Does anybody have an explanation for why Israel stopped the Greta Thunberg boat? What is the purpose? What’s the big deal if she does get to Gaza?
I still can’t get over the story of a dude who opened a school for computer programmers in Ukraine. It was very successful, so he decided to open another one in Mexico.
Whose corruption do Mexicans flee? Is corruption like Godzilla, a magical beast that is chained in the middle of Tlatelolco and the only way to avoid it is to run away?
To those who can, I highly recommend reading Fabricación by Ricardo Raphael or Salvar el fuego by Guillermo Arriaga. That is Mexico as narrated by the most talented Mexicans. That is most certainly the culture. It’s wonderful in many ways. And it’s also extremely dysfunctional in others.
I told my mother about the conflict between Trump and Musk. She’s very not politicized and doesn’t like Trump but she immediately said, “But how can you lower the national debt if the border is wide open and there are millions of illegals?”
This is not as complicated as many people pretend.
I’ve been a little overwhelmed. I’m teaching an online asynchronous course, which puts me into a vile mood but nobody is paying for anything else. Our university restructurings is underway, and there’s unrelenting weirdness at work. My writing is as intense as ever. So in any case, my car looks downright indecent because I have no time to go to a car wash.
This is me taking a nap in the office on Saturday:
Today is Pentecost, and it means an extra long service. As if any Orthodox service could ever be not extra long but you know what I mean. So while I was inside, one of the parishioners cleaned my car. It had nasty tar stains that I didn’t know how to erase, and he took care of all that.
As nice as the action itself is the reason for it. The guy is sweet on my friend and is trying to impress her.
The best parents I’ve seen in my life (and which have the best relationships with their kids) have been:
Politically liberal
Never divorced
Didn’t want kids until late in life
Created firm boundaries for their kids
The worst parents I’ve seen have fallen into one of two groups:
Group one
Politically very conservative
Had kids early
Created super-rigid boundaries for their kids
Group two
Politically liberal
Created few boundaries for their kids.https://x.com/avidseries/status/1931716064875827312?t=bNxdFCUhowpRCXlkxs7q-Q&s=19
My father was group one and the best father on the planet aside from N. And we had a very profound relationship until the day he died.
I don’t do this boundaries thing myself because I’m an old parent, and the forty years that separate me and my kid are boundary enough. Neither do I do punishments, consequences, timeouts, or any of that stuff. But again, at my age it’s all kind of mega unnecessary.
The sequel to the “Summer of George Floyd” appeared right on time.
The first round was decisively won by the Left in 2020. The result was race-based insanity that consumed the country for several years.
The current iteration of Leftist riots is run in a different America. People have been battered by too much “water is racist” sloganeering and have become jaded. Trump doesn’t seem to have many fucks to give this time round, either.
Let’s hope the sequel has a happy ending.
Yeah, I don’t know. This kind of thing makes middle-aged liberals feel edgy and rebellious. They watch, pout, and feel ferocious.
The scenes from LA are sad and embarrassing but there are many people who will find inspiration in the dysfunction.
I’m really shocked at how easy it is for me to read in French. I haven’t practiced for a year, yet reading goes as a breeze.
The human brain is extraordinary.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
Yeah, race trumps everything else… right up until a minority disagrees with the progressive party line. Gotta keep em on…
I hope he sells the rights to his story at least to defeat some of the costs of all this.…
OT: the holdout juror, now doxxed, is taking defensive PR measures: https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/2100022900396847407
Getting to know a writer is often deeply disappointing. There are exceptions. I once met a Spanish writer who was…
There was a hitch with the first generation of VK kids: some parents were SO determined that the kids grow…
You should move out west to Arizona. The desert humidity here is so low that you’ll never break out a…
Thank you so much! What a kind thing to say.
Just the one. 😉
Franzen is the epitome of an insufferable intellectual snob, the kind of whom we sooner or later learn that he’s…
That matches with my observations growing up around a lot of different Asian immigrants. I didn’t know a lot of…
Kid, how much of the actual history of Canadian immigration do you actually know? Human tribalism can be very ugly,…
We on your blog are all grateful for that professor, and for your great writings.
Yes. Unless you had 2 speakers who said the exact same thing.
I have a strong suspicion that this is a comment from the kick-ass speaker in question. 😉
Ha!
My husband and I once read a novel written completely out of clichés, but in all earnestness. We wept while…
She could at least thank God for her son before thanking the app 🤔
Guess he wouldn’t get past the 1st page in a Kristen Hanna book.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. Assimilation goes against nature and requires specific effort. Dude, even I need to ask questions…
Even the second generation doesn’t marry outside of the group if the pool of in-group prospects is wide enough. Or…
RPMC boot camp, really ;-D
As a said earlier, moving to New Jersey was the best thing to happen to my family. My parents’ families…
This is why I like to say that the best thing my parents ever did was move to the New…
Actually assimilation is not complete until they intermarry, there was considerable resistance amongst many ethnic groups in western Canada until…
True. People who have assimilated will not prefer to hire from their immigrant group. At an office party, they will…
Arg. CCP=PRC
The Viet Kieu I have known all my life assimilated remarkably well. 1st gen are obviously not Americans, but tend…
There’s a common idea even on the more “racist” right that east Asian immigrants assimilate unusually well. They seem to…
Exactly. There’s some sort of weird parental anxiety involved. Like if the child steps out of the hustle for a…
Free, unstructured time when kids loiter around aimlessly is the most developmentally crucial and useful. People want to turn kids…
Bykov is extremely talented as a poet. But in what concerns his prose, he’s nowhere near Veller.
Shoot, not just resume padding. I’ve watched way too many parents regard any lacunae in their little kids’ time as……
“perception is that you can’t be a just a good student who otherwise enjoys his friends, free time” They’re not…
“nobody has to be intentionally diverted every second of the day” I am soooo glad I finished school before the…
only writer of value writing in Russian today” What about Bykov?
There’s this panic among parents (and it causes a lot of stress to the kids) that you have to have…
He is also the only writer of value writing in Russian today. Meaning serious literature. There is good entertainment lit…
And then they wonder why people no longer trust MSM.
“Since then the share of foreign born population has gone up and up, even while crime fell and fell.” I…
No, I guessed because he’s the only Russian speaking “famous writer” who would make such a comment. I mean, I’m…
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