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Schools are weird. Can you guess the only subject in which Kara has a B?
Reading.
I won’t explain why this is ludicrous because if you’ve been around this blog for a while, it’s very obvious.
My interest in grades is non-existent, so I’m not planning on asking the teacher what motivates this B. All I know is that if this is a kid you don’t consider a sensationally good reader, there’s something wrong with your understanding of reading.
At the parking lot, we were blocked dead by a huge snow plough driven by a pair of Cubans who have been in the country for 10 days, don’t speak a word of English, had never seen snow before, but already have a job driving the snow plough.
I had to look at two dozen photos of the Cubans posing against the snowstorm with their wives before I could drive out. I love Cubans. It was a very pleasant encounter. For them, too, I’m sure, because who else around here speaks Spanish?
I read 5 pages of a kids book to Klara and in those 5 pages I found:
A few minutes in, and I’m already pissed off in the extreme.
I don’t know how to put images into comments but this is from a young parishioner at my church. Not an online personality but a real young dude I know in RL. I snipped off identifying information because he’s a private person:
A hard-working young man. A graduate of my department. Recently married. Speaks several languages. Orthodox, very religious.
Every single time I talk to MAGAs either in RL or online, I hear how angry they are about the US bombing Iran. This is why I’m very puzzled by the suggestion that MAGAs want the US to invade other countries.
There’s a WSJ article (paywalled, unfortunately) which explains why the Trump “peace plan” for Ukraine sucks so badly. Guess who’s back and is drawing up these insane “deals” on behalf of the administration?
Yes, it’s Jared Kushner. This is all about siphoning even more money to stupid Kushner.
It’s Trump’s administration 1 all over again. We haven’t even been able to get rid of Kushner since then. Like he hasn’t done enough damage already.
But at least Trump is publishing boisterous tweets. That should be enough, right?
Maybe I shouldn’t see any more news until Christmas.
An acquaintance’s son couldn’t get paired up until past 40. Finally, he managed to find a woman. She announced from the start that she’s willing to give birth but other than that she’s not planning to do anything. She doesn’t cook or clean, even on the most basic level. She’s not getting a job. But yes, she did give birth to two children and now believes that her duty to the family is complete.
There’s only one place (that I know of) in North America where this story raises no eyebrows because the shortage of women interested in marriage is acute.
And the obligatory yearly picture of the first snow of the season is here:
I’ve been feeling very Christmassy since Thanksgiving, and today’s unexpected snow helps solidify the feeling. Yesterday we did our Christmas tradition of going to the movies. I wore green, Klara wore pink, and we saw Wicked 2. I liked the sequel a lot more than the first part. The music is very unimpressive in the sequel but Wicked 2 is a lot less didactic than the original. Even Hollywood seems tired of wokeness.
Merry Christmas season, everybody!
The airspace over… Venezuela??
Erm, what?
For the first two years of N’s local job, we refused his company’s offer of a free Sam’s Club membership. It seemed very unnecessary because all the exact same stuff is available at Walmart across the road from Sam’s. Nobody was kind enough to explain. Then we figured it out.
The new priest texted me to ask if there is gender propaganda in public schools in Illinois.
I’m a little baffled by the magnitude of the task of how to compress it all into a text message.
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