It's Just Annoying

      As mid-term election season winds up, the level of fantasy, nonsense, bullshit, denial, dirty pool and general style-over-substance among the candidates staggers and amazes me.  The GOP has a commanding lead when it comes to peddling crap as diamonds -- and an amazing number of eager customers, despite the obvious stink.

      Meanwhile, the Dems offer a much less coherent front (all to the good) and mostly their same old muddled ideas (varying from tolerable to awful, with an average of not so good).  But at least the majority of their candidates are approaching political office as an opportunity to do some useful work rather than a great angle for grift, and even their wildest ideas have a basis, however minuscule, in reality.

      I'll take "annoyingly wrong" over "dangerously crazy" any time -- and the only way I see to nudge Republicans back towards reality is if their candidates are trounced at the ballot box.  Will that happen this November?  Probably not.  Mixed results are more likely, and however the U.S. House and Senate tip, the margin of control will probably be narrow.  That's good, in that it should force debate and compromise on essential legislation, and push the glittering garbage out of consideration, but it just kicks the can down the road and lets crazy remain crazy.

      One good thing: as of this morning, I don't have to listen to people whining that the mainstream media are ignoring Hunter Biden's legal woes.  Looks like some low-level felony-grade stuff, and we will see how it plays out -- right there on the olde-tyme print, video and online media.  Strain at a gnat, swallow a whole camel, but there it is, the story you said they didn't want anyone to see, getting seen.