The Books of Bokonon

I'd say this video about sums it up:   This video is from earlier in the week, but it will remain relevant for a long time to come.

I haven't put up a Jon Stewart video in a few weeks. Perhaps I was not much in the mood. But I am now. This Monday evening, he unpacked a new year with two terrorist attacks that fit nobody's preconceived narrative, and a January 6th that went much differently than the January 6th of 2021. Amazing what happens when the losing candidate handles it with panache, rather than throws a temper tantrum. Jon Stewart laughs, but as we all know, he does so with a certain amount of moral outrage. There was a line from V for Vendetta - I don't remember it exactly - where the character Gordon Dietrich is asked if everything is a joke to him. He answers "only the things that matter." I feel that. Let's watch the video:  

Learned helplessness is not helpful, and the rationale for learned helplessness is not even based on reality . I would honestly be breathing a lot easier if Harris had won the White House and ideally the Democratic Party held the Senate and regained the House. That did not happen. Trump squeaked out a win in terms of popular vote and really had a so-so showing in terms of the electoral vote. To put things in perspective, Biden's performance in 2020 was also relatively speaking so-so, and aside from Obama in 2008, so-so victories are about all that we've seen this century when it comes to Presidential races. The US Senate ended up about how I was expecting it to go, and about the way that actual professional analysts had expected. A GOP mandate would have meant sweeping Senate seats in the same swing states Trump won. Aside from Pennsylvania, where Casey lost just barely, Trump proved to have no coattails. And if you paid attention to the polls, one thing that was consistent was...