So who robbed the aid trucks? The suspense grows.

I always tell students that overusing the passive voice is a sign of weak writing but maybe I should use the word “weaselly” instead.

I’m in a crabby mood, people. A very crabby mood. First, I had to make myself extremely unpleasant to the bosses who tried to take away our lab under the slogan of “we are doing it for your own good.”

Obviously, nobody comes out and says, “we want to take the lab away.” A phone scammer doesn’t lead with, “I’m calling to swindle you out of your money.” A less jaded, more innocent person would swallow the hook and end up minus a lab. But I’m as jaded as it gets, so I pushed back.

Phone scammers usually proceed to try to scare and humiliate you if you don’t respond to the initial line of attack. That’s exactly what the bosses did, letting me know what a loser and disappointment I am. However, I grew up with a mother who was disappointed by the fact and every consequence of my existence, which cured me from the need to please anyone.

I saved the lab for the next two years, after which it’s out of my hands because I no longer will head the department.

Then, to top it all off, we were told that the university is abandoning Zoom and switching to MS Teams which I detest.

So I’m mega crabby. Does anybody have any good news to get me out of this funk?

Somebody asked what I expect Trump to do for Ukraine. This is an excellent question with a simple answer.

What we need is a massive global crash of oil and gas prices. The US oil production needs to soar. This will be great for the US economy, too. Trump knows how to do it. He’s done it before.

Biden has adamantly refused to give licenses to domestic producers to sell oil to Europe, so Europe has been buying it from Russia this entire time. The EU is begging to be allowed to buy from the US. Isn’t it a complete insanity that we are refusing to sell? So let’s not do that any more, is what I’m saying. Let’s drill, let’s sell, let’s benefit our economy and achieve world peace in the process.

Looks like I was right in that the whole drama about Biden supposedly giving Ukraine permission to strike air bases inside Russia was a nothing burger. All Biden did was reiterate the old permission that already existed and expanded its reach not at all.

I can’t understand how after observing the Biden administration for years people can still fall for these hoaxes. Truly, they never learn. The Biden administration has been consistently playing the de-escalation game which leads to more escalation from Russia. The persistent show of weakness and impotence on the part of the US that became extremely obvious during the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is driving every stage of the escalation of the war. We will sit here, mewling about “WWIII” until even China realizes that it can act with complete impunity and will enter the war.

What else needs to happen for people to notice that the Biden administration lies? The truth is usually the exact opposite of what they say. Why is this still so hard to grasp?

Ihsan Ali and his wife Zahraa tried to murder their 17-year-old daughter for refusing an arranged marriage to an older man. The videos of the attempted honor killing are too disturbing to post here.

One of the most shocking things about the story is that it didn’t take place in Afghanistan but in Lacey, Washington. Why it was extremely important to inflict Ihsan and Zahraa on Lacey, Washington remains unclear.

Putin perceived Scholz’s call more as a sign of weakness than strength, — Le Monde.

A shocking development. Putin perceived Scholz crawling on his knees and wagging his tail pitifully more as a sign of weakness than of strentgh. Who could have possibly predicted this?

Truly, surprises never cease.

And completely OT because I don’t want to start a new post for this, the airport worker in Chicago refers to St Louis as “St Looee”, which I find very endearing.

German Bundeskanzler Scholz called Putin and begged him to stop the war. Immediately after that, Russia delivered one of the largest missile attacks of the whole war.

Begging, asking and wagging one’s tail ingratiatingly doesn’t work.

Remember when you were a kid and getting bullied at school, and you told your Dad who said, “have you tried asking the bully nicely not to beat you? Have you said “please”? Try that and see what happens.”

I hope this didn’t occur and instead your Dad told you to stand up for yourself because that’s the only way.

Well, Kanzler Scholz clearly had one messed-up Dad because he called Putin and begged to have his balls back. Putin refused to release the testicles in question. Today, there’s a huge, spontaneous celebration in Russia of last-night’s missile attack. Moms are dragging their kids outside to laugh and celebrate. Teenagers are off-the-rocker happy. Old grandmas are weeping with joy.

All this could have been stopped at a very low cost 20 years ago. But the cost grows higher every day. Every day of Western subservience and of eager Western prostitutes like Olaf Scholz and Tulsi Gabbard bending over and spreading their butt cheeks to expiate for some imagined Western guilt is going to cost us more and more and more.

P.S. “We provoked Russia into starting a war by bringing the NATO too close to Russia’s borders” is Western guilt. It’s the equivalent of “let’s allow weirdos to pollute our Parliament with their unhinged screeching” and “let’s pay reparations to whoever demands them.”

Our British friends have become so censored and policed that it’s impossible to find out what is actually being discovered regarding the Southport massacre that occurred last July. From what I understand, Britain’s current PM is responsible for the terrorist’s family being in the UK. Keir Starmer apparently defended Rudakubana’s father in his (Starmer’s) capacity as a Human Rights lawyer. The father seems to have been complicit in the Rwandan genocide, which is why it was so crucial to Labour to keep him in the UK.

This is why I consider anybody who unironically uses the expression “human rights” to suffer from cognitive retardation.

In any case, there’s no discussion in the UK. People only mumble that there are things they could tell but they won’t because you know. The incredible degree of censorship and fear is such that I say “God Bless America” whenever I read anything about Great Britain.

Poor Spain looks like it’s gangrened. Strangely, there’s complete silence in Spain on this crime against reproductive rights. No manifestations, no protests. Only a quiet dying off on the altar of freedom and choice.

These are simply numbers and colors but think about the human tragedies behind them.

I watched some Rachel Maddow in the hotel room for the first time in years. It’s sad. Authoritarianism, J6, more authoritarianism. “This is what you wanted, American people, so now you have it,” Maddow said with a bitter look. She seems not to consider herself an American based on this statement.

You’d think that if years of Trump, authoritarianism and J6 brought a complete electoral wipeout, people would manage to pivot. Isn’t this what the Rachel Maddow crowd always recommends to us? “Learn to code”, embrace change, “just move”. But when it comes to setting an example and showing some intellectual agility instead of lecturing everybody on how stuck in their ways they are, there’s bupkes.

The preachers of how great change is seem to not be very good at changing.