Abolish the Senate

Imagine a world where Barack Obama conspired with a foreign government to try to gain an advantage in his own re-election. Imagine that the evidence was clear, obvious, and incontrovertible.

Imagine then that he was impeached, and that the Senate had to hold a trial to determine if this constituted 'high crimes and misdemeanors' (hint: it does), and imagine that before the trial even started that the majority leader announced that Obama would be acquitted, and that the Senate would not allow any witnesses to be called.

That would never happen, because Barack Obama, in addition to not being a fucking moron that routinely breaks the law to enrich himself at the expense of the country, is not an enemy of democracy.

The United States is being held hostage by a minority of its population, because the Senate is broken. It should be abolished, along with the electoral college. Put them both in the trash where they belong. Rich old white men will have to find something else to keep them busy in their dotage besides fucking up the greatest nation on earth.

Insecurity Can Ruin Relationships

I found this article deeply interesting and relevant, and ordered the book as a result. I confess that I see more of myself in some of this than I would like to admit. The Atlantic had the title as 'Negativity Can Ruin Relationships', and that is true, but the part about insecurity being the root cause of many breakups made a bigger impact on me.

There's lots to unpack here, and no doubt much more in the book, but you can start with this and see where it takes you:

Some couples, of course, are better off splitting up, but far too many of them sabotage a relationship that could have worked.

Teach Your Child to Ride a Bike

I thought this was charming. And I rode everywhere when I was a kid, so of course I think it's great for kids to ride bikes. YMMV (literally)

Happy New Year

Happy new year!
I'm very busy the next couple weeks with not-very-important business. You care.

I got a new job, which is similar to the old job, but hopefully better because I will be able to actually sell some software this time. We can but hope.

Right now the idiot President and has associate idiot Secretary of State are trying to start a war with Iran. Just in time for the election! The last time an idiot started a pointless war in the Middle East it cost over two trillion dollars (and counting) and went on for 15 years (and counting). What could possibly go wrong?

Well, for starters, Iran is a big country that is remarkably unified, and it is chock full of religious fundamentalists. The value of destabilizing a relatively large country full of religious fundamentalists can only be fully understood by a 200 IQ galaxy brain genius like Mike Pompeo, but up here in the cheap seats it is not very strategic to kill a much revered foreign general unless you have (and can show) concrete proof that it is worth it, and that there was a credible threat to the United States. In other words the death of a single American contractor (who was operating in a de facto war zone) does not justify starting a war, unless you're a complete and utter fucking moron. Oh, wait, I forgot who I was talking about.

But hey, oil prices are way up, and I am sure that none of the President's failsons took positions in energy securities before this thing kicked off.

More on this as the situation develops. Or not. I actually do have stuff to do. Weird, I know.