This can happen when you give a guy a hard time: Now we go for some W4 – WorldWideWebWisdom: Author and blogger John Scalzi has thoughts on the election, Trump’s reaction, Republican reaction, NYC, and more. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz watches Tuesday’s returns and says the thundering sound we’re hearing is the returning heartbeat…

Shamelessly stolen from The Onion about this time in Trump’s first term (still fits): On to the usual internet suspects: In Scotties Playtime Ali Redford says good night and good Halloween week, providing us this: Infidel753 presents a few Happy Halloween wishes. Definitely is worth a review: My favorite, even though others are as great:…

For a teacher, dealing with an uncooperative parent can be the worst: Climbing to the mountain top for more wisdom from our gurus of the internet: Hackwhackers goes back five years to quote the late John Lewis, iconic civil rights hero who was beaten nearly to death in 1965 at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in…

Shamelessly stolen from Hackwhackers: To those participating, tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has a few pieces of worthy advice about today’s No Kings Rally near you. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil goes back a couple of generations to DC Comics as Superman is called to rescue Earth after the Nazis win World War II. Letter to a…

Occasionally, real life intrudes: Medical tests associated with aging, home maintenance work, an elderly friend hospitalized and needing help, and our new puppy resident. No list of essential blogs this week. Maybe I’ll find time for a little light interaction on social media. Back next week, if I’m still on the right side of the…

Note: I have a grudging sympathy for Senator Cruz in this case. I suspect life in the United States Senate is more pressured than is generally recognized. It might be difficult, on camera and in the absence of the right phrase, to avoid reflexively blurting out in public what you hear repeated countless times in…

Jimmy Kimmel has returned in triumph as government censorship finally loses one. His second late night back was even better than his first: The part that defines Trump accurately begins at 5:22 and goes under a minute and a half. Here is my transcript: I talk about Trump more than anything because he’s a bully.…

This is pretty much how it is: More insight from our raging rivers of internet wisdom: Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has some carefully balanced thoughts on the silencing of Charlie Kirk by bullet. James declines to blame one side of the political divide or the other, and decries attempts to blame anyone but the assassin.…

And so, another killing of a political activist. As law enforcement continued to investigate, at that point not having identified the sniper who took the life of Charlie Kirk, tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors contrasts political reactions (elevation of the victim, condemnation of political opponents, and so on) with responses to the recent assassinations of…

Ben and Zara show how parents can communicate with their kids, with just a little more effort: This week’s insights come from our time tested visionary sources: Jason Linkins reacts to the reactions at a horrible administration economic report, as the expected new 75,000 jobs turns into a disastrous 22,000. really the definition of an understatement to call…