Trivial venality...

[RichardRay]

Physics which teaches us about the conservation of mass and energy. That's a good thing, otherwise last night's debate would be a problem. As it is, the long slide towards the heat death of the universe continues, but the sturm und drang around whatever that was that happened on ABC is completely empty.

It might as well not have even happened.

Remember the old TV show The Highlander - Duncan McCleod of the Clan McCleod - There Can Be Only One? At the end of every episode there'd be a fight in which Duncan McCleod would lop off the head of a bad guy and the bad guy's energy would be absorbed with great flashing of light and rolling of thunder. In one episode Duncan went up against a bad guy who was so venal, so trivial, so inconsequential, that after the final fight and the lopping off of the head there was barely a 'pop'.

ABC has managed the news equivalent...

Everybody back to the food fight