Friday, July 30, 2021

Covidiocy Returns to Wuxi; Read Poetry as if it is a Pop Song? Old Casa K's Upstairs Neighbors;


Driving into a parking garage under a mall that is near to the old Casa Kaulins, I had to roll down my window so a guard could point a temperature gun at my wrist.


I see more and more locals wearing masks.


I have been told more than a few times to put on my mask by security guards at the entrance of my wife Jenny's office building and of our soon-to-be old apartment complex.


I have also been told a few times very recently to raise my mask on my face so that it covers my nose.


I saw a family of three, all wearing masks, get into a car. (about whom, more non.)


Stopped at red lights, I have seen more and more drivers beside me wearing masks in their cars.


All of this because a person, with Covid, was said to have visited some popular spots in Wuxi. One has to wonder how a person really sick with Covid would be able to go out anywhere.


I made a joke about to someone on WeChat that everyone was going to have to stay home because a person with hangnail had visited a pedestrian mall in downtown Wuxi.





I was reading a poem by John Donne, I was liking it, and I thought to myself, I should reading this as often as I listen to pop songs I like.




August 1st, the move to the new Casa K will begin. New Casa K will be on the 29th floor of an apartment building near our (my son Tony & I's) new school. 


One good thing about the move is I won't have to see the old Casa K upstair neighbors anymore. These people earned the K Family China's ire by their stealing of water which resulted in a dripping Chinese  water torture like sound that drove my easily provoked wife Jenny to knock on their doors at 2:00 AM. These "neighbors'" when I saw them, didn't look very neighborly with their mean, unhappy faces whose most prominent feature was the hard cold glare of their eyes. And every week, we were also having to endure the sounds of the parents screaming at and beating their one child.


The piece of resistance which confirmed their stupidity for me was watching them as a family get into a car all wearing masks. Stupidity deserves itself.



Peter Hitchens and Simone Weil

Are these two intellectual figures closely related? Perhaps. They both take Christianity seriously. They both flirted with Communist politics. They both try to live a life of a common person. (Hitchens is very much alive. Weil is dead. I should say.)


They both have famous brothers. And whenever they are introduced to audiences that are assumed to not know them, their having these famous brothers is always mentioned. In the case of Peter Hitchens, it is always mentioned that his brother was Christopher Hitchens, the famous Atheist and Polemicist; for Weil, that her brother Andre Weil was a very famous mathematician.


For me though, I always forget about their famous brothers until I come upon these introductions. Christopher Hitchens has died and I suspect that in a few years, he will be forgotten. He never wrote a classic piece. Andre Weil to me is only known because of his sister. Otherwise, I would never have heard of him.


Thursday, July 29, 2021

Driving Complaints

I hate driving in Wuxi. 


I'll say it again: I hate driving in Wuxi. If there are any regular readers of this blog, they know why. But if you are a new reader, I say this: Wuxi drivers are imprudent, impolite and impractical.


So, is are my latest of my recurring complaints about the local drivers:


  • They make left turns without looking. A few times in the last few days, I have had close encounters with drivers in big boat sized BMWs making turns into my path without looking. Hopefully, I startled and scared them with my angry horn honking and close approach to their cars.

  • They don't know how to merge. There are these ramps one takes to merge onto the elevated roads come into them at an angle. The road by this angle narrows to nothing. A couple times one recent day, I was not merging, but on the lane next to the merging lane (because of heavy traffic), driving past it as it were. Twice I was at a point along the merging lane where I thought that there surely wasn't enough space for a car to try to merge in but a car did try, incredibly to me, to merge in ahead of me or beside me. I had to honk at the car and force it slow down because there was no way I was going to yield because the driver was trying to cut me off and because there was no way I could move to the lane over from us because the traffic was that heavy.

  • They should use their turn signals more and their horns less. I will say, however, that more and more local drivers are using their turn signals, but far too many still don't. Years of praying the rosary still haven't made me want to tolerate this quirk. And as for using their horns too much: Just today, when I was walking from my wife's office building to the Casa K apartment, I was honked at by a driver as I was crossing at a t-junction. The driver was going to eventually make a turn from the side road to the main road. Now, I say "eventually" because the driver honked at me from quite a distance. He was so far from the intersection that I had time to slowly turn my head to look at him and to watch his car come to a stop. It seemed he wanted me to yield to him so he could barrel onto the main road without looking or making a turn signal!


Updated List of Ways of Referring to Joe Biden

I keep thinking that they have run out of ways to refer to the mediocrity that is Joe Biden, but I have added yet more entries to my list! The new entries have been marked with an asterick (*) except the 46* where the asterick is permanent.


A real nowhere man

Abidin' 

Absolute Puppet

Alleged Catholic Biden

Alleged President Biden

America's Empty Suit

Amtrak Joe

Apparation Joe

Backwards Biden

Banjo Boy from "Deliverance"

