Real Lives

As the charade in Washington continues, with the Republican Party leading the way in idiocy and irresponsibility, the rest of us are going about our lives with quiet dignity. Family members are taking care of critically ill loved ones and grieving the loss of a baby. Friends are tending to their elderly parents, helping them find comfort in the last years of their lives. Children and young adults are going about the business of growing up.

Sometimes our political system seems so out of touch with the way most of us live and with the concerns most of us have as to be an absurd sideshow. Can't we do better than this?