Including upscale ice cubes; how to repair a butterfly; a posture-optimised toilet; a crime-scene doll’s house; and the many penises of the Bayeux Tapestry.
When The Solution Involves Pretending
On misplaced faith in cardboard; on danger as something you can pretend away; on malice with impunity; and on solving crime by claiming the victims don’t exist.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including vigorous inhaling; a vertical mouse; a fool-proof test of heterosexuality; and deep, sweet rumblings from a rest-stop bathroom.
Very Much In Agreement
Land Of Make-Believe
On the evaporating standards of “affirmative psychotherapy”:
Sharp-eyed readers may have registered the seeming absence of curiosity, of enquiry – say, regarding very common causes of the phenomenon in question. Readers may also wish to ponder the inevitable tensions between affirmation and investigation – and to place bets on which will be dispensed with in favour of the other. In this Yes, You Are Napoleon school of psychotherapy, where the unwell must always be told whatever they want to hear. Possibly before being steered towards irreversible mutilation and lifelong pain.
Or, when pretending is the highest possible virtue.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including brave knights battling snails; an unorthodox landing; and a toilet versus a rotisserie chicken.
Beware That White Arithmetic
Quite how those unspecified “white” ideas alter the rules of multiplication, percentages and other simple mathematical operations remains a thing of mystery. Indeed, as so often, the precise nature of this alleged corruption, this all-pervasive and befouling “whiteness,” is left to the imagination. Though much is pitched upon that mystery.
On the crushing terror of “white supremacy” in middle-school maths class.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including a desirable appliance; expensive substances; secret manly wisdom; an unlovely monkey; and Orson Welles’ Macbeth, circa 1948.

The Importance Of Plumbing
“All we ever wanted was to be a part of creating a more beautiful planet.”
A Cunning Ruse
In crime news:
A trans-identified male sex offender who attempted to enrol at a local high school in Oregon… was arrested… after an officer at South Albany High School reported him for pretending to be a 15-year-old girl in order to register as a student.
Fret, Preen, Freeload
On mathematics as an alleged cause of racial trauma; on the fare-dodging hipsters of San Francisco; and on the imagined importance of politically radical tableware:
Ms Burgher approvingly cites Ms Robin DiAngelo, a fellow peddler of neurosis, the L Ron Hubbard of wokeness, and whose devotees, as we’ve seen, are often wildly unhinged and nakedly malevolent. Which probably tells us much of what we need to know about Ms Burgher and her racial affectations. The mindset she wishes to inflict on others. And by extension, those who succumb.
And so, Ms Burgher makes her unattractive tat, and calls it art, and treads on ceramic eggshells, and calls it performance art, while listing the hallucinatory evils of having pale skin. And while telling those sufficiently credulous that “whiteness is oppression,” the source of all that is wrong, a basis for eternal shame, and that white people should “not behave white.”
You see, we will purge the world of bigotry by embracing wholesale the mental habits of the bigot.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including the Mongolian rave scene; interspecies intrigue; when your opinions are determined by status not reality; and a drama involving missing pants.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including sofa-bed wrestling; bonelessness; cartographic objects from the thirteenth century; scenes of smoke and shouting; and a notable refund request.
Ladylike Behaviour
A Catchable Madness
This not a field of medicine guided by evidence. This is a field of medicine guided by politics.
Shoe-Sizing Trauma
You see, she’s upset that her feet aren’t being affirmed as “non-binary.”
Oddments For The Weekend
Including a tale of stolen testicles; a low-altitude ejection; an incriminating box of burglary tools; and how to build a second, tiny bathroom inside your existing bathroom.
Catching Their Good Side
“We are so mentally unstable, and so nakedly vindictive, that if you even own a car of which we suddenly disapprove, we will violate your property and make you feel unsafe.”
Odd message to send, really.
A Synonym For Spite
On schoolgirls being compelled to undress in front of cross-dressing boys, and wokeness as a mask for other motives:
“You wicked girls will undress in front of this weird, cross-dressing boy, and you will do it over and over again.”
I paraphrase, of course. Though not, I think, wildly.
Readers are invited to ponder the psychology in play at this terribly progressive school. The triumphal righteousness of compelling thirteen-year-old schoolgirls to undress in front of a mentally ill male or opportunist pervert. A mentally ill male or opportunist pervert that the schoolgirls do not trust. Resulting in the girls feeling frightened and upset.
Imagine that tingle of power. All wrapped in a drag of modish piety.
Oh, there’s more.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including a tale involving tentacles; the thrill of silicone legs; and a quick flick through The Journal of Lesbian Studies.

