The conventions: Good for a laugh

I missed the Olympics, by accident. I spent the middle of the month in a house without a television. I had hoped to miss as much of the Democratic National Convention as possible, but the darned thing kept oozing into my life. I would switch on the TV to watch the US Open tennis tournament, and there was some multimillionaire ... (Full article: 743 words)

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