Although I am an avid proponent for using the power and potential of computer-assisted tasks that analyze data thousands of times faster than humanly possible, moving us in the direction of self-driving vehicles, health-forecasting apparel, winning at chess and Jeopardy while apocalyptically reminding us of our impending demise due to environmental abuse, I remain snobbishly and adamantly opposed the other form of artificial intelligence.  You know, the Ann Coulter or Tucker Carlson or almost any speaking Republican or the mysterious voices in the head of DJT type of A. I.  Because I would be compelled to watch the speeding train take out the stalled van full of nuns on the tracks, I watched, with bemused rage, our illegitimate President present, (devoid of traceable intelligence, artificial or otherwise), the SOTU.  At this point, in the new world order of all things Trump all the time, I get that 82 minutes of hearing his own voice, interrupted only by the adoration of his zombie acolytes, is like a “best day ever” on the Presidential Vision Board, but holy crap, how on Earth did we come to this?  The intelligence of the cadre of misfits attempting to wrestle democracy to the mat is not merely artificial, it is uninformed, baseless and free from the most fundamental biological, synaptic triggering necessary for cognitive thought. (I pulled that last part out of my ass in an attempt to empathize like some deep cover operative…I actually felt really stupid writing it).  We’re supposed to be the big deal thinking species, yet the combined IQ of these embarrassing morons is dung beetle lite.  We’re ready for your close up, Hal.