The Polish government finally wants to hand over pedophile Polanski to the US. What a shame that only an ultraconservative government would even consider offering a vicious criminal like him up for justice.

It would be so amazing to see this piece of trash go to jail.

I’m a kick-ass barbecued, folks. You haven’t been to heaven before you tried one of my barbecues.

Incredible! For the first time in years, Vine offered me books that I actually want to read. It only took a dozen purchases of Zygmunt Bauman’s books for the program to offer me a new Bauman and a new Ulrich Beck. Of course, it classified Beck as “Medicine” and Bauman as “Science and Technology”, but it’s miles better than the time when I was offered a novel by Tess Gerritsen about gruesome serial murders under the heading of “Christian Books and Bibles.”

So all of this ridiculous blethering about the evil nature of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and some completely idiotic fantasies about her collusion with Hillary led to. . . support for a Trump-like anti-semitic opponent of the Iran deal?

Yes, nothing sexist here at all. Not even remotely.

Women who complain that they do a lot more childcare than their husbands, leading to losses in professional development or beauty time, need to ask themselves: do they contribute to manufacturing a distance between father and child? Do they insert themselves into their relationship with suggestions, control, hovering, constant presence and supervision?

Because I know I do.

I’m the last person I would have expected to be a helicoptering Mommy. Over the years, I have worn my tongue to a stub and my fingers to nibs telling women in RL and online to stop inserting themselves between fathers and children. I can recite miles upon miles of theory on the importance of paternal involvement and of a timely transition through all the stages of cutting the emotional umbilical cord. And here I am, having to fight a veritable battle with my desire to hover. I’m boring myself stiff with how stupid and useless I’m being about this. 

I’ll win this battle for sure but I have to conclude that, in developed countries, just like the “women do more housework” slogan, the “women do more childcare” trope is meticulously constructed by women themselves. At least, I didn’t have to fight myself over the pathetic “I do the dishes / clean / do laundry, etc because if I let him do it, I’ll have to rewash / clean all over again, etc afterwards.” That kind of insanity, at least, I have been spared. 

Who’s with me in that the notorious “Confessions of a Recovering Tumblr Feminist” post that is being massively linked and cited is a fake?

I got suspicious of it from its very beginning when I read the following [emphasis is mine]:

For me, feminism was an enticing religion. Raised in a home devoid of faith, I eagerly accepted its philosophy as my ticket to salvation.

Really? A home devoid of faith? Secular people don’t speak like that. This is the flowery and exalted language of an Evangelical who is posing as a feminist. But wait, there is more:

For example, feminist ideology taught me that any opinions that were conservative, or just didn’t align with the party line were violence.  It also taught me that the best way to fight opposition is to try to silence it. Don’t like what someone says? Protest them. Shut their event down.

This is a parody of feminism that I keep encountering on the ultra-conservative websites that I read assiduously. Nobody in actual feminist circles says things like “any conservative opinions are violence.” I detest Women’s Studies departments as much as the next person but they don’t speak this way. To the contrary, what’s exasperating about them is how hard they try to be inclusive and not to criticise anybody for fear of hurting feelings.

This was seen most recently, when Milo Yiannopoulos’s speech at DePaul University came to an end when two social justice warriors ran onto the stage and hijacked the mic in protest of Milo’s views.

A real ex-feminist would mention the de-platforming of Madeleine Albright, not this mumbly fellow. He is of interest only to the Evangelicals whose websites, I repeat, I read all the time.

It’s not the substance of what she is saying that I find suspicious. It’s the language, the exaltation, and the examples she chooses.

My Facebook has exploded with joy, “France has made it illegal to email employees after business hours, how great!”

But it’s not in the least great.

Unemployment in France is insane. For young people, it’s simply ridiculous. Finding anything but a succession of crappy short-term contracts is next to impossible. The few who do luck into a permanent job never leave it irrespective of how much they hate it because they know there will never be another permanent job in their lives. Professional realization is a very rare luxury in this environment. Gifted young people are running away in droves because the situation is so lousy.

The reason for all this misery is that labor relations are hopelessly over regulated. Employers and employees can’t develop mutually enriching relationships because they are never left alone to do so. This is one of those situations where the majority of good, reasonable people is suffering because of possible wrongdoing by a tiny minority. Most employers are good people, and so are most workers. But they all get to suffer because somebody somewhere might over reach. It’s totally an equivalent of that stupid affirmative consent deal applied to a different area of life.

My sister and her employees practically live in each other’s pockets. They are in touch at all hours, and what a wonderful, joyful environment their company is. It’s a place of personal and professional growth for employees and employers alike. It’s very easy to destroy this environment by convincing everyone that they are each other’s mortal enemies who should be permanently on guard against the opponent’s possible depredations.

Most employers are not evildoers. Most workers are not lazy layabouts who steal paper from the office. The more you are treated like a pig, however, the faster you become one. The last place we should envy in terms of labor relations is France where the workplace is poisoned with suspicion and resentment.

I’m back to working on my research every day, so while I’m doing that, here is a collection of articles for you to enjoy:

The most dangerous group in this election is not even the neo-Nazis. It’s the folks who are bored and want to be entertained.

“I wince when I read oh-so-liberal parents explaining that they knew their toddler son was a girl when he wore pink and played with Barbies. Is there really anything so wrong with being a boy who wants to dress up as Elsa from Frozen? Or a girl who would rather be outside getting muddy than wear skirts and be “ladylike”?” She winces, and I wish social services interfered and protected children from these abusive fucks who nourish their narcissism by turning small kids into freaks.

This is why politicians who are promising to “create” manufacturing jobs and bring back the attendant lifestyle are treating you as an idiot that you probably are if you believe them.

And now suddenly everybody has to steal my daughter’s unique name.

“How a pharma company made billions off mass murder by faking the science on Oxycontin.”

Victimhood Olympics now hold competitions even in the arcane area of cut up fruit. The righteous outrage of these fools is hilarious.

In case you are one of 3 people on this planet who hasn’t heard of the insane Doggie Men subculture, here is an overview. Like the previous link to a rant on cut up oranges, this is an attribute of the overfed and bored society of extreme opulence. (See also link 1 in this encyclopedia).

Bernie Sanders has the most horrible campaign manager known to humanity. Bernie could have been more successful in his campaign without this tool who is slavishly besotted by Reince Priebus.

And the best quote of the week is: “When a company, or anyone or any other entity begins defending itself by referring to its religious faith, it’s a pretty good bet that they have been engaging in evil fuckery of some kind.” So absolutely true.

Here is a really great website with very clear and informative visuals that demonstrate the damage Rauner has done to the state and is still planning to do. 

I don’t know what else I or anybody can say to convince people that this is not working. I feel quite desperate because the state is being destroyed and nobody – including the people who are far more attached to the state than I am – seems to care that much. 

All three of us will be traveling with different passports because we are all citizens of different countries.