I wonder.

I added it up tonight - our health insurance costs $600 a month. We have a $5000 deductible. Those assholes at Blue Shield decided that my daughter's well-child visit and vaccinations weren't covered under our plan. It's costing me $7200 a year for the privilege of paying only the first $5000 of any medical problem we might encounter - realistically speaking, my out-of-pocket expenses are $12,000 a year before my insurance does jack shit. I mean, that's shitty insurance.

But shitty insurance beats the fuck out of no insurance when you need it, and Obamacare wasn't aimed at me, it was aimed at poor people. People - including GWB's grandpappy - hated FDR so much they tried to overthrow his ass. Yet he's got a hell of a legacy, outside a few whackadoo monetarists.

There's also a giant hole in military conduct caused by drone warfare. The only reason we aren't being deafened by the giant sucking sound is nobody is flying them but us. That said, go to Amazon and try to buy a quadcopter not built in China. And if a UAV pilot at Creech AFB should happen to fire a Hellfire missile at an ISIS tank in a legitimate combat engagement, is the car bomb set off in the Walmart parking lot in Indian Springs NV any less legitimate?

The long lens of history can't focus on this administration yet. It can't focus on Ferguson, either. I'm hopeful that more good than bad follows from this point forth, but I don't confuse hope with prediction.