• Warning - Warning - Warning!  This is a political essay, but not partisan so whatever persuasion you happen to be infected with; please hang with me for a moment or two. 
• I am already tired of either side and the respective interlopers telling me how 'bad' the other guy is.  I am smart enough to decide if I like this guy's style and ideas or that guy's policies and attitude.  I don't need incessant TV, radio, newspaper, internet ads, stories or data streams to help me.  Some say that it doesn't matter who is elected president as Congress is too deadlocked to get anything done either way (as Mark Twain noticed in "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar": "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.")
• So I have a modest proposal that could go a long ways to improving everyone's attitude and lowering an oil field of blood pressure.  Ignore them.  Yes, that's the ticket.  From this day on to, oh maybe, Halloween, don't watch a political ad, tear them out of the newspapers if you see one, change the radio dial and above all don't send any one of them a dime.  If a politician shows up at Rotary, go to Kiwanis that day.  Any debate they have would be of debatable value anyway so don't encourage them.  Let's just go on as if they don't exist.  Then, on November 1^st maybe tune into "The Daily Show" or maybe "NPR" and just get the tail end of the run.  You

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