fascinations, no effort can elevate the thoughts anymore

Unclean time runs through the numerous channels deep in the earth

There is a connection between complicated downfall and rushed changes

An air so eager to allow the souls to breathe in a virtuous environment

~Amitav

My store of wildlife photos has depleted to the point where I’m a bit worried. Please send in your good photos! Today’s contributor is Joe Routon, who sent “street photos”—if photos of Auschwitz can be called that. Joe’s captions are indented: These are some of the photos I made a few years ago in Auschwitz…

Readers’ wildlife photos — Why Evolution Is True

Simple emotions appear to be bland under the dispirited sky

When the weather is influenced by the multitude of sighs

Like menacing clouds blanketing the earlier euphoria of life

Curtailing time slyly from the daily allowance; stealing dreams too

Unaware, until they are long gone and a sense of despair settle down

Like a heavy bowl displacing water, but unwilling to drown

Stirring restlessness audaciously affects the temper of daily thoughts

Fighting off the clouds of melancholy like a struggling warrior

With inadequate defense from the unseen forces, time collapses

~Amitav