Pete Buttigieg is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and for some reason he thinks he can use that as a spring board to the Presidency of the United States.

Like every other Democratic Presidential candidate, he has decided to jump onto the “the electoral college is bad” bandwagon.

They way he did it, however, is particularly stupid.

.@PeteButtigieg: "We can’t say it’s much of a democracy when twice in my lifetime, the Electoral College has overruled the American people … Let’s pick our President by counting up all the ballots and giving it to the woman or man who got the most votes" https://t.co/ak42dRUf5R pic.twitter.com/EpCC54432k

— CNN (@CNN) April 14, 2019

In his lifetime, the two elections in which the elected President lost the popular vote was George W. Bush in 2000 and Donald Trump in 2016.

In both of those elections Indiana sided with the electoral college winners, Bush and Trump.

Buttigieg lives in South Bend, one of the few Blue dots in what is usually a mostly Red state.

His desire to undermine the electoral college is a desire to undermine the electoral desires of the majority of the people in his state.

It really is something to watch a person from a flyover state to work so hard to fully subjugate flyover America to New York and California.

Coming across this article shook me a bit. Helping doing this research makes me feel like I am in a mental time machine and get to see through a very narrow window the world back then. When you get to know about what was going on in a time period, you get a better comprehension of why people behaved one way or another.

And then you bump into one of the most investigated mysteries in history as it begins: Jack the Ripper. You know the outcome and details and compare it to what was being published at the time. What they knew, what they speculated and even stuff you may not know. Personally, I just found out Jack was originally called “Leather Apron” even though I had heard there was speculation he used one.

Here is a PDF of a front page of The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer and headline article of the killings, seventh column, top. Realize that journalists and editors not only did not know what was going on but had no inkling we would be still discussing the events an who could be the killer some131 years later.

My wife and I really love the TV show The Orville.

It is, in every way, the rightful heir to Star Trek: The Next Generation.

There was an episode in Season 1, titled “Majority Rules.”

The plot revolves around a society that has no major code of laws.  Peoples’ behavior is judged by social media.  Too many thumbs down and you get lobotomized.

At first this seems really dystopian.

Then I see Tweets like these defending Ilhan Omar’s statement on 9/11 and attacking the Republican response to it.

The I realize that maybe, society lobotomizing some people because of their social media might not be such a bad idea.

One interesting thing I am finding out is that at least at the sliver of time I am working on, lynchings are pretty much colorblind.

Apparently the do:

Here is what was done to the poor thing at Knob Creek over the weekend .

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The fear is real.

I wasn’t even prepping but cleaning the damned thing and the safety plate was on. I am about to dry it off when I notice the cute streak of red on its side and I wonder wat the heck was that. Hey Yay! I cut my left thumb!

Scary part? I did not know I was cut. Even looking at it, I did not feel it.

The cut was not long but deep and bleeding a lot so I used some old QR WoundSeal I had, added gauze and tape and done.

New found respect for that thing.