WE INTERRUPT OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM

My wife and I will be out of town and largely off the grid from most of the remainder of July.  We’ll be spending two weeks on Salt Spring Island, in British Columbia.  This will be our third year there, but it’s our first trip to Canada since Donald Trump initiated overt hostilities between the two countries. 

I’m sure our neighbors to the north understand that not everyone from south of the 49th parallel is a Deplorable, but I still feel embarrassed to be traveling on an American passport.   

We’ll be attending a silent meditation retreat.  When I tell people that, responses vary from “you must be crazy” to “I sure wish I could do that.”  The latter response comes mostly from mothers of young children.

We did this retreat last July, and at the time I was seriously worried that Donald Trump would fire Robert Mueller while I was incommunicado.  I was wrong about that, obviously, which got me thinking about other things I’ve been wrong about in two years of blogging about Donald Trump. 

I decided to look over what I’ve written about politics over the past two years and create a scorecard of hits and misses.  I’ll share some of the highlights and lowlights when I get back, and we’ll see how much credibility I have left.

Everybody take care, and please see to it that the Republic is still standing at the end of the month.