Nostalgia

No heavy lifting tonight, promise. Just a nod in the direction of the notion that there are some things you don't appreciate until they go away.

Hard to believe, but I'm really starting to miss the likes of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann filling every minute of goofy national news coverage. Amazingly, they have all but disappeared from the tube during this marathon debt ceiling national hostage taking.

Watching John Boehner and Mitch McConnell skin Obama and the Democrats alive 24/7 for the last month or so has been a bit wearing by comparison.

Its been like the difference between laughing while Wile E. Coyote and Elmer Fudd futilely stalk their prey, and shaking in horror as Perry Smith and Dick Hickock murder the Clutters "In Cold Blood."