Bobert, we ALL need a vacation!

This 3 year, 11-1/2 month election cycle (and it may even be longer than that) is really enervating. Sweet nothing of value gets done because our leaders are posturing for re-election and/or the next office. I, if I were the one who made the rules, would limit all campaigns for national office to 6-8 weeks tops--including nominating process and final elections--with the winner to take office 10 days after the results are official. Days missed in doing the countries business while campaigning would be deducted from salary and per diem.

In large measure, I place the blame on 24 hour news media which has way more hours than news to fill the time. So their are scores of analysis shows wherein 3 - 4 'experts' expostulate for 65 seconds (75 seconds, accounting for interruptions). And the next day it starts all over again with 3/4 different experts.   I am going to endow a college major in Pundantry with the tens of dollars I'll have left when I die, so at least those talking heads have academic cred.

And its just not politics...it's missing blonde vacationers; it's murder trials, covered live or recreated, but certainly talked to death; its the latest entertainment bimbo (or, rarely, the male counterpart of bimbo). Those programs make infomercials seem like high art.

John ("If I Ruled the World") otSC