Clarissa's Blog

I really hate that one can’t find information on anything anymore. It’s all propaganda. You have to develop a secondary career in whatever field covers the subject you want to understand, or you’ll just be lied to and bamboozled.

Take the current situation in Israel. I’d love to know what happened. But all I get from any source is partisan sloganeering. I don’t care who’s “the real Nazi.” I simply want facts. I don’t have time or energy to become a specialist in Middle Eastern affairs. It’s enough that I spent a year reading about spike proteins, furin cleaves, and gain of function research just to know what activities to do with my kid. I just want to get information. But there’s no information anymore. It’s dead.

I kind of got addicted to fitness sites because everything is so simple and non-ideological. I can’t tell a bench press from a dumbbell press but the non-partisan simplicity of the whole thing is mesmerizing.

Here’s a long article on the origins of COVID-19. It’s becoming more and more impossible to deny that the virus was created in the Wuhan Virology Lab as part of a study financed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the guidance of Anthony Fauci.

I’ve known all this for a year but people are so bamboozled, it’s all news to them.

Eight people are dead and twenty-one seriously wounded in a school shooting in Russia. Russia has very strict gun control laws which has done absolutely nothing for the extremely high levels of violence. Of course, Putin is using this tragedy to enhance the already strict gun control laws because it’s a great pretext.

I’m only posting this because I’m tired of the Americans believing they are such special cookies that only they experience this kind of thing.

“Oh, I forgot to bring the umbrella, silly me!” I say.

“Don’t say that, mommy,” Klara replies. “You are going to hurt your brain’s feelings.”

Is anybody here into natural medicine? We could share our favorite recipes.

For instance, Klara had the sniffles and a bit of a cough. N added some drops of eucalyptus essential oil to her bath, and age woke up healthy the next day. An alternative method is to bake a whole onion and leave it in the bedroom overnight, but that’s cruel. Or you could boil some potatoes and inhale the vapor. This is great for bronchitis.

If a kid is running around somewhere in nature and scrapes her knee, pick a plantago leaf and put it on the wound. The wound will heal a lot faster.

If you got varicose veins, pick some lilac leaves (not flowers, leaves), put them in a mason jar, pour vodka to cover the leaves, and let stand for a week in a dark, cool place. Then rub the whole thing into your legs, top to bottom.

The most recent job report sucks. Gas prices are 30% up since December, and now there are gas shortages. Inflation. Everything is getting more expensive. There are more “kids in cages” than ever. Several 5-year-old girls were found by the border yesterday, tossed like garbage, and there’s no plan to do anything about it. The peace in the Middle East is broken. The peace in Ukraine is under the biggest threat since 2015. Pfizer is preparing to “vaccinate” 12-year-olds for a disease they don’t get. Many schools are still not open. There are still race riots. Central America went from cautiously liking us to hating us within a few months. Crime rates are exploding.

Honestly, this presidency sucks. This is a bunch of idiotic, bumbling, incoherent people who believe that babbling stupidly about “equity” will substitute for actual action.

My walks with my kid are filled with endless, “mind your step! Be careful! Watch where you go! Who put this here? A person can trip and get hurt! Who threw this garbage on the ground? Littering is not OK! Let’s pick it up and take it to the trash can. Careful, there’s a big puddle ahead! This looks too slippery, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to go there.”

I hope everybody understands that the cautious, orderly individual issuing these statements isn’t me.

When the analyst said that one of the results of successful therapy is experiencing enjoyment from mundane daily tasks, I thought it was a figure of speech. But no, it’s literally true.

Folding the laundry has become a literal high. I’m thinking, “ooh, this is a nice trip. Let me go chase it up with a shot of taking out the trash because I’m going into the stratosphere with this one. But I probably should delay organizing the sock drawer because I might overdose.”

This is a really small town.

At work today, I sent my colleagues an email about the Central American Studies center I’m starting with some people.

Then I turned off the computer and rushed to my dentist appointment, ran into the dentist’s office, plonked into the chair, opened my mouth, and the dentist says, “So, about the Central American Studies center that you are starting. . .”

There’s no concealing anything around here.

This poor child is, indeed, a victim, just like the kid she tried to stab. And it’s an absolute crying shame that her disgusting excuse for a mother has the gall to make statements and accuse anybody. She should be cowering in shame because this child’s blood is on her evil hands.

It’s absolutely unbelievable that this woman is actually pouting at the state services for not parenting her child instead of her. Again, this is a very culture-specific phenomenon. There are shitty mothers everywhere, but shitty mothers who are entitled, coddled, and celebrated are uniquely American.

I can’t understand why nobody is pushing back against this bastard’s sense of entitlement. It’s easier for people to blame a poor dead kid than a fully grown evil cow who made the kid what she was and unleashed her on society.