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We Always Need To Remember That Behind Almost Every Great Moment In History, There Are Heroic People Doing Really Boring And Frustrating Things For A Prolonged Period Of Time.

What Naturally You Want To Do If You Were A Prominent Person In The Public Light And You Are Disgraced, You Want To Make A Comeback, And Normally That Begins With Somebody Saying, “i Want To Do Something To Help People. I Want To Do Something To Help The Lepers In The Third World. I Want To Do Something To Help Abandoned Wives In India.”

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.

The High Point Was That The People Are Really Nice - Despite The Crazy Politics - And I Loved Being There. The Hardest Part Was Knowing Some Of The Things I Was Probably Going To Write About Texas Would Make Those Nice People Very Unhappy.

I Used To Like John Mccain, Too, But I Must Admit That Was Because He Was Bucking His Party To Do Things I Agreed With. I Would Not Have Had That Reaction If, Say, Bernie Sanders Decided To Rebel Out Of Principle And Support Privatizing Social Security.