How do you find your way home when you're lost and far away? Where do you start? In wilderness survival training, it's "head downhill." That will bring you to water, and water will bring you to civilization.

Let's look at the last two weeks:

1. Charlie Kirk's assassination.

2. Bombing alleged fentanyl boats heading to the US.

3. Copycat (from Kirk's assassin, bullet writing) shootings at ICE.

4. Acetaminophen (in some 500 brands, most prominently Tylenol) links to autism.

5. National Guard deployed to cities for crime control.

6. National reading studies: half of Americans are functionally illiterate.

7. AI partners induce psychosis and suicide.

8. Illinois honors student sues a public high school for her illiteracy.

9. RFK, Jr. fires and reorganizes the ACIP board.

10. Florida stops ALL vaccine mandates.

I irritated conservative friends a few days ago by disagreeing with Trump's bombing of alleged fentanyl boats. What happens when the government decides compost-grown tomatoes are dangerous? Bombing compost piles? A government that can keep me from ingesting fentanyl and methamphetamine can keep me from ingesting raw milk or homemade charcuterie.