Remember what I said: tiny little steps that are easy to ignore.

Well, given that the mobs were waiving Russian flags during the coup, that was kind of obvious.

Latin Americans should be really upset that even Russia chose Africans over them. Mexico’s López Obrador is toadying to Russians like crazy but they are pretending he doesn’t exist.

I’m posting this in small increments to give people a chance to process.

In what concerns that form where you have 9 different categories, I have to fill out 3 of them at once. One records my work as department Chair, another as a professor, and the third the work I do in course development.

So I will now have to remember what I put in those 3 forms with 9 categories in each and tailor the daily timesheets to coincide with the original 3 forms.

Fun!

Here’s an added wrinkle to the story about the timesheets that are now required of all professors.

We already report how many hours a week we work. It’s done 3 times a year, and it’s broken up by activity. There are 8 or 9 categories of work and you put in hours for each. So now you have to remember exactly what you put in that form and tailor the new daily reporting so that it corresponds to the other reporting. Got it?

Me neither.

It’s all nutso-boom-boom of the highest order.

For this extraordinary cluelessness and cruelty alone, we should vote these bastards out.

Biden and Trump caused the recession together. Biden has done some to improve things. But for anybody to claim that people’s savings aren’t being wiped out by inflation is the height of contempt.

In the USSR we were also always told that our economy was super duper amazing. And it also felt insulting.

Extremely proud of Israel, US and Romania:

Are the civilized countries of the world finally recovering their cojones? Are they finally losing the fear of dumb, pathetic Russia?

All it takes not to be a terrified little weasel is to decide not to be one. Let’s hope this is a turnaround point for us.

Faculty members at my university will now have to complete time sheets for every day of work. It’s ludicrous because a professor’s work doesn’t happen within specific time limits. I answer emails and work on my research constantly. I read and think about my book at different, weird times.

Everybody knows this, but still, the policy is being introduced. Why? To turn everybody into a liar. Nobody can honestly keep track of all these different times of work. People will simply mark 9 am to 4 pm in the system, and be done with it. Everybody will potentially be open to persecution because they will effectively falsify records. And that’s the goal of this policy.

“I’m not proud of America. There isn’t much to be proud of,” said Matt Walsh in his most recent show. How is this different from AOC and the rest of the wokesters?

Well, it’s not. He’s upset that there are too many trans surgeries and they that there’s not enough. And for that unpleasant but tiny blip they condemn the whole country. Anti-Americanism is in vogue, and that’s sad.

I witnessed a conversation between two colleagues last week. One is from Cameroon and another from Buffalo. The American colleague was trying to wrangle from the immigrant colleague an admission that he’s disappointed in America, that it’s a bad country, and that he’s unhappy to be here. The Cameroonian was clearly confused. He loves it here. He tried explaining what things are like back home but the American wasn’t having any of it. There are flaws! Imperfections! You must be sorry you even came!

People have lost all perspective. They’re living charmed lives but they are nitpicking everything into oblivion.

I’m very proud of this country and its people. Even in comparison with Canadians, whom I love, Americans are stronger, better, more curious about the world, more confident in demanding their rights and getting them. But you tell them this and they react like a person with amputated legs would react to hearing praise of his running skills.

I’m not known for my compassion skills but I do feel bad for these poor people.