Another dose of realism

President Obama forgets to salute

It was a political mistake, only; and only in the lowest sense of the word.

And only because of the malice of his enemies and the fecklessness of the journo class.

It was not one of any other kind of mistake, and specifically not a mistake of protocol.

All which occasioned this post.

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Situations of special anxiety apart, when normal humans have nothing to talk about they stop talking.

Politicians and politics-focused journos don't have that option.

They have to keep flapping their jaws, the journos because they can't have dead air and the pols because they can't let somebody else take the mike, even for a moment.

But we don't have to listen.

Anyway, not yet, and not everywhere.

That's one reason why sensible people acquire the habit of ignoring politics.

Another is that the journos and pols talk such shocking codswallop when they do have something worthwhile to talk about.

And another is that we ordinary folk are only the victims of history, anyway, while the actors, those who make it happen, are monsters at worst and never better than the best roommate you ever had in college.

The journos are only the chorus.

And your roomie is out of his depth, a lamb among wolves.