Even when it is working on your brain at full strength, summer does not feel endless so much as it does abundant. It ends, it has to end, but when you are in an appropriately summery cast of mind it just feels like there is enough of it to make that ending feel abstract. The weeks sort of roll over without seeming to add up; things are happening, but nothing of any great consequence; it is the third week of July for an entire month.
There is, to be clear, plenty of summer stuff in the monitors. I talked about my recent family time in Eagles Country, the qualified do's and extreme don'ts of South Jersey Shore flag culture, and the lessons I learned during my trip to the Wildwood Boardwalk with Dan McQuade. Even here, though, there were some bittersweet notes.
And so we talked about those Donald Pump T-shirts, but also what they mean and a little bit about Trump's strange status as a living meme; we talked about Drew's pride in his excellent daughter launching from the nest, but also about what was a difficult summer for his family. We were having fun, but there was some stuff on our minds.
And then we got into the politics stuff. Drew and to a slightly lesser degree I have been observing the current trends in the political landscape, which seem almost surreal after the seemingly endless summer.
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