Clarissa's Blog

In the absence of what was once American journalism, it is hard to know which portrait of Obama’s post-presidency is truer to life: Obama as a celebrity-obsessed would-be billionaire, or as a would-be American Castro, reshaping American society from his basement, in his sweats.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama

It’s true that there’s no journalism but we would easily see Obama’s mark in actual policy. And there’s none. I was very worried about a possibility of Obama’s “third presidency” with Biden’s election but there’s zero evidence. Obama himself is not capable of such stunning growth that he’d abandon all his pet obsessions and go in a completely new direction on pretty much everything.

I think it was Chesterton who said that all conservatives conserve any more are yesterday’s advances of the progressives. We can see this perfectly in the defense of Andrew Tate and his prostitution ring.

Yes, even liberals have realized that their defense of unsavory sexual practices is off-putting. Time for conservatives to take over this losing cause and immolate themselves for the “freedom” of Tate to whore out himself and others.

People who call themselves conservatives and defend Andrew Tate, what exactly do they think they are conserving? The right to sexual depravity?

Both Tate and his cohort of prostitutes are despicable people and should be beneath our notice. They pollute our brains, and we start rummaging in their filth, trying to figure out which one of them is “the victim” of the other.

They all suck (no pun intended). Let’s not lower ourselves to their level by knowing anything else about them.

“Wait, so are you saying you have to be at work every day?” my husband asked 3 years after I signed a contract specifying that I have to be at work every day.

I’m not a taciturn, reticent person, so I have been making quite a meal out of having to work from the office.

The only other man I know capable of going 3 years without noticing that his wife goes to work each day was my father.

Klara drew our family.

My sister and her kids are staying with us. And they love watermelons.

From the prehistoric past of the cave dwellers to the technological societies of today, what guarantees children’s survival and thriving better than anything else is the presence and the interest in them of their father. The presence and the interest of the mother is pretty much a given, but the father’s is not.

Bonding a man to his children is a process. At the very least, he needs to know the child is his. A mother is bonded to a child through powerful biological and chemical processes. A father, however, needs an extra reason to stick around. These extra reasons had to be so strong, they had to be spelled out at the level of sacred meanings to take root.

Monogamy is, thus, an evolutionary strategy and a survival mechanism. The biggest, most consequential pro-woman and pro-child revolution in human history – which is, of course, Christianity – came down so fiercely on the side of monogamy precisely because of this.

America relies on Russia for 20 percent of its nuclear fuel and 50 percent of the natural uranium used in its nuclear reactors, according to the Energy Information Administration. Biden — who has himself supported domestic-mining initiatives and promised to boost U.S. uranium production — is moving suspiciously fast to designate this national monument in Arizona, which will cut off some of the best uranium resources America has.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/arizona-national-monument-incoming/

Yes, now is the perfect moment to consolidate America’s dependence on Russia to appease “tribal and environmental groups”.

Yes, we all heard that Pfizer profits dropped off a cliff, thank you.

But we are the normal ones.

At Klara’s summer camp, a kid “tested positive for COVID”. I don’t know what possessed the parents to test the kid but maybe they watch the CNN, aka Big Pharma shills.

My singing is terrible, atrocious, repugnant and absurd. But I know when a singer hits the wrong note. I hear it perfectly, I know exactly what the correct note would sound like but I can’t recreate it.

It’s the same with visual stuff. I know what kind of design looks good. I see if things work well together. But I can’t imagine or create a design worth a damn. I know it when I see it but I can’t envision it.

Speaking about traditions, my favorite one is that in summer we go to the farmer’s market on Saturday, and then I make a large salad with everything we buy plus avocados and smoky olive oil. The oil is expensive like a bastard, so right now I don’t have any.

Then I boil young potatoes to go with the salad. And there’s usually bacon or kielbasa. That’s our big Saturday brunch.

And afterwards I pickle cucumbers for the week.