Pretty content tonight. Smattering of reasons. Good things. Bad things. Typical things.

Here's some of those "typical" things: Four students wounded in Madison Township, Ohio; 3 white supremacists attack multiple Hispanics men and women at a public park in LA.

One of the "good" things was discovery of a galaxy—named IC1011 in some systematic way—that is SIX MILLION LIGHT YEARS wide!!! By way of comparison, the Milky Way is 100,000 light years wide with each light year being roughly six trillion miles. So, our Milky Way is 100,000 times 6,000,000,000,000 miles for a whopping 600,000,000,000,000,000 miles. That distance in and of itself is mind warping. Now they've found a body of stars whose width is six million light years times (as in multiply) six trillion miles 36,000,000,000,0000,000,000 or something like that. Boom! Head just exploded.

Found this interesting:

To mark Women’s History Month, the personal finance website WalletHub provided its own analysis of the "best and worst" places in the United States for women to live. Evaluating all 50 states for “women’s economic and social well-being” and “women’s health care and safety,” the researchers concluded that Minnesota is the best place for women to live in the United States, followed by Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

What I found most interesting in the ranking is the list of the worst states:

43 Georgia
44 Texas
45 Oklahoma
46 West Virginia
45 New Mexico
46 Mississippi
47 Arkansas
48 Alabama
49 Nevada
50 South Carolina
51 Louisiana

I'd say that this shows it ain't much fun being a cowgirl, or a Southern Belle, or a Mid-Atlantic something or other. 

Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon and she wrote this in support of Trump:

Look, someone has to win the Republican nomination. In this particular contest of villains, Trump is the least-bad option. Cruz seems like a sociopath who thinks he’s a prophet. Rubio just perpetuates that myth that the politics of nihilism are OK so long as the figurehead is handsome and genial enough. A Trump nomination, on the other hand, would puncture any remaining illusion that the Republican Party is a home for serious people, instead of a den of misanthropes and bullies that see politics solely as a way to preserve their own privilege while screwing over everyone else.

That, and it will probably be easier for Clinton to beat Trump than either of his opponents.