People have already started asking me when I’m having the next baby. When I say that at this point I’m not thinking about any baby but the one that’s here and needs feeding every 2 hours, people usually respond with, “Well, you might get pregnant by accident. And what will you do then? It’s not like you’ll have a choice, right? RIGHT?”

All this makes me feel bad for Klara because it’s like she’s somehow insufficient.

The connection between narcissism and eating disorders. It’s important to remember, though, that it is very much possible to have any kind of an eating disorder and not to be a narcissist or to be a narcissist and have the healthiest eating habits in the world.

A dumb-ass journalist with zero understanding of drug use chides Nancy Reagan for. . . having zero understanding of drug use. All in all, this fixation of wives of famous people screams Mommy issues. Which, of course, places one at risk for – guess what? – drug use.

How environmentalists become climate science denialists.

Instead of paying huge amounts of money to people for having children (like governments do in European countries including Russia and Ukraine), measures should be taken to making caretaking easier for women: “A policy that lowers the child care burden specifically on mothers can be more than twice as effective at increasing the fertility rate compared to a general child subsidy.”

What everybody needs to understand about Bernie’s “Free College for Everybody” plan: “Sanders’s own summary of his College for All Act makes it pretty clear that the act would not, in practice, eliminate college tuition. What it would do instead is offer federal matching funds on a 2-to-1 basis to states that want to increase higher education spending in order to eliminate tuition.” And since most states want the exact opposite, the plan is dead already.

Of all the dumb ideas I have ever heard, this one definitely makes top ten: “We have known for some time that one of the reasons the US was unable to build a socialist welfare state like western Europe was our history of slavery and attendant racism. (It seems many Americans would rather be poor themselves than allow the government to provide any breaks to African Americans.)” I mean, it’s OK to be stupid, I guess, but what I can’t stand is triumphant, unapologetic stupidity.

“Political expediency requires the EU to turn a blind eye to even the gravest of attacks on freedoms. The EU is so desperate for a deal – any deal – to lessen the impact of migration that it is willing itself to trample over the rights of migrants and to watch as Erdoğan tramples over the freedoms of the Turkish people. The deal exposes EU strictures about democracy, liberty and freedom to be so much hollow straw.”

Have you heard of “sapiosexuality”? It’s one of many products of a puritanical society.

Busy brag and failure brag get on my nerves, too. Busy brag, especially.

“So when you’re in a voting booth in November, wondering if you should maintain your purity and not vote if your preferred candidate isn’t on the Democratic ticket, know that you’ll have the potential bodies of women stacked up on your conscience.” A tad dramatic but true.

“A study of 2 million European firms found that an additional woman in senior management or on the board of directors was associated with a higher return on assets of 3 percent to 8 percent.“

I wish babies came with an indicator that would light up green whenever they are full. How is one supposed to know how much milk has gotten into them when one doesn’t go the way of the bottle?

Obama seems to have decided that it’s time to throw Bernie under the bus:

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n unusually candid remarks, President Obama privately told a group of Democratic donors last Friday that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was nearing the point at which his campaign against Hillary Clinton would end, and that the party must soon come together to back her.

Yesterday Bernie spoke with Rachel Maddow and made some important points when she asked if he’s planning to drop out of the race. Bernie said that sticking with it all the way to the convention will help energize the base and ensure a good turnout in November. He said that voters need to see a vigorous fight between candidates because that will make them more enthusiastic about the election.

I believe that Bernie is right. Success in November is more likely if he stays in the race. His campaign has been a godsend to the party because it would have been absolutely impossible to attract any media attention if the race were between Hillary and O’Malley.

The reason why I don’t see any value in psychotherapists is that they never work with supervision. A supervisor is a therapist’s therapist who ensures that clients don’t get the therapist’s own psychological problems projected onto them. For instance, a therapist was traumatized by a controlling father and now tries to convince all his patients that their own fathers are too controlling.

At the link, you can see an example of a therapist who is projecting his own intolerable anxiety onto his patients. This is somebody who is fixated on the concept of guilt and carries around a defective worldview of “I’m good; the world is bad.” What help can he offer to people if he has such basic unresolved issues?

Of course, it would be even worse to pop pills instead of going to such a therapist but, ideally, people should have more helpful choices.

People are such freaks. It turns out that there is a huge scandal about this shirt because a bunch of idiots has decided it’s “pro-rape.”

Encouraging people to say “no” and making a strong refusal more socially acceptable is, of course, enormously helpful to the cause of protecting sexual boundaries of individuals. Many people are robbed of agency over their bodies since childhood and fall easy prey to sexual predators. Abusers have a gift for spotting people whose bodily boundaries have been breached for as long as they’ve existed and exploit their trauma to gain sexual access to them against their will. Pointing this out is not “rapey” (and God, I’m finding it hard not to spit at the fools who use this disgusting word). It’s crucial.

And talking about inept impotents, I have a few words to say about the Dem leaders and pundits. God, what a bunch of fools. One after another of these tools goes on TV to inform people of all the reasons why Trump is bad.

“Trump appeals to racists!” Wow, what a crucial insight. I would have never guessed. My eyes have been opened.

Instead of telling voters why their candidate is good, Democrats dedicate themselves to promoting Trump. Because, clearly, people who like Bill de Blasio and Cory Booker are not voting for Trump as it is. And those who might be tempted will find Trump more appealing because Democrats detest him.

The most useful thing Democrats can do right now is stop gushing on about Trump and start gushing about their candidate.

As I keep saying, I’ve never seen a party work as hard to lose an election they have in the bag as the Democrats are doing right now. I’m starting to think there is a psychiatric reason behind this.

I’m getting very tired of reading and hearing endless interviews by leading Republicans who bellyache about the horror of Trump and the damage he is doing to the party. They are either dumb or dishonest or both. If they were really upset by the hijacking of their brand by a populist incompetent, they’d start working. And by working I mean, quite literally, doing the job voters pay them very handsomely to do.

Voters keep hearing that there is yet another deadlock in Congress about the budget, about the Supreme Court nomination, about everything and anything else, and they begin to get attracted to somebody who is not associated with this narrative of failure and pathetic ineptitude. Most people don’t understand or care about the intricacies of Supreme Court nominations. But they can’t help being annoyed by yet another story of very overpaid people not managing to get things done. 

Obviously, I’m not justifying anybody who supports Trump. I’m pointing out that a Congress that is overrun by a bunch of whiny and recalcitrant impotents is getting on everybody’s nerves. There is absolutely no reason  whatsoever for anybody to oppose the nomination of this Merrick or Garrick or whatever character who looks more anodyne than a door knob. 

If I did my job half as badly as these clowns do theirs, I would have no job. And there is an increasing number of people in this country who agree. I’m sophisticated enough not to let my resentment of the clowns to lead me to support Trump but many people simply aren’t. 

Everybody knows by now that Trump is the Republican nominee. Would anybody have canceled a debate if Cruz or Kasich refused to show up? Of course, not. A debate at this point only has value if Trump is there.

And mind you, I realize that most of my readers are not that interested in Rauner, so I only post the juiciest stories about his out-of-control government expansion. When he does something like tell people to enter their email accounts to learn how to enter their email accounts, I write about it. But there is a lot of idiotic regulations he introduces that don’t rise to this level of complete insanity.