Opposition to Trump should not venture into the territory of “let’s allow greedy corporations to rob is blind to spite Trump.” It’s a screaming shame that taxpayers should pay Boeing  $170,000,000 “to help determine the capabilities of this complex military aircraft that serves the unique requirements.” Have you, folks, seen the report about the ridiculously out-of-hand spending in the Pentagon? Isn’t it ridiculous that you and I should be throwing hundreds of millions at Boeing and a crowd of other corporate welfare queens so that they can use the money “to help determine capabilities”? 

And you know what? I would have loved it if Obama had been the one to call these freaks out. But if it had to be Trump, I’ll take that. 

People who feel profoundly humiliated by the circumstances of their lives will be desperate to generate a heroic persona to compensate for the feelings of humiliation. These feelings, of course, need to have no basis in what others might perceive as reality.

There’s no privacy left in the world. I so wanted to share what great gifts I got people for Christmas and New Year’s but all of them except N and the babies read my blog. One can’t even be private on one’s own blog. 

Just so that you get a glimpse of who we are: when my mother came to visit, she traveled with her own meat grinder that is bigger and weighs more than Klara. And then she traveled back home with it.

So there is actually a crock pot made specifically for fermentation?? And I had no idea this entire time?

I have lived my life in vain.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a report this year that cashiers were the second-largest occupation, with 3.5 million employed in the U.S.

And Amazon invented a way to make them obsolete. That’s what we should be talking about instead of all the trivialities we hear all day long. The two largest occupations in North America are going out of existence. Now what? 

I have the perfect candidate for Secretary of State.

Sarah Palin.

It’s ideal. Nobody will ever figure out what the hell she’s saying, and a lot of international conflict will be prevented. In the meanwhile, people at home will get tons of comedic potential out of the whole thing.

A clown Secretary of State for a clownish administration! 

Hey, do you know who’s to blame for the rise of white supremacy? College campuses, of course. Forget David Duke. Your SPANISH 201 instructor is the real evildoer. 

Some people’s obsession with campuses rises to the levels of actual pathology. They honestly think that what we do all day is “dismissing “dead white males,” celebrating diversity, and championing multiculturalism.” When in reality what we do is the eminently boring “and now let’s conjugate the verbs in the column B” and “remember that ‘Essay 1’ is not an original and meaningful title.”

I can’t imagine even using the words “multiculturalism” and “celebrating diversity” either with students or colleagues. Except maybe as a joke at the expense of dumb clerks at the Diversity Office. I’m way too busy making sure everybody remembers to answer the exam questions in complete sentences to waste my breath on that dumb shit.

I’m so tired of articles by people who moved to the US from Western Europe or Canada and who are eager to tell us how everything here sucks and everything over there rocks. If you liked it so much back in your country, then why the ef didn’t you stay? 

Very annoying. And rude.