Putin met with the representatives of the European Jewish Congress and told them that Europe was too dangerous for them, too anti-Semitic, and they should all just move to Russia.

The Jews were taken aback and politely said that the idea was a bit too radical for them.

Serves them right for wasting time on a Goebbels admirer like Putin.

And one more thing re: the previous post. It is super easy to stand up for people you like and find agreeable. But it’s kind of worthless. Whether one is truly principled becomes clear when one either does or doesn’t defend from bullying people who are unpleasant or downright obnoxious.

People who find online harassment of Anita Sarkeesian to be more disturbing than online harassment of Sarah Palin are not feminists. They simply believe that harassment is a convenient tool that should be used to keep annoying women in check. And women, of course, have to make sure they behave in a way that doesn’t “provoke” abuse.

I’m so tired of the endless self-congratulation of Liberals who screech, “Republicans hate women and immigrants!” as if they were any better. It would be so much more productive for people to stop denouncing the other side’s bigotry and concentrate on their own. There is nobody with any claim to moral superiority here. 

When McCain first selected Palin as his running mate, I detested her. Since then, however, I saw such a barrage of vicious, disgusting, sexist commentary about her on Liberal websites and blogs that I feel horrible for her and don’t want to hear any more of the stupid clumsy jokes on her account.

Following, for these past 7 years, the Liberal coverage of Palin taught me that sexism has no party affiliation. People who write passionate ultra – progressive articles easily slip into the most outlandishly woman – hating screeds against not only Palin and her daughters but even her infant granddaughter born last month. Among all the unsuccessful vice-presidential candidates, nobody I know received such relentlessly shitty treatment as Palin.

This is why I now feel nothing but a desire to barf when I see my news feed explode with condemnation of Palin for her Trump endorsement. All of the so-called feminists who keep moaning on Shakesville and Feministing about being tragically victimized by somebody looking at them the wrong way wouldn’t survive two days of the kind of bullying and persecution that Palin has had to experience for years simply for being a female politician. That she still has the presence of mind to step into the public eye is truly admirable.

If somebody had told me 7 years ago that I’d be writing this post one day, I wouldn’t have believed it. And I’m very sorry that I’ve had to discover the malodorous depths of sexist iniquity among many proud Liberals. I’ve lost a lot of my idealism in these years and can now only laugh when these people begin congratulating themselves on their entirely imaginary feminist credentials.

Note that Spain is, as usual, excluded:

A great interview about Europe with George Soros: the future of the EU, Merkel, refugees, Ukraine, Greece, Russia. I especially like the part about Ukraine and Obama’s mistakes in handling Russia.

Paul Krugman’s brilliant article on Bernie Sanders: “The Sanders health plan looks a little bit like a standard Republican tax-cut plan, which relies on fantasies about huge supply-side effects to make the numbers supposedly add up.” It’s true, people. Let’s look at reality: everywhere on the planet where the social programs Bernie advocates exist, the middle-class is taxed at at least 3 times the rate it’s taxed in the US. Let’s debate whether that reality is acceptable to us but let’s not close our eyes and indulge in weird fantasies.

On the subject of Bernie Sanders I feel excluded and marginalized when I discover that everybody but me has Bernie supporters attacking and harassing them. Bernie is so anti-intersectional that he is not even noticing how much he contributed to my exclusion.

Contrary to what many people believe, consumerists’ most orgasmic moments do not occur when they buy. They occur when consumerists toss stuff away. They have special terminology and share gushy accounts of their erotic adventures in tossing. There is a new technique called “Konbari-ing”, for instance.

Breastfeeding fanaticism has gone so far that the crazies are telling women without breasts to lactate through their armpits.

In France, life expectancy has also dropped for the first time in decades.

In a complete bastardization of feminism, people are now blaming their shitty sexual scenarios on patriarchy. The word “pathetic” doesn’t even begin to describe what these people are.

As we all know, I’m completely in support of the idea of reparations to African-Americans. But yesterday’s article by Ta-Nehisi Coates on this subject is fully deranged. The time on reparations is running out, and here the most valuable proponent decides to go all nutso and sabotage the issue.

There is now a huge scandal over allegations that a Russian-speaking 13-year-old girl was gang raped in Berlin by 3 “men with Southern appearance.”

The allegations are being reported by the Russian media, known by their tendency to engage in disgusting, vicious lies.

The allegations are being denied by German police, known by its tendency to downplay crimes against women and crimes committed by migrants.

Putinoids are salivating over the story in disgusting ways. Anti-Putinoids are salivating over the possibility that the story is fake in equally disgusting ways. The actual experience of the actual girl is of as little interest to anybody as women’s rights in Germany or elsewhere.

OK, remember the story about the plummeting life expectancy among middle-aged white people? Turns out, life expectancy is not plummeting for all middle-aged white people. It is plummeting specifically for women. And not all women, either, but women in the US South and, to a lesser extent, in the Midwest.

Here is a link.

We all know I’m not very sociable, but being forced into socialization by Uber is not all bad. People are strange and weird creatures, and it’s good to be reminded of the great human variety out there.

Today’s driver, Terry, has always hated Obama. Everything about Obama goes against the grain with him, all of Obama’s policies suck, Obama destroyed the economy and caused 270 Walmarts to close.

However, Terry is so happy about the lifting of sanctions against Iran that he is “almost beginning to wonder if Obama is not that bad.” For no particular reason, Terry has been reading up on Iran for years and really feels for Iranis. So now he’s celebrating the lifting of the sanctions.

Another day, another Uber. Today’s driver tells me that it’s going to snow hard today. My weather app disagrees but the driver is adamant. He’s lived here his entire life and knows the signs of approaching snow.

After the driver put several of his friends on the loudspeaker to tell me it will snow, I had to believe them.

So it’s a war of apps today, Uber vs Weatherbug.

In the context of Harvard admissions and whether they should be free, there are always muted references to “Asian students” and unspecified problems they are causing. For those who don’t know, I want to explain what the main issue here is.

“Asian students” is a way of saying “Chinese students.” Students from China often arrive with perfect SAT, TOEFL and GRE scores that turn out to be completely fake. I know of quite a few cases (including in Ivy League schools) where students from China arrive at a grad program in English lit with a perfect GRE score, and it turns out that the students literally don’t speak a word of English.

There is an even greater problem with letters of reference and transcripts from China. There is a lot of corruption going on in the country, and since China is so enormous, there’s no way of controlling what’s happening. That’s the reason colleges balk at admitting students from China.

There is some really idiotic myth that Chinese students are discriminated against because they are too smart and will outshine American students but it’s just a silly story. In reality, there is hardly a program in this country that hasn’t had any experience with falsified documents from China.

It totally sucks that good, honest Chinese students are suffering as a result of this issue but when you have one situation like this after another, I literally don’t know what else a department is to do.