Why is there an ad with Trump raising his hand in a Nazi salute on my blog?

The daycare has a faculty improvement day next Friday. This means the school will be closed. I don’t have to be anywhere on Friday, so it’s fine by me. But what do other parents do? Fridays are usually quite a busy time at school.

I have heard of these faculty days before but I never wondered what parents do in these situations. I mean, if they had an alternative, they wouldn’t be using the daycare to begin with.

In case you think, my productivity is something special, I have a colleague who publishes about 5 articles a year in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals. Next to that, I’m the lazybones of the century.

By the way, the Spanish 101 class is going great. None of my fears came true. The students are great, very enthusiastic, engaged. I’m thinking that it had this fear of the class because the only time I taught it at this school was at the worst time of my life, and maybe those memories got attached to the class for me. In reality, though, the class is good. 

There is a girl at Klara’s daycare who is terrified of me. She is 13 months old, I believe, and she starts screaming and trying to run away whenever she sees me. I like to stay for a bit after I arrive and help out the teachers because other kids dig me and the teachers seem to like me a lot, too. But now I can’t because I don’t want to traumatize this poor child. 

It’s upsetting because I don’t want to see myself as scary to small children.

Otto Pohl is in Kurdistan, and here are his impressions of his new home. I hope Otto enjoys this new part of his exceptionally exciting life journey. 

Another of the blog’s readers also has news: Vic Crain’s wife Lyn published a book of poetry. Let’s support and congratulate her!

The university of Chicago stands up to snowflakery. Immediately, snowflake sympathizers began to moan that snowflake feelings have been hurt but I won’t be linking to these freaks.

It is absolutely ridiculous that a bunch of unsuccessful prostitutes would dare to cry rape and have people support them. What a bunch of shameless, horrible people. 

And talking about prostitutes, there’s been an unsurprising revelation that Melania Trump worked as one. And everybody died of boredom because it was clear as day from the start. 

And still talking about dirty whores, finally people began to notice that the number of Russian hacks into US everything have skyrocketed when Snowden defected. 

In Russian but so true. I was stunned by the same thing in Cuba. People sit in the midst of the dirtiest street ever, on the dirtiest porch imaginable. They sit for hours every day but never get up to pick up the garbage. 

Want to add 2 years to your life? Here is what you should do. I’ll probably live forever, it seems.

So do you know these alcoholics who don’t get drunk every day but once a month (or once every 2 or 3 months) they lap up enormous quantities of liquor and drop down in a blackout?

Do they not even have a physical dependence? Because if they do, how come they can go without liquor for a month or however long their dry spell lasts?

Also, does anybody know if there is a word for this form of alcoholism in English? There is in Russian, and this form of the addiction is extremely common. 

And this is how Ukrainian women do head dresses. Forget the text and look at the photos. Cool, eh? 

The reviewers mentioned some scholarly books that I never even heard of. I looked them up, and it turns out they’ve been published since Klara was born and I missed them because I wasn’t doing any active research. 

This is how easy it is to fall behind in scholarship. And writing is only easy and abundant if you are reading steadily and constantly on the subject. 

I think the next step for Trump will be to say that he proposes “a total and complete shutdown on anybody but Muslims coming into the country.” 

And after that it will be, “Hey, open borders are a great idea.” 

And then the whole merry-go-round will start all over again. 

I don’t think he means to troll (or to do anything) but the result is the best trolling ever. I’m hearing Ann Coulter’s new book has already bombed as a result.