Clarissa's Blog

What puzzles me is, does he really believe this extraordinary crap? Or is it a put on persona? It has to be, right? Nobody is that clueless.

The real test here is: are you fully inhabiting the existing reality? Can you describe David Barclay Moore’s appearance and sexual preference without googling him?

For extra credit: is the book about racism and homophobia?

If you can’t answer these questions on the spot, you are not ready for life in year 2025.

It’s a very good thing I no longer live in a big city because I’ve been in one for two days and I already Doordashed a latte.

It’s raining like an absolute bastard or I would have walked. But yes, I did it, and now I’m one of those people. Might have to vote for Pete Buttigieg now to stay true to my latte Doordashing identity.

The whole promise of neoliberalism is that finally everybody will be treated as an individual. It won’t be about groups, ethnicity, race, sex, or any other unchosen characteristic. Neoliberalism was supposed to free an individual from any unchosen group identity. We were going to give it a pass on every problem it creates in exchange for the wonderful boon of liberating the individual.

The pass was extended but in return all we got was group identities becoming more important than ever.

What is the point then? Why should we subscribe to this setup? What’s in it for us?

I don’t understand the American belief that sexual intercourse makes people absorb the professional skills of their partners. I’ve spent twenty years being weirded out by “spousal hires” in every area of life. Everybody is discussing how jobs were granted based on DEI characteristics but it never gets mentioned how many of these jobs went to wives, then to mistresses, and then increasingly to throuple partners.

There’s a lot of this in academia but it also exists in politics where every Hillary and Michelle get inflicted on the public in perpetuity for no reason I can comprehend. Now there’s Erika Kirk who is destroying TPUSA not for any conspiratorial reason but simply because she has no idea how to run a large organization. The spectacle of her flailing is sad and utterly unnecessary.

It’s paradoxical that TPUSA, of all organizations, should prove so incapable of hiring based on merit.

The man suspected of both the Brown shooting and the MIT murder was supposedly “found dead from a self-inflicted wound.”

This is the worst development. It will give Candace Owens years of material about maroon beekeepers. Conspiracies will never end. And it’s all because the FBI and the RI law enforcement are terrible.

COVID broke people’s brains. Especially in Montreal. I took my mother to her oncologist today, and when we exited the hospital, we got into a cab.

“Flu? You got the flu? I saw you come out of the hospital. Do you have flu? It’s got to be the flu. Ay yay yay!” ranted the can driver, a tall, wide-shouldered young man.

Tired of his lamentations, I screeched, “Cancer! It’s cancer she’s got, not flu!”

“Oh,” said the driver.

Isn’t wallpaper great?

I wish more people did wallpaper.

These are from my mother’s apartment in Canada.

This is me in my sister’s traditional Ukrainian headdress.

The whole thing isn’t fitting into the frame but you get the idea. It’s the coolest thing.

There’s a land acknowledgement on Air Canada flights. “We will be flying over the lands that belong…”

Is there a living person with above room-temperature IQ who thinks it’s not embarrassing and stupid?

Don’t do it in front of foreigners, at least. Make it an in-house secret of local dysfunction.