The people of Spain have had it with corrupt politicians, an inept government, unemployment, the endless economic crisis, and the two-party system that allows for no genuine dissent. They have taken to the streets and formed a movement of people who are indignant at the current situation, the indignados.

Jonathan offers a collection of slogans the indignados use in their struggle that he translated into English. The slogans are brilliant, funny, and tragic at the same time. Do head over here to read them: http://jonathanmayhew.blogspot.com/2011/08/indignados.html

I promise it will be a rare treat.

P.S. Sorry for the weird way of entering a link into the post. I’m blogging from an iPad which makes everything more complicated.

1. Choose financial success as your only motivation. When selecting a Major in college or a new job, only choose those that will supposedly bring you the most money.

2. Whenever you meet a successful person in your field, immediately decide that they got to their place in life because they slept with the right people, had connections, or were lucky.

3. Collect stories about people who became rich and successful through a stroke of luck. Reject stories of those who worked hard to achieve success by explaining them in terms of the previous point.

4. Whenever you are passed by for promotion or get your article rejected, immediately conclude that people have conspired to keep you down because they are intimidated by your brilliance.

5. Never contemplate the possibility that your work might be far from perfect and you still might need to learn and improve. You are a hundred times brighter than most other people in your field and deserve to be at least as successful as they are with no extra effort.

6. Conclude that the world is basically unfair, so it makes no need to keep trying.

7. See every sign of economic well-being in a colleague or friend as a sign that they sold their soul.

8. Constantly imagine yourself on your own yacht in the Caribbean but, whatever you do, do not create a practical strategy of how you can get there.

9. Remember that working hard for decades to reap the rewards later on in life is not for you. You deserve the best and you should be getting it right now.

10. Choose a group of people who are to blame for everything that goes wrong in your life: women, Jews, Arabs, gays, immigrants, the disabled. Come what may, dont forget that it is all their fault.

Other suggestions to the list are welcome.

“You always tell me about the hardships of parenting,” I said to my sister. “I get it that you are exhausted, sleepless, and stretched very thin. But there have to be some things that make it all worth it for you, right? Why don’t you talk about them?”

“Well, I always feel like people don’t want to hear about the rewards of parenting because such stories sound soppy and sentimental,” she responded.

I want to hear them! Please, dear parents, share some of the stories about what makes it all worth it for you. Feel free to be as sentimental as you like. 🙂

OK, I’ll try to stop but everybody who voted that they like my blog because I post a lot are to blame. And the banksters, of course.

Who could have known that Twitter is so good with providing valuable blogging material. See this most recent one from our new favorite, the Overt Dictionary: “The Lottery: even if you win the lottery, there are millions who lost, there are billions who starved.” If I’m not mistaken, we only have 7 billion people on our planet right now, no? So if billions starve for every lottery winner, how come we are still dealing with overpopulation?

The Overt Dictionary is so far off base with its definitions that it’s scary. (This is my first ever use of baseball terminology in my life. I must miss the US already).

The Twitter is a joy that keeps giving, people. I just discovered the following pearl of wisdom on the subject of London riots: “If banksters in the City of London were never allowed to loot these people to begin with, they would not resort to looting today.”

Of course, the banksters are to blame for everything in the universe. If the articles I submitted for publication get rejected, I’ll just know that the evil banksters made me write crappy articles. I don’t know how they did this, but it has to be them, right?

Feel free to share all the bad things the banksters made you do.

I’m sorry to bug everybody but I have to alleviate my BP that always goes through the roof when I encounter any kind of xenophobia, so I’ll blog until I feel better.

From the same source that inspired my previous post (I checked and this weird Twitterer is called Overt Dictionary): “Unemployment: an act which will eventually result in starvation, because raw physical hunger is used to discipline the deviant individual.”

Way to go beating down on the unemployed, Overt Dictionary. Just in case they don’t feel bad enough as it is, here you are to make their predicament sound even worse.

Who comes up with these ridiculous definitions, I wonder?

I’m annoyed and tried to distract myself by reading my Twitter feed for the first time in months. And this was one of the first bits of wisdom I encountered: “Pornography: a method of unnaturally speeding up human sexuality, the extreme McDonaldization of the human body.” I’m blogging from my phone, which means that quoting from Twitter is hard and the authorship of this bit of idiocy is going to remain shrouded in mystery for us.

Does anybody have any idea what this is supposed to mean?

Twitter is a place where weirdness comes to proliferate.

To conclude the whole MRA debacle, I wanted to mention to those who are sitting there wondering why they have no personal life that if a single word that the stupid troll Eric said on the rape and child support thread made sense to you, you have your answer. This is why you don’t have a personal life. And you will have none while you keep listening to folks who spout this garbage.

If it’s worth it for you, then good for you.

I’m appalled at that whole thread and at how dense some people keep pretending to be. The MRA club is a place of loneliness and endless resentment. It can never be anything else. And while I feel for you and have compassion to how robbed you are of all happiness, I have no interest in offering you a space on my blog.

Go someplace else, stupid MRAs.

Can somebody explain to me why is it that whenever one is unhappy with one’s life, hates his job, feels his life isn’t going anywhere, it’s always Jews that are to blame? If those horrible, greedy Jews don’t pay you the salary you think you deserve, then why not just quit the job and go get employed with some generous people of some other ethnicity?

Also, if you can’t abstain from making Jew-hating speeches, can you make them in a place where no Jews are present at least? Because if on top of being an anti-Semite, you are also a stupid anti-Semite, that’s really too sad.

I just heard a vile anti-Semitic rant from my own cousin, people. When his dead-beat Dad – who had the wonderful luck of not being Jewish – threw him out of the house at 6 months of age, it was my father who took them in and took care of him. My horrible, greedy Jew father, that is.

I’m very upset right now.