From War Nerd’s article:

The US is the most powerful on the planet, and power is evil. So anything at all that is anti-American is good because it’s fighting Power; anything that distracts from that is evil; and anything that America professes to care about is even eviler, because of America’s monstrous hypocrisy. “It makes you dumb just writing that down, but it’s Assange’s worldview and it’s pretty much the dominant Left’s as well.”

This totally explains why so many Lefties have gone hopelessly Putinoid.

A new great piece by the massively talented Gary Brecher.

I just heard on TV that 50% of Jews in the US married someone non-Jewish.

It’s obvious that time has come for people to start adopting cultural rituals and customs at will, without chaining them to the ridiculously outdated concept of “blood.”

For instance, the Russian N is the biggest Jew I know: he loves his Star of David, doesn’t celebrate Christmas, is bookish and uxorious to a scary degree, drives me nuts with his capacity always to answer a question with a question, and is great with money in a very non-Russian way.

Let’s be consumerist about cultures! This month I can be Peruvian, the next looks good for a spot of Ukrainianness, March is cool for being English, etc. This will make learning more prestigious as people will explore new cultures to adopt temporarily.

Did you hear that Michelle Obama didn’t put a submissive pillow case on her head to signal her enslavement to the barbarians in Saudi Arabia? And they swallowed it and said, “Thank you, ma’am”?

I totally dig this. Michelle rules.

For the very first time ever, my academia.edu profile has had a visitor from Ukraine:

Freaky! I wish this mysterious person got in touch.

I’m getting heavily into academia.edu these days. It’s turning into quite a useful website for academic articles and books one can use for research. Academia.edu is like an intellectual’s version of Facebook. I hated it at first (because my psychological rigidity often gets the better of me) but now I’m beginning to see its uses.

The Chair of the Russian Parliament charged a committee with creating a statement that will condemn the annexation of East Germany by West Germany.

If there is a more ridiculous organization in the world than the Russian Duma, I have no idea what it is.