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The unemployment dropped to 5%, the lowest it’s been in 7 years.
Ukraine’s parliament failed to pass legislation prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, race, and sexual orientation. We are talking about a country where job ads often say, “The candidate should be an attractive unmarried woman under the age of 30” or “Nobody over the age of 35 should apply,” so the law was urgently needed. Besides, the passage of the law is necessary for the establishment of a visa – free travel regime with the EU which has a colossal symbolic value for Ukrainians.
Still, none of this persuaded Ukrainian law-makers to vanquish their inner barbarian and pass the legislation. Civilization advances at a slow and stumbling pace but let’s hope that love of barbarity perishes in Ukraine sooner rather than later.
It’s crucial always to keep in mind that people are as indifferent and dumbly hostile to the preservation of the nation-state as governments and corporations.
Not only do they refuse to die for the nation, even something as minimal and non-demanding as voting is seen as too onerous. If there is enough clownish upheaval during some part of the process, they might deign to pay attention but any intellectual investment into the democratic process is resisted with stupid single-mindedness.
Have you heard about the completely insane story of a transgender student in Illinois and the locker room drama surrounding her?
I really, really hope that this presidential election will not be lost on the strength of the bathroom debate like Houston’s HERO bill was. Yes, I know HERO was not about bathrooms but all that matters is how the voters perceived it.
If this presidential election is diverted into the bathroom / locker room territory, that’s it, the Dems are done. As Zygmunt Bauman keeps pointing out, identity will win over the economy every single time.
So Rubio is going for every stereotype of a white Cuban boy: lazy, a Momma’s boy, and handy with somebody else’s credit card.
Cute. All that’s left is for a couple of black mistresses to surface and the image will be complete.
Forbes decided to throw a childish tantrum in Obama’s direction and proclaimed Putin the most powerful person on the planet. Of course, the powerful Putin made a total ass of himself in Ukraine and was so embarrassed about it that he’s now making an ass of himself in Syria to get people to forget his pathetic trouncing at the hands of Ukrainians.
His powerfulness is not managing to prevent Russian airplanes falling out of the sky like overripe pears or the country’s economy sinking like it’s trying to compete with the Titanic.
One can only wonder what Mr. Powerful will do after Syrians whoop his ass the way they know how to do and oil prices sink to under $35 per barrel.
What is the purpose of this portrait of Putin? Who is supposed to use it and how?
The correct answer is under the fold.
So you know how I hate movies, right? There is one movie, though, that I can watch time and again and again and again and never tire of it.
The movie is Groundhog Day.
It’s no masterpiece but I LOVE the rigid, repetitive structure. The sound of that song that plays over the radio every time the clock hits 6 am is hypnotic because it’s always the same.
This is the reason I love Law & Order, too. The structure is very predictable, and I dig that.
No, I haven’t had a lot of stability in my life.
But I’m really happy I’m not part of this generation either:
This is particularly distressing, Sax says, because the culture youths learn from one another is one of disrespect and indignity. Sax finds it in popular TV shows such as Dog with a Blog, Jessie, and Liv and Maddie, which display adults as clueless and incompetent, as well as hip-hop music and pornography (which boys view avidly).
These are the creeps who produced the weirdos of the previous post.
LinkedIn is promoting a “Bring your parents to work” day.
There are times when I’m really glad that I’m too old to belong to this generation.
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