What bothers me the most about this whole election is that you cannot trust the motives of anyone involved. There are no "statesmen" in this mess, just venal little people looking for a way to squeeze out a little advantage over the other guy. Where is the sense of doing what is best for the country in all this? The only time you hear that phrase invoked it comes after some guy makes the suggestion that the other side should give up.

I suppose it's what we deserve - we can't even have a discussion of the "facts" without assuming that they have been skewed for partisan reasons. Democracy assumes that - at bottom - we are honorable in our intentions, informed in our opinions and fair in our judgments. Well, we're very near the bottom and I see scant evidence of these characteristics in the general populace. Present company excluded, of course.

Enjoy the day, Catters. We will all survive this. Who knows? We may even end up better for it.

Bart