Forget shopping! Here is a much better way of having a nice time – and it’s completely free! Reading and discussing what you’ve read with intelligent, well-informed people doesn’t cost anything.
It is horrifying to see how many opportunists are trying to milk the murder of Michael Brown to promote their stupid careers. I haven’t felt this disgusted for a long time.
I had no idea anybody still took the Implicit Association Test so seriously. People have so little self-awareness that they flock to these fake and meaningless “tests”. I remember taking this Implicit Association Test a few years ago, and it was obvious that the test had been designed by unhealthy people who were desperate to manipulate everybody into believing they were the same kind of jerkwads as the test makers.
Finally everybody has noticed the rapidly improving economy: “Tuesday’s CNN/ORC poll showed for the first time in seven years, a majority of Americans — 51% — have a positive view of the economy, a sharp increase from the 38% who felt that way in October. The jump was present in every demographic group — men, women, whites, non-whites, urban, rural — and was largest among Americans who earn less than $50,000 annually.”
A great insight: “I really don’t get this media obsession with the idea that The Kids Today aren’t living their lives precisely as the olds imagine they lived their lives back in the day.” Stop belly-aching about the young people. Go take care of your own stupid life instead.
Fighting domestic abuse in India.
Finally, the Liberals are waking up to what Putin’s ideology is really like: “While Putin says he is standing against fascism in Ukraine, he’s had no qualms about cozying up to Europe’s far right. Analysts say the growing bond between Putin and far-right European politicians could benefit to both sides. “In Russia today there is a mix of exalting nationalism, exalting the church and Christian values. . . They are now replacing the red star with the cross, and they are representing themselves as the ultimate barrier against the Islamization of the continent.” Let’s wait and see how long it takes The Nation to figure out that supporting Putin’s far-right regime is a little bizarre.
And from the adventures of the truly shameless: “A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has revived a lawsuit, dismissed by a lower court, charging the law school of the University of the District of Columbia with race and gender discrimination against Stephanie Brown, a black woman who was denied tenure. The ruling noted that Brown had published one journal article and had another accepted at the point at which she was denied tenure.” We, the academics, will keep up this extreme shamelessness until there will be no way of defending the institution of tenure any longer. This is just sad.
And since we are talking about lack of self-awareness, here is a scary example of somebody who is not even trying to gain any insight into himself. This kind of posts just freaks me out.
Now it has become clear why my students are so terrified of the word “black” and wince whenever I use it.
How to tell if you are a really bad teacher.
Triumph of the technocrat: a sculpture.
How the elevator transformed America.
The illusion of constant business is just that, an illusion: “Why do people feel so rushed? Part of this is a perception problem. On average, people in rich countries have more leisure time than they used to. This is particularly true in Europe, but even in America leisure time has been inching up since 1965, when formal national time-use surveys began.”
“And I just think, why do I keep coming back where people don’t like me? They may love me, because we’re family and we kind of have to.” People, please listen: this is NOT POSSIBLE. Love is the highest degree of acceptance. If somebody doesn’t like or respect you, if they casually say hurtful things on a regular basis, if you routinely feel discomfort by their side, this means THEY DON’T LOVE YOU. You are not loved by these people.
There are few things I enjoy more than observing Americans try to convince themselves that they hung the Moon.
I find it disturbing that these humongously outdated blogs are so much more popular than mine.
Why would anybody want to spend any time on Twitter at all?
“In the US you will never see any “progressives” opposing the use of violence including lethal violence by the security forces of Togo and Gabon. US Black Lives matter to them, but African Lives do not when the people doing the killing are African governments backed by the “progressive” and “socialist” government of France. It is considered far more important by US “progressives” that France provides free health care to rich white people than it is that France backs brutal and corrupt regimes in Africa that kill people.” France totally sucks, folks. And our indifference to Africa sucks, too. I have recently started trying to get educated on what is happening on the continent, and there is a million fascinating things happening.
Thin people are to blame for global warming. Why am I not surprised!
“Darrell Issa (R-Vista) wasted enormous congressional resources over the last 18 months trying to inflate the IRS “scandal” into a mountain. The release Tuesday of his final, petulant report on the affair marks what may be its final decline into a mouse. Contrary to his assertions in countless appearances on Fox News, there’s no evidence that the Obama White House directed — or indeed was involved in any way — in the supposed targeting of conservative nonprofit groups for special scrutiny by the IRS.” I said back when this scandal took place that it was a nothing affair, a completely meaningless, overinflated drama. It’s shocking always to be so right about everything.
Is single-payer health care simply not possible in the US? “Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday dropped his plan to enact a single-payer health care system in his state — a plan that had won praise from liberals but never really got much past the framework stage. “This is not the right time” for enacting single payer, Shumlin said in a statement, citing the big tax increases that would be required to pay for it.”
[Russian.] As the economic crisis in Russia intensifies, the support of Russians for their president grows. Yes, I said grows.
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