This Thanksgiving weekend, as I watched events unfold abroad, I was most grateful that the foolishness of election time is over. I don't miss the comedy, the verbs gouged and adjectives gutted, the nouns torn at the seams and fashioned into slogans. Before November 5, the assumption was that the...

I've never submitted so much as a slip of paper through the slot of a suggestion box before, nor have I ever worked for a political campaign. But, there's a phrase that pops up in my head so often I can't keep it to myself any longer. It's sticky in...