The last quote today, I promise. But it’s too good not to be shared:

No wonder Anglo Leftist academics feel such innate sympathy with Jihadists; they both enjoy whacking people with sacred texts which have no real relevance to the present moment.

The rest of the article is also brilliant.

Suppose the Republicans nominate Jeb Bush, as seems at least plausible. What’s the Clinton message in such a contest? “My husband had a better job creation record than your brother”? She won’t be able to portray him as a candidate who owes everything to his famous last name.

A very bizarre presidential campaign awaits us.

The Democrats need to stop presenting candidates who were never in charge of anything. Are there no Democratic former governors around? A president who used to be a governor makes more sense than a president who was a senator for two minutes.

Of course, we are facing a contest between two people who are only known to us because they once stood next to someone who actually achieved something. And that’s just boring.

In case anyone doubted that all fanatics are equally disgusting, here is a shocking photo of the Charlie Hebdo march with women edited out of the image:

See original at the link.

The new Charlie Hebdo cover:

These are incredibly brilliant people. With so many of their comrades dead and in an environment of grief and rage, they came up with the perfect cover for the magazine.

As we all know by now, this was a struggling magazine that was not likely to survive for much longer. Cartoonists go out of business faster than cobblers these days. The terrorists obviously knew that the interest in the cartoons that supposedly offended them was minimal. And now the whole world is waiting for the magazine’s next installment.

This epic cover is the most motivational thing I have seen in a while.

Seeing the profoundly stupid struggle to figure out the multiplication table is very entertaining:

Maybe it’s time to stop attacking men for having power, or denying that their power is real, and instead try to understanding why they have had so much of it for so long. Spoiler alert: it has little or nothing to do with muscle mass. The narrative of implied violence that the tastemakers use to explain away the strength of men throughout history is oversimplified and barren of dignity. We can do better. And men should do better, no matter how hard it is.

No, you silly little piece of fluff. It has everything to do with the absence of reliable contraception until extremely recently.

And then people keep saying that college education is not necessary. There is an incredible number of completely stupid, grievously uneducated people around us. The post I culled this bit of idiocy from is extremely long. Its author obviously is passionately attached to the belief that he needs to have opinions. But he has had no access to information, so he just clucks aimlessly, trying to produce a semblance of thought in a complete intellectual vacuum.

It’s like Obama feels the need to compensate for everything he does great inside the country by messing it up royally on the world arena. WTF with not going to the Paris rally??

Remember how when he was first elected we all thought, “Well, no matter what, he will be a great asset internationally”?

Is there any American leader who was ever capable of not goading the entire planet into hating the US?

In Spain, the country where people are so into protesting that there were massive public manifestations in support of some stupid ebola-infected dog, the support for the victims of the Paris terror acts has been minimal.

Some Jews, Muslims and also a few French residents came out in Madrid in solidarity with the victims. There was maybe a hundred people protesting in a few other major cities. But that was about it.

There is so much chatter about religion, the clash of civilizations, cultural differences, etc that the painfully obvious escapes notice: the salient identity of the Charlie Hebdo terrorists is not that of Muslims, immigrants, or anything of the kind. What they are first and foremost is consumers.

When taken to the extreme, consumerism turns into a promise that the consumer will never have to experience the slightest discomfort. Anything that causes a tiny interruption in the placid and unthinking process of chewing the cud is evil and should be removed. The moment anything unpleasant looms on the horizon, consumers reach for a happy pill that will make everything uniformly pleasing again.

Consumers believe that instead of wasting time and energy on developing a human individuality, they should be able to purchase something called “identity” that will give them clear,  simple instructions on what to do, think, or feel in any situation. “Identity” is one of their favorite purchases because it makes life so simple: whenever in doubt, press the big red button, and the gadget will instantly produce an appropriate response. You can then take this response, present it to others, and feel almost human.

When their favorite identity gadget fails to impress everybody as much as it impresses the consumers, they experience a vague discomfort. And this is something they are not equipped to tolerate. So consumers become sulky and lash out in an attempt to remove the obstacle to their worry – free enjoyment of the cud dispensed by the identity gadget in a steady stream.

This is why the actions of the Charlie Hebdo terrorists are finding so much support not among the immigrants or the Muslims but among the sated Westerners whose only God is their “identity” and whose only culture is the belief that there should never be any discomfort in life.

Welcome to Montréal ‘ s best restaurant, Le filet. Montréal is a culinary capital of the world, and amazing restaurants abound. Le filet, however, really stands out in terms of its elegant food and uncharacteristically warm and friendly  (for Montréal) service.

The restaurant serves a tapas menu where each smaller (yet very far from tiny) dish is meant to be shared.

Le filet’s chef knows how to avoid turning scallops into a boring dish:

Does this even look like the scallops you are used to seeing?

The restaurant’s stellar hamachi comes covered with a mound of really amazing salad:

The tuna tartar is absolutely the best I ever tried:

Unfortunately, the restaurant made the really incomprehensible decision to discontinue it’s stellar mushroom pie we normally had at this stage of the dinner, so we had the bass instead:

The desserts are also delightful:

Do make sure you visit this great place if you are ever in Montréal.

People, I changed the way the blog looks because weird things have been happening with our regular theme. Smartphones would only show half a page, the blog has started redirecting readers to Amazon for no reason, etc. While I’m figuring out what the problem is, the blog will look this way. Please tell me if you observe any freaky things happening.

I apologize for the inconvenience.