A blogger writes:

The issue with the Arab Spring, together with the Occupy movement and the Brazilian protestors, is that the millions of people who have taken to the streets for one reason or another collectively lack an  organised leadership or any  representatives.

Spain’s Indignados can be added to the list as well, especially as the name of their movement is so indicative of the problem that plagues the massive, popular, spontaneous protest phenomena of the recent years.

The reason why the protests never achieve anything is not that a Great Leader is lacking. It is that the protesters unite around the idea of a vague discomfort with what is going on and have absolutely no clue what specific kind of change they want to take place. No matter how many people show up and how passionate they get, protesting against greed, poverty, or corruption in politics is incapable of producing results.

As my favorite poster of the Indignados said, “Indignation is not enough.” Many of us have experienced those proverbial fights between lovers where people yell and scream at each other only to fall into a passionate embrace after venting their grievances.

These protests are very similar to such fights. Protesters release the tension through the carnavalesque but ultimately meaningless activities and are then ready to hand themselves over to the system they ranted against with an even greater abandon.

The Internet informed me that marijuana lowers blood sugar. I don’t feel tempted, though, because I hear that prison food is really bad for diabetics.

“Gestational diabetes gives you between a 25% to 60% chance of getting Type II diabetes after you give birth,” the diabetician says. “Remember that Type II diabetes is incurable. It can lead to many very serious complications, such as loss of vision or gangrened limbs that might have to be amputated. How is your vision? Still good? For now, it is. What? You say you have no gangrened limbs just yet? Ha ha, you are funny!

Heart disease and stroke are the main causes of death and disability for people with Type II diabetes. For somebody like you, who already has high blood pressure, this can shorten your life span significantly. And you want to stay alive for the next 20 years because this child will need to be raised.

Gestational diabetes can lead to premature delivery and birth defects. Here are some pictures of premature babies and babies with birth defects. Well, you can’t get these from gestational diabetes, but they do look scary, huh?

So make sure you measure your blood sugar 5 times a day, follow the diet I suggested, and most importantly, remember, NO STRESS. High stress raises your blood sugar levels. Actually, let’s take a measurement right now. Hmm, the blood sugar seems kind if high. Is it something you ate for breakfast?”

I downloaded the What to Expect app and it automatically subscribed me to daily emails from What to Expect bullies. Each email has a scary title like “Swollen Feet”, “Heartburn”, “Tooth Loss.” What is more likely to enhance a pregnancy than to wake up to an email reminding you of everything that is likely to go wrong?

As for my own symptoms, on top of every single one I’ve had before, I now started sprouting gray hairs. This means that I need to contemplate coloring my hair and that’s very scary. I love my natural hair color because every strand is colored differently. But the natural color has chosen to abandon me.

I will arrive at childbirth as an ancient old wreck: toothless, gray-haired, diabetic, and apoplectic. People will tell me my grandson is very cute.

My colleague is very outspoken and always says exactly what she wants to say in a very direct and loud way. This is my favorite kind of people because everything is always out in the open with them.

“So how old exactly are you?” the colleague asks.

“Thirty-seven.”

“You are really getting over the hill,” the colleague remarks completely seriously. “Don’t worry, though, you still have time to squeeze in a couple kids after this one.”

“What? What did I say?” the colleague asks after I collapse in laughter.

 

Huh?

As the resident authority on narcissists, I can assure everybody that they can have iron-clad marriages if they find a partner with a corresponding neurosis. This means that their likelihood of having an unbreakable marriage is exactly as high as anybody else’s.

Narcissists also make the best bloggers. The habit of being highly attentive to the minutest details of one’s existence and feeling the need to share them with the world is obviously very narcissistic. And, of course, I’m not saying this from any sort of personal experience. 🙂

Who’s with me in my belief that Obama’s chase after Snowden disgraces both the presidency and the country?

He should just stop chasing after the guy and quit making a fool of himself. The whole world is laughing; this is an embarrassment. Even Putin, that vile cockroach of a person, is having a hoot at Obama’s expense.

Do you remember that time in 2008 when people from many countries cheered and danced in the streets when they heard Obama was elected president? Now they are all jeering in scorn.

Courtesy of David Gendron, here is an article about a bunch of losers who are too chicken to fight against large companies that are mistreating their employees and using sweatshop labor. Instead, these idiots bully a small business that tries to stay afloat. Bleh, disgusting.

Montreal activism does tend to be very childish and obnoxious, I have to say.

It is beyond silly to buy some shoes to support Wendy Davis’s heroic fight against barbarity. If you support her cause, what is the point of lining the pockets of some anti-choice miscreant?

If your idea of activism is buying stuff, there is something definitely wrong going on. All you do is purchase an image of yourself as politically active. And that’s all kinds of stupid. What’s next? A Che Guevara T-shirt? Oh, wait. . .

 

Where the hell do people find this kind of crap?

According to popular culture, jealousy is an emotion generally felt (or should be felt) by women, about sex, getting a man, and having an inadequate breast size — small breasts of course makes it more difficult to attract men and furthermore following it up with some sex. Most articles I viewed were aimed toward women and working through that jealousy, all the while reinforcing the concept that most women *should* feel jealous about certain things. Mostly male attention.

One has to be really blind to reality to miss the pervasive nature in the Western civilization of the narrative about male jealousy. From Shakespeare to Calderon, from Maugham to One Tree Hill, what is it that men are supposed to be jealous about? Yes, that would be female attention. Also having the biggest brawn that would help attract female attention.

Presenting this as some sort of a gender issue is both stupid and dishonest.