The Pale Blue Spot

I initially wrote this as a response to a conservative friend on Facebook, and wanted to save it here: It feels like I've had the same detailed conversations about Trump's criminal behavior, impacts on the economy, etc. over and over with a number of conservative friends (I have 5 or so on Facebook) multiple times over the past few years. I've finally learned to just scroll past your political posts as I know that having a discussion about these things is pretty much futile on both sides, sadly. The thing that has been going through my head over the past couple of weeks has been to continue to wonder how so many people like yourself (who are actually intelligent and usually well educated) still stick behind this President no matter what he does. A lot of people just say it's because of Fox News, but I know it isn't that simple - Though it may be for some people, shouldn't be discounted at all, and is certainly a factor. Going back to the last election, for a

I had to go through this the other day when I discovered that the computers in our Houston office were three minutes behind the ones in our Fresno office (and the rest of the world).  Since it seems to be that this is a much more complex issue than you'd expect and it only comes up every few years at most, I had to search for answers... ultimately, I came across  this blog  that lays out the process quite nicely. On another note, I'm prepping to go and play bass with the Danielle Rondero band as we are scheduled to open for Bernie Sanders at Fresno City College this Friday... stressful, yet exciting!