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I had a long dental procedure today, and when the anesthetic wore off, the pain was unpleasant. I had a full day, though, and had to be able to speak. So I did something I hate to do and took a painkiller. It had zero effect. None. Zilch.
I suffered and suffered.
In utter dismay, I bought an energy drink. And guess what? It removed the pain completely and immediately. I’m now scared of that beverage because what is it that they put into it for such an effect?
Our political life is so schizo because the proponents of free markets think everything should be a free market except for the dating market and the body-alteration market. And the believers in strict governmental control over the market exclude the dating and the body-alteration markets from this project of control. Neither side is aware of the incongruity at the heart of its belief system.
It wasn’t the goal but it will be the result. There’s no way to proclaim freedom as the greatest value in existence and oppose the enshrinement of every sexual preference and permutation. Or open borders. Or transgenderism. These are all the most natural consequence of pursuing freedom above everything else.
Everything has trade-offs.
A January 2, 2026, Financial Times article reports that O-1B visas for extraordinary artistic ability are increasingly granted to influencers and OnlyFans models, using metrics like follower counts and subscribers as evidence. Approvals rose over 50% from 2014-2024
I sincerely don’t understand why online prostitutes need visas. Isn’t their whole business model that they are online? Plus, don’t we have enough of our own? What’s the point of bringing them over physically?
Is there any way this immigration system can ever be fixed?
One thing that makes my job feel a lot harder than it needs to be is my propensity to forget that there’s a procedure for everything. I keep trying to come up with solutions but that’s not necessary. All I need is to find the relevant procedure. Or a person who knows the procedure.
For example, today one faculty member demanded that I take a course away from another faculty member and give it to him. They have a conflict of some sort, and the last thing I need in my life is arbitrate between the two of them. But I don’t have to because there’s procedure.
I love the blessed procedure.
In the meantime, Zohran Mamdani’s housing advisor says that white people should lose the housing they own.
We’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good… Whites especially… will be impacted.
Far be it from me to make jokes about anybody’s appearance, so I will simply post the picture she considers to be a good portrayal of herself:
There’s a whole phenomenon of unconventionally looking, let’s put it that way, women flocking to flamboyant gay guys and becoming very subservient to them. This is one of those situations.
Some additional good news:
Protecting him is a way of speaking. On orders from the Russians, Cubans were preventing Maduro from fleeing. Like he tried to do in April 2019. Had an airplane on the tarmac, all ready to go. Russians had him dragged back, the poor sod.
Cuba is another country I love deeply. I have visited several times. I have personally heard from Cubans in Cuba what the regime is doing to them. It’s a good day when at least a few of the henchmen of the dictatorship get their due.
The removal of Maduro by the US is not unprecedented. A very similar operation was conducted in Panama in 1989 when dictator (and CIA operative) Manuel Noriega was removed in an almost identical way.
The biggest difference is that the 2026 process was a lot more effective, quick, and less destructive. And Black Sabbath music wasn’t used.
Why people keep reaching for clumsy analogies with Iraq and Afghanistan when there’s a clear and meaningful analogy with an identical operation in the same region, I have no idea.
The results of the Panama incursion can be observed by anybody with two eyes. Or even one eye with astigmatism. For a Central American nation, Panama isn’t doing that badly. And all that was needed was to remove this one asshole. Venezolanos and panameños are largely the same people, so the prospects for Venezuela aren’t terrible if we look at the history of the region and not at something completely different in another part of the world.
And yes, Venezuelans can still fuck it up royally. But they are definitely better off today than at any time since 1999. Nobody is going to give them a perfectly functioning country on a silver platter. It’s now all up to them.
I’ve known for a while that Matthew Shepard’s murder had nothing to do with homophobia. It’s one of the perks of becoming a conservative that you are allowed to know what actually happened in a host of news stories. So yes, I’ve known that the Matthew Shepard case was a precursor of George Floyd. It’s a standard liberal trick to misrepresent a tragic death as being a result of identity-based “hate” and use it to advance a political agenda. Like George Floyd, Shepard died because of drugs and not because anybody hated him for his identity. Like Floyd, Shepard was elevated to a saint-like status and his crimes (including sexual molestation of small children) and his outré lifestyle were concealed. Like Floyd, Shepard was used to inculcate guilt in a group that had no culpability in his murder. I have known all this for a while.
What I didn’t know is the wealth of details that journalist Stephen Jimenez provides in his investigative report on Shepard. The only reason why Jimenez could even write the book is that he himself is gay and very politically liberal. Even that, however, didn’t spare him from being insulted and accused of all sorts of things by liberal organizations and media outlets. Jimenez is brave and honest and didn’t buckle under the pressure to conceal the truth behind politically useful lies. Not every story has a champion like Jimenez.
The Book of Matt is very well-researched and gives truly shocking details about everything that happened. That such an egregious hoax was perpetrated against the public, that history was falsified to such a terrifying extent, and that children were taught terrible lies in school (and are still taught them in many places) is a disgrace. Many journalists abandoned truth to become a wrecking crew at the disposal of dishonest politicians. We are all lucky that Jimenez made a different choice and that he happened to be gay or we still wouldn’t know the facts behind the Matthew Shepard murder.
Panama, OK, makes sense. But Germany or Japan? Have people met… people?
I truly despair sometimes. If you reached the age of adulthood and you haven’t figured out that you can’t turn a Venezuelan into either a German or an Afghani no matter what you do because humans are physical beings, then that’s just sad.
It’s not surprising people are failing to grasp why men can’t be women.
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