Rising sea levels are creating new landscapes of inequality – drawing new world maps whose key lines are not traditional boundaries between nation-states but elevations above sea level.
– Ulrich Beck.
Local St Louis news reminds me of newscasts out of the 1990s St Petersburg.
Murder, murder, double murder, drive-by shooting, corruption in the city hall, triple murder, a shootout, a dog is taken to a world-class hotel and treated to room service, murder.
Yes, this is how HR departments work. Which is why everyone detests them.
Whenever something like this happens, my husband says in a didactic tone, “And this is why I never considered looking for an academic position.”
Are Muslim refugees massively converting to Christianity?
In case anybody is wondering where rapists come from: they are very carefully manufactured by their vile parents.
What if the result of this campaign is less influence for Sanders?
Grading bloopers. Very funny!
Tenure makes people more, not less, timid. Of course, no circumstances can reveal in a person what isn’t there already. So the inner mouse was there long before tenure.
A powerful plea to Republican friends and family members.
Why you should vote for Hillary in pictures.
The greatest problem for immigrants: “Hard-working immigrants tend to have not-so-hard-working children and grandchildren. For example, just 8 percent of working-age male immigrants from Latin America are out of the labor force, but the number among U.S.-born Hispanics is 17 percent, which is higher than the national average. It seems that immigrant families eventually assimilate to the native work ethic, growing the underclass.” It’s an issue all immigrants dread, and I have no idea how to deal with it. You want the kids to assimilate but what if they assimilate themselves right out of a capacity to work, succeed and enjoy life?
What I find maddening is getting messages from prospective nannies who tell me that they have 3 or 4 kids, one of whom is an infant, and they’ll be happy to take care of my baby. This is so ridiculous that I get angry. What, I’m supposed to believe that if two 4-month-olds begin to scream, she’ll disregard her own and rush to take care of mine? If that’s true, she should be in psychiatric care. And if I agree to this insane arrangement, I should be in psychiatric care.
I don’t even respond to these messages because I’m not sure I will be able to contain my anger.
Old age can be a terrible thing as one begins to lag behind the world that is running away from one.
Dan Rather is announcing pompously on TV with the look of a man who discovered a profound bit of wisdom and is eager to share it with the world,
“Right now Trump is running the risk of being perceived as a narcissistic demagogue!”
I’m discovering an alternative reality. Every nanny I talk to asks me if I want to pay honestly or under the table. It’s like I’m back in Ukraine.
What? Already? Wasn’t this supposed to happen tomorrow?
Maybe I’m going crazy but I just got an email from Hillary saying she won the nomination thanks to me.
Today in baby-related news it’s what we, Russian-speaking Jews, call “hell and Israel.” She screams, barfs, and gives me angry, resentful looks in between these exciting pastimes. My eardrums hurt because I keep forgetting that in order not to be rendered deaf by the sound of artillery fire, soldiers should keep their mouths open.
Today is the 9th anniversary of the day N and I met but the day started with N’s car refusing to start and proceeded right into “hell and Israel” for me. We will now try to salvage the anniversary of the best relationship known to humanity with a massive takeout order of sashimi and alcohol-free Guinness beer.
P.S. I hope nobody takes offence to “hell and Israel.” We are a culture of inventive, sarcastic ways of speaking.
I won’t even link to New York Times’s stupid, stupid, STUPID 😠😈😬👹 article on public colleges in Illinois. Blah, blah, the governor and the Democrats in the Congress can’t reach an agreement, blah blah. Yeah, the psycho murderer and his hostages did not reach an agreement. They are totally equally to blame.
And this is how many people in the state think. Although I don’t know how advanced one’s dementia has to be for one to forget that while we had a Dem governor we did have a budget. And with stupid Rauner we don’t have a budget. But yeah, it’s totally both sides’ fault.
Idiots abound.
