esquire.com – So if, in this summer of its existential crisis, the Republican Party has not been gifted with the nuclear bomb of its dreams, it still has been handed enough ordnance to distract the nation’s attention from the vulgar talking yam it is preparing to nominate in a couple of weeks. However, the apparently inexhaustible ability of the Clintons to prompt Republicans to hysterical overreaction is working to HRC’s advantage.

—Me, yesterday, in this very shebeen.

It’s days like Wednesday when I wonder why I just don’t chuck it all and make my living at the track.