You know why I almost never buy food to go? Because the chances that I’ll drop it into the biggest puddle available right outside the restaurant are enormous. As I just discovered.

Russians hated yesterday’s State of the Union Address. They are polluting the media with rabid excretions of how much they hated it. Here is just one example:

“The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference.

“Yesterday’s speech by President Obama shows that at the center of the (U.S.) philosophy is only one thing: ‘We are number one and everyone else has to recognize that’ … It shows that the United States wants all the same to dominate the world and not merely be first among equals.”

I told you it was a great speech. Would the Russians have hated it so much if it sucked?

Don’t be a Russian! Support the SOTU!

So who saw the State of the Union address? It was the best one in years. I totally loved it.

Good speech, good country, good people. I’m feeling very patriotic right now. Maybe I’ll put up the flag tomorrow.

Idiot Lefties are salivating over Putin because they think he offers an alternative to the United States. What they don’t realize, though, is that it’s an alternative from the far Right instead of from the Left like these pissants imagine. 

While the idiots in Europe are looking for any excuse to help out their idol Putin and remove the sanctions, he spits into their faces and goes on the offensive in Ukraine.

Hollande now looks massively stupid with his pleadings to let sanctions against Putin expire. Two days after Hollande’s bleatings on the subject, Putin unleashed a massive campaign in support of the Paris terrorists. A week later, his troops destroyed a bus filled with Ukrainian civilians and a massive new wave of invasion into Ukraine began.

Putin is not even trying to be liked by Europeans. But their love for him continues growing.

Five Russian citizens, believed to be Chechens, have been arrested in the south of France on suspicion that they were preparing a terrorist attack.
Authorities said that a cache of explosives was discovered during a series of police raids overnight in Béziers and near Montpellier on the Mediterranean coast.

These are the same Chechens Putin is using in his war against Ukraine. And the same Chechens who followed Putin ‘ s lead and came out to the strength of 800,000 to celebrate the Charlie Hebdo murders the other day.

Keep flirting with Putin. It totally makes sense.

Ukraine ‘ s President Poroshenko was making a speech in Zurich. Russian provocateurs kept interrupting him, yelling insults.

“It’s OK, let them speak,” Poroshenko said. “Everybody needs a chance to speak their mind. And these guys aren’t given that opportunity back in Russia.”

The freaks at Naked Capitalism have gone completely soft in their sad little excuses for heads. They are now blaming the war in Ukraine on… Estonians who, they suggest, have somehow organized the hostilities with the purpose of money-making.

Yes, those Estonian – masonic bastards totally own the world.

Just in case anybody is still wondering where I find all those Putinoid Lefties.

Everybody needs to read this article by the War Nerd right now. It’s absolutely his best.

“You can’t believe everything you read, especially when it’s a memoir. They’re not the most reliable narrators, the people who pen their life stories based on recollections. Sometimes they have an agenda and the whole, unvarnished truth just doesn’t fit in as neatly as a writer would like.” It’s a sign of a severely deficient education system that adult people need to be reminded of this but, sadly, they do. First-person narrators are unreliable by default. So yelling, “This autobiography is based on lies” is kind of childish.

I don’t know if anybody here is following the great “It’s Probably PhD Me” blog but I highly recommend if you don’t. The author is a really admirable person and a talented writer. The posts form a very Austenesque narrative and should be read as novel chapters rather than stand-alone pieces. I hope the author considers publishing them as a novel one day.

“Mount Holyoke College, an all-women’s school, announced in a campus-wide email that the Theatre Board has cancelled its annual production of the “Vagina Monologues.” The board has decided to retire the feminist classic as it is not “inclusive” enough to those who identify as women but do not have vaginas.”

The invention we have all been waiting for: in-bed computer desks.

[Spanish.] A very interesting article on the Muslim community of the French city of Marseilles. Read this instead of the endless discussions on the “no-go zones.”

“Marriage, at its core, is about recognition. Recognition is why we put on the fancy tuxes and beautiful gowns. It’s why we publish marriage announcements in newspapers. It’s why we invite friends and family to witness—to recognize—the relationship. Recognition is why we wear engagement rings and wedding bands.” Seriously? Neurotypicals are too bizarre. It  would have never occur to me that this is why they do all of it. But yay for same-sex marriage right, of course.

You’ve totally got to know that the weird people who believe Sarah Palin’s youngest child is not really hers are still going on with their investigation. I’ve been following their travails for years and they are a very funny bunch.

“An Alabama middle-school principal has asked students to bring in cans of food they could use as projectiles against school shooters.” Well, we should all be happy the kids weren’t asked to bring in hand grenades. This is progress already.

It’s seriously insane but check it out: “With these GIFs, Boehner aims to explain to Millennials and sub-Millennials why President Obama’s tuition-free community college proposal is a very bad idea.” If I were a “sub-Millenial”, I’d be very offended.

“The rise of the right-wing echo chamber is not simply a sign that our education system has failed — though it is also that — but for those who have ears to hear, it represents people crying out for the real satisfactions of the intellectual life. The fact that they’ve had to make do with a cheap substitute is not an indictment of them personally so much as of the forces that prey on their intellectual curiosity and the society that rendered them so vulnerable to that predation in the first place.” I don’t agree with anything in this post but it’s very well-written and engaging. Highly recommended.

“John Ellis “Jeb” Bush? Mitt “Mitt” Romney? Uh-uh. It’s Fred Thompson’s nomination for the taking. .” I agree that this is very bizarre. With all his massive faults, Putin, at least, is not introducing himself as “Vova.”

“Pretty soon your mom might not be the only one nagging you to quit smoking or lose weight—and it won’t stop at nagging.” This is a very powerful and concise explanation of why people overeat and smoke. The rest of the article is a lot less interesting.

“I also think it’s interesting that so many people seem to be reacting with the kind of hysteria we saw after 9/11 to the Charlie Hebdo killings but managed to keep their wits about them after the Boston bombing.” Because it’s cartoonists, you fool. Quiet, nerdy people with a geeky sense of humor. How much easier it is to identify with them than with the weirdos who ran marathons, seriously?

How to ruin a date with an academic.

Does Putin have a future in the Balkans? “The Balkans are weak states, have considerable sympathy for Putin’s agenda, and in several cases already have pro-Russian groups just waiting for an extra push to turn into rebel movements.”

A great explanation of why evolutionary ethics is stupid.

“There is necessarily going to be something arbitrary about fruitful education, because the whole point of it is for young minds to learn that there is such a thing as objective fact; that their feelings are not fact.  The content of what it taught is much less important than the necessity for young minds to internalize this lesson.  Otherwise, they really do become trapped in their own minds and unable to find avenues to liberate themselves.”

Great portraits of naked men.

Gun owners participate in a simulation of the Paris massacre.

A small excerpt from a rant of a person who confuses having mental disease with having a political opinion: “Given the growing swaths of destruction, brutality and murder that are the product of State power in recent years, and of Western State power in particular, one might have thought that moral approval and encouragement is the last thing one would choose to gift to the monsters who lead those States, at least if one seeks a better world that is significantly more compassionate and caring than the world in which we now live. And note how cheaply the States in question purchased this gift.”

“You know I used to believe that the Right was utterly fucking crazy when they talked about how the liberals tend to embrace objective evil if it’s cloaked in the veil of oppression. But now that I’ve seen the liberal reactions to Muslim oppression of women and now Charlie Hebdo and secularism, you know what? The Right was fucking, well, right  — a little, at least.” Yes. Oh, yes, yes, yes.