TWO WEEKS TO GO

Two weeks to go. The debates are done, so the potential for a disastrous gaffe by one or the other candidate is much reduced. Now it's just repetitions of the same mind-numbing stump speeches. Saturday Night Live is strangely a rerun for October 27. SNL is at its best for Presidential elections, and it's going with a rerun ten days before the election?! At least its November 3 show is live, although the host, Louis C.K., is somewhat of an acquired taste.

Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert usually take off a week every month. Hopefully, they won't desert us for these final two weeks of the most important election ever, or at least the most important since the last election. If the comedy people leave us in this time of need, we'll be left mostly with Fox Noise from the loony right, MSNBC from the not-quite-as-loony-but-not-by-much left, and CNN from the visual effects swamp it has become mired in. Letterman, Leno, Fallon, O'Brien, Kimmel, and a couple of others will still be providing some comedic relief, but Stewart, Colbert, and SNL are the top of the line.

One of the notable lines from Monday night's debate was Barack's retort to Mr. Mitt's complaint that America's Navy is the smallest it's been since 1917. The President stated, "we also have fewer horses and bayonets," the larger point being that warfare, weapons' capabilities, and military technology have changed exponentially since the time of the First World War. Among other items that the military has fewer of today, the President could have listed camp followers of the sexual services genre. Pity.