Advice

Some of these are pretty good. My favorite: Aim to die broke. Give to your beneficiaries before you die; it’s more fun and useful. Spend it all. Your last check should go to the funeral home and it should bounce.

Parent Thought #587 

A sign of a great parent: their child manages to not be annoying.

Thought Experiment

If society developed a perfect lie detector test, we'd all be tempted to use it in court, in business, in romance, and the people who would benefit most would be psychopaths.

Fighting

For those who use terms like toxic masculinity on the regular ought to have a game plan of who they expect to stand up to the likes of Vlad Putin in world affairs.

ARKK 

You can buy ARKK for what it cost pre-pandemic. 

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Book: Exodus 

Kinda feel like Pharaoh needed adjust to reality a bit quicker. Talk about a guy in denial. 

TV: The Last Kingdom S2

Keeps going strong.

Psychos

For all the liberal pushback against Chris Rufo and De Santis, it seems pretty self evident, we've got a lot of psychos masquerading as progressives.

“I had a ton of issues with my academics and my mental health, but I never really got help with that,” she said. “As soon as I said I was trans, it was all hands on deck.”

I might start calling this institutional psychosis. 

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TV: Abbot Elementary Pilot

The Office/Parks and Rec set in Elementary School. Well done, easy to watch. Good cast, new faces.

TV: Bust Down

Not for me.

Film: Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Decided to show my kids some of the movie to expose them to more than Captain Underpants, but immediately regretted it when the bandits hacked Humphrey Bogart to death.

Decolonizing Math

Maybe I'm crazy, but I want our society to know the math that got a man to the moon and vaccines figured out over a weekend rather than indigenous math that accomplished what exactly?

Gee, I Wonder Why

Kids in droves leaving public schools. 

Unrelated, San Diego high school dropping Honors courses.

To see a connection between the two would be racist. But also, if there is a connection, it reveals racism as well.

CA Public Schools

Are failing. 30% of 8th graders are proficient at reading. And if you've taken the proficient at reading tests, that's a more embarrassing number than you can imagine.

This, along with homelessness, is the legacy of Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, and Eric Garcetti, the worst trio of national stature CA politicians ever.

Another Question

Are the same drug companies that sold opioids in the 2000s selling puberty blockers now? 

Questions

1) Is it Autism Awareness Month or Arab American History month, because I've been notified of both? Does it being both undermine the other one?

2) Do liberals think we'd have the Ukraine-Russia war if Trump were President?

3) California will ban new purchases of ICE vehicles by 2035. This is the same state that I've lived in my entire life and witnessed how the vast majority of people switched from sedans to SUVs over the past 20 years. Am I supposed to seriously the idea that Californias care about pollution and the environment?

Parenting Issue #521

How to reconcile penchant for reading true crime serial killer books with curious 6 year old in the house who will read anything he can get his hands on.

Liberal Consensus

So is the liberal consensus now to accept the US Government and Walt Disney Corporation have the best interests of the American family in their heart of hearts?

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TV: The Last Kingdom

I'm enjoying it. A cross between Xena Warrior Princess and Game of Thrones, but seemingly built upon some "real history" if I'm not mistaken.

A thing I like about the storytelling: the pacing. They give two fucks about jumping huge amounts of time if it seems like an interesting thing to do.

Book: Echoes in the Darkness by Joseph Wambaugh

Fascinating but I'm thinking of stopping because what am I really going to learn from it in the end?

Don't Like "Groomer"

Many liberals and paleocons are criticizing the groomer term as bad faith, but did any of these take a similar position on the terminology of "black lives matter," which takes a similar bad faith rhetorical position by presuming racism in its opposition?

Republicans

Seems like they've found their version of how liberals use "racist" to denigrate anyone who disagrees with them. Now Republicans are going to call everyone who disagrees with them "pedophiles." Lovely country we have.

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Film: The Florida Project

Wonderful, exciting cinema and storytelling. But I felt like the end was a total cop out. The liberal intelligencia (ie film festival crowd, NY Times, public schools, etc) doesn't have the language to deal with consequences.

Film: The Worst Person In The World

A terrific film that I would recommend although it felt like it kept going and going. Some wonderful scenes - many featuring her comic book writer boyfriend and his story. Managed to incorporate some refreshing cinematic techniques that were more common in the Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry era. 

Thanks Megan Markle

Now we have Taylor Lorenz, an ultra privileged NY Times columnist breaking down about her suicidal ideation due to online harassment (also known as criticism or being challenged).

A pretty remarkable world where the powerful and privileged get to hold the rest of us as emotional hostages.