I am not a person who knows how to rest. My brain is constantly nagging at me that I should be doing something, and then when I get to bed, it nags at me about the stuff I didn't get to. Still, even with the past couple of weeks I've had to look after the wife and kids, I've worked the full-time job after she came home and worked out how to start the blogging and podcasting again as a creative release, plus the usual house stuff and more. As you might imagine, it's exhausting, yet I have the most significant problem acknowledging my exhaustion. So, here it is: I'm a wreck. I will lessen my load a bit over time, and one of the first things I can do to help myself is to stop duplicating effort. More on that at the end.  For now, let's navigate to the meat.  Axios wrote an article entitled America The Single over the weekend, in which they note that the marriage rate has dropped 60 percent in the last 50 years. Also, The Hill has an article over the weekend that states that 60 percent of young men—in their twenties—are single, nearly twice the rate of young women. They then go on to mention the declining pay gap, the fact that more women than men are getting degrees, the fact that 1/5 of Gen Z identify as LGBT, more young women are marrying older men, and that, finally, more and more women don't feel like they have to 'settle' anymore. This is the nightmare scenario if you are a white supremacist, Republican, evangelical, an incel, or all of the above. Honestly, I'm not sure who to point and laugh at the most, but I'm leaning toward the incels because they're the ones that are most likely to have a meltdown over the realization that they will never get what they want unless they do the one thing they refuse to do: Level the f**k up. Sadly, the first part of leveling up is to admit that it's no one else's fault, and the vast majority of them have been led to believe they've done everything right; it's someone else's problem. Expanding on the Incel problem for a moment, and I might be wrong on this, but that's never stopped me: It would be easy for me to project the characters of Ducky, Brian Johnson, or any other nerdy guy in the iconic movies of my childhood that didn't get the girl onto them, and they might even believe that they are some variation of those characters. I often wonder if those characters didn't become problematic in the ensuing years, but I've never thought it was intentional. What is intended is the choices these incels have made since. We might be able to assume that Brian Johnson eventually figured out how to make that lamp. We hope that Ducky moved on and found someone else. Unfortunately, the incels don't learn those lessons; they don't evolve and expect others to come to their level, believing themselves near the top of the mountain instead of their actual location in their parents' basement. The more significant issue that the other subsets I mentioned—white supremacists, evangelicals, Republicans—they're big mad because, for them, the result is that day in the future when whites are the majority *minority* in this country. If the marriage rate is declining, then the buried lede is that the birth rate is also declining, and I don't know what to tell you about that. You're talking about a culture there that would prefer to keep women stuck in the 1950s with none of the rights they enjoy today. That's not a John Hughes problem that's easily solved. I used to say that time and attrition would resolve this, but people like Nick Fuentes and Charlie Kirk exist in the world and are younger than I am. Time...