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Isle Royale has no deer, so its moose aren’t exposed to brainworm, a deadly parasite that deer carry.

It's always a mistake to spend too long in that person's mind — talk about staring into the abyss! — and anyway we won't find the origins there of the latest toxic brainworm to emerge from the American far right.

As far as I can reconstruct things, the kill-the weak brainworm swelled and grew this way.

Randy Kelley, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources’ elk project leader, told the Charleston Gazette-Mail that during grazing, the elk accidentally consumed snails that had eaten brainworm eggs.

That’s partly because of the impact of parasites, both winter tick and brainworm, on the moose population, although the Fish and Game Department says moose are not currently a threatened or endangered species in the state.