Clarissa's Blog

I’m walking among the blooming, fragrant flowers on campus, preparing for tomorrow’s announced snowstorm.

Has anything of interest happened in the world while I’ve been out celebrating?

Thank you for the birthday wishes, everybody!

I celebrated by doing only the things I enjoy, such as

• Sleeping in.
• Going to a playground and for a walk in the woods with my family.
• Visiting a bookstore to buy a couple of trashy chick-lit books.
• Reading the Thatcher biography. I’ll be reading it until the next birthday because it’s three volumes, a thousand pages each.
• Going to the gym. (This is the part of the festivities that made my mother exclaim, “who are you and what did you do to my child? I don’t recognize this weird person!”)
• Going to an upscale restaurant. Klara behaved quite well but we did have to take turns taking her out on exploratory trips of the surrounding areas throughout the meal.
• Reading my new trashy chick-lit book.
• Steam-poding my hair.

It’s sad that celebrating isn’t a profession. I would have risen to the top in no time.

The Anglo-Saxon political traditions are, without a shadow of a doubt, the best in the world. But their tradition of rending their garments and showily confessing their sins is, also without a doubt, the most annoying on the planet.

If Ukrainians (or anybody else, honestly) had anything like the Anglo-Saxon record of creating orderly, just and well-organized societies, we wouldn’t waste a second on self-effacement. We’d celebrate our success.

And here’s an example of a real-life strong masculinity of a man who stands up to protect his daughter – and all of us – from woke comissars. All it takes is a few thousand men like this one, and the totalitarianism that’s being born in this country will be squashed for good.

In Canada, a father was sentenced to 6 months of jail yesterday for opposing a sterilization of his 13-year-old daughter. There are heroes still, and this is one of them.

P.S. Hutch is the name of Bob Odenkirk’s character in Nobody.

Folks, this is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Extremely well-written, beautifully directed, and really well-acted. Of course, the director is Russian and so is one of the stars, so I’m not shocked.

The movie is a hymn to American masculinity. It’s a metaphor of the castrated, weakened American masculinity that is shattered by the destruction of manufacturing, brought to submission by the passive-aggressive American femininity, and harassed by the Hispanics who, while pathetic and disorganized, are mistakenly perceived as threatening.

Finally, the character who personifies this castrated masculinity realizes that the Hispanics are not the enemy. They are just miserable bastards trying to save their child. The real enemy is the transnational crime represented in the movie by the Russian mafia whose boss is played by a really famous Russian actor.

The castrated masculinity guy remembers his old glory as a really strong man, destroys paper money, adopts the gold standard, and begins to pummel the evildoers. In the end, he’s only successful because a moment of solidarity is reached by an old white guy (a representative of the old-school manliness), a middle-aged white guy, and a black guy who puts away his racial resentments and stands up for America. The evil Russians are defeated. And even the wife finally stops nagging and accepts the husband in this new, uncastrated version.

Yes, the trope of a lone hyper-masculine hero who pummels evildoers in a bunch of inventive ways is as old as Hollywood. But all stories are old. It’s all in the details, and the details here are so coherent and meaningful that the movie delivers the punchiest of punches.

A really great movie. Do watch. It stars Bob Odenkirk who is an amazing actor. You just can’t go wrong with this movie.

Stanley Payne, one of the greatest scholars of Spanish history, writes about the disturbing developments in the country’s current policies towards the discussion of history:

The proposed law in Spain, however, marks a new tendency to weaponize history on behalf of demonstrably distorted and falsified interpretations that are politically useful rather than intellectually credible. This tendency is the product not of ignorance but of intense partisanship. It reflects a millenarian mentality that seeks to purge society of influences and attitudes stemming from the past in order to achieve a kind of purified utopia. Fundamental to this quest is the unrecognized search for a substitute to religious faith. This new political faith seeks to build a world of perfect equality and harmonized values. It imagines that progress can be made toward this immaculate world by presenting politically correct figures as martyrs who died for the coming utopia. This requires, in turn, scapegoating and driving out their supposed victimizers, who are alleged to be authors of the evils that assail society in its present, unredeemed state.

The government completely mishandled COVID, tanked the economy, embraced austerity, and is busily trying to distract everybody from all this by demanding ideological purity. Note, however, how identical these policies are everywhere. Remove the word “Spain,” and this could be easily said about US, Canada, UK, etc. And still people take the bait instead of laughing in these bastards’ lying faces.

Here’s a description of how the authorities in Ontario are consciously manufacturing a wave of COVID mortality:

https://twitter.com/TinaYazdani/status/1382828603893821442?s=19

This is precisely the policy that resulted in thousands of COVID deaths in New York, Illinois, Michigan, Quebec, etc. A year ago, you could argue that nobody knew sending COVID patients to old-people homes would be the main driver of COVID mortality.
But today everybody knows. The only conclusion one can draw is that this is being done on purpose to justify continued lockdowns.