Everybody is shocked that Bernie Sanders is drawing huge crowds. Bernie is also stunned.

But hey, is it really that surprising? Is there anybody who doesn’t feel like an idiot when imagining a Clinton / Bush election? Everybody is tired to death of these names and is desperate to hear something different.

Remember what the Internet was like back in 1995-7? You enter the url and then go get a cup of coffee, make a snack, read a few pages in a book while the website loads. The younger people have no idea how much time we all spent waiting for Web pages to load.

This is how my Charter Internet connection works this week. It’s super annoying. Maybe I should switch to the AT&T U-verse. I have AT&T on my phone and it never disappoints.

Does any one of you have U-verse? What’s the experience like? We have the most expensive Internet package that Charter offers, and it sucks royally. Should we just kick it?

The realm of politics has been so degraded that people don’t even seem to notice how bizarre the following “opinion poll” is:

A survey conducted by the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling found that 67 percent of respondents who voted for Romney in 2012 said they had a higher opinion of the family made famous by TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting.” Just 12 percent of Romney voters said they had a higher opinion of the President than the Duggars.

By contrast, 87 percent of respondents who voted for Obama in 2012 said they had a higher opinion of the President than the Duggars. Only 5 percent of Obama voters said they had a higher opinion of the ultra-conservative Christian reality TV family.

What kind of an “opinion” can place a president and a bunch of TV personalities on the same field for comparison purposes? This is like asking if I have a higher opinion of the Beatles or sunflowers.

The word “opinion” is the most overused of all these days. I can’t tell you how many times I have to say to students, “No, it isn’t just your “opinion” that Columbus traveled to the New World in 1356. This is not an issue on which you can have opinions.” They get extremely sulky when they hear that they can’t have opinions about some things.

It’s very disturbing how easily people responded to the entirely idiotic question in the quoted poll without stopping to ask what this “opinion” was supposed to be based on.

My analyst says that I’m unusual in my 100% reliance on the logical and the rational. For me, everything needs to have a logical explanation, or it just bugs me. The intuitive part of my psyche is so beaten down that it never makes an appearance. (The way to address is that is to do things with your hands, like cooking or gardening, and pursue some creative activity, by the way.) 

So it just drives me nuts when I see inexplicable things happening. For instance, there is the mystery of the Walter Scott post. For days, this has been the most popular of my posts, even though there are no backlinks to it and the post contains nothing. This is what I see every day on the stats page these days:

I’m beginning to think people like the post so much because it’s as short as a tweet. And that’s a disturbing thought.

I will never become American enough to understand why everybody is so obsessed with Rachel Dolezal. To me, this is such a non-story. None of us can possibly know what’s in her DNA analysis. Anybody who’s ever seen a DNA analysis knows that drawing conclusions about people’s race or ethnicity is a waste of time. We all have a crazy amount of ancestry mixed in there.

And even if she does a DNA test and it is somehow deduced that she has no African ancestry at all, so what? What’s the big deal?

It seems like these vapid overblown scandals are growing in number. The recession must really be over if people are getting so overwrought about these trivial stories.

So have you met these creepy families with a son and a daughter where the mother is obsessed with the son, and the daughter is this mousy little creature with no personal life, and both mother and sister are total handmaidens to the boy? Obviously, the boy grows up messed up like all hell by all this, as well.

I have seen this family structure a few times, and it’s always very creepy.