You Are Not Alone 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell is also longing for the end of the campaign.
Facebook isn’t safe anymore either.
In the old days, I’d roll my eyes when people rushed to post pictures of their breakfast: a freshly poured glass of orange juice with a witty cutline like: “juice. yummy.”
Now, OJ seems downright nostalgic compared with the woman bragging about how she stiffed her waitress out of a tip simply because the waitress was wearing an Obama button — and the customer wanted to teach her a lesson about wealth redistribution. (More depressing was the gleeful chorus of “likes” from those pleased about her sticking it to the minimum-wage worker who dared to have a different opinion.)
About the only persons who don’t want it to end are the punditocracy, who will have to come up with their own ideas once more, at least for a while.
In this house, we have not answered the telephone without checking the caller ID for weeks.
We check the caller ID and then don’t answer the phone.
Anyone who cares to can leave a message, which we then delete.