A SEASON TO BE THANKFUL …The president talking to the Thanksgiving Turkey before he pardons it I’m thankful for those that aren’t so caught up in politics. Perhaps it is an odd thing for a political obsessive to say, but in this season of gratitude, I give thanks to all those who are not consumed by politics. They are the people who spend much of their free time with family and friends; who make, invent and repair things; who create music, play sports, write novels, heal the sick, understand higher mathematics and science; who come up with new recipes, produce movies and videos, choreograph dance, think philosophically and theologically. They offer help to fellow humans in trouble not to make some ideological point, but just because it’s the right thing to do. Those of us who believe passionately in democracy and the obligation of citizens to join the fray risk leading ourselves and others astray by act...
