Bottoming Out

JUST WHEN YOU THINK it can go no lower, it does. The good news, though, is that we've probably reached the bottom, for we can surely go no lower. When you have two presidential candidates on national TV arguing over whether one of them has a large or small penis, you've hit rock bottom. Anyone over the age of fifty can attest that American culture has been on a gradual but steady decline for several decades, and has been wondering how long it will continue. Well, its over. The days of national cultural decline are behind us...aren't they? Surely it can get no worse, though, I must warn you, there are those who insist that it can and will. The people predicting that it can and will get worse are the second coming of Jesus crowd, and for their sake, I hope they die still believing. All I know is, for the foreseeable future, I'm not leaving the country. All my recreational travel, beginning immediately, shall be confined to the United States of America. There is no way on earth I am going to travel in any other country, risk being found out as an American, and ridiculed the way I suspect I would be, and indeed probably deserve to be. Nor do I want to saunter around, say, Europe, wearing a Groucho Marx mustache, nose, and glasses. You simply have to wonder what people in other countries must think about us, about all this Trump related stuff - and yet, you really don't even want to know.