Since there are new people on here (welcome, new people!), I want briefly to explain that I’m an ethnic Jew but not a religious one. Jewish is an ethnicity that shows up on genetic tests. You can get a genetic test that will tell you whether you have Jewish ancestry. What religion you practice is immaterial to this biological reality. Ukrainian and Russian doesn’t show up on genetic tests as separate ethnicities. However, you can still deduce if somebody is Russian from a test. A Russian has a high likelihood of showing Finnish ancestry on a genetic test. N has Finnish ancestry and I don’t, fo ..read more

I don’t blame her, in all honesty. Imagine looking like that with a very pretty mom who’s popular with the menz. It’s a heavy burden. An intelligent woman can find a way to create the mystique of “my daughter is the real beauty in the family” but Ilhan Omar is not an intelligent woman. “The regular-looking daughter of a beautiful mother” is not an easy role in life. It’s very much like the role of “a son of a very successful father.” The culmination of the mother-daughter relationship is when the mother hands off the crown to the daughter. But what if she isn’t ready? Or has no crown to give ..read more

A great question but why 7.5 months? The Great Lent does feel like it’s been going on that long but it hasn’t. Is it the academic year you mean? Yes, my patience and all other Christian virtues have been sorely tried this academic year. I’m counting days until April 26 when classes end. And to Holy Week because I need to get cleansed of all the accumulated garbage. And hubris. Everybody on here will be downright shocked but I am greatly afflicted by hubris. In the past several months I have received confirmation that whatever you give, you receive tenfold. And it’s best to give in such a way ..read more

I was at this DEI shindig where people had to declare their “intersectional positioning.” Everybody had to come up with statements like, “I’m a heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied, married, white person. This gives me racial, sexual, etc etc privilege.” When my turn came, I said the following: I’m trained to be a foreign language teacher, literary critic, and translator. No other part of my personality is for sale. I do not choose to enter my private life, health history, sexuality or anything else into the monetary exchange that my presence here constitutes. I am here to sell my labor for mo ..read more

Nothing to see here, just Russians dressing their babies as wounded soldiers in preparation for victory day (USSR victory in WW2, or the Great Patriotic War, as the Russian narrative calls it). pic.twitter.com/s4kFLzGgXO — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 23, 2024 It’s been going on for over a decade. I posted something similar back in 2014 ..read more

Pres. Biden on protests just now: “I condemn the anti-semitic protests. That’s why I have set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” — Annie Linskey (@AnnieLinskey) April 22, 2024 Ah, fine people on both sides. We are going in circles, my friends. Now let’s make Biden disavow anti-Semites as many times as Trump had to disavow white supremacists. All other problems are solved, so let’s play the disavowal game ..read more

As a person who has been both on the left and right, here’s the main difference. Both sides have an extremist wing that’s very nuts and completely divorced from reality. But cuckoo right-wingers who believe in adrenochrome and a global Jewish conspiracy sit at home in front of a screen in their underwear. In the meantime, cuckoo left-wingers who believe that men can give birth and that there’s a global Jewish conspiracy sit on the Supreme Court and run colleges. Three people from my own department signed an open letter about the “global capitalist institutions that advance the Zionist agenda ..read more

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