April: Please Come Soon

摘要

March madness, indeed. college basketball's version adds to the public stock of harmless pleasure. That cannot be said of what the political class has been up to. Consider two things. March began with what can best be described as a riot by the nation's political class. The riot concerned ports. Or, more accurately, it concerned container terminals. Not since the Terri Schiavo stampede has there been such a brew of piety and irrationality. But the Schiavo episode did no lasting damage to the nation, and was a mostly Republican folly.