This Saturday I will drive a good friend with 93 years of knowledge to our voting place where we will cancel each other out. It’s the American way. Voting is the most American thing we do. My mother and father took great delight in canceling each other every four years without damaging their sweet relationship in the least.
I tend to spend more time in the 19th century than the 21st, so call me a dreamer, but I like to remember how Stephen Douglas characterized Abraham Lincoln prior to their great debate, “a kind, amiable and intelligent gentleman, a good citizen and honorable opponent.”