Bank Robber Joe

Basement Haunting Joe Biden*

Bedpan Biden

Beijing Biden

Biden as President

Biden the Usurper

Blinken Biden

BLM: Biden Loves Minors*

Blundering Biden

Boring-snoring Joe

Botton-Of-His-Class Biden

Bubble Biden

Bullshit Biden 

Bumbling Joe

Cadaver Joe

Chairman Xiden 

China Joe

Cho Bai-Din

Cigar Store Biden

Cognitive Delinquent 

Crazy Joe

Creepy Groper

Creepy Uncle Joe

Dear Leader

Demented Joe Biden

Dementia Joe

Dementia-in-Chief

Diaper Joe

Disaster in Chief 

Doddering old plastic surgery experiment

Doddery Joe

Emperor Joe

EO Joe

Fake President Biden

Fascism Joe 

Feeble Joe Biden

Forgetful Joe

Fraudulent Joe

Fumbling Old Hack

Green Screen Joe

Grifter Joe

Gropey Dopey

Gropin' Joe

Grumps Joe

Idiot Joe

Idiot Joe Biden

Joe B, the revenant in the White House

Joe Biden, America's first idiocracy President

Joe Blow, Father of Hunter

Joe Buy Dung

Joeloco

Joe Chi Minh™

Joe Braindead

Joe China 

Joe Chink*

Joe Plagiarist Biden

Joe "sanctuary city" Biden

Joe Society and his son Hunter Society

Joe Stolin

Joe the Real Racist

Joebama

Joeblow

Joementia

Joey Cabbage

Joey Cringworthy

Joey No-Pulse

Joltin' Joe

Josef Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden

Landslide Joe

Low-Drag Biden

Low Key Biden

Lyin' Biden

Malarkey boy

Mean Joe

Mister Magoo

Mister "What day is it?" Where am I? Where's my lollipop?" Joe Biden 

Mumbly Joe

New Dear Leader Buyden

non compos mentis

Not Joe-King

OBiden

Oddball Hair Sniffer

Ol' Joe

Ol' White Joe

Old Bedpan Bidet

Old Joe

Old Man Biden

Old Mashed Potato Brain

Old Senile Joe

Our Totally Legitimate (P)resident Biden

Our Totally Legitimate, not in anyway fraudulent "president."

PedoJoe

Pedophile Muppet Biden

Pedophile Race Baiter

peeResident China Joe Bedpan

Pevertacus

PINO: President in Name Only

Potato Joe

POTATUS: President of the After Trump U.S.

Premier Bai-Din

President Alzheimer

President Bonehead

President Dementia

President Potatohead

President Puddingbrain

(P)resident Deepfake

Pretendence Biden

Pudding Cup

Racist Joe

Resident Joe

Rutabaga Joe

SCROTUS: So Called Ruler of the United States

Senility Joe

Sleepy Creepy Biden

Sloppy Joe

Slo Groppy Joe

Slo Joe

Slow Joe

Sniffing Joe

Sniffer Joe

Sniffy Joe

Snoozey Joe Biden

Spendthrift Biden

Stairmaster Joe

Stumbling Joe

Stupid Gasbag

Tapioca-Brained Zombie

Temporary President Biden 

The asterisk president

The China-sponsored hologram known as Joe Biden

The Classic American grifter who somehow made it all the way to the Whitehouse but it took so long that he's barely aware of what's happening anymore.

The corpse that is Joe Biden

The demented man in the White House

The doddering, photo-op front-man for a kind of politburo centered around Barack Obama

The do-nothing President

The Drooltard in Thief*

The Election Thief in Chief

The great pretender

The invalid in the White House

The lying, senile corrupt, creepy and perverted jackass in the White House

The mummy

The Not-So-Great Pretender*

The puppet

The puppet usuper

The Quicker Fucker Upper

The senile man in the White House

The Ten Percent Cut Man

The totally-legitimate, not-at-all-fraudulent Uncle Joe Stolin

Totally Legit Joe

Traitor Joe

Trippy Joe

Vegetable Joe

Vegetable-in-Chief

Wheelchair Joe

Zhou Bai Den

Zombie Joe

Zombie Obama

46*


Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Sports Nickname Controversy: Why The Shitlib Argument about Teams Not Being Named Jews or Chinaman is Stupid.

On a comment feed about the changing of the Cleveland Indians name to Guaradians, a supporter of the name change posted a meme with imagined logos of teams nicknamed Jews and Chinamen. I also have heard the comedian Bill Burr make a similar argument. His argument was that nicknaming the Redskins the Redskins was akin to say Nazis having sport teams nicknamed after Jews. I will concede that these are points that need to be refuted by those who think the name changes of the Cleveland Indians, Washington Redskins and Edmonton Eskimos are unnecessary and stupid.


So here it goes.


Back in the day, the nicknamers of sport teams thought that the native peoples of North America had qualities that sports teams wished to have: the fighting and battling spirit, the cool warrior aesthetic, and physical abilities. So the nicknames were a tribute. If back in the day, the nicknamers had thought that Chinamen and Jews had qualities as people that were worthy of athlethic success, they would surely have used such nicknames. But they didn't because they didn't perceive Jews and Chinamen as having athlethic process. 


Nazis would conceivably never have nicknamed a team after Jews because they didn't think that Jews had anything good about them.


If anything, shitlibs should be making the point that not using the nicknames Jews and Chinamen is discrimination against Jews and Chinese in favour of native peoples. But they don't because they think, in a backward retrogressive way, that anything who is not white and is nicknamed by a sports team must surely be the victim of some sort of bigotry.


A few other points:

  • If back in the day the nicknames Jews and Chinamen had been adopted, the words would have taken on different conotations that it seems they have for shitlibs. Redskins and Dodgers have/had taken on the meaning of a sports team nicknames.

  • No one would nickname their teams Shitlibs and Liberals because stupidity is not a quality that help teams achieve things athlethically.

  • Many North American sports are named after ancient Greek peoples like the Spartans and the Argonauts. Why isn't that offensive if the Indian nicknames are? 

  • Native North American imagery is something to behold and makes for great sports uniforms. For example, look at the Chicago Black Hawk uniforms.