Watching C–SPAN…at 4AM…on MUTE…makes everyone…on stage and in the crowd…look like the worst goddamn criminals. Everyone has either just recently committed the worst crime in some darkened passage of the town hall…committed it years and years ago and now carries that baggage everywhere they go in the form of proud and pained expressions on their faces…or are only now thinking of committing a criminal act because they suspect everyone else in the audience is on the verge of the same murderous or otherwise heinous act. And I’m telling you they are…just look at them! They may never actually get to it…but it is just below the surface.

Of course, it starts off well enough…for a second. The dumb hick local politician stumbles around, learning to use the microphone for the first time…again. With the sound off, I can’t help but [...]