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Monica, not Melissa, Goodling.
For fans such as these, wherever they are, there's good news...most teams in any sport are crappy most of the time and very few win titles. So, if being the fan of a winning team throws you off, just wait, things will get better.
The majority of congressional Democrats are indeed living in the past, and like dogs that have been beaten too many times, they now cower when Republicans merely raise their hands. It's truly spectacular how our nation's political discourse takes place in a time warp where Democrats need to be scared all the time.
God knows I've tried to read Gladwell, but there never seems to be anything there. It's like eating empty calories. As facile a writer as he can be, he seems to me a secular evangelist to the chattering classes, simplifying a complicated world and confirming comfortable beliefs. He should have a self-help show on public television, he'd be even more popular.
They guy hasn't even taken office yet and everybody's already writing the big stories...Disappointment!...Betrayal!...More of the Same!...Messiah!...Not a Messiah!...Lots of Capital Letters!
It might pay to wait until he is actually, you know, like President or something to pass judgment. By all means, we need to advocate for policies and people, praise or criticize as needed, but let's hold off on the analysis of things that have not yet happened.
I'd tune in...it'd be like Wrestlemania except the combatants would be old and fat. Maybe their ex-wives could fight each other as tag teams. Everybody could use staple guns and folding chairs. They'd have to size-up the winner's belt, though.
