tilting at windmills

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This morning was spent writing an opinion piece and then submitting it for consideration to the local paper.

The piece was based on last night's lingering irritation with the political analysis on the PBS NewsHour -- a commentary on the week's political news. I wouldn't say PBS is the sole source of my irritation: It just happened to be near at hand.

My suggestion, expressed in a letter I sent to PBS and to which I expect no more than a computer-generated response was that at the beginning of all such segments in which the week's political news is revisited, there might be a one-minute recognition of the topics the political candidates did NOT address during the week ... things like the environment, war, education, mortgage defaults, structural banking changes, agriculture ... just the topics on which the wannabe leaders of the free world might exhibit some leadership of policy or persuasion.

After the one minute segment, the analysts might return to the regularly-scheduled dissections of the latest political gaffe, whose tax returns had not been made public, and who owned a horse.

It's tilting at windmills, I recognize ... but that's what writing is about.
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