Still don’t buy that the Russians did any hacking that truly influenced the US election last year.

The fact is the Russians and other state and non-state actors attempt to hack whoever they can every election. So does the US.

It’s mystifying to see liberals put all this blind trust in the US intelligence apparatus after so many years (basically since Iraq in 2003) asserting that they could not be trusted at all.

The other fact is that all the hacked material released was true, and furthermore it wasn’t revelatory. We already knew HRC and her crew were all Wall Street shills who would rather torch the destitute than help them. This was not news. No one even cared about this one way or the other because those who already knew didn’t care, and those who already despised HRC simply found it irrelevant.

When a great and unexpected loss occurs, conspiracy theories sprout up like weeds to “explain” the defeat.

This one it appears will be the accepted narrative going forward despite it being mostly a fairy tale built on a shallow foundation of events that occur every election.

Apart from having the opposite of natural talent, I think one of the reasons I don’t enjoy operational math and find it just devastatingly boring is that I don’t enjoy finding the solution to puzzles.

What I mean is that it’s obvious that many people experience some sort of joy (I’m only speculating here, based on observation of others) when they solve some well-posed conundrum. This appears to motivate people, to provide some sort of rush and reason to continue, that promise of reward at the conclusion.

Here’s what I experience when I solve a puzzle or a math problem: annoyance that I wasted so very much time on something I could’ve looked up or asked someone who cares to complete for me.

I don’t get angry while looking for the answer; no, I experience that afterward when I realize that my time has been sapped by trivia.

That’s why in ninth grade I wrote after some algebra problems I couldn’t or didn’t feel like solving, “This is why they make calculators and computers.”

Whatever it is that puzzles do to or for other people, I just do not have that component. Probably explains a few things.