Clarissa's Blog

There is now increasing suspicion that Peeple is a hoax.

I have one reason to believe it might not have been a hoax, and it’s a pretty potent one. A founder of Peeple owned 2 recruitment companies. This makes the probability that she is an asshole airhead extremely high.

I happen to be very familiar with the industry and have to say that way too many recruiters are clueless boneheads. The chirpy lady of Peeple sounds very real to me.

In Russia, a state-approved Civics textbook for eighth-graders informs the students that mentally ill people are not fully human and can’t be considered citizens.

Does anybody understand why Gissendaner got the death penalty? As far as I could gather, she didn’t even do anything aside from saying something to her boyfriend. I mean, put her in jail if that’s the law, but the death penalty? For talking?

Like in the case of Charles Manson, I don’t get the tradition of punishing people who pronounce words more harshly than those who commit murder using those words as an excuse.

Hey, did you hear that the Oregon shooter seems to have done a Columbine tribute during the massacre?

That’s the problem with horrible crimes like Columbine. They bring up copycats for decades to come.

So it turns out that Planned Parenthood charges patients the insane amount of $800 for an abortion pill.

I’m floored by all these revelations. When I donated to the organization, I thought it was a non-profit that provided crucial services to people in need. And now it turns out that, instead, it ripped off desperate women to keep its loser bureaucrats in extreme luxury.

This is beyond disgusting.

I just found out about the 13 people murdered at a community college in Oregon.

I’m absolutely shocked and horrified that it is legal in some states to bring firearms to campus. This is a perversion of incredible magnitude.

Fuck the losers who promote this barbarity.

And now something positive, for a change. The NYTIMES reminds us that the proportion of the world’s population living in extreme poverty has fallen by more than a half since 1993. There has also been a dramatic rise in the number of girls in poor countries who get educated and a massive drop in birth rates in desperately poor countries like Haiti and Bangladesh.

The world is on the right path in spite of the obnoxious stumbling blocks like that toad Putin or a minor toad Rauner.

This is getting better and better, folks. The Interim Chancellor of my university (a.k.a. the Fuck Research Administrator) has announced that he entered into an agreement with local banks so that they will give university employees loans to cover our healthcare costs until the state figures out if it wants to fulfill its contractual obligations and cover these healthcare insurance claims.

This might happen in  a year, or two, or five. Imagine how much interest will accrue on those loans by that time.

Got it? The Republican governor of Illinois refuses to cover the healthcare claims of state workers and, as a result, banks get scores of new, desperate loan-seekers.

And if somebody tells me this wasn’t all planned exactly this way in advance, I will ask that person to go remove the rose-tinted glasses and then come back.

A bill will be introduced in our state legislature’s next session to privatize our entire public university system.

The lady from around the block finally fulfilled her dream and opened a small boutique of her own. She is a very religious person, so she had her priest over to bless the boutique.

This is an actual believing Christian, though, and not one of those screaming hysterics whose true object of worship is their freedom to hate. She asked the priest over on a Monday, the boutique’s day of rest when no employees are there.

“This is a private thing, between me and God,” she says. “I don’t want to make a spectacle of something so private. Besides, it’s wrong to force the employees to be present. They shouldn’t feel pressured to compromise their own beliefs just because I’m paying their salary.”