Folks, check this out. It’s an audio of a commencement speech Hillary have 47 Yeats ago:
A conservative literary critic and college professor
“shooting in Krakow” Yeah… AFAICT (discounting disinfo coming in from various directions) a case of a very disturbed guy (killed…
It’s like that stupid bitch R senator in Mississippi who answered a question about high prices of beef by saying…
How is it humanly possible to be this boring?
you, me, and everybody else living it right now. Boomers are not in the labor market anymore, and they’re counting…
This is some crazy white nationalist crap. It’s gross and has absolutely no connection to actual reality.
And I really, really hate this narrative that the numbers are great, the GDP is growing, the jobs numbers are…
We already lost an election in a massive way because older people are clueless and refuse to listen. What will…
People who have not been in the housing market in the last ten or fifteen years have no clue how…
We bought our house in 2014. We’re both making significantly more now than we made back then, but today, we…
My entire promotion, which is the most substantive promotion I can count on from now until forever, has been completely…
Dude, OT, I heard that there was a mass shooting in Krakow. I hope everybody is okay.
“Blowout jobs numbers” for whom? Are they jobs that can support a family? Are they jobs available to men? Last…
I make more money than I did in 2019 *and* I don’t have to pay rent anymore, yet I used…
It’s the first time in my life that I’ve been tempted to say, “Okay, boomer.” Young people, men especially, graduate…
“Iranians love their regime” No real contact with Iranians can survive that claim… but they are their socio-politically development is…
We just had blowout jobs numbers, the market is at an all time high, unemployment is around 4% and inflation…
“Trump hasn’t done much on H1B fraud” Why would he? He’s a business guy and business guys lurve H1B fraud.
Polls show that immigration is one of the few areas where voters still trust Republicans over Democrats
Ohio Republicans keep trying to do something about property taxes. But all they’ve done are pathetic half measures that specifically…
“inexplicable really other than by fraud.” If so, it just shows how pathetic republicans are, the presidency and both houses…
“it’s the economy when it’s always the economy?” Whatever his strengths… I really don’t think Trump understands the word “economy”…
It’s not wrong to say that this is an anomaly, inexplicable really other than by fraud. You’re an American citizen…
I’m guessing people still care about the schools, but my IRL contacts are heavily skewed toward people who don’t currently…
I agree completely. People are behaving like this is the equivalent of the Iraq War, five years into the conflict,…
cliff arroyo Really, what were the defenses? I have often wondered if my niece with the forty eleven marriages may…
That still feels like a propaganda talking point to me. I’m against unnecessary wars. But I don’t have strong feelings…
This is my favorite Ukrainian one in the city: https://www.ukrainianeastvillagerestaurant.com/ It’s also next door to Veselka, but I much prefer…
One of the most amusing parts of SA history is that the official founding father was a passerby who left…
It’s very possible that the target audience of the book has normalized this behavior to such an extent that all…
We’ve had huge numbers of black people moving into town, which was supposedly going to benefit the ANC. Instead they…
I’m extremely puzzled by what can induce a white man to vote for a party whose only and very openly…
“a mega-liberal author who is writing about this” Maybe it’s about to be mainstreamed and legitimized and/or glorified… (I’ve seen…
Every time this happens, Trump rallies and comes up with great things to motivate voters tight after a loss and…
I don’t know. I don’t live in that world, but the novel clearly depicts exactly this. It’s fascinating to me…
What you’re doing is exactly the same thing as the people were suggesting: the Democrats stole the election. This is…
I’ll note that I disagree with Means on the psychedelic thing, which is his pet project. But he’s so right…
“…the manosphere theory about hypergamous women who debase themselves for Alpha chads. The chads discard them, so the women scrounge…
Clarissa, it’s not correct to compare the 2024 presidential election and 2026 midterm elections and conclude that Republicans sat this…
https://substack.com/inbox/post/222993643 embedded there is a JRE interview with Calley Means about working for the Trump admin, and how things work…
“electoral loss is the result of a collapse in the Republican turnout” One tweet I saw (which I can’t find…
