The Transylvania Times -

A friend of mine tipped me off to the benefit of going back and revisiting the Kennedy-Nixon debates of 1960 as a point of reference to prepare for the current crop of presidential debates, a useful practice that I have personally adopted.

This past Tuesday night we witnessed the equivalent of moronic political theater posing as a substantive debate. While the disrespectful display of sophomoric name-calling and interruption was disgraceful enough, what followed from partisan apologists on both sides of the aisle was even more disconcerting. This “debate” was a disgrace, unimaginable e...