Women Are Weird

~ Clarissa ~ 10 Comments

What is it with this obsession over being made to laugh? If you are so desperate to laugh and can’t come up with anything by yourself, Google “joke” and you’ll be entertained until you can’t stand it any more.

Or maybe I’m too literal and this “making you laugh” isn’t about actual jokes. Maybe it comes from women who didn’t end up with the kind of guy they secretly desire and they are consoling themselves that their sixty-percenter is not that bad.

Honestly, I’d put the “makes me laugh” part at the very end of the list of desirable qualities. A “class clown” type of adult man would be quite annoying in daily life.

How It Begins

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

I’m telling you, folks, what Russia is today every developed country will be in 15 years. We have a clear example of where this experiment leads. Why aren’t we learning anything?

For those who don’t know, anti-migrant riots in Russia in 2005 prompted a clamping down on social media posts about what happened to the point where almost all vestiges of the popular uprising were erased. The word “Russian” was removed from official documents in favor of “citizen of Russia.” It was prohibited to breathe anything against mass migration in Russia.

Twenty years later, we are where we are.

Single Numbers

~ Clarissa ~ 12 Comments

My arithmetic skills are admittedly not extraordinary but surely these numbers don’t work? How many single women can there possibly be to make such a difference?

Delightful

~ Clarissa ~ 2 Comments

What I find particularly delightful is when people resign 10 days before classes begin (and a week before the start of the Fall pay period which takes mountains of paperwork to reverse).

I find it even more delightful when people refuse to sign the contract and continue bickering about its terms 10 days before classes begin, etc.

As a result of these behaviors, I will now have to teach a course on Mexican identity which I didn’t prepare because why would I prepare for somebody else’s course? And I won’t pretend I’m not excited about teaching about Mexican identity plus it pays well but I have to prepare a whole new course in a little over a week and that’s daunting.

There’s no chance the person who was originally supposed to teach this course would share their materials with me but I wouldn’t accept them anyway. We are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, and my plan for the course is not to excoriate Mexicans for being sexist-racist-somethingphobic.

Yes, a Ukrainian teaching students (a couple of whom will be Mexican) about Mexican identity is funny. But I don’t think anybody else’s identity appears in an actual course title. How cool is that?

OK, I need to quit it with the coffee for the day.

Rudakubana Questions

~ Clarissa ~ 5 Comments

Has the motive of Rudakubana’s stabbing of the little girls in Southport been established? I’ll be grateful for a link.

Is anybody exploring if his attack is connected to the ISIS plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Austria? The children Rudakubana murdered were in a Taylor Swift workshop. Could be a coincidence, of course, given Swift’s ubiquitousness. But it could also be part of an ISIS strategy.

I’m sick again (I swear, this summer, I can’t even) plus there’s new drama at work, so I haven’t been able to follow the story. If anybody read something valuable please leave links.

Attacks on Tim Walz

~ Clarissa ~ 15 Comments

I find the nature of the attacks on Tim Walz to be very telling. He’s being excoriated for a master’s thesis he wrote decades ago and words he said about his military service.

It’s all about words.

The dude actively prevented state officials from stopping the BLM rioting in Minneapolis. His pro-gender-bender initiatives are so aggressive, Gavin Newsom refuses to consider them. During COVID, Walz set up snitch hotlines for people to narc on their neighbors. He’s so far to the left of, say, Biden that he’s already in the stratosphere.

But all we hear is “he said, he said, he said.”

All we care about is not what people do but what they say. We are obsessed with words and utterly uninterested in actions.

Criticisms of Trump have been like this for years.

We get nothing from our elected representatives except for words because we pay no attention to anything but words.

Serves us right.

Tampon Tim

~ Clarissa ~ 4 Comments

It’s not surprising to me that CBS couldn’t tell the truth to save its mother’s life but I shudder to think that there are still people who believe its fabricated news items.

The Trump campaign is criticizing Walz for putting tampons in boys’ bathrooms. This is not a minor issue like you might think before you encounter it in action.

Here’s what happens. A tampon machine is placed in a boys’ bathroom supposedly to address the needs of girls who pose as boys. That a girl with a functioning brain would choose to go to a male toilet and start changing tampons there is ludicrous. But who cares? The machine serves a very different purpose.

Teenage boys being teenage boys find the whole thing hilarious and start removing these tampons, making performance art out of them, painting graffiti on the tampon machine. This immediately makes them guilty of a hate crime, triggering their persecution, detention, and even expulsion.

I have seen precisely this unfold, and it’s a situation that was engineered to start a witch hunt. This is why Walz is being criticized for putting utterly unnecessary tampon machines in boys’ toilets.

Nature and Nurture

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

‘A Jew, however poor, if he had ten sons would put them all to letters, not for gain, as the Christians do, but for the understanding of God’s law—and not only his sons, but his daughters.’

Pierre Abelard (c. 1135)

A couple thousand years of this, and we have the results that we are seeing.

Moral of the story: everything worth having takes a lot of patient, oft-repeated effort.

The Marxist West

~ Clarissa ~ 6 Comments

At the end of the Cold War, the West adopted the Marxist approach to the collapsing USSR. Marxism, in its classical form, posits that economic factors are at the root of everything. Ideas and beliefs grow out of economic relations. Money is the base, and everything else is a superstructure. Whatever you think, want, believe and cherish is a result of your economic situation.

Now, I don’t believe any of this crap. People are more than their stomachs, and ideas always come first, overriding the economic, whether for good or for ill. But that’s the classical Marxist view.

The West adopted this view and decided that if you change the economic structure of the USSR from socialism to capitalism, this will lead its inhabitants to embrace the ideas that coexist most naturally with capitalism. Freedom, democracy, choice.

As we have had many chances to observe since then, this didn’t work. Because – newsflash! – the fundamental belief of classical Marxism is wrong, and every neo-Marxist in existence accepted this fact decades ago and created an alternative approach. The Western leadership of the 1990s, however, behaved like it was still 1848* and tried to apply Marx’s favorite remedy to cure the results of large-scale Marxist experimentation. The results were predictably sad.

Yet Western politicians still try to achieve the Marxist goal of changing human nature to achieve a society where human flaws will not exist she everybody will vegetate in a state of earthly perfection and bliss.

*The year of the publication of The Communist Manifesto.

The Certainty of the West

~ Clarissa ~ 8 Comments

The West lost the certainty that it deserves to win. The Battle of Cajamarca was won by Europeans because they knew they were right. You can’t achieve anything without inner certainty and resolve.

For two years, since the Kherson offensive, Ukrainians were listening to the West’s guidance and ending up as losers. Because the West today has embraced the culture of loserishness.

This week, they finally embraced their role as the new West, and here’s the result:

Look at what’s happening in the UK. The word pathetic doesn’t begin to describe what it is. Look at the ugly, cheap attempt at conducting the Olympics in France. Look at our election process here in the US. Look at people in Spain beating up tourists because they want to get rid of their most important industry in a bout of self-destructiveness.

The real West still exists but its center of gravity moved to the East of Europe.