Everyone seems contented as a cow to stay at home, order out for pizza and plan a vacation to Virginia Beach. I need a title. America and the Subzero Refrigerator. America and the Really Big Chill. Now that most of the divisive national issues have been cooled and moderated, maybe we're stuck in dead center.
Passions simmer down to casual wishes.
Sometimes one picks up a sign that the country must be here somewhere, like the half-buried Statue of Liberty they came upon in Planet of the Apes. Senator McCain's admirably stubborn efforts on behalf of campaign-finance reform, for example. But the general citizenry does not seem very interested in public policy, does not seem interested in anything, in fact, except the frequent sightings of Alan Greenspan mounting the steps of the Capitol. It's getting cold out here. A formation of geese is hooting its way north, so that must be north.