In recognition of this week’s theme — “forgetting” — it would have been convenient had I resorted to contriving a post in list form because I had forgotten about this week’s deadline. But, the truth of the matter is that (1) I read kwilk’s post this week; (2) I liked it; (3) I’m impressionable; and (4) I ultimately decided to steal the idea. Here are two items of interest that we could hardly help but forget, thanks to our rapacious, small-minded, muckracking, bickering, tit-for-tat, two-party media culture that would give our country’s founders a start. (On account of revulsion or delight, depending on whom you ask.) 1. Yesterday Is So Far Away: In my lifetime, there has been nearly constant changeover between the parties that control the Presidency, the House and the Senate. In the year I was born, 1981, there was a Republican in the White House, a Republican-controlled Senate and a Democratic House. But, that changed by the time I was 6, when, in 1987, Democrats took over the Senate. It changed again 6 years later, in 1993, when we put a Democrat in the White House. By 1995, Republicans controlled the House and Senate. But, in 2001,
