[Buckeye McFrog]

My not-terribly-political twenty-something daughter, after watching some of Day One of the Dem Convention, announced to her dear ol’ dad that “Trump is going to win....because these people are INSANE!”

[husky ed]

I suspect Ben does not know the Spokane area as well as he says he does. Or he would not have misspelled names and got the distances between places so wrong.

Or he's just a tourist and makes this shite up for his gullible readers.

Ed

[Madame Dufarge]

We used to subscribe to the Spectator years ago.

After a while, we would routinely skip his whiny column.

[bluejean]

I enjoy reading Ben Stein - his thoughtful, descriptive writing style is interesting. He enjoys crafting sentences. Yes, I suppose he is whiny sometimes, but God knows there’s a lot to feel whiny about and I have those moments myself.

[avenir]

“I was so happy to be at that movie with my father I didn’t even mind that they didn’t have popcorn at the theater.”

Love that. I had a dream a few years ago that my Dad (long deceased) and I were in a movie house. It was as if I was a little boy, and my head was leaning over on my Dad’s chest. In the dream I felt so safe and loved that I can feel it now as I remember it.

Dads are truly important, and I despise this era for minimizing them.

[Billthedrill]

Huh. My house is just south of Sandpoint. I wouldn't call us Ozzie and Harriet at all, although to a Southern Californian it probably looks that way. I may have just missed Stein at Ivano's, not that I or any of the other locals would have known him from Adam. He should try Hydra or 41 South.

He clearly still doesn't understand Trump and I'm not sure he's trying. If he wants to, though, he could get a little deeper insight by simply asking around next time he's in Sandpoint. We're a lot more like the rest of Flyover Country than New York or LA.