About UsMore accurately, about me....For as far back as my memory allows, I've always been way more interested in news/political events than are what I'd call normal people. By way of example: Back in the late 1970's when I was in college, there was a program on NBC called "Weekend." It was on "...the first weekend of every month," as I recall. It had report segments sort of like "60 Minutes," but everything about it was a little avant-garde. Rather than go out on the Saturday nights when "Weekend" was on, I'd usually stay in my dorm room to watch it; I'd save going out for the other Saturdays when NBC would squander the time slot on some show called "Saturday Night Live."
Over time, though, all this interest in what's going on has left me somewhere between cynical and jaded. When "my" candidate wins an election, it never turns out to be all that had been promised. And when "my" candidate loses, it seldom turns out to be the debacle I had feared. Regardless of who wins, the results usually revert back to the saying, "When everything is said and done, generally a lot more is said than done."
 Silly me. All I've had to do is wait. Politicians being politicians, they can't help but periodically do something that reflects the game. Only the names change, and then not always even that. It seems the game is timeless. Bad for us, but good--I hope--for me.
(If you know of an example of "politicians being politicians" that reflects the game, please send a report to Nice Ideas.com.)
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