(Politics: to be and not to be)

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Independence Day, 2015. America is awash in barbecue, fireworks, and Presidential candidates. (Two of those three are mostly harmless. Guess.)

And given the average American’s apathy for everything except taking selfies, this may end up being the first election in US history where there were more candidates than voters.

For anybody who writes a humor column, it’s a great time. I don’t have to make up a lot of satire – I can just hold up a newspaper...