Today we talked about the Des Moines superintendent who turned out to be even shadier we initially thought.

I’m being ravaged by a major heatwave but I did all I could to sound alive.

We are doing a live stream on Sunday, too, because the media group is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Thirty years ago, I thought today I’d be a professional translator of fiction in America and my wonderful husband would drive me around in a white car. I’m not a translator but close enough, the husband is as wonderful as planned but his car is sea-wave blue-green, and I actually learned to drive myself (which was never the plan).

“Today, like five years ago, a controversial man has been transformed overnight into a one-dimensional saint, marshaled in a culture war that precludes measured thought. Once again, Americans are being asked to genuflect before an idol.” pic.twitter.com/CC1d8FG1Ll

— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) October 2, 2025

I guess it’s progress that the libs have started to acknowledge that George Floyd was “controversial.” But equating a violent criminal with law-abiding and non-violent people like Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska is precisely why I always say that analogy is a tool of an impotent brain. Some analogies work but most are an expression of a weak, flailing brain that can’t process complexity.

It’s funny that this author accuses others of being incapable of “measured thought” in a piece where he demonstrates childish levels of intellectual sophistication.

Human safari continues:

Russians continue to post videos about their "fun" of having safari on civilians in my hometown of Kherson. this city has suffered enormously after liberation from Russians in 2022, 2/3s left the city to difficult conditions of life under shelling or after losing home. Around a… pic.twitter.com/CxpZUgIVM1

— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) October 3, 2025

I could post these videos daily because there are so many of them. The subservient cucks who were throwing fits about the Russian soldier hunted by a Ukrainian drone are studiously avoiding this information.

I checked and this doesn’t seem to be a comedy sketch:

This is absolutely bizarre. A local councillors tells a TV interviewer that she was "born and bred here", then checks herself as if she has said something terrible, and then the interviewer weighs in against her for saying it. Truly extraordinary. pic.twitter.com/yGOvirwqMy

— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) October 3, 2025

I have no idea what happened to these people. They are in the grip of intense collective madness.

I have the weirdest brain. Today, the Chancellor was giving a budget talk and I really wanted to listen and understand what he was saying. So I read short stories in German and answered questions about them in German in my mind while I listened to the talk. Then I saw that the Provost noticed that I was reading the whole time and was giving me dirty looks. I don’t blame her because it is truly weird that I need to be doing German exercises in order to hear a budget talk in English. Otherwise, I’d get tragically distracted and not hear a word.

People often think I’m being rude when I’m trying to do the exact opposite.

I’m freaked out by being this way as much as anybody else.

I decided to listen to Tucker Carlson’s video about Israel to understand his perspective. Ten minutes in, he started repeating like an unhinged parrot that, “I don’t blame the government of Israel for any of it. The real villain is the United States.” Truly, this guy hasn’t found any situation or occurrence for which he doesn’t blame the United States. It seems he’s not doing anything any more except blaming the United States.

We used to call such people leftists, and I don’t understand why we no longer do.

As I’m reading Days of Rage, I want to introduce everybody to my 2013 review of a book by Weatherman Bill Ayers.

I still vividly remember from the book how these mega rich people employed the services of a psychoanalyst who was something crazy famous like Jung’s disciple, or something. They’d have their every whim catered to while they played at being working class revolutionaries.

As a student from Bolivia said today in class, “In South America, all of the rich people are right-wing. But here in the US, the richer they are, the more they are to the left.”

Another thing I remember from the book is what an absolute soul-crushing ogre Ayers’s wife Bernardine Dohrn was in his portrayal. I think she probably abused him because he sounded completely beaten down by her. Mind you, he doesn’t complain. To the contrary, he behaves like a typical abused wife, protesting how hugely important and wonderful Bernardine is in a shrill, terrified tone.

Ayers and Dohrn were such African-American wannabes that they called their very white children Zayd and Malik. Both sons turned out well, though, because the rich parents bought a gigantic amount of psychological help for them.

I usually forget everything I can’t use for work immediately after reading it. That I retained so much from a book read over a decade ago is a sign that Ayers is a talented author. The writing was just so gosh-darn upbeat. Nice, nice book.

Really curious if this person genuinely believes progressives think that racism is worse than rape, murder or torture?

Has anyone ever said this to him or you know, just vibing? https://t.co/WkJrCxDZj5

— Saad Sait (@SaadSait3) October 1, 2025

I saw this tweet at the time when I was taking a break from reading Days of Rage where the following quote from Eldridge Cleaver was cited:

This book was a mega bestseller, named as one of the best books of the year by NYTimes. The Black Panthers are celebrated as heroes by the Left, specifically at my university this semester where every freshman must read a book glorifying them.

I found an evil Mormon:

Every vacation you skip with your young children is an extra half million dollars of net worth when you’re 85 years old https://t.co/lFAywhIkvc

— Austen Allred (@Austen) September 29, 2025

The vulgarity in both the Mormon and the Chinese guy is through the roof. The next step is truly to whip out their penises and start measuring them publicly.

To clarify: I don’t remotely believe that all Mormons and all Chinese are like this. It’s these two that I find objectionable.

You are referring to the discussion about Reagan, right? If there’s one topic where my opinions didn’t change, it’s that one. I don’t like Reagan. He was a neoliberal before neoliberalism migrated to the Left.

Speaking of migration, do you know how Reagan used it to make sure California never voted conservative ever again? That dude was toxic on so many levels.

I do like the other great Original Neoliberal, Margaret Thatcher, though. At least, she was smart and gave great speeches.

On the end of the USSR, every day that passes proves that I was right from the beginning. It was a planned action aimed at leaving the exact same people in power while tricking the West into abandoning caution. Reagan had ef all to do with it.

So on that particular post, I stand by absolutely everything. If you find the one with the saucer-sized badge of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, I do take that one back. And the Michael Brown posts. I was duped beyond what words can describe. I’ll never stop feeling embarrassed over that.