The “Maryland Dad”, the “deported 2-year-old citizen”, and the “judges get arrested in dictatorships”  media blitzes demonstrate that our media space is still completely colonized and controlled by the most dishonest of liberals. These stories are built on egregious lies, yet they spread like wildfire, infecting every news platform and discussion space.

None of this is surprising but the number of normal, good people who still take these stories as literal truth and question nothing about them is. Nothing has inoculated them from placing complete trust into the media that lied to them so many times before.

People who are that incapable of learning will not do well in the economy that demands constant change and pivoting. Forget neoliberalism, I don’t understand how these people live in capitalism, period. Do they buy everything they see advertised? Do they get new cars on lease? Do they only pay the minimum payment? How do they make their childish trust survive in the world ruled by the profit motive? I love capitalism but it’s a system that is not kind to the very trusting.

During the debate about the future of our department today, I said that if the merger with another department was inevitable, I wanted to derive as many good, useful things from it as possible.

My opponent looked at me with sincere pity.

“That’s not how life works,” she said. “We don’t live in the land of pink unicorns. Not everything has a positive side. That’s not how life is.”

That is how my life is, actually. I decided a long time ago that it is like that and that’s how it became.

The colleague in question is a good person. I’m not criticizing her but pointing out how different people’s life philosophies are. I like my land of pink unicorns and I’m staying in it.

Only in the past 12 months, I’ve had a lot of heavy stuff to deal with. COVID, foot injury, diabetes, a cancer scare,* surgery, the administration trying to close down languages, the prospect of having to look for a new job. I could sit here and weep and feel sorry for myself with every justification. But pink unicorns demand care and attention, so I’m distracted from the unpleasant parts.

*of the same cancer in the same spot of the same body part where my mother was diagnosed a month earlier. I’ve received all clear but those were unpleasant 3 months.

What really happened?

A mother took her toddler to her country of origin. This is the huge scandal. If the mother had chosen to transition the toddler to a boy, that would be great. But traveling with her to Honduras, no, that’s very wrong. Please keep track.

Every propagandist is posting a tiny snippet of the story because the truth is inconvenient.

The closing speaker at the large meeting we had today was a white woman who said that her biggest dream is that in 20 years there would be significantly fewer white people on campus. All of the white people sitting next and in front of me clapped.

Please, Lord oh God, grant me the patience and enough feelings of charity.

I find it easier to teach Zoomers than millennials. Today teaching is easier than 15-20 years ago. Zoomers are tired of bullshit that their generational predecessors lapped up. They are serious, driven, and curious. I’m not noticing any of the Millennial close-mindedness.

People derive their negative impressions regarding Zoomers from TikTok and not from being around actual 20-year-olds.

I’m not saying that Millennials were horrible. Zoomers are simply better, that’s all. Like a Greek salad is better than Caesar.

Once a commie, always a bastard:

Absolutely crazy story.

Michael Gloss grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. His mom was appointed a CIA Deputy Director under the Biden Administration, and his dad served in the military. He was a Boy Scout.

Then he went to college and became an anti-American, pro-Communist hippy. He then became pro-Islam, anti-Israel, and even denied the October 7 massacre. Then he joined the Russian military and fought against Ukraine. And then he was killed in battle at age 21.

https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1915754443397533990?t=_nmmdhPq-G5CXBRYYj7xZw&s=19

The jerk’s mother, Julianne Gallina Gloss, is “the Deputy Director for Digital Innovation at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).”

The CIA is Chick-fil-A of these horrible people.

International students are gossipping:

“And then the professor introduced us to this transgender person he said was his ‘girlfriend.’ And the next day we saw him French-kissing an actual woman in the cafeteria. This campus is better than a Latin American soap opera!”

Here’s today’s video. Please observe the outfit because it will illustrate the following post.

One can have weak dopamine receptors, aggressive tendencies, a strong narcissistic component, extreme introversion, hyperactivity, etc. We are born with these things. But we can do something positive and productive with them. Or not.

I have all the above-listed things. Mentioning them to me as a criticism is a waste of time. Of course, I’m aggressive and narcissistic. I wouldn’t be a great teacher and a strong leader without them.