Clarissa's Blog

I hang out with a very liberal crowd at work and a conservative crowd at my kid’s school. The #1 difference at this point in time is that the conservative crowd doesn’t talk about COVID at all. Everybody moved on. I was at 3 events this past week, and one was pretty crowded. Zero masks, zero COVID talk, no sanitizer, it’s all gone. But at work, people start conversations with a litany of boosters. Some are still not only masked but double masked.

Why, why can’t I feel all day like I feel between 6 pm and midnight? And why do I only feel fully myself when nobody has the time or energy to witness it?

So many important stories to cover. So much going on in the world. And The Atlantic goes with a discussion of how the rosary is extremist? I remember how they did good journalism. They weren’t always this unhinged. What happened to these people? Why did liberalism become so filled with hatred and rage? What are they so angry about?

https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1551468003933310976?t=xVtyYRx_2694-yqi-UjCDQ&s=19

Sadly, nobody has though of snipping any body parts off the parents who caused it. This is what happens in cultures where the process of parenting is completely divorced from its results in people’s minds.

We keep hearing that teaching wokeness supposedly “prepares students to thrive in the global economy.” But that’s not even true. There are actual skills that would prepare students, such as how to create an invoice, how to receive a wire transfer, how to do basic personal accounting if you are self-employed.

The global economy is increasingly oriented towards self-employed people who can do these things for themselves until they make enough money to hire an online secretary.

I’ve never been to Disneyland. But my sister has abd she says that what struck her most were adults who were there without any kids and reacted in over-the-top way to costumed characters. She says fully grown people were squealing with delight as they liked up for photos with Disney princesses.

I didn’t fully believe such immaturity could exist until I met people who seriously believe that the US “provoked” the war in Ukraine to spite Russia.

This is what happens when instead of teaching history in schools we teach woke garbage.

Years ago, I said on this blog that Head Start was going to be used to torture children and make sure that the poor kids who end up in the program become invalids. I so wish I were wrong. But I wasn’t.

Here’s a question for everyone. What do you dislike about the Biden administration? I don’t want vague answers like “inflation” or “crime.” I’m interested in hearing specifically what is the administration doing or not doing that you don’t like.

I assume there’s nobody on here who likes the Biden administration but in case there is, what specifically do you like? I’m completely open-minded to any answers that aren’t the infantile “because he’s not Trump / fascist / Nazi, etc.”

This is for the noble purpose of local political activity. I need to be able to talk to people with specific, clear examples.

People often confuse loudness and bluster with strength of character and mildness of manner with weakness. But it is a mistake. Look, for example, at Trump whose loud, brash proclamations merited him accusations of authoritarianism. In reality, he’s weak and extremely malleable, which is what caused every real problem of his presidency.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, we have somebody like my husband who’s gentle, sensitive, and quiet but who possesses an extraordinary relentlessness of purpose and strength of character. Once he’s chosen a course of action, there’s absolutely nobody who can make him veer off course.

The wrapper doesn’t necessarily truly reflect what’s inside.

This is a far bigger scandal and a far worse thing for the health of democracy than the Trump search antics of both sides of that silly drama. A private citizen with the most polite, mild Twitter feed censored in this manner – the government officials who did this should be up in court on charges of constitutional rights violations. The Berenson case is a warning to all of us.

But once again, people are worried more about a rich guy than a normal person like themselves. Even on Ukrainian social media I’m seeing people deeply worried about Trump.