With the spouse off with her Iron Man friends, and the kids tucked away, I had complete control last night of the TV room, and, drink in one hand and remote in the other, I toggled back and forth between the Republicans, the Twins, and this show on PBS about a burial ground of prehistoric humans.
My impression of the Republicans, based on occasional look-ins, is that they are a terrible advertisement for America. I know that for a million years people have been idealizing a golden past that really wasn't very golden, in order to compare it unfavorably with the fallen present, but still it is true that around 240 years ago the 2.5 million Americans living along a thin north-south stretch of land near the Atlantic Ocean included Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe and Adams and Franklin and Hamilton, while today a "presidential debate" among a dozen or so eminences of one of the two major political parties in a continental nation of more than three hundred million people includes a lively discussion concerning the alleged perils of childhood immunizations. Also, it appears that Republican orthodoxy on the issue of climate change has gone from regarding it as a hoax to regarding it as something we can't, or shouldn't, do anything about.
The Twins game, which lasted even longer than the political show, was sort of dispiriting, too--the locals lost, in twelve innings, after failing, in both the ninth and tenth innings, to get the winning run home from second base with no outs. Well, there's another game tomorrow, and the Twins might win. Not sure there's any hope for the Republicans. The best thing on TV last night, by far, was the PBS show, so it's practically axiomatic that the Republicans want to shut down the left-wing commies responsible for the excellent programming.
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