An election party where nobody came

(Dipping way into the archives for this one, originally posted July 7, 2008.)

Well, it’s been a quiet week in Freedomville, my hometown … I sense a disturbance in the Force, or something. It’s an uneasiness in a soul that has chosen not to participate in the charade we call a “presidential election.” Or the anxiety, if that’s the right word, is something other than that.

The discomfort must be something more than resigning myself to the fact that the two branches of the Party have presente...