Why, why would anybody do that to a beautiful man? I hope it’s not real.

My sister has this kind of a semitic nose, and she loves it, and everybody who sees her loves it. Semitic noses are great.

The problem is never in a nose, people. It’s always 100% in the head.

N has a favorite journalist who publishes half of his material in Ukrainian and half in Russian. Of course, the best and freshest material appears in Ukrainian first. N is eager to find out what the journalist has to say, and as a result, his Ukrainian is improving by leaps and bounds.

In Quebec they went the opposite way. Instead of creating great content in French that people would be desperate to access, they are trying to coerce people into speaking the language through control and harassment.

Language is like nothing else. It comes through love or it doesn’t. I crossed an ocean and changed my life completely to become a Spanish speaker out of love. And stopped being a French-speaker in a Francophone country because my love was spat at.

Ukraine managed to recover Ukrainian as a widely spoken language within a generation precisely because there was no coercion. It became a language that young people find cool to speak. The best music groups are performing in Ukrainian. The coolest influencers speak it.

Quebec effed it up royally, in my opinion. The only way to promote a language is what’s been done in Ukraine.

We had a movement in the US, one that was successful, was achieving goals. And then it collapsed and turned into an embarrassing joke because of a half-baked psy-op. It’s such a waste.

But why was the struggle against open borders and neoliberalism abandoned so easily in favor of childish fantasies about devolutions and global cabals led by the Rothschilds?

Because the happy pill mentality has conquered both the left and the right. Translunatics, BLMers and MAGAs are exactly the same. They are all into easy solutions and anti-hard work. They fantasize about magical pills that will solve everything and abandon the field of real action to people who despise them and who taught them to be dependent on the happy pill in the first place.

I had this dream where I was hiring somebody to teach Spanish, and she had three eyes.

Usually in a dream I know immediately when it’s not real when something very abnormal happens.

But the 3-eyed Spanish instructor gave me no pause because I expect every weirdness from fellow teachers.

By the way, I’m extremely disturbed by eye abnormalities. Klara has to warn me about any posters or toys from The Minions because they freak me out.

And Russians are back to their regularly scheduled programming:

Can you guess what these Russian women are doing?

They are expressing their support of Putin.

Why dressed like this? Why in such strange poses? And why only women?

An enormous part of the the pro-war ecstasy in Russia is coming from not-so-young women who dress up and heavily eroticize the whole thing. The word cringe doesn’t begin to describe it.

Another huge part of the support comes from the teenagers. They get together at cool live music dance clubs and chant war slogans.

I don’t know which group is more disturbing to be honest.

Central Americans are still at it, as I explained in a recent post on Bukelization which nobody noticed because Russians were being nutso-cray-cray again. Can anybody blame me for abandoning the writing of a book on Central America and switching to one about Ukraine? Central America will be exactly where it is decades from now, so that book will never age. It can totally wait.

Today in the Ukrainian city of Berdyansk that’s under Russian occupation, 16-year-old Ukrainian freedom fighters stood against the invaders until the end and laid their lives for their country.

In the meantime, seasoned Russian mercenaries got bored with their operation and turned back because… Nobody even knows why. Probably didn’t want to work overtime during the weekend.

This episode of the Russian civil war is over. Let’s wait for the next one. Each episode is more fun than the preceding one. Belgorod was great but Rostov was better. The episode that finally stars the Chechens will be way cool.

It’s clear that Russia is a civilizational dead-end, and that’s not about to change any time soon.