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The man suspected of both the Brown shooting and the MIT murder was supposedly “found dead from a self-inflicted wound.”
This is the worst development. It will give Candace Owens years of material about maroon beekeepers. Conspiracies will never end. And it’s all because the FBI and the RI law enforcement are terrible.
COVID broke people’s brains. Especially in Montreal. I took my mother to her oncologist today, and when we exited the hospital, we got into a cab.
“Flu? You got the flu? I saw you come out of the hospital. Do you have flu? It’s got to be the flu. Ay yay yay!” ranted the can driver, a tall, wide-shouldered young man.
Tired of his lamentations, I screeched, “Cancer! It’s cancer she’s got, not flu!”
“Oh,” said the driver.
Isn’t wallpaper great?
I wish more people did wallpaper.
These are from my mother’s apartment in Canada.
This is me in my sister’s traditional Ukrainian headdress.
The whole thing isn’t fitting into the frame but you get the idea. It’s the coolest thing.
There’s a land acknowledgement on Air Canada flights. “We will be flying over the lands that belong…”
Is there a living person with above room-temperature IQ who thinks it’s not embarrassing and stupid?
Don’t do it in front of foreigners, at least. Make it an in-house secret of local dysfunction.
There’s a land acknowledgement on Air Canada flights. “We will be flying over the lands that belong…”
Is there a living person with above room-temperature IQ who thinks it’s not embarrassing and stupid?
Don’t do it in front of foreigners, at least. Make it an in-house secret of local dysfunction.
“The pilot of this airplane looks extremely young,” I told Klara. “This is disturbing.”
“He probably has really good moisturizer, that’s all,” Klara reassured me.
This isn’t as stupid as it sounds. Anything can become an element of national identity. It can be ancient or invented 5 minutes ago. It doesn’t even have to be connected to people who were aware of your nation-state because it was created long after they died.
The problem isn’t that the BBC and the NHS are recent or that they are institutions instead of, say, natural phenomena. The American nation-state by necessity relies on achievements that are enormously more recent than those of European countries, yet it’s the first, and still the strongest, nation-state in existence. Newness is not in conflict with national identity.
The problem is that the narrative of the British national identity that ties it to the NHS and the BBC was embraced along class lines by people who despise their class inferiors. You can’t have a separate national identity for the fancy people. Trying to position your class identity (which is what “Britain is the NHS is”) as national identity only annoys the people to whom you are signaling that you are their class superior.
An hour away from Brown. The Brown shooter is still at large.
The only thing we have gotten so far from the utterly incompetent FBI is an arrest of an innocent man who is clearly the exact opposite body type of the shooter. An innocent American soldier rubbished for no reason while the actual murderer is running free.
Online sleuths are doing better work on this than law enforcement. Again.
The state has so utterly abdicated its role of serving the citizens that it’s forgotten even how to pretend to do it.
I have no idea what this means. In the diversity paperwork I file for every new hire, there are racial categories of white and non-white but at no point was there a question about origin. There’s definitely no mention of Europe. I hired an Italian instructor from Italy, and there was no opportunity to mention Italy or Europe in that discussion.
Federal education statistics are different from Title IX reporting that accompanies each hire. They are not previous to hiring but are compiled afterwards. In order to know what these stats mean, we need to find out not only how many white Americans were hired but how many applied. Does the exclusion happen at the level of graduate school, for example? We need to know when that journey begins to understand why it ends where it does.
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