“Wait, so are you saying you have to be at work every day?” my husband asked 3 years after I signed a contract specifying that I have to be at work every day.

I’m not a taciturn, reticent person, so I have been making quite a meal out of having to work from the office.

The only other man I know capable of going 3 years without noticing that his wife goes to work each day was my father.

Klara drew our family.

My sister and her kids are staying with us. And they love watermelons.

From the prehistoric past of the cave dwellers to the technological societies of today, what guarantees children’s survival and thriving better than anything else is the presence and the interest in them of their father. The presence and the interest of the mother is pretty much a given, but the father’s is not.

Bonding a man to his children is a process. At the very least, he needs to know the child is his. A mother is bonded to a child through powerful biological and chemical processes. A father, however, needs an extra reason to stick around. These extra reasons had to be so strong, they had to be spelled out at the level of sacred meanings to take root.

Monogamy is, thus, an evolutionary strategy and a survival mechanism. The biggest, most consequential pro-woman and pro-child revolution in human history – which is, of course, Christianity – came down so fiercely on the side of monogamy precisely because of this.

America relies on Russia for 20 percent of its nuclear fuel and 50 percent of the natural uranium used in its nuclear reactors, according to the Energy Information Administration. Biden — who has himself supported domestic-mining initiatives and promised to boost U.S. uranium production — is moving suspiciously fast to designate this national monument in Arizona, which will cut off some of the best uranium resources America has.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/arizona-national-monument-incoming/

Yes, now is the perfect moment to consolidate America’s dependence on Russia to appease “tribal and environmental groups”.

Yes, we all heard that Pfizer profits dropped off a cliff, thank you.

But we are the normal ones.

At Klara’s summer camp, a kid “tested positive for COVID”. I don’t know what possessed the parents to test the kid but maybe they watch the CNN, aka Big Pharma shills.

My singing is terrible, atrocious, repugnant and absurd. But I know when a singer hits the wrong note. I hear it perfectly, I know exactly what the correct note would sound like but I can’t recreate it.

It’s the same with visual stuff. I know what kind of design looks good. I see if things work well together. But I can’t imagine or create a design worth a damn. I know it when I see it but I can’t envision it.

Speaking about traditions, my favorite one is that in summer we go to the farmer’s market on Saturday, and then I make a large salad with everything we buy plus avocados and smoky olive oil. The oil is expensive like a bastard, so right now I don’t have any.

Then I boil young potatoes to go with the salad. And there’s usually bacon or kielbasa. That’s our big Saturday brunch.

And afterwards I pickle cucumbers for the week.

Folks, did you know there are apps where you can photograph a page in a book and the app converts it to text that you can copy-paste into a .doc file? Or an email? Or anything?

I’m in paradise.

Euthanasia is the logical and inevitable response of modern man, when he discovers that his efforts to control his destiny failed, when he finds that science has not freed him from suffering and, instead, has left him more stranded than a dog, without authority and without tradition, without God and without community. Euthanasia, in short, is the final destination of a human being whom liberalism tried to turn into a god.

Juan Manuel de Prada, Una enmienda a la totalidad

I deeply dislike Nikki Haley but I support this strategy. “Disavow white supremacy” and “condemn Trump” are rhetorical tricks that liberals use to keep conservatives on the defensive. And those on the defensive always lose.

The denunciations, condemnations and explanations never work. We’ll still be accused of racism-sexism-somethingphobia. The game is rigged, so let’s stop playing it. Nobody on our side is interested in Trump indictments, insurrections, white supremacies and structural grievances. It’s all a distraction maneuver. Let’s simply not participate.

To those who do care about this stuff, I’m very sorry this happened to you. Stay off screens, go for walks, drink a lot of water, and you’ll be fine eventually.