Please observe that the countries under attack right now – Ukraine and Israel – are very different except for one thing. They both came to nationhood late and with great difficulty and as a result are intensely attached to it. These are countries whose citizens are more prepared to die for their flag than pretty much anybody else. And they are both attacked specifically because they dared to seek nationhood. It’s their existence as nations that their enemies want to eliminate.

The reason why we see these eruptions of violence in different places is that the nation-state model is cracking up and all sorts of noxious fumes are coming out of the cracks.

We’ve had the perfect Sunday of three very introverted people who stalk around, deep into their inner worlds, and grunt approvingly at each other in the hallways.

I’m going to have another intense week of events and maneuvering around crazy people but then I’m off to Cincinnati where I’ll lie on a bed and stare at the ceiling in complete silence.

OK, and? Are they going to become upset by it? Will they finally, finally, out of a sense of self-preservation, out of pride, out of wounded dignity, out of a distant memory of who they are stop stuffing all of the Left’s #MeTooting, #BLMing, genderfluiding, climate-apocalypsing, Putin- and Hamas-loving trash down our gullets?

Are they finally upset enough to concentrate on their own survival and leave the rest of us bloody alone?

My Dad is Jewish and we experienced anti-semitic persecution in the USSR, so I’m allowed to ask this out loud.

Klara told me a beautiful story that almost made me weep.

In class, the teacher put up on the board a picture of a candy corn and told the students to draw it.

Everybody copied the image on the board.

Except Klara who created a whole character out of it and drew something very different from the original.

Kids laughed at Klara.

“Ha ha, you can’t even copy a simple candy corn. Yours looks weird!”

But the teacher said, “I didn’t want everybody to make an exact same picture. I hoped you’d have fun with it, put your own touch on the picture.”

Klara’s candy corn won the prize for the best drawing.

I’m so happy, and I so wish my Dad were here to see this. That’s exactly how he was. Always doing his own thing. He was the kind of guy, it never occurred to him to follow orders or blindly imitate anybody.

I had to take Klara out of her art lessons because she’d completely ignore the teacher and do her own thing. “Why does Mrs Rosario have to make all that noise?” she’d ask. “She’s distracting me from my project.” The teacher kept saying, “Your kid is really gifted, if only she could follow instructions.” But I’m thinking, making your own decisions and coming up with your own instructions is a much bigger gift than knowing how to draw.

God, I wish I could tell my Dad.

We don’t know if during his visit Biden authorized or forbade a ground attack of Israel on Gaza. I’m talking about a real, not a soothing, cosmetic attack. I think he forbade but it’s nothing but a guess.

If Biden allowed the attack, that would be a very gutsy move given that the most engaged part of his voting base is pro-Palestinian.

Yes, Greta Tunberg is stupid. But people who have denounced her for an “antisemitic octopus toy” are just as bad. There’s absolutely no difference between piling on Greta over a stuffed octopus and hounding a trucker whose fingers look like they are showing the “white supremacist OK sign”.

Tunberg says so much stupid stuff that there’s zero need to read opinions into her room decor. Nobody should participate in these kind of fake outrage kerfuffles.

People, what are you doing? Are you so completely certain that there’s no item of decor, toy, piece of clothing, etc that you own that can be accused of racism/sexism/something phobia? If this is an okay thing to do, then it’s okay to do to anybody.

My Arabic instructor, as it turns out, is not the only faculty member who decided to quit in the middle of the semester because of sudden mental issues. The same thing is happening at several other departments. This is unprecedented.

I’m telling you, people are losing it but I don’t know why.

A professor of psychology says, “I never wanted to practice. Went into research and teaching straight away. But since COVID I feel like a practicing psychiatrist. We are not allowed to use the word “neurosis” anymore but there’s no better word. COVID awakened an enormous amount of neurosis in people. Many people are barely holding on, they’ve lost touch with reality. Depression, anxiety, borderline – it’s all at an all-time high”.

He’s right but I have no idea why this is happening. Our lockdown was only 10 weeks. We reopened back on June 1, 2020. There were no lockdown strictures, persecution, curfews. It was unpleasant but nothing to freak out about 3,5 years later.

An enormous number of people is unraveling. Obviously, not everybody but a lot. I honestly don’t get it.

Of course, they do. I said from the start that it was a terrible idea, which is precisely why the Democrats loved it so much.

It’s a terrible idea not because McCarthy was good. He was crap on a stick. It’s a terrible idea because the alternative is worse.

People asked what I mean by losing strategically. Accepting a crappy, substandard speaker would be a strategic loss because, while it’s bad, it allows you to avoid a worse outcome.

Idiots are unable to lose strategically. “Woohoo, we got rid of the bad McCarthy! We win!” Yes, in that moment, you did win. And then segued right into a series of massive losses that you pre-paid with this puny feeling of momentary satisfaction.

Now that I get up at 6 am, I have time to make these cutey-cute breakfasts:

This is for Klara, obviously. If I ate this for breakfast, I’d be a 300-pound diabetic. If I ate anything for breakfast, actually. But whatever, the point is the cuteness of this freshly made dish.