If Hillary is inevitable, and she wins, we’ll end up having had at least 24 years of heads of state from just two families. Does anyone else find a rerun of the intra-Plantagenet rivalry a bit out-of-character for an alleged democratic republic?

I’ve been slow with this post: The repaired phone came back, no problem, and has been working fine. The only irksome thing is this: When my wife had a similar problem, only worse — her whole screen went dead — and brought her unit to the Soho Apple Store, she was simply handed a new iPhone. No loaner, no fee. Grrrr.