AMERICAN POLITICS IN ONE PARAGRAPH

(h/t POLITICO)

When I spent a LOT of time listening to wingnut talk radio, I would occasionally switch to a sports talk station for a whiff of reality. Nate Silver seems to have a similar view:

“Between the pundits and the partisans, you're dealing with a lot of very delusional people. And sports provides for much more frequent reality checks,” he wrote. “If you were touting how awesome Notre Dame was, for example, you got very much slapped back into reality last night. In politics, you can go on being delusional for years at a time.”