Clarissa's Blog

Last week we had a barrage of complaints on X about how crushing, debilitating and downright horrific it was to prepare a lunch for oneself. People experienced profound compassion for themselves. The drama of preparing lunch still hasn’t fully subsided with people complaining that rented apartments don’t have refrigerators and kitchens (which of course they do), thereby forci...

A friend asked if I enjoyed the Memorial Day picnic at church. It’s strange that anybody would suspect me of being able to enjoy any collective pastime. I am almost physiologically incapable of enjoying something like that. I’m very glad I went because Klara loved it. I do these things for her. I enact normalcy for her benefit. But I myself will never comprehend what people g...

I have five aunts. The only one I kind of really get is my aunt Natasha. We don’t have any sort of a relationship because she doesn’t want one. Not just with me. Aunt Natasha doesn’t want a relationship, in its literal meaning of relating to another person, with anybody. The reason I like her is because she has a grand purpose to which she is dedicated with the fanaticism of ...

I’m very annoyed by the insistent use of the word “teen” in reports of increased gang activity. Even conservative reporters repeat “teen, teen, teen” like crazed parrots.

WTF?!! A "teen" was OUT ON BAIL for a firearm crime…

…then went on a STABBING SPREE in Rhode Island during a teen takeover and brutally injured 3 victims because he wa...

Of course, I couldn’t help myself and went along and re-read Lescroart’s Guilt, the best American legal drama. And here’s what’s funny. I first read the novel sometime in 2005 when I was at the apex of my leftism. The novel stages a confrontation between the conservative and the liberal viewpoints, and even back then my sympathies were completely on the side of the c...