Clarissa's Blog

Russians selected Angela Merkel their Woman of the Year.

There’s hardly anything worse anybody can say about Merkel.

The runners-up will not be recognizable to non-Russian speakers but they make a very pathetic, offensive company for Merkel.

Gay couples could one day have their own biological children carrying traits from both parents, according to new research. Such a breakthrough could even lead to ‘multiplex parenting’ with groups of more than two, or children created by just one parent.

As long as consumers can buy the toy that hit their fancy, who cares what it will do to actual children? Especially given that these kids will become life-long consumers of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics.

Germans continue on the path of making themselves hated by everybody in Europe. Right now, they are scolding Greece simultaneously for:

A. Letting too many refugees into Europe;

B. Not paying for comfortable conditions of the refugees Greeks do let in.

Taking into account all the ways in which Germany contributed to Greece’s impoverishment, this current round of German Greece – bashing looks disgusting.

As you know, in the conflict between Germany and Greece I was always on the side of Germany and against Greece. But even my obvious pro-German bias can find nothing but simple malice in what Germany is doing right now. This will tear Europe apart because Southern and Eastern Europeans (and eventually the Northern Europeans whom Germany is trying its darndest to annoy right now) will get too fed up with Germany’s tantrums to want to stick around.

The Pope condemned the countries that are making it hard for Cuban refugees to reach the US. If only he were as interested in condemning the Castro regime that is making Cubans want to run away from their country.

At London’s Goldsmiths College, the feminist organization allied itself with a group of woman-hating men in a campaign of terrorizing and threatening a female speaker. 

The feminists explained their support for men’s inalienable right to bully a woman who dares to speak in public as an attempt to create “a safe space.” For male bullies. It worked, and the bullies were allowed to mount a public spectacle of hassling a woman to their heart’s content.

The leader of the Islamic State announced that he’s planning to attack Israel.

The Spanish newspaper where I read this news stated that it’s unclear why al-Bagdadi singled out Israel. Yes, what an inscrutable mystery.

Kenyan Muslims shielded Christians from Islamic terrorists and saved their lives.

Good people everywhere need to unite in the face of fanatics and barbarians like these brave Kenyans did.

If it weren’t for Trump, there’d be no chance Leftie bloggers would have a single bad word to say about Putin. While Putin invaded countries, bombed civilians, persecuted gays, flogged workers’ unions, curtailed women’s rights and imposed fiercely neoliberal policies, the Western Leftists adored him. But now that Trump had a couple of nice words to say about him, they are discovering that Putin is not that great.

Well, it’s good to know that some use can be squeezed out of an idiot of Trump’s caliber.

My news feed is populated by endless whiny posts by people who complain about being forced into consumerism by two and three-year-old kids. There is not a single post, though, where any of these people admit to how much crap they bought for themselves over the holidays.

For everybody else, the festivities are over but for us they are just beginning. The best gifts, the biggest celebration, the most attractive food selection, the prettiest outfits – everything will only be beginning next week.

It’s like we’ve had a trial run with Christmas and now get to do the real celebration.