This election year has added a new season to our country’s calendar: The silly season. Not silly as in fun – but as in asinine, stupid and pernicious. Forget any notion that America’s periodic plebiscite should be about lofty ideals, important issues and real ideas. Instead, right-wing screwballs have turned the GOP into the Goofy Old Party, running campaigns based on frat-boy stunts, horror movie scaremongering and moronic games of hate-your-neighbor. In that last category, […]