In the days since the election, rumor and hysteria and raw unfounded panic have swept the Internet. The number of subjects is immense, and not all of them are horribly far-fetched.
“What is Donald Trump going to do to us?” This is the question on everyone’s lips, and the amount of terror that it causes is pretty amazing. It’s almost as though people lack faith in their own government for some reason. (more…)
The news is full of it. Lots of people are crushed by the results of the election. Folks are taking to the streets and protesting; suicide numbers are up a little. Despair is everywhere.
And that’s wrong.
I’m not going to tell you here just how great a guy Donald Trump is or (more…)
This year, Google has a live results page for the presidential elections. They’re reporting 100% of the results are counted in most states, and give a definitive result. So does Politico, and so does CNN. Each of the three draws their data from the Associated Press.
And all three disagree. (more…)
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote while losing in the Electoral College. This made her the fifth candidate to have that distinction, following Al Gore’s loss in 2000.
There’s been a growing movement aimed at eliminating the Electoral College entirely, and converting the country to a popular vote standard. There are certainly (more…)
About a month ago, I declared that nothing short of a direct massive meteor impact could prevent a Clinton presidency. So much for that prediction. (more…)
Elections aside, the biggest news on the Internet seems to be that Elon Musk announced he’s in favor of providing people with a guaranteed “Basic Income”. (more…)
The old year has given the warning signs that it’s about to start winding down to a close. The nights have a bit more nip in them than usual and the trees are changing color — “catching fire”, as a favorite aunt of mine used to put it, all reds and oranges and yellows.
Around the kitchen stove in the evening, it used to be a competitive sport to foretell the winter, though one you needed gray in your hair (more…)
A vote for a third party is a vote against. Not against Republicans or Democrats individually, but against the system that says one or the other is inevitable, that divides us against one another and distracts us away from finding common ground. Environmentalists and hunters both love the wild; they should work together. The NRA probably has some excellent ideas about gun control (in addition to Use both hands) but (more…)
I wasn’t going to watch it.
After all: Why bother? The nation just watched Donald Trump’s campaign implode over something horribly distasteful; we mostly agree now that he has no chance to win. And I really dislike Senator Clinton*. So why put myself through that torment? (more…)
Some of us just finished watching the first Presidential debate, and we’re probably all still shell-shocked. The commentators are still lobbing rounds at each other, but I’ll emerge from my foxhole long enough to shoot a bulletin back from the trenches, for the benefit of those wiser souls who spent time watching Monday Night Football.
Well, it was entertaining; I’ll grant that. (more…)
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