Unless one is very rich or very poor the outcome of the presidential race is really of little financial importance , so unless one is awash in altruism (and heaven knows society needs these types)or bored nosiness why bother to squander a synapsis on the matter?

Hilton Kramer has gone over the preciosity precipice. From yesterday's NYO: "Almost nothing could be better calculated to excite the interest of modern connoisseurs of sculpture than an exhibition of 18th- and 19th-century European terra-cotta models."