28 October—Two questions to consider before Election Day, just for the fun of it. Let’s start with Herschel Walker, down in Georgia, who threatens to further contaminate the United States Senate, whose membership of both major parties is already embarrassing enough. (Independent Bernie Sanders is less embarrassing and Independent Angus King isn’t at all embarrassing.)

Walker, clearly even more unqualified to be a legislator than many of the Senate incumbents of both parties, is an avowed foe of abortion for any reason and at any time. But he’s been accused yet again of being involved in another abortion. By another squeeze whom he had allegedly impregnated—this one 30 years ago, if you were wondering.

Forget about the details, they’re irrelevant. The question to ask, rather, is, hadn’t Herschel and his squeeze heard about contraception? You might also wonder where Walker stands on contraception today? For want of an ounce of prevention, as they say, the country may be saved.

Cutting to U.S. House of Representative races in all the states, now, here’s a question that hasn’t to my knowledge been asked of any of the Republican candidates: In the event their party regains a majority in the House, would they vote to support continuing the January Sixth hearings or any other effort to ultimately put Donald Trump behind bars and finally do unto him what should have been done long before he was POTUS and has only been amplified by his corrupt, distinctly non-presidential presidential tenure?

The feckless Democrats have really screwed up if they were or are at all serious about giving Trump his just desserts, rather than simply giving voters an incentive to keep them in office to continue their irresponsible legislating.

It’s really not a hard question. The Republican candidates should be able to answer without hedging, with a simple yes or no. Of course, they won’t. Outside of troglodytic Trump-prone districts, most even refuse to talk about the former grifter-in-chief, rationalizing their reticence with all sorts of desperate hogwash.

I’d ask Connecticut Fifth District Republican candidate George Logan, but I have no doubt he’d hedge. And since George has actually (and finally) pulled one paper-thin point ahead of incumbent Democrat Jahana Hayes in one poll—a fantastic, encouraging achievement, whether you like George or not—I don’t want to rain too hard on his parade . . .