What is wrong with these people? The Vice-president could have been represented in the debate by a glass of lukewarm water, and she would still be a better choice than a convicted felon and rapist with visible mental deficiencies.

(Sidebar: ever since his posthumous mocking of Stan Lee I have considered Bill Maher beneath my contempt. And have studiously avoided anything he had to say. Last night, however, I surfed into his show just as he was making a good point. Harris being elevated so late in the game shows that we don’t have need of an electoral process that runs into years. Other nations get along fine with the whole circus lasting no more than a couple of months. Why not here? Begin the campaigns on Labor Day and end them the day before the election.)