Clarissa's Blog

Klara let me sleep in until 8:30 am today. She wakes up and entertains herself, plays, sings her baby songs until I wake up. 

I’m very fortunate. This is the third week of classes, and sleep is sorely needed. 

Kerry finally decided to stop “lying prostrate at the feet of Lavrov” (c), aka Sad Horse Lavrov, and refused to meet him in Geneva to talk about Syria. 

The only reason Russians go to these meetings is to sell the narrative of “pathetic Americans keep begging us to help them out, those stupid weaklings” at home. There is no need to try so hard to help them do it. 

Wow, my book hasn’t been published yet but people have already heard about it (from the prospective publisher) and are writing to me to ask me to speak about it. 

Our math department is so great that I feel a strong urge to start taking courses with them. 

It takes some kick-ass educators to get me interested in math. 

On question after question Clinton — clearly by design — tried to bury everyone in policy detail and command of the issues. She was smothering us with experience and we were smothered.

It would be great if people could leave their issues with smothering mommies out of adult conversations and stopped minimizing their lack of psychological health by speaking in the plural. The royal “we” here is nothing but a pathetic attempt to hide from his own complexes by making them sound common and widespread.

Some genius listed my office number as belonging to the Admissions Office, and now I get dozens of phone calls from people I can’t help. The most recent call was from a gentleman in Toronto. Of course, I had to mention that I’m from Montréal, and in order to exult in our shared Canadianness we spoke in French to each other, even though neither one of us is a Francophone. 

That was super cool. I’m feeling very patriotic right now. 

Like EpiPen prices, prices for insulin have unaccountably risen over several years, though there is no shortage of the drug and insulin prices in other countries are low.

Finally somebody is talking about this! If even I, with a very good family income and the best insurance available in the state, was finding insulin co-pays to be onerous. The total out-of-pocket cost of being a diabetic was for me $200 per month. I insist that you need to be a pretty wealthy person not to consider this a high cost. 

Let’s remember, also, that Type 2 diabetes is a disease of poverty. Aside from the medication and supplies, people need to buy more expensive food, join a gym and visit a diabetician on a regular basis. And all this is on top of the  $200 a month co-pays. 

I am absolutely convinced that the needs of diabetics should be covered by a comprehensive state program. If diabetics begin to skimp on food to buy insulin, the insulin won’t work as well. It’s inhuman to put people in this position. 

There is definitely a stench of “they are to blame for having diabetes” behind this widespread indifference to the situation of American diabetics. 

When I heard that this sumbitch Obama ordered the murder of hundreds of American children and when their mothers organized a peaceful protest, he threw them in jail. . .

. . . When I learned that he blew up several apartment buildings with hundreds of peaceful Americans to use the resulting fear to get himself elected. . .

When I discovered that he’s throwing Americans in jail for posting “I 😍 Canada” on Facebook. . .

. . . When I found out how he falsified every single one of the half a dozen presidential elections he “won,” ordered the murders of political opponents, built 13 palaces for himself, bankrupted the entire Social Security to give expensive gifts to his golfing buddy, and shut down every independent news outlet. . .

I realized he was a much worse leader than Putin who never did anything like this to the citizens of his country. 

Oh, wait. . .

Local mathematicians joke that when the university tries to hire a professor of statistics, the candidate hears what the salary is and asks, “Per month??”