I don’t know how it is where you live, but the Kelly Clarkson song “Stronger” is on continuous airplay in the Bay Area radio market, broken up only by “Someone I Used to Know” by Gotye – two perfectly serviceable songs ruined by ubiquity.The Clarkson song bothers me more right now simply because I believe that “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” isn’t technically always true. I believe that sometimes, what doesn’t kill you makes you debilitated and vulnerable to the next blow, and to pretend that we always rise like the phoenix is just a shade too Hallmarkian. Read more >