They say no news is good news

and lately that's true. There's seemingly no good news anywhere.

Listen, first thing in the morning call the Department of Justice and tell them you're concerned and want an audit of the votes. You can't complain that they don't listen to you if you don't tell them what you want! Spread the word, too.

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Sniffing out cultural differences

Junk Food’s Happiest Accident

Dementia on the downslide, especially among people with more education, study finds

Resurrecting America's Great Old Diners, By Moving Them Across State Lines

Study finds chimps perform social grooming behavior the same way their mothers did

3 black Americans see China as their land of opportunity

How the rise of mirrors in the fifteenth century shaped our idea of the individual.

The Factory of Fakes

How a single tree, and the logger who saved it, have changed the way we see British Columbia’s old-growth forest.

How Kellogg worked with "independent experts" to tout cereal

Cement materials are an overlooked and substantial carbon 'sink'

The real secret to Asian American success was not education

Work more days. Carve more turkeys. Don’t get hurt. What poultry workers endure in the frenzied weeks before Thanksgiving.

The Last Unknown Man

With the Kurdish pesh merga on the road to Mosul.

Affluenza Anonymous: Rehab for the Young, Rich, and Addicted

Too quiet on the set; filming accidents often go untold

Early childhood household smoke exposure predicts later delinquency and dropout risk at age 12

Judges Find Redistricting Unfairly Favored Republicans

US Military Leaders Remind Trump That Climate Change Is a Global Threat

Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today.

Why the Left and the Right Should Oppose Government Registries

EU, US have little leverage as Turkish democracy backslides

Even Israel says this Jewish settlement is illegal. Now comes the showdown.

Why did the forced removal of African Americans seem so plausible in Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912? Was it because it had all happened before?

‘Please, I am out of options’: inside the murky world of DIY abortions

Japanese troops land in South Sudan, fears of first foreign fighting since WW2

Police, citing ‘ongoing riot,’ use water cannons on Dakota Access protesters in freezing weather

Get used to heat records; study predicts far more in future

(no subject)

Cat tongues are even 'handier' than you imagined

In some ways, hawks hunt like humans

Archaeological excavation unearths evidence of turkey domestication 1,500 years ago

DNA evidence from 5,310-year-old corn cob fills gaps in history

Diaphragm much older than expected

An echidna’s to-do list: Sleep. Eat. Dig up Australia.

Reliance on reason, evidence as a moral issue measured in study

Innovative technique to curtail illegal copying of digital media

What marine midges can tell us about clocks and calendars

Record-breaking faint satellite galaxy of the Milky Way discovered

Young children are terrible at hiding – psychologists have a new theory why

Reconditioning the brain to overcome fear

New tool to track circulating cancer cells

Engineering a more efficient system for harnessing carbon dioxide

Gut bacteria affect our metabolism

Genetic breakthrough: Crops use more sunlight to grow

Women who suppress their emotions are as good at mental rotation as men

Economist's research reveals poverty should be measured by more than income

As life expectancy grows, men still lagging

Ocean acidification study offers warnings for marine life, habitats

The North Pole is 36 degrees hotter than it should be right now

So, I think we're all agreed that Donald Trump is a thoroughly unpleasant person

And looking at his repetitive tweetstorms, it really does seem to me that the only thing more unpleasant than having to deal with Trump is having to be Trump. I mean, geez - "Somebody was mean to me on the internet! They're a big meanie!" ad nauseum. Does this seem like the ravings of a happy mind? Clinton is happier and, well - look who plans to be in the White House!

It's pitiful, really. Luckily for me, that completely unwanted sense of pity does not oblige me to want to see him happy, because I don't think anything would suffice. I mean, if stealing the presidency doesn't do it, exactly what will? (Well, insight and emotional depth might help, but I suppose it's not likely the man chose to be this way.)

This is all incidental. Recently, the news has been full of "Barron and Melania not moving to the White House!" and all about how this is a huge hassle for that neighborhood and how it's costing the city millions to protect Trump Tower. And this is all true, and it's awful, but at the same time there's a little bitty part of me that thinks "Well, this is probably the best thing for that young boy." I don't want to think that, and I certainly don't want to feel that way either, but I'm not a raging narcissist and so I have some sympathy for a ten year old child who never asked for any of this. And really, do any of us think that Donald Trump is a kind and loving father? The best his youngest kid can hope for is being away from that jerkface five days out of the week. (Just kinda wish he could be away from that jerkface somewhere else. Perhaps somewhere that voted for the guy.)

Quick question - Americans only:

Have you contacted any government officials since the election about anything?

If the answer is "no", I'm looking at you sadly and shaking my head. Go remedy it and answer again.

Was USA election stolen? (Also, seriously - just got an email back from Wisconsin - really fast, too! - saying they're already conducting an audit. So... why is it that the only mainstream American media source I can find with anything on this subject is USA Today? If they can find the bandwith to natter on about Hamilton and Trump Tower, couldn't they bring this up long enough to even reject it? Should I add them to my list of people to email/call/write? I mean, USA Today is not some fringe publication, and at least one state is actually conducting an audit, so... what gives?)

And now it's at CNN.

A day late and a dollar short. Honestly, this is ridiculous. If CNN can post an article, and USA Today can, then I expect to see news on this from all the major media, and I will contact them.

Let's see.

We've got the NY Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, all the major networks, the LA Times, who all else? (AND WHAT THE HELL AM I SAYING IN THIS NEW UNCHARTED TERRITORY OMG SOMEBODY HOLD MY HAND. Wait, don't literally hold my hand - I mean, ew, not in the mood for human contact.)