Actually, if Huckabee is on the ticket, the humor value will rise tremendously, as will the excitement. If he is not, it will be interesting to see what his delegates will do.

There seem to be no boundaries sufficient to contain the trickery used to overturn our election system these past several years.

People here are literally, sensibly, terrified at the possibilities for underhanded mayhem.

Did I mention cold, deep, enduring ANGER? If not, you may assume it’s there, even as we crack silly jokes and smile at friends, if only to stay sane while we wend our way through the caverns of our current system of governance, which I would label if i could find the words.

I’m not a pearl-clutcher. But I’ve seen a lotta years and a lotta gummint twists and turns. I have never before been as worried about the future as I am at this moment. But I won’t give up. It’s not in me. I know I have company here at the Lake.

That pretty much covers it for me.

Next?

I got it from Wikiquote, but I’d run into it before, probably in Bartlett’s.

A lot of the reason we have so many schlubs in leadership roles is that they excel at self-promotion and nothing else.

Thanx for the Sinclair quote to Norman Thomas, is that in a collected works or correspondence someplace? Geez there are truly some “giants in the earth” of our history ain’t there?