Ultimately, my choice came down to this question: Whose ego was more likely to start a war? (And I don't consider not voting an option -- you don't have to select someone for president, but there are plenty of other offices and issues that need every voice.)

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." --Ray Bradbury

Let me preface this with a clip:

http://teamcoco.com/video/trump-voters-d...featured-videos

This is a humorous take on something that's been wearing me out the past couple of days: the poor winner. I haven't been able to go out without encountering Trump supporters still trying to start an argument! (I can handle sore losers -- over our lifespans, we've all encountered thousands of 'em.)

Here's an example of what I'm talking about : I was on my way home on Wednesday from an appointment at the wound clinic. As soon as I was in the transport company van, a woman proclaimed, "I'm so glad Trump won!"

I didn't give any reaction. I was tired, as most of the people in the van seemed to be.

"I don't see why she isn't in jail for all those emails!"

Still, no reaction. She wasn't saying anything new.

"Did anybody hear about the human trafficking emails they found in the latest batch?"

That woke everybody up.

"Yeah," she continued, "they were making arrangements to take kidnapped kids to child molesters."

To me, that failed the stink test. But I was not about to start arguing -- I usually avoid playing that game.

"It's a good thing Donald Trump's president! When he's sworn in, he'll do his Christian duty and put that liberal, baby-killing, Muslim-loving atheist in jail!"

Okay, I was getting annoyed, so I used a tactic that usually shuts up people like that, if not reveal how full of sh** they are. "So, could you tell me where you got that?"

"It's in her emails with Polenta...or Panera...or whatever his name is."

"Okay, but where did you read about it? Did it come from Wikileaks or some other site? Where do I go to read it myself?"

"Uh...well, I just know they're in the emails, so it's got to be true."

At that point, the conversation ended for me because we'd reached my apartment.

Anyway, since Wednesday, my energy levels have been seriously low. If I could, I'd spend most of the day in bed, trying to recover from each time I'm exposed to poor winners sniping at any possible sore losers in the area. But that's not possible.

Does anybody have any ideas how I can get through the next few days without so much of an energy drain?

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." --Ray Bradbury

If it was the driver, there wouldn't be a problem -- I could complain as you'd suggested. But this is a fellow passenger....and since she wasn't personally attacking anyone else in the van, and since she wasn't spewing obscenities, I'm not sure there's much the transport service can legally do.

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." --Ray Bradbury

Oh okay, yeah, it's different if they're a passenger. I suppose another option is to try and change the topic by talking to someone else.

I'm terrible about getting baited like that, too!

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Now that Donald Trump has started working on choosing who will be in his cabinet, I was wondering: what do the folks in England think of Mitt "the Twit" Romney becoming Secretary of State?

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." --Ray Bradbury

We had as much coverage of the US election as our own elections. You'd think we had a vote or something- Seriously.

But our politicians get a lot shorter time to do debates than yours do.

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up- Pablo Picasso.