I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain’t bad. — Mars Attacks

Right now, I’d feel fortunate if we could be batting 1 for 3 when it comes to branches of government, but that’s beside the point.

I probably should have stayed up and watched the State of the Union address last night, but I just couldn’t. I’m going to read the news coverage and find a transcript, but watching it live just wouldn’t have been productive. Political cheerleading has lost its shine for me, no matter who is doing it. There really isn’t anything that President Obama could have said that would have been a surprise to me, or inspiring to me, or even interesting to me. After a while, all the speeches run together, and he’s the most speechifying president I’ve ever seen.  Familiarity may not have bred contempt in this instance, but it certainly has bred indifference.