Kelly Clarkson and Guests Laughing - good for whatever ails you - I promise

Kelly Clarkson has been an inspiration to me over the years.

One of the things that I love about her is the absolute joy that she brings.
Here is a little compilation of her and her guests just laughing about silly shit and I am definitely here for it.

I hope you are too.

The most straightforward expression of why Trigger Warnings matter

I am a very large fan of James O'Brien.
This is a terrific explanation of trigger warnings and why they are NOT censorship or coddling or cancel culture or any of the stupidity they get described as.

Election Conspiracy Insanity

TPM has been a long time favorite of mine. 
Here is Josh talking about the loonies

Martin, "Find Middle Ground w Pro-Life," Shannon, "HELL NO!" | Skeptalk ...

ShannonQ gives a great precis of why there is no middle ground between pro-choice and pro-life.

Ignore this. It is just for mastodon verification

Mastodon

Restarting The Blog

 So, those that have known me for a while might remember that I used to blog a bit.
I gave up on it in 2014 to save my sanity.
Now, to save my sanity in the brave new world of exploding social media options, I am going to restart this beast.

At some point there will also be a Youtube channel associate with it because surely what the world needs is another deeply privileged old white guy jabbering away with his opinions on stuff.

Obama the Not-so-leftist

One thing that most conservatives and quite a few liberals agree on is that they thought that Obama was going to be a very left of center president. I have never for the life of me figured out how any rational person thought that since he had never shown any evidence of being anything of the sort prior to taking office.

The only substantial policy difference between Obama and Clinton where he was to the left of her was on the Iraq War.

And don't even pretend that Clinton is anything other than a middle of the road DLC style Democrat.