Surfing the'Net is less fun when there are rumors of war...Well, there are reliably pleasant things on the Internet, here and there. There is, for example, Vince Staten.
Animals
For no obvious reason we say "one goose, two geese," and we say "one moose, two moose." Is this right? Should we say
(a) One goose, two gooses
(b) One goose, two goose
(c) One goose, two geese
(d) One moose, two mooses
(e) One moose, two moose
(f) One moose, two meese
(g) One half moose, the back half = Ed Meese (old political joke you can tick if you remember it)
Anyway here are photos and videos of three moose:
History, Local
Vince Staten:
Men's Issues
They whine that they never know when women are looking for "better" men, over their shoulders? Why should they know? Women don't know that about men, either, but we do know that, in spite of everything, men are more prone to "cheat" and "stray" than women are. If only because most men prefer to ask and most women prefer to be asked.
But we can say that if men pull down their stupid vanity and make the level of commitment they want (because doing what makes babies is a total commitment), and build love by acting out love in everything they do, women are less likely to think other men are "better." There are reports of women who felt adequately loved and respected by one man and still wanted the excitement of another "conquest," but I suspect those stories are widely reported because they are rare, man-bites-dog kind of stories. Men generally get dumped because they act as if they and their mates are garbage.
Mental Health Issues
In a well run mental health facility, patients are monitored to make sure they make "no physical contact" (No-P-C) at any time. Somebody must have thought it was funny, in a "news of the weird" way, to admit a small, young person claiming to be male to a locked ward for men and let not one, but two, men attempt to sodomize "him" and discover that, physically, it was a "her." They raped the little headcase anyway.
News flash, girls: Boys hear less garbage about being in danger if they ever go outside alone or stay home alone, but boys get raped, too.
Minnesota
The b.s. (that's boys' stupidity) accumulates.
Why is Ilhan Omar not easing her people's transitions as all of them, blamed for the scams only some of them were running, are being deported? (Even after some of them thought they'd achieved citizenship, which adds a deeply icky plot twist to the story and ought to be settled on a case-by-case basis in court.) Because Ds wanted to crank up the melodrama. A political compromise will seem like the natural thing, eventually, and that compromise will let the Ds bring in some second-class citizens to prop up their own retirement and (they think) to vote D for twenty years.
My guess is that Trump could answer that, if he could let go of his own family issues, by letting the amnestied immigrants start their own businesses, the way they do in the countries of their origin, in the neighborhoods where these Ds live. To keep those votes in their party the Ds would have to be good customers. Gavin Newsom could buy lunch at least three times a week from the pupusa wagon that's going to be parked at the other end of his block! Ketanji Brown-Jackson could get her hair braided the authentic Nigerian way, in the flat downstairs from hers! Or those people would be voting R! Well, it would be entertaining, anyway. Visualize Nancy Pelosi whining, "Oh, my property values," as she checks herself into the new Somali-run day care for adults in her neighborhood--"Salaam alaikum, Mrs. Pelosi! Can you say As alaikum salaam?"
But anyway these Ds want to milk every minute of every brain-damaged Somali's panic and every possible abuse by ICE agents. So they've encouraged large-scale protests. All the little old ladies in Minnesota are apparently being trucked into Minneapolis to vent all the frustrations they ever hid behind their "Minnesota Nice" manners, all their lives. You have to wonder how many of them sat up late, the night before, practicing saying the words they're going to scream at ICE agents in the morning. In the dreams of Democratic Socialists lots of ICE agents will lose their tempers and shove a lot of people's grandmothers headfirst into snowdrifts. Somali grandmothers, for choice, though they'll take Swedish-Minnesotan grandmothers if that's what they can get, which so far seems to be the case. No link here to a video compilation of old White ladies screaming at ICE agents, though it exists, but Democratic Socialists certainly aren't worried about their grandmothers breaking hips, catching pneumonia, or having their skulls cracked by panicking brain-damaged Somalis with snow shovels.
