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It was only yesterday that I discovered that my obsession with garlic scapes is inherited. My maternal grandmother, who died when I was two, apparently loved them. In spring, she’d haunt their vegetable patch, snatching the scapes and stuffing them into her mouth.
I’m fascinated by genetics because I don’t remember this woman, yet I behave like she did in many ways.
She was also into eating watermelon with bread which I have now quit because of diabetes but used to love.
The real perversion is referring to Glenn Greenwald as a journalist. He’s a hysterical fantasist exactly like Taylor Lorenz. And just as icky.
I understand what he’s trying to say. However. My 9-year-old has the vocabulary of a very advanced college student and spelling skills to match. But the likelihood of her participating in a spelling bee is nil. Just like the likelihood of her participating in anything alongside kids who look like this. I don’t mean their race, God forbid. I mean their general appearance and demeanor of kids whose parents are driving over them like armored vehicles. They are clinically uncool.
I actually once suggested a spelling bee, and she said, “I don’t read to be competitive, Mommy. I read because I love books. My enjoyment of books doesn’t need an additional goal. It’s a purpose in itself.” In other words, she refuses to marketize her enjoyment, and I’m very glad of it.
Republicans saw the Dems’ extraordinary success with young men and decided to replicate it:
Never underestimate the Republicans’ effectiveness at snatching defeat from the bloodied jaws of victory.
OK, fine, but then why is Europe dismantling itself over WWII? I’m ready to move on but nobody else is.
Forget WWII, why are we still apologizing to the tribes defeated centuries ago? Why are we constantly guilty over slavery?
Another viral video is of a woman who complains that she was waxing enthusiastically about a movie when her husband dismissed her enthusiasm with “it’s just a movie.”
The woman is an absolute douche for making a video about it. That’s obvious but I don’t want to discuss that because it’s very clear and boring. Posting the video is wrong, discussing this with strangers is wrong, but clamping down on such behavior is absolutely right. Shitting on people’s enjoyment and enthusiasm within a family is unacceptable. If you feel moody, show your moodiness to your boss at work. There’s no place for this emotional garbage at home.
Example. I was on my way to celebrate my husband’s birthday when I found out that my father was dying. We were very close and uneasy devastated. I stopped the car, got myself together, went to the celebration, celebrated sincerely and joyfully, and then went straight to the airport to see my father one last time. He would have been so proud of me because he dedicated his life to teaching me that you have to be stoic, you have to protect others from your emotional states. My husband deserved to have a nice birthday and he got it even though I was at the second lowest point in my life. At the lowest point of my life, I also protected him and he protected me. And this is why our marriage survived the worst tragedy that can befall a couple.
I have a very intense emotional life. I’m sensitive, believe it or not, I feel things deeply. I get angry, frustrated, sad, hopeless, etc a lot. But at home I’m always cheerful, loving and sweet. Nobody here knows what I look like “in a bad mood.” I don’t inflict moods on people I love the most in the world.
In the video, both people are emotionally incontinent and exercise no self-control. That’s not a road to happiness.
So I received payroll today, and one colleague – who isn’t even working this month – is to receive the strange salary of –$937.86.
Yes, that is minus nine hundred thirty-seven dollars.
I called the accountant who prepared the payroll and asked him what this meant.
“Yes, that’s strange,” he said. “What do you think it means?”
The Puritan self-abnegation strikes again:
I do much more than an hour a day. I love my hobbies. Aside from reading, I paint, decorate my notebook, study German for fun, and I’ve recently gotten into Bible illustration. I also do beauty routines. Blogging is clearly a hobby. So are my YouTube videos.
(I have almost no social life, this is how).
The life of only work and useful pursuits is a punishment.
In addition to what I said in the preceding post, I despise inconsistency. Are you opposed to illegal border crossings? Are you in favor of self-defense? Do you believe that violent attackers deserve to be stopped with violence?
Then stay true to your beliefs. Either a person who crossed a border armed to the teeth and shooting at people deserves to be shot or he doesn’t. Figure it out already and don’t jerk around like a stupid puppet with no coherent worldview. A liberal peacenik who prefers to be raped and killed instead of defending himself deserves more respect than a pretend right-winger who can’t figure out whether it’s ok to kill invading armed hordes.
For those who are ideologically consistent in any direction, here’s today’s video where I’m wearing a new red outfit. Those who are pouting over the dead Russian bastard, don’t you dare look at my video. You don’t deserve it. I don’t get paid for this work and couldn’t care less about views.
There’s a video making the rounds of a Russian soldier being hunted down by a Ukrainian drone. A bunch of congenital weaklings are whining about it on social media. They prefer not to notice that Russians have been hunting with drones Ukrainian civilians, children, old people, mothers with babies, posting videos online, and celebrating them in droves. This practice is called “a human safari” and only yesterday the UN finally recognized that it’s s crime against humanity. There are hundreds of videos documenting this.
The people Russians hunt with drones aren’t invading hordes. They are civilians living in their own country. Aside from the Russian human safari, there are thousands of videos of unarmed Ukrainian POWs being tortured, raped and killed. Civilians being gang raped and murdered. Small children, infants being raped and mutilated. None of that awakened any feeling in the crowd that’s upset over the hunted down Russian invader.
I call these people weaklings because they don’t dare openly to say that they support Russia. Even (some) FreePalestiners have the strength to say they support Hamas and despise the Western civilization. But the pro-Russian weaklings don’t even have the guts to say what they actually think. All of the people I saw whining over this video online are men. They have been so feminized that they mask their beliefs behind fake, slobbering emotionality.
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