Clarissa's Blog

I’m sick with a brutal cold, my friends. Can’t get out of bed, cooked a great dish and ate none of it. Not a spoonful! I need to be really ill to stop eating.

I have to record an urgent video for students but the way I look and sound, it’s best not to show my face in public.

https://twitter.com/ErmakovFeda/status/1735037672832332201?t=ugaFVPj1diJHeuDEzLxN3Q&s=19

The girl in red ended up bringing a rifle to school, killing the girl who is pummeling her in the video, shooting 5 other 13-year-olds, and committing suicide.

I could post a video a day like this. Kids pummeling each other or their teachers. The teachers pummeling the kids. Men beating women. Women brutalizing toddlers. Toddlers slicing house pets with knives.

The tapping is fine but the costumes, the styling and the glorification of Russia are hideous and tone-deaf. If they wanted something Eastern European, they could have invited Ukrainian performers in beautiful costumes to do the song I posted yesterday. They could have US singers of different races do half of it in English. That would be beautiful and Christmassy.

Why does everything have to be so ugly? This is torture to people with a live aesthetic sensibility.

Anonymous questions keep coming in, and here is one I like:

The posts I enjoy most of all are where you tell anecdotes from your daily life. Please share an endearing story or a happy memory. I could use reading it today!

The story that immediately comes to mind is when N and I were moving to our house back in 2014. N worked in St Louis back then and had a long commute, so I was supervising the process. On the day of the actual move, I wanted to surprise him and greet him with a completely ready new house, with no boxes, piles of stuff, or “projects”.

When he came to the new home in the evening, it looked completely lived in, and there was a small table in front of the open window, beautifully laid with a 3-course dinner. Of course, the dinner wasn’t home-cooked because there had been no time. But it was still a great surprise because N had missed the whole move. It was like magic.

Of course, it had taken almost a month to plan and effectuate this surprise little by little. But it was totally worth it.

The reason behind this endearing surprise is not exactly sunny. When N was a kid, his family moved to a larger apartment. The process was so fraught for his parents that they almost murdered each other. Literally. They used weapons and inflicted grave bodily damage. As a result, N was terrified of moving because he thought we’d end up chasing each other with cleavers, and I wanted to make it painless for him.

At work, I have friends on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On the one side, I have pro-Muslim friends who condemn Israel for baselessly attacking peaceful Palestine. And on the other, I have Jewish friends who call on Israel to stop baselessly attacking peaceful Palestine.

Both groups have issued public statements and published open letters in support of their positions.

It’s great to see such spirited debate on campus!

No, there are no typos in my post.

True. The Right are the new pinko-commie America-hater. Always trailing in the footsteps of the Left. Always playing the sad wannabe game.

But it’s not one-directional. The Left has become pro-Big Pharma and pro-Wall Street. The people who wanted to Occupy Wall Street have been occupied by Wall Street.

After the Christmas concert, I’m in a festive mood and I want to share this famous Ukrainian Christmas carol where the singer imitates the tolling of the bells of an Orthodox cathedral:

The carol was adapted into English by another famous Ukrainian artist but the English version mostly moves the bells out of the singing and into the lyrics.

Yes, Anglos will talk anything to death.

It’s a joke.

Enjoy the Christmas season.

Putting Klara in a Christian school was an inspired decision. Today we went to the Christmas concert that the kids put on, and I was completely relaxed. I knew there wasn’t going to be any gender silliness, no social experiments were going to be conducted on children or parents, and nobody was going to shit on our good cheer and try to make us feel like garbage.

The children sang, the organ played, the hymns were beautiful, and there was even some singing in Latin.

The last thing one needs in life is to be constantly worried that somebody at school is going to say some unnecessary crap to one’s child.

Readers point out that surrogacy and adoption have similarities, and it’s true that in both cases babies are separated from their mothers. Of course, the crucial moral difference is that adoption is the response to a tragic set of circumstances, whereas surrogacy is the deliberate design of tragic circumstances. It is the difference between selflessness after the fact and premeditated selfishness.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/surrogacy-vs-adoption/

Exactly. I wouldn’t consider surrogacy for myself, even though I’d love another child, because it’s immoral. It’s a terrible thing to separate a child from its mother. Nobody is entitled to another human being. If you are incapable of giving birth and aren’t big enough to adopt, that sucks, and don’t I know it. But that’s life. You don’t create somebody else’s tragedy to alleviate your own.

Democrats could get a deal to send in aid to Ukraine this afternoon if they compromised and agreed to Republican border-security proposals. President Biden could get a huge win — funding for Ukraine, funding for Taiwan, funding for Israel, and funding for border security — but apparently keeping the status quo in the backlogged system of processing asylum claims is more important to him.

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/how-democrats-are-holding-up-a-ukraine-aid-deal/

It’s exactly what I’m saying. This isn’t something that the Democrats want to give to their voters because the voters demand it. No. The Dem voters want funding for Ukraine and Israel. Even more so, they want less illegal immigration. Every poll since the 1980s shows that.

Republicans aren’t asking for a border wall. They are asking for extremely reasonable, easy to implement changes to the way asylum claims are processed. We need to start asking, why is it so important for Dems in Congress to deny this request? Why are they willing to sacrifice Ukraine in order to make sure that every migrant gets into this country?