Attribution: Joe Biden: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (source: Joe Biden); User:TDKR Chicago 101 (clipping) Donald Trump: Shealah Craighead (source: White House) Сombination: krassotkin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has the feeling he and Phyllis spent last evening sitting in a saloon with the neighborhood blowhard bully that everyone recognizes never tells the truth blabbing utter nonsense on one end of the bar while a thoughtful and decent old guy with a cold and a speech impediment mumbled the truth on the other end.
The experience was no more observing a meaningful political debate than watching burlesque is educational. The bartending monitors acted as if they had run out of everything including bar rags.
As a result of their experience, the keeper and Phyllis have edged down the bar a few more stools toward the old guy so they will be better able to hear him next time he talks sense about a better world, or at least one where their grandchildren have a survival chance.
Photo by Bill Stokes