I’m reading a new book by the amazing, amazing, amazing Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes. In this novel, I discovered a new word: TUPERVARES.

Can you guess what it means?

This word is from the same group as GÜISQUI, PANCAQUES and YONQUI.

Obviously, you don’t have to be a Spanish-speaker to guess what the words mean.

Also, if you know more words like these, do share.

Canada’s York University thought it was a good idea to let a religious fanatic trample on human rights:

The student, whose name has not been released, cited religious grounds for his request to be excused from a group project in his sociology class. His religion is unclear.

Prof. Paul Grayson originally rejected the man’s request that he be allowed to skip the group project and the student went on to meet with his female classmates as scheduled.

But Grayson said he was later told by the dean of the faculty of liberal arts and professional studies that the student should have been accommodated, since the request did not have a “substantial impact” on the rights of other students.

The Dean of Illiberal Artlessness and Unprofessional Hatred of Studies soon discovered that not everybody in Canada is ready to let religious fanatics destroy the Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

Federal MPs of all political stripes took a Toronto university to task Tuesday for siding with a male student who requested that he be excused from participating in a group project with women.

The York University student, whose name has not been released, cited religious grounds for the request. His religion is unclear.

At least, Canada can boast normal politicians.

But the best part of the story is this:

A statement from the university said it based its decision on a number of factors, including consideration of the Ontario Human Rights Code, the individual circumstances, the requirements of the law and the academic requirements of the course.

Apparently, York University has discovered a new human right: treating women as subhuman. Good job, York University!

Thank you, ladyleahjane, for this informative link!

A student wrote on the evaluations that it was hard to understand what I was saying in class because I have a very strong accent.

This hard-core intellectual didn’t manage to figure out that, in a course called ‘Spanish’, I was not speaking English with an accent. I was speaking Spanish.

Right after I wrote the previous post, I received my student evaluations for last semester. And they just killed me. One of the questions we ask is “How could this course be improved?”

And one after another, students answered that it was disruptive and inconvenient to have the instructor change twice within the course. Nothing insults me more than complaints about how much what happened to me inconvenienced somebody. I’m shocked by this need people have to see themselves as victims of somebody else’s tragedy. This complete self-immersion borders on the schizophrenic.

I hate it when people constantly feel aggrieved by absolutely everything in the world. These students had no real complaint to make. Not a single one of them mentioned any real instance of how the change of instructor was disruptive to them. But still they felt victimized.

I despise these fake victims because I’m not one of them.

I’m a warrior.