Weird Factoid

There are 400,000 more women than men in New York? Seriously? Why??

Yes, this is another thing I saw on MSNBC. I’m boring, I know.

First Sunburn of the Year

The backs of my hands are sunburned to the point where I’m in pain. At first, I wondered but then realized that I walk for hours every day, holding the pram’s handle. Of course, that exposes the backs of my hands to the sun a lot.

30%

30% of Sanders’s supporters say they will not support Clinton in the general election. Because Trump and Cruz are so much better, apparently.

Pathetic little dweebs. It’s the same kind of idiot loser who handed the state of Illinois to Rauner. They weren’t coming out to vote for Pat Quinn, the Democratic incumbent who was not as perfect and pure as they wanted him to be. And here we are now, sans a budget and with state colleges on the verge of closing. But the purists remained true to their principles. Yippee.

Every brainless creep who keeps chirping that there is no difference between a Republican and an “establishment Democrat” should come to Illinois and compare what it was like with the imperfect Quinn and what it is with Rauner.

Artists for Bernie

You’ve got to see this, folks. It’s very talented:

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Russian-speakers Support Trump

Among Russian-speaking immigrants, even those who detest Putin passionately support Trump. They dismiss Trump’s and Putin’s admiring comments about each other as “a joke.”

Obviously, pro-Putin Russian-speakers are also supporting Trump.

Ask me again why I avoid Russian-speakers and don’t see any reason to teach Russian to Klara.

Binoculars

Binoculars are stupid. They don’t magnify anything. They just bring things closer. Which is useless to me in my task of seeing the giant bird who lives in the backyard.

Optics was the subject I did the worst in in high school. Closely followed by astronomy which was somehow weirdly related to optics.

Why Stoop So Low, Bernie?

I just saw Bernie on TV saying that Hillary referred as “superpredators” to all black people. That’s so obviously untrue that I’m disgusted.

Why does he need to tarnish his impeccable reputation with these lies? Why stoop so low to pander to a few unhinged fools? Is he trying to compensate, in this clumsy way, for his ghetto comments? Was he so thrown by the two BLM weirdos who manhandled him off the stage back in summer? Is he so upset by African Americans refusing to vote for him?

This is very sad. 

Nativism

Maybe 35 years from now I can go back to Ukraine and argue that Ukrainians should vote for me because 60 years earlier I lived there.

No, that would be ridiculous.

As ridiculous as Bernie’s recent New York ad presenting the great-grandpa as “a native son.”

Who Organized the Panama Scandal?

I’m now not the only person who is noticing how greatly Putin benefits from the Panama scandal and wonders if he had anything to do with provoking it.

Aside from everything mentioned in the linked piece, the damage done to Cameron is very useful to Russia. If Corbyn were to come to power in the UK, that would be an enormous gift to Putin.

Overall, any damage inflicted on Europe, anything that casts it in a bad light is great for Putin. And this scandal does that.

Chicago State Is in Danger

Chicago State University, a predominantly African American college on Chicago’s South Side, is about to close because the state’s incredibly corrupt and lazy governor is refusing to let Illinois have a budget.

Something is deeply wrong when in a putative democracy a single individual can inflict such a terrible damage on an entire state out of sheer malice.