The Dean took away our office manager. I’m supposed to be upset but I’m secretly elated because it’s easier for me to do the paperwork myself than endlessly to witness and manage her complex emotional states. I feel like I’m being let out of jail early.
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Mechanical
It’s both annoying and funny to see every leftist in the country mechanically recite the same lines about Renee Good. I’ve never seen people so into repeating identical wording infinity times.
It’s also very bizarre that they invariably refer to her as a citizen. One after another, like windup toys, they chirp “US citizen legal observer.” All of a sudden they are really into the concept of citizenship and legality. Funny people.
Societal Tension
I know it’s an old video but I never identified with anybody more than with this guy.
The biggest societal tension is between people who think their boutique grievances make them entitled to spoil everybody’s day and people who just want to get to their kids.
A Lesson
I found this really excellent route home from my favorite global foods store in St Louis. You drive straight on Lindbergh Boulevard, and then – pa pam! – you are in Alton. That’s all there is to it. Drive straight for a very long time.
For a week, I’ve been telling everyone in sight, which is only two people but still, about the great new route. But then yesterday when I started driving, even though I knew to go straight, I made a turn and got into a very inconvenient route through ugly places. Because the GPS told me to turn, and I trusted it more than my own memory from a week earlier. Aesthetic considerations are alien to a GPS, and it will send you wherever the road is a couple of minutes shorter. I know this, and I should have trusted myself more.
There’s a lesson here.
Anti-austerity Shoes
The Dean unleashed another austerity surprise on me today but I was wearing very pretty shoes from Spain and didn’t care.
He looked very disoriented by how clearly I didn’t care.
That’s what happens to fellows who don’t understand shoes.
Snow White
I don’t know how to say it so that it doesn’t sound callous but let’s hope that the woman shot in Minneapolis for trying to run over law enforcement is very very white. Because if not, there’ll be another George Floyd situation.
Why people, women especially, would want to go make themselves a nuisance with police is incomprehensible. Women normally are very attuned to their physical safety. Women of child-bearing age and mothers, in particular, are very avoidant of physically dangerous situations. It’s an instinct.
Very sad for the woman and also for all of us having to coexist with such madness.
Medical Misogyny?
I read this whole long thread about medical misogyny only to discover…
… that this woman is in the UK and the whole debacle was caused by the austerity measures the NHS has to adopt. Of course, the problem will never be solved because the people who suffer from austerity can’t bring themselves to name the issue.
Mission Accomplished
We seized the Marinera!
This is really cool.
America is finally back.
Wonderful Kids
I stopped at a red light behind a bus of middle schoolers from a local public school. I noticed that several kids were trying to show me a sheet of paper through the back window. I inched a little closer and saw that the sheet had handwritten words “Have a wonderful day!” and a drawing of a Christian cross.
Great country, amazing children. It is a sign of extreme psychological health that a bunch of 12-year-olds would want to do this at 7:45 in the morning on their way to school.
The Marinera Capture
I hope our boys are very successful.
By the way, Britain refused to help us apprehend these Russian bastards. Now that my X feed has veered to the left, I’m seeing endless imprecations about how Western European countries will never trust America again. These are the same countries that have been funding the Russian war effort with their oil and gas purchases this whole time. The same countries that have been refusing to invest in their own defense because we should pay for it. The same countries that find it completely important to apprehend a Russian tanker that is violating the international law they appeal to constantly.
P.S. And then it got even more fun:
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