The following expressions are stupid and should not be used:

• multipolar (in political contexts)
• Global South
• color revolutions
• settler colonialism
• -phobia (outside of a psychiatrist’s office)

It’s embarrassing to employ such language unironically.

Also, it’s time to retire the expression “teaching critical thinking” because it has come to mean “raising mindless drones who stupidly repeat slogans.”

And “work-life balance.” Somebody make that one go away already.

What other words and expressions should take a rest for a while or forever?

Did you see the new iPad ad? It’s as ugly as the minds of the techie overlords but very honest.

This is a good article but it presupposes that the White House is under a sincere delusion that these strikes would have a negative impact on energy markets. That is not the case. Such level of almost childish ignorance does not exist in Washington. The effort to protect Russian oil refineries from Ukrainian strikes is not economic or energy-related.

We have a much, much deeper problem than “Biden doesn’t understand energy markets.”

For the 3 people on here who understand Russian, I want to share this wonderful joke:

Everything about it is priceless and absolutely untranslatable.

This is why I’ll never be successful on Twitter. I can’t come up with anything pithy and funny on the spot. N can. He’s amazing at this kind of thing but he doesn’t share his gift with the world.

I apologize to the people who don’t understand the language.

Hmm, I don’t know. I heard that “America” is a word that triggers many victims as badly as “boys.” And “scouting” is offensive to Native Americans. Or Mexicans, I’m not sure. Plus, the new name doesn’t reference either African Americans or Palestinians, and we all know that silence is violence.

So maybe its best to rebrand into not having a name at all because whatever it is should probably be cancelled anyway.

N is beefing up in his self-defense skills for our trip to Spain because he’s afraid of his former compatriots who are numerous and unhinged in Western Europe. He wears a lot of Ukrainian symbolics (a lot more than I do) and isn’t willing to take it off for the trip. He is also looking into the Spanish legislation regarding self-defense with a weapon. Yes, I asked him not to but I have zero influence over the man.

I actually think I’m theoretically in greater danger because I also wear an Israeli flag on my wrist, and Spain can’t stop symbolically expelling its Jews, going on for yet another round at the present time. I’m not really scared because I’m aggressive, and people steer clear.

People keep asking me in hushed tones where I got my Israeli flag. What do they think, I got it from Mossad? Where do people get stuff in America?