It’s not the physical paralysis that bothers me. It’s the mental one. No fresh ideas, no interesting solutions. Trudeau is physically young and fit but he’s just as outdated intellectually.

Here’s an example of SAT analogies:

1. DRIP : GUSH
CRY : LAUGH
CURL : ROLL
STREAM : TRIBUTARY
DENT : DESTROY
BEND : ANGLE

2. WALK : LEGS
GLEAM : EYES
CHEW : MOUTH
DRESS : HEM
COVER : BOOK
GRIND : NOSE

3. ENFRANCHISE : SLAVERY
EQUATION : MATHEMATICS
LIBERATE : CONFINE
BONDAGE : SUBJUGATION
APPEASEMENT : UNREASONABLE
ANATOMY : PHYSIOLOGY

4. UNION JACK : VEXILLOLOGY
TOAD : ORNITHOLOGY
TURTLE : MICROBIOLOGY
GYMNOSPERMS : BOTANY
FRIEND : HOME ECONOMICS
ALGAE : ZOOLOGY

I love this kind of exercise with a fiery passion. It’s sad that it’s gone, and it’s sad that the whole concept of the SATs is fading away.

I don’t want to be all conspiracy theory girl but sometimes one just wonders.

Zelensky went to Canada, and Justin Trudeau handed him the worst PR defeat of the century. It’s beyond humiliating, and I want to think there’s no intent behind it but even for the mega incompetent Trudeau this is too much.

So Zelensky is in the Canadian Parliament, right? Suddenly, it’s announced, “And now let’s honor a Ukrainian hero of World War II who’s 98 years old and living here in Canada!” Of course, it’s a World War II hero, so everybody is happy and applauds.

But then guess what? It turns out that the old dude did fight heroically in WWII. A small detail, though. He fought on Hitler’s side. “The hero” was part of the infamous Waffen SS “Galizien” consisting of Ukrainians who supported Hitler. There were very few of those bastards. Every nation has its baddies, and these are ours. They are constantly thrown in our faces when, for example, nobody wants to mention the Russians who fought for Hitler under the leadership of General Vlasov. And nobody drags out any Russian Nazis (past or present) when Russian dignitaries visit (or used to).

“Ukrainians are all Nazis” is our blood libel. It’s like asking Netanyahu on a state visit if he enjoyed the Christian baby he ate for breakfast. It’s like decorating the room with swastikas for Olaf Scholz’s visit. It’s hard to find another nation that suffered from Hitler more than Ukraine but we have to be not only insulted but currently genocided for our utterly imaginary Nazism.

And then comes Trudeau and confirms everything that Russian propaganda has been saying about Ukraine. The squeals of delight coming from Russia and from every useful moron it bought itself here in the US are deafening. “Ukrainian Nazis! We told you!”

Trudeau, as always, blamed somebody else, took no responsibility, and waved away questions in a manner that the propagandists found mega useful. I know he’s a loser who’s so incompetent he probably has 5 people helping him pee in the morning. He can mess up anything. Still, there are so few of these Ukrainian Hitler collaborators and so many Ukrainians who fought against Hitler (even though they are all dying of old age now) that one wonders how easy it is to make such a mistake.

We were all so happy when Zelensky went to Canada. Ukrainian Canadians were all touched to tears, and there are many of us. But that’s how Trudeau treats one of the largest historical communities in Canada. He spits at us during one of our harshest times in history, and then he wouldn’t even apologize normally to put an end to rumors.

It’s an absolute disgrace but Trudeau won’t pay. Ukrainians will.

Learn how to troll from Toronto police:

Of course, they are trolling. Have you ever met any police if you are taking this seriously?

Unfortunately, by the third novel in the Mr Mercedes series, Stephen King is squarely back to the bloody paranormal.

The only way to make the paranormal work in a novel is to have it serve some interesting purpose. Colleen Hoover managed to do that in Layla, and even I didn’t hate the paranormal aspect of the book. But King, like almost everybody who does the paranormal, uses it out of laziness.

How did the mass killer escape from the secure facility where he’s held in a vegetative state? You could come up with an inventive plot or you can simply say that the killer suddenly develops the powers of mind control and inhabits the brain of whomever he chooses. Ta-da!

The problem is, where anything is possible, nothing is interesting. How did the criminal do this? Magic! And how did he… Also magic! But how… Really cool magic! Ah, OK, then.

The series started strong but then kind of petered out. The first book is good, though.

As the middle classes are washed out by the new economic model, the middle-of-the-road students are disappearing, too. There are now the intense, almost fanatical overachievers and the disengaged, mentally afflicted slackers. This started sometime in 2021 and is accelerating fast.

I’m telling you, folks, they are massively dialing back. Kendi is disgraced, trans activists are catching Ls. This is good.

As many extremely woke people, Stephen King has a very repressed and a very itchy problem with black people. I’ve never in my life encountered such a number of racist insults as I have in his book Mr Mercedes. Of course, it’s a racist character who proffers them but… the lady doth protest too much. How many times do you need a character to use the n-word to make the point that he’s racist? Sixty? Seventy? After a few dozen uses it stops being about the character and starts pointing to the author’s need to say the word he keeps locked deep down inside.

It’s a very nice read, though, aside from the wokeness.

Who’s with me, waiting on pins and needles for the new release in the Cormoran Strike series?

It’s 960 pages!!! How cool is that?

To while away the time, I got into the Mr Mercedes series by Steven King and was nicely surprised to find out that there’s nothing paranormal in the book. Apparently, King abandoned the paranormal stuff, and thank goodness. I’m really enjoying the first book in the series.