By Eric Scheske in Current Affairs — 25 Jul 2026

The Week

On Not Crapping Oneself, Gay Cruises, and the Contracepting of the West

Support Local Ag or Else!

Else what?

You'll crap yourself.

If explosive diarrhea doesn't send people en masse to their local farmers market, I'm gonna stock up on rubber raincoats to protect myself from the splashing.

A privately held, California-based produce company called Taylor Farms, which has over $7 billion in annual sales and 25,000 workers, appears to be the center of the [explosive diarrhea] outbreak, which is suspected to have started with lettuce imported from Mexico. . . .

[Outbreaks like these reflect] the sheer complexity and vast scale of national and international food sourcing and industrialized agriculture . . .

A Headline We Can All Get Behind

Douglas Murray on Mamdani

Murray jackhammers Mamdami, really puts the blocks to 'im . . .

I suppose there's something wrong with me, but after Murray's performance on Joe Rogan, I don't respect anything he says, even though he's a columnist for two of my favorite publications (Spectator and The Free Press).

Fear and Loathing in the Marital Bed

We're contracepting ourselves into Mohammedanism. Young people say it's because they lack financial security. That's bunk. It's fear, and probably some sort of early onset dysfunction resulting from undue fondness of one's own right hand.

But TBH, if it weren't for the Catholic teaching on artificial contraception, I woulda been pinching off after three or four children myself, so I don't want to get self-righteous on these little cowards.

Chalk one up for the RCC going full-on medieval under Pius VI. When you look back at the 1960s zeitgeist and pillars of condoms nearly every 1960s theologian was aching to strap on, it's downright wild that Pius VI wrote that encyclical. Well, wild . . . or something else.

“Entry into motherhood is falling across nearly every age,” write @grantjbailey and @anne_red_head, pointing to a larger decline ahead. pic.twitter.com/fqODV5YxYB
— The Institute for Family Studies (@FamStudies) July 20, 2026

Then Again, Maybe the Lack of Children Isn't Just Fear

Strong candidate here for scariest picture of the year.

Summary: A ship of fags tried to dock in a few Muslim countries and were denied entry on grounds that the ship was carrying a virus called "degeneracy." It's pretty funny for the intersectional reasons explored in the article, but it's also ironic: If Christians don't start having more kids, the West will become Muslim, and once it becomes Muslim, homosexuals will be persecuted, yet homosexuals cheer Islam, condemn Christianity, and are naturally incapable of doing anything to improve their demographic reach, so they need Christians to produce more children to preserve their preferred form of recreation, and Christians, in the meantime, accommodate them.

In the words of John Lennon: "Strange days, indeed. Most peculiar, mama."