Billy, working from Tokyo just now, takes a moment to comment on the latest in that greatest of American endeavors: the race to be president. Yep, boy, when it comes to America the Beautiful, American know-how, and everything that was ever supposed to be terrific about America, isn't it all just encapsulated in that every-four-year spectacle? Everything we are, we owe to voting, elections, and American presidents. Or so you'd think. Me? Well, I ran my enthusiasm for what Paul might do right up to the beginning of the primaries. My RSS reader is currently awash in weeks of as-yet unread posts from blogs that follow Paul. I'm still interested -- as a side-note to the election, now -- how his continued candidacy might effect the republican base, but it has nothing, really, to do with who's going to be president. Billy says: A rational person cannot listen to it, except in the spirit of estimating storms on the horizon. Though I would say that Paul's campaign was of an entirely different character, including his crowds of whoopers, it's certainly that for the entire lot of the rest of them on both sides. Guess what? I have yet to listen...