Not a single one of the many articles I glanced at in foreign and domestic media failed to mention that Justin Trudeau is pretty.

I wonder if those who keep arguing that only female politicians’ appearance is discussed are noticing.

The best comment on the subject of politicians’ looks was given by Bernie Sanders who was incensed by a brainless chirper’s query as to whether his hair should be discussed more than Hillary’s. Sanders demonstrated shock and outrage of somebody who is trying to discuss serious issues only to be interrupted with idiotic gossipy questions. I really admire him for refusing to play the journalist’s game of reducing everything to a reality TV show.

Good news for every romantic underachiever of the female sex! Now it will be very easy to justify one’s relational losership by claiming that nobody wants to date one because one is a genius:

In a hypothetical scenario (one in which the man will never meet the woman), men showed greater attraction toward a woman who was smarter than them, but when they are faced with actually meeting a more intelligent woman, they showed less attraction and desire to date her.

Of course, “showing attraction and desire to date” somebody you have never even seen is an intensely insane concept but who cares? Relational losers will lap this up because it is much more pleasing to believe that one is lonely because of one’s intense intelligence and not because one’s psychological problems and unhealthy sexuality are scaring people away.

There was a time in my life where I also did the whole “I’m alone because I’m so brilliant and beautiful that people are intimidated by all this perfection” thing but then I dropped this boring act and now I’m happy. There is always a choice between blaming the unfair and cruel universe or looking carefully at oneself and taking responsibility for one’s losership.

We all know I dislike Benjamin Netanyahu but not even in my most suspicious moments did I expect him to be a Holocaust denier and an apologist for Hitler:

 Benjamin Netanyahu sparked public uproar when on Wednesday he claimed that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the one who planted the idea of the extermination of European Jewry in Adolf Hitler’s mind. The Nazi ruler, Netanyahu said, had no intention of killing the Jews, but only to expel them.

The Arab hatred that is such a huge part of Netanyahu ‘ s propaganda machine has warped his mind to the point where he actually makes excuses for Hitler.

I didn’t think I’d live to see the day when a Jew would say that Hitler never really wanted to exterminate Jews. I’m floored.

So it sounds like Putin is now considering invading Afghanistan. And still the facile fools who stick to the “why should it be our problem?” narrative will refuse to see any connection between Russia’s invasions of Ukraine, Syria and Afghanistan and will judge Putin’s actions not on his terms but on their own.

There is a lot of deeply annoying stuff in the linked article but the last paragraph is worth quoting:

There is something in this that reminds one of the financial crisis of 2008. Like a too-big-to-fail bank, Merkel has made a bet that will allow her to pocket the credit if she succeeds and spread the baleful consequences to others if she fails. It appears now that she is going to fail. Her defenders exult that she is showing a different face of Germany than the one the world knows from the last century of its history. It is premature to say so. Merkel is showing the face of a Germany that is acting unilaterally, claiming superior moral authority, and answering those who object by saying they’ll thank her for this someday. As such, she is dragging the whole European continent towards unrest. No German role is older.

If you are planning to read the whole thing, remember that I warned you: it has tons of very aggravating stuff.

The liquid world is outfitting itself with new housing models that will provide people not only with short-term leases that last only as long as the next gig but also with prefab, short-term “communities.”

Life spent chasing after employment opportunities might get lonely, so why not purchase a simulacrum of a community?

I wonder how soon we will see a startup that will make a fortune peddling temporary families available to the customers wherever they find themselves next in their chase after liquid capital. The best thing about the idea is that the startup’s costs of doing business will be minimal. There is no need to provide the prefab families because the restless travelers will arrange themselves into temporary family-like structures on their own. All you need to do to get their money is tell them to do it.

So what did Justin Trudeau, Canada’s new prime – minister do the moment he was elected? Started posting selfies with shrouded women, of course.

This brave Liberal wants to make it abundantly clear that there is no issue more important in Canada than ensuring that all women remember very clearly that it’s very easy to turn each of them into a beaten down creature who has no role other than to signal her complete belonging to somebody with a penis.

A Nigerian artist expresses his love for Ukraine in a musical video.

Can you go any lower than this in trying to discredit your political opponent?

It is absolutely ridiculous that huge corporations like Yale and Princeton are allowed to pay no taxes.

There is no gun problem in the US! The real problem we have is with toddlers who need to be banned.

Weirdness at UCLA: “And all calls for university administrators to police the minutiae of campus life rob students of the opportunity to learn how to govern themselves even as they contribute to the spike in administrative costs that render so many unable to afford tuition. The notion that university money is best spent paying someone to sit in an office vetting the themes of fraternity parties sounds like the premise of a SNL skit.”

Putin of Arabia. This was the funniest article I read all week. Highly recommended.

France is stupid.

Have you heard of self-tracking pills? Shit is crazy as all hell.

So what, Liberals are winning in Canada? Bleh. I have nothing against the party. In fact, I would have gladly voted for it if it weren’t for Justin Trudeau. I detest nepotism, and these professional sons and daughters of famous people make me cringe.

I still can’t get over how small and homey the White House is. The lumber yard owner down the street from where I live has a larger house. And each of Putin’s thirteen palaces could house at least 13 White Houses in it.

I’m very happy to live in a country whose leader doesn’t live with the barbaric pomp of our Putins and Yanukoviches.

And since I’m on the subject of cte things in DC, here is a very Germanic sign that made me laugh: