That’s what I voted for:

Hit Russia while it’s down. What’s not to like?

If the email from Pete Hegseth’s mom is real, my heart goes out to him. A toxic, unloving, terrible parent is a heavy burden. That he’s even functional, let alone successful, and not lying under a bridge strung out on heroin is a testimony to his great strength of character.

Does anybody know who leaked the email? How did it become public?

How does a childless marriage remain a marriage? What makes and unmakes it? These are the questions Rock Paper Scissors ponders under the guise of a mystery novel. The mystery is great but the way the novel traces a collapse of a childless marriage is even more fascinating.

What I find particularly interesting is that the husband removes himself completely from the management of his own emotional life. He’s a ragdoll that active, pushy women shuffle from bed to bed. He’s a very successful man, earning a great living but he’s completely absent from any decision-making capacity in the emotional realm of his existence. As we have seen in our discussion of novels by Anthony Trollope, this isn’t “just how men are.” This is how men and women have become but by no means is this a baseline.

It’s particularly curious that the women who push around the successful husband don’t amount to much by themselves. Childless, sociophobic, petty, with nothing going on professionally and socially, they turn the marriage into both their child and job with the inevitable result that the marriage withers from being overly tended to.

The husband in Rock Paper Scissors suffers from an extreme case of face blindness. He can’t recognize his own wife and is completely dependent on her to tell him the names of any people he interacts with. Prosopagnosia is, of course, a metaphor for his utter helplessness in the social realm. What gave rise to our widely held belief that women need to manage the emotional side of relationships is a fascinating question, and Feeney’s novel shows how ugly the results of this phenomenon are.

The new video dropped! The brick wall is right there. And I look shockingly good to the point where I kept getting distracted while I talked by my own appearance.

The show is about Canada, and it’s really frustrating that every time I come here, I don’t manage to see almost any actual Canada. I’m with kids, with grandmas, working, etc but not actually experiencing Canada. On the other hand, yesterday we sat in traffic for an hour, so maybe I’m fine with not experiencing Canada.

Ideally, I’d rent a cabin somewhere in the Laurentides for a month to write my book on Canadian literature. Not now, but in 1,5 years. At this point, I have no idea what the book is even going to be like.

Yes, if they never married, they’d remain fresh and youthful forever. That’s exactly how it works.

It’s particular annoying that this overgrown mamma’s boy takes the noble name of “redpill” in vain.

I dedicated about 10 hours a week to teaching this semester. This is 2 hours a day, so hardly onerous. But I perceived it as massively time-consuming because the idea of teaching 4 courses per semester was so shocking.

In reality, it was all in my head. I felt overwhelmed and very busy because I trusted an illusion.

People are insistently asking me about Alexander Vindman. I don’t want to talk about him because I get very upset. So I will be brief. He’s a traitor to America and a scourge on Ukraine.

I don’t know if he’s a sincere idiot, a paid Russian agent, or a pawn of certain Ukrainian oligarchs who made their fortunes by servicing the Western left. But he’s done a lot of damage, and I so wish he and his equally annoying brother just go away.

I have no idea why, in addition to all the problems Ukraine already has, God decided to saddle it with Vindman.

So. I need a new promotional photo. The old one is very nice but it’s from 2019, so it’s time to move one to avoid working under false rpetences of me being a spring chicken which I no longer am.

Here is the old one, in case people don’t know what I’m talking about:

How about this new one?

Or is this better?

I like the first one more because in it I look pinker and less self-righteous. I took more but they acquired a weird greenish tint for some reason.

What does everybody think? One or two? Or both are no good?

Without looking it up, can you guess if this dude is on the left or the right?

No, you can’t because anti-Americanism has conquered the entire political spectrum. Both left and right gladly pick up every libel that some tawdry dictator wields against their own country and slobber over it happily.

Forty years of “America bad” education, and people no longer ever notice that they are filled with self-hatred. Of course, nobody is going to procreate or do anything to ensure their culture continues if they are convinced that culture is terrible.

WSJ reports that Biden won’t have time to transfer the promised $6.5 billion in weapons to Ukraine before Trump takes office due to logistical challenges.

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1861887649318937087?t=7gl07B17Wockh8FGiQ9pNw&s=19

It has been exactly like this for almost 3 years.  All of these promises are lies. And people who keep having fainting fits over these fake “escalations” should get a grip on themselves and stop jumping up and down like obedient doggies whenever Biden winks.