A very white young man is playing the piano in the middle of the street. The sign over his head claims that the sleepy little town in the North of Quebec where this is happening is strong because of diversity. In reality, the best thing about the town is its lack thereof.
An insane number of characters on Duolingo are immigrants. What’s curious is that they are depicted very differently than non-immigrant characters.
The immigrants are all high-strung, very anxious, socially inept neurotics. The natives are all very laid back, relaxed and competent without striving. Pretty much every story the app offers depicts a neurotic immigrant acting neurotically and foolishly and a laid-back native easily besting the immigrant at everything.
Imagine the race-war hysteria this horrible person would unleash if our cognitively impacted brethren elect her as president:
These “lynchings” were all ruled suicides. But this carrion crow picks on the corpses of dead people to enhance her electability.
Not only AOC but every Democrat will terrorize and persecute us with invented lynchings and imaginary trans murder victims.
We can’t vote for these people. Trump runs his mouth and Republicans in Congress are often dumb. But, my friends, do you really want to have your lives reshuffled over these fictional lynchings?
There’s a Peruvian writer named Gustavo Faverón Patriau. Some people have all the luck, name-wise. It’s such a great name one thinks it must be invented.
To complete the circle of injustice, he’s also insanely talented. He writes these rambling, brilliant, very Latin American novels about 20th-century dictatorships. Faverón Patriau is similar to the British writer John Galsworthy in that he was born 30 years too late and missed the time when his literary project could gain a lot of recognition.
The Gaza documentary “NAZA” earned a massive 24.5-minute #VeniceFilmFestival ovation as the crowd cheered and waved Palestinian flags.
https://x.com/Variety/status/2098100091613831627
Whenever you bring a bunch of leftists together, they will clap for an hour like trained seals, unable to stop.
Seriously, who else would sacrifice a half hour of their lives to stand there and clap?
First of all, the great thing with children is that, for as long as everybody is living, the concept of “too late” doesn’t apply.
The second important point is that you didn’t damage your children. General bad behavior at these ages means they are trying to get you plugged into them. It’s not the amount of time you spend around then that will work but the intensity of the plug-in. If you have only two hours after work to plug into them, that’s good. It’s much better than spending all day glued to them physically without the plug-in. Put away the device, access the depths of your self and open it up to them. Be massively present in the moment.
If they are acting up in these bad behaviors, it’s a good sign. They want you and your attention. This means you are a good, valuable parent. Children are very smart. They don’t demand attention from a bad parent. A bad parent is dangerous to them and they sit very quietly, trying to attract no attention. All you need to do is learn to open yourself to them in a way that’s enjoyable to you. Your guilt and anxiety don’t help them.
Start small. Do 20 intense minutes of goofing around, ideally doing something physical. Imagine yourself as a power cord that’s connected into an outlet. Channel your attention and energy into them. You’ll know it’s working when you feel that this is really you, your actual deep self is coming out and connecting to them. Don’t manage the symptoms (i.e. specific bad behaviors).
Another good exercise is to imagine yourself as a jug filled with love and attention. Pour the contents into the three little cups that your children are. The cups are bottomless. You’ll never fill them completely. Do as much as you can.
Oh, these poor people. These poor, poor people.
Universal suffrage in the age of social media is a recipe for disaster. Look what’s happening to these poor people who could have had good, normal lives in olden times and now they have their already tiny brains eaten completely.
In Canada, Klara refers to back home as “normal America.”
“I’ve never seen this flavor of gum back in normal America,” she says pensively.
Here’s a little coffee shop we visited today:
They sell peony honey which I never encountered in “normal America.”
I’m traveling, so I didn’t watch the first day of the RNC. From the snippets I read, I want to hit my head against a wall. I know it was inevitable that Trump would say unnecessary things. The unnecessary things are the price you pay for the good stuff. But the part about giving $5,000 to every American is really unnecessary. It is already impossible to explain to regular people how COVID payouts caused inflation. This is making it worse.
Yes, Biden engaged in the same kind of voter bribery, but so what? It doesn’t mean we need to stoop to the level of Biden. And yes, Trump is a lot more equitable in his voter bribery, promising to reward every American and not specifically his voters, like Biden did. But again, whoop-dee-doo. Even a suggestion of another round of devaluing the dollar gives me a panic attack.
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This is the best Freida McFadden I have read so far. It’s even funny in parts. It’s about a female dermatologist cat lady who gets shot in the head and suffers brain damage. There’s an evil husband and a noble, sweet suitor, and even a brave smart kitty named Kitty. There are fascinating descriptions of rehab activities for people with brain damage.
No, really, it reads great. I learned a lot about brain damage. And I promise, I’m not trying to make it sound boring on purpose. This isn’t remotely a boring book.
The novel also has a good overarching idea which is that if you are messed in the head psychologically, that’s worse than having half of your actual brain blown off. The female dermatologist is a ball of neurotic self-esteem issues long before the brain injury. She suffers from the permanently bitten ego that so many women drag around. It’s the exact opposite type of womanhood from mine, and it fascinates me to observe it. I have no idea what makes many women so obsessed with finding imperfections in themselves and organizing their lives around feeling bad about those imperfections.
A very entertaining novel. A perfect book to slide into the autumn.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
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