“Black Magic Woman” by Santana and “Witchy Woman” by The Eagles have to be two of the worst songs ever written or performed.

Another thing I am 99.99% sure scientists are incorrect about is on the insistence that Fox News et al. has not had any effect on people’s attitudes and political views.

Literally everyone I’ve ever talked to has had an older (usually) parent or relative or friend who was relatively normal during the 1980s and 1990s, found Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, and then went completely paranoiac, deranged, and delusional. Just like this person.

The other day, I was talking to someone at work about how he never discussed politics with his parents anymore because after they started watching Fox News in the late 1990s they went politically nutso.

My grandfather (who was always a Republican, but a fairly liberal Republican) did the same thing.

It’s harder to find people who haven’t experienced someone who has undergone this lunacy transition than the opposite.

Why I don’t trust experts, part million.

It would’ve been nice if the Democrats had subjected the also-terrible ACA to the same scrutiny that the Republican health care “plan” is receiving.

Yes, yes, the AHCA is worse. Far worse. But pretending as Dems now seem to that the ACA was some magical achievement that solved all our problems is very disingenuous and counter to reality.

Both are terrible, giveaways and handouts to the already rich, just the Republican plan is actively designed to be malicious and not to help people, while if Obama’s ACA incidentally helped anyone, that was ok, as long as the health insurance industry was protected and the right pockets got greased.