Are people who write shit like 

video of Trump admitting to a string of sexual assaults appeared last October

genuinely that crazy or do they know they are bulshiting but simply don’t care? 

Long-form journalism seems to be recovering after the prolonged post-election slump when nobody published anything but monotonous Trump-related moans. Here is a great article on the disappearance of retail jobs. 

My summer schedule is as follows:

7:00 – 8:00 – wake up, get dressed, have breakfast (bran buds sprinkled with cinnamon), read news, heat Klara’s milk.

8:00-8:45 – Klara wakes up, I give her the morning milk, get her dressed, and take her to daycare.

8:45-9:45 – I go either to the gym or to an appointment (dentist, HR, pedicurist, periodontist, somebody who needs me at work, etc).

10:00 – 12:00 – I work on my research. 

12:00 – 1:30 – I eat lunch and cook. 

1:30 – 3:00 – more work.

3:30 – I pick Klara up, feed her, and we go on an adventure (the bookstore, the gardens, the neighboring subdivisions, etc).

7:00 – N comes home and we read to Klara together. 

7:30 – 8:00 – I bathe Klara and N puts her to bed. Putting her to bed used to be a long and arduous process but now it takes about 3 minutes. 

8:00 – 9:30 – I read and N does the dishes and watches his program.

9:30 – N and I enjoy each other’s company. 

Of course, on the days when Klara is at home, the schedule is dictated by her two naps and includes no gym, appointments, or work. 

It’s unbelievable that alarmist moans related to Merkel’s very boring and run-of-the-mill campaign statement would pollute my news feed for quite this long. 

Are there no real news anywhere in the world? 

8:25 am and the little beauty is still fast asleep. We are the luckiest people on earth. It wouldn’t be as easy if she woke up at 5 am, like one little cutie I know. 

The problem with all the reports that Facebook users experience a decline in their mental health because it makes them seethe with envy is that there’s no reason to believe that the source of envy is Facebook and not the people themselves. 

It’s truly insane to believe that Facebook turns one into a resentful, jealous gnat instead of one turning Facebook into an opportunity to wallow in an already existing assholery. 

And hey, I hate Facebook. But it’s weird when people accuse it of making them who they are. 

I‘m an ideal airplane traveler – prepared, polite, considerate – but also a rude, entitled, inconsiderate driver. 

All of a sudden, everybody is doing reunions. I’m also going to my ten-year high school  college grad school second grad school reunion. I will be back in No-Heaven, meeting with the only two people I liked in my PhD program.

It will be so weird to be back. I promise to post many photos and memories from back before I was a blogger.

Ukrainians published a photo of Macron and Putin and titled it “Macron and Micron.”

Folks, if you have some reading time over the holiday, I highly recommend these two articles from the New York Times Magazine:

1. “Empire of Dust” by Molly Young, and please make sure you get to the last page because it makes the whole article worth it. 

2. “Kushnerville” on Kushner’s activities as a slumlord. If you think your opinion of this little weasel can’t be any lower, think again and read the article. 

This is really good journalism, folks.