You’ve got to read this hilarious post by an idiot vegan and a response to it. Just keep scrolling.

I found this hilarious link at this blog that always has tons of fun and useful links.

And here is yet another article on how work – any work – is horrible, stultifying, unhealthy, and downright evil.

People mold reality, and then reality molds them right back. Soon enough, nobody will remember their own eager participation in the destruction of the concept of full-time jobs.

So we started watching The Fall, and it’s very enjoyable. Very professionally done, too.

There is one thing I find obnoxious, though. This is yet another one in a billion shows that depict a very thin woman devouring an enormous hamburger in the dead of night. The endless replay of the bizarre belief that weight is in no way linked to what people eat is simply annoying.

Yes, there are people who are very sick and who can eat tons of food while remaining emaciated. I’ve known such people, and they look nothing like Gillian Anderson. They look sick.

In The Fall, this was just a single short scene. But remember Gilmore Girls? The writers of the show seemed possessed by the need to prove that gorging on tons of junk food every day leads to remaining skinny and fresh-faced. After several seasons, it started to seem like the writers were mentally unstable. And there are millions of such shows.

I’m thinking there must be something cultural to this very Anglo refusal to see causal links. And you observe this in many different areas of life, not just food. There’s also the bizarre belief that intelligence just happens and is not a result of years of learning. And so on.

After a lull in hostilities, heavy fighting resumed today in several places. At this point, it’s anybody’s guess what provokes the Russians into starting a fresh round of hostilities. The two main possibilities are:

1. The upcoming G7 summit.
2. The former president of Georgia (the country) being appointed as a governor of one of Ukraine ‘ s regions. This gentleman was the president of Georgia in 2008 when Russia went to war against that country. So obviously Putin hates him and is upset about the appointment.

Yes, these are extremely stupid reasons to send soldiers into battle but what else is new?

A student of mine approached me to say that he’d started learning Ukrainian. This is the first time this happened. I frequently get approached by students who want to learn Russian but somebody with an interest in Ukrainian is very new and refreshing.

Dan Savage published a hilarious letter from a guy who says his dates run away from him after he confesses that he used to cheat on his wife:

But after four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. Crying myself to sleep every night took its toll, and I self-medicated with casual sex with attractive women. Two years and 20 women later, I got caught. I don’t hide the facts; I own my mistakes. I’ve grown and learned from my mistakes. But it’s hard for most women to see past “cheater.”

The poor creep doesn’t stop to think that maybe what’s scaring the dates is the extraordinarily low IQ and the non-existent self-awareness a 35 – year-old man needs to possess to first cry himself to sleep every night for 4 years (!) and then to concoct the entirely idiotic phrase “self-medicated with sex.”

And I’m not even starting on what it tells about him that he’d stay in a “marriage” where there’s no sex for 4 years.

Of course, Savage ‘ s response is even more stupid. Savage suggests that the wife’s libido died because the husband wasn’t “helping with the kids.” I understand that Savage has no personal reason to be knowledgeable about female sexuality but he could still try to inform himself.

Caitlyn Jenner is bringing out so much douche-baggery in people that it’s scary. Here is an example from a guy who keeps chirping about being a holier-than-thou Christian yet can’t control his inner freakazoid for 2 seconds:

Again: on what grounds do you grant

transgenders a blessing on modifying their bodies because they feel that they are of the opposite sex, but deny the same to transableists?

I wonder if such people ever stop to consider how ridiculous they sound. Nobody is asking them to “grant blessings”, yet these sorry little losers keep pestering respectable folks with their desperate and whiny, “I don’t grant you a blessing! You must be totally heartbroken over it!” Their inner censor makes them require constant approval from others for their every breath, so they project this lack of maturity and independence on others.

So who’s into reality TV?

My favorite shows right now are:

1. Shark’s Tank,
2. The Profit with Marcus Lemonis,
3. Consumed, the new show about restaurants in New York.

These are all business-related, as you can see.

What are you watching?

It was probably a mistake to agree to write a piece on gender and space. I’m now getting caught up on the theory and, boy, does it suck or does it most horribly suck.

Time is male while space is female; skyscrapers are embodiments of the inflated male ego; the chaos of the city mimics “the uterine form of the female body”, and somebody shoot me right now to put me out of my misery. Bleh, bleh, and bleh some more.

NYTimes has published a good article about state-sponsored trolling. If you think it will never have any impact on your life, think again. And then read about the Columbia Chemical plant in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.

At least, we are finally awakening to the reasons behind the trolling campaign:

Russia’s information war might be thought of as the biggest trolling operation in history, and its target is nothing less than the utility of the Internet as a democratic space.

Read, the article, get informed, and make sure that the trolls don’t start to control you.