A blogger on Feministe asks:

What else needs to be done? If you have body image issues, what could help you overcome them? And if you don’t, for the love of God please tell me how you do it.

The answer is: go back in time and relive your childhood with parents who actually love you. In case that is impossible, undergo psychoanalysis.

I’m waiting for my husband at the Y and reading my blog roll. Hence the deluge of posts.

I just read that Quebec City and Montreal are among the top 3 cities with the highest percentage of people living alone in Canada/US. It feels kind of counterintuitive to not want a warm body around when the weathers are so cold. But these are, of course, among the richest cities on the continent, so people can afford not to have roommates.

I just read about this new tradition of asking guests who come to one’s place for a party to put their cell phones and handheld devices into a basket by the door before they can proceed to the party proper.

Is this an urban myth or do people with this degree of obnoxiousness actually exist? And if they do, who on Earth comes to their parties?

Spain’s Minister of Internal Affairs Jorge Fernández Díaz said he is confident that St. Theresa will intercede for Spain in these harsh times. If St. Theresa is getting rolled out as the last hope, we can be confident that things are very grim, indeed.

So the real reason why my Spanish bus driver kept breaking the rules to be stopped by traffic police was that he was a heavy smoker.

“These stupid Anglos make big bucks peddling their cigarettes to the whole world,” he would grumble. “And then they come here and complain that one smokes on the bus!”

Wherever a police car would flag him down, Jesus would jump out of the bus, grab his packet of smokes, and suck avidly on a cigarette.  He would talk to the officer very slowly to have time to smoke the entire cigarette down.

The reason why the obviously stupid policies of multi-culturalism exist is that they serve capital and facilitate the triumph of neo-liberalism.

Take any developed society. When discontent begins to brew, immigrants are brought into the country in massive numbers. These immigrants come from the kind of poverty that citizens of this developed society cannot even begin to imagine. For them, the status quo that the locals want to change is paradise. Immigrants see the protesting locals as spoiled, ungrateful brats.

Of course, the locals and the immigrants could start communicating, collaborating, explaining their respective positions to each other. But this is where multi-culturalism comes in.

The policies of multi-culturalism create ghettoized societies where locals and immigrants hate and fear each other. Multi-culturalism makes immigrants so unacceptable and repellent to the locals that any form of peaceful contact between them is impossible. It also precludes immigrants from integrating into the host society in a way that would be even minimally comfortable.

The result: a deeply fragmented society that envisions no possibility of uniting to oppose neo-liberalism.