Or their grandfathers--though there just aren't as many grandfathers walking around in the snow as there are grandmothers, because, even if there are "events" where the stars of high school boys' sports "easily" beat the champions of Olympic women's sports, it's also true that women are built to last longer than men do. After about age 50 men are a frail and pitiable minority. All that strength and energy dissolves into a desire to lie in front of television sets and rot--if they're still breathing at all. One reason why it's so hard for middle-aged widows to remarry, as the Bible directs us to do, is that even if men our age are still capable of doing anything useful or interesting on a date, we have to wonder how long that will last and what they're going to be like as patients, and let's just say the short, compact models are definitely at a premium. But I digress.
Anyway the provocation for this rant was the annoying complacency of Stephen Kruiser, gloating that the Democratic Socialists had really tried to get cute college students out into this protest, but hello, the colleges had reopened their classrooms. Winter break is over. The students have classes to attend. The classrooms are heated. The students may be good at emoting on cue but none of them wants to participate in this particular charade. As a guess even the grandparents are telling them: "You go to your classes. We'll do the protest for you." As a result the protesters look "old" to Kruiser, who is sixty. As a guess they look so much "older" than he is, while being about the same age, because they're freezing, though genes may also be a factor. Anyway Kruiser is sneering about the protesters' age being proof that the young agree with him that the Democratic Socialists have become irrelevant. However annoying Kruiser is about it, this would be a good thing if it were true...but my guess is that the students feel guilty about letting their grandparents do this protest for them, in classic young-keyboard-warrior style, and are already planning to compensate by spending Election Day driving from poll to poll and voting under different names. Because in their religion their grandparents don't matter; only the election does.
And either Ilhan Omar is scrambling like a whacked mole, behind the scenes, to help the deportees, or she is a traitor who will probably be burned at the stake when she's deported after them. I hope it's the former.
Poetry
I play with a silly, but habit-forming, modern verse form at Substack:
Politics
The name of Gavin Newsom should bring this video to everyone's mind:
Women's Issues
Attention women on all political sides: If you have a baby, and you are in the habit of hauling baby out into public places in order to manipulate the feelings of audiences there, STOP. For baby's sake, you need to stay at home with baby until baby is old enough to toddle into Grandma's or Auntie's house. Political issues will still be here, probably about the same since we as a nation don't seem to learn, five years from now. Baby's first years will never be here again. Stay active, stay current, stay in contact with adult minds--that's what the Internet is for. Babies sleep a lot, giving you time to be a keyboard warrior. But don't miss the chance to protect baby even from germs, and bond with baby as baby grows up, at home.
Words
The New York Censored Times (no link) reports a new word: "Awful," used to combine its traditional meaning of awe-inspiringly bad with an acronym for "Affluent White Female Urban Liberals." The NYT officially does not like this word. That's a point in its favor.
As a feminist, I think the deliberate deployment of loud, ugly-acting women in the current wave of protests is exploitation intended to bully women into smiling complacently at real abuses. When women call out cheating employees or employers, abusive employers, street harassers, etc., too many of us can be stifled with the claim that we're looking or sounding like Renee Good. Women who believe we deserve respect or appreciation or honesty are what's destroying civilization. We need loudly and indignantly to call out that lie. We need to stand together, affirming, whenever women speak out for their legitimate rights, that they're Righteous and Public-Spirited and Beautiful.
But yes. Calling indignant women "Karens" is hateful in every way. Calling the ones who are nasty, dishonest, foul-mouthed, sexually abusive, and violent "awful" is, frankly, charitable.
I think women should be willing to use "awful," and own it if necessary. Renee Good's behavior was awful and she deserved what she got. Tweaking at a man's hat and mask while yapping, "Are you an ICE piece of" (rude word), is an awful way to behave. Don't mess with me, boy, I might go awful on you. God made us awesome, and part of that includes the potential to be awful! I think this word has potential.
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