Author: Clarissa

Self-management

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I don’t know how these parents achieve these results. My kid is 9, and she wouldn’t let me manage her school affairs for love or money. She doesn’t even like me knowing when she has a project or a test at school.

“This is my business, mommy. I know how to handle my own business. Here’s a book, go read it. Or fold some laundry. I know how much you enjoy that.” She’s not being sarcastic. I do love folding laundry, a pastime I discovered in my dotage.

I suggested volunteering as a recess monitor and she asked if I was trying to be funny.

Destroying Their Own Jobs

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Daily, I’m observing academics destroy their own jobs. But they are not alone. Journalists do the same thing:

Without freedom of speech, there’s no journalism. Anything can be labeled abusive and hateful. You’d think a journalist would be aware how easy it is to mark her as hate speechifier if arresting people for saying words becomes the norm. But no, it doesn’t sink in.

Nature Is Healing

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Airbnb co-founder @jgebbia explains how Joe Biden’s border crisis was the start of what drove him to leave the Democrat Party.

And on the same day:

Malcolm Gladwell says “trans athletes have no place in the female category.”

He admits he was cowed into saying that it was ok.

Yes, they are all opportunists. But the fact that it’s now become opportune to say the obvious without fear is a very big deal.

P.S. Found more immediately after posting:

The Bereaved Dog Update

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I know many people felt sad for the Ukrainian dog whose owner was killed by a Russian airstrike in Kyiv. So I have some good news. The dog has been adopted by the killed owner’s adult son and his little daughter:

German Self-defense

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Another entertaining piece of news from Europe:

I’m glad that men will now know how to defend themselves from knife-wielding women in Germany. I was worried about them for a while but I can see now that they can bravely repel the attacks from those scary women

A Flag That Divides

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Any flag by definition divides. That’s the whole purpose of a flag’s existence. A flag is a symbol of “us” that excludes the “not us.”

If you want a nation (as Starmer’s first sentence seems to indicate), then the very first thing you need to do is divide those who belong from those who don’t. If the entire planet is Britain, then nothing is.

Where was Starmer educated? This empty, lisping prattle is unworthy of a grown man.

European Priorities

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Linehan is the author of “Father Ted”. He’s a national treasure but he criticized gender ideology, so he got arrested.

Europeans find it easy to mobilize to arrest a comedian but it’s utterly impossible for them to deport actual murderers:

This is so embarrassing to watch that one wants to pretend Europe doesn’t exist.

School Uniforms

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I wish more European countries went back to their folk roots in school uniforms. Here’s an example from Ukraine where children had their first day of school today:

And not just in school. People should wear more of the traditional fabrics and motifs from the clothing of their ancestors. See how pretty this girl looks.

War on Women

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Only in the past week

– police in Paris arrested a Libyan refugee for raping a Ukrainian woman by the Eiffel Tower.

– in Germany, an Iraqi man pushed a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl under a freight train.

– in Charlotte, NC a vagrant stabbed a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman to death at a train station. They’d never met before. The vagrant was simply strolling around, looking for a cute white girl to stab in the throat.

The point I’m making is that Ukrainians are not numerous. They are a bit of a random demographic in all these areas. I could say Slovak or Norwegian and get the same result. We stopped hearing the words “a war on women”, and it’s not a mystery why.

Great Concern

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I’m sure everybody is very concerned and will express their deep concern in ways that transmit how extremely concerned everybody feels. Maybe they should also give Russia two weeks to stop doing it. Why not combine the Americans and the European manifestations of impotence?