I guess I am still just a barbarian at heart.

I confess that one of my greatest sources of stress and aggravation is the internal struggle to not wish harm---ranging from CV infection to a 2 x 4 upside the head---to the spineless Republican apologists who appear on my TV.

Ali Velshi just interviewed Rep. Buddy Carter (R, Georgia), a pharmacist, and asked how he felt about Trump wrongly telling us that "Everyone who meets the guidelines for testing can be tested". Good ol' boy Buddy began by disagreeing that Trump had uttered an untruth and then launched into an irrelevant meander into how much better our medical preparedness is here in the US thanks to Trump.

My "wrong side of the tracks" roots still wants a piece of that smarmy SOB.

But, however temporarily satisfying that might be, I know that to so indulge would be to surrender what makes us different---and superior---to the Deplorables.

The internal battle continues.