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Did I mention picking up where I left off at Anytime Fitness?\u00a0As before, other gym patrons have a habit of setting\u00a0the wall monitors to Fox News, where old grievances are\u00a0always fresh and raw. I swear, you can’t watch Fox for 10 minutes without seeing some reference to Bowe Bergdahl,\u00a0Benghazi, or the time Barack Obama refused to drink a beer with Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, though, was different. I didn’t notice at first, because I usually get on the stationary bicycle and lose myself in a Kindle book, but after pedaling for a few minutes\u00a0I realized I\u00a0wasn’t hearing the words and names that normally bubble up\u00a0in the background\u2014email, Monica Lewinsky, indictment, Ambassador John Bolton\u2014so I glanced\u00a0at the nearest screen. There was a reporter up to her ankles in water, talking about floods in Texas. She didn’t mention politics, nor did the chyron running underneath. I squinted to make out the logo at the bottom left of the screen: HNL. Well, that explained that. If it had been Fox News, they’d have found a way to slag\u00a0Obama and\u00a0Clinton for those horses on the porch<\/a>.<\/p>\n This morning the wall monitors at the gym were set to a variety of\u00a0channels. When I was on the leg machines the closest TV\u00a0was set to Univision Arizona. Remember Colberto Reporto Gigante<\/a>, where Stephen Colbert\u00a0lampooned Mexican TV? Without wanting to seem like I’m picking on Univision or its viewers in any way, I must say … Univision Arizona is\u00a0just like that<\/em>, right down to the chicas!<\/p>\n Speaking of Mexico, I tried another of Polly’s south-of-the-border frozen fruit bars\u00a0last night. This one was called Pepino con Chile, a cucumber &\u00a0chile popsicle. And I liked<\/em> it, though my lips and tongue burned for a while after I finished it.<\/p>\n Here are my chicas, by the way.<\/p>\n Shifting gears, I was happy to see Hillary Clinton\u00a0hogging the oxygen<\/a> in the room yesterday. It’s about time: for the past few weeks El Trumpo\u00a0has been breathing most of it, at least from what I see on the media, with Bernie Sanders huffing up\u00a0the rest. But one good speech<\/a>, and how things change.<\/p>\n I’m not going\u00a0to join the chorus of men who say\u00a0Hillary sounds\u00a0strident in her campaign speeches, but I\u00a0will say this: to me at least,\u00a0she doesn’t present\u00a0well when she yells slogans into the mic like a traditional candidate. I never feel I’m seeing the real Hillary when she does that, and if she seems\u00a0phony to me, a die-hard Hillary fan, how about to less committed voters? Listening to her speech yesterday, though, I felt I was seeing the real person behind the candidate. She was smart, conversational, armed with facts, and entirely persuasive. I think she’s found the right voice to use for the rest of her campaign. I hope she sticks with it. Not to mention, she’s dead\u00a0on in her assessment of Donald Trump and the\u00a0chaos he’d inflict on our country and the world\u00a0should he get elected.<\/p>\n I have little\u00a0to say about the Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels crashes yesterday, other than to honor the pilots: Blue Angel #6, who died on impact, and Thunderbird #6, who ejected safely but then had to endure a\u00a0grip & grin with his commander-in-chief. I’m not sure which fate I would have chosen, and I\u00a0don’t say\u00a0that lightly.<\/p>\n Flying fast and maneuvering hard at low altitude is dangerous work. There’s no room to recover when things go wrong, as any\u00a0demonstration or\u00a0aerobatic team pilot will tell you. There are days when I take a dim view of the military’s love\u00a0for bread & circuses public displays. 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