A dog not barking: You know, I haven’t heard the phrase “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” — a constant chant of the last eight years — in the last month and a half or so.

Oh, yeah: except out of my typewriter (and those of some others who haven’t quite gotten with the program . . .).

P.S. “Typewriter” is strictly a metaphor, of course. (I guess we should say “keyboard,” to be safe — the way we say “recording” instead of “record,” “CD,” “download,” etc.)

P.P.S. We still call golf irons “irons,” even though they haven’t been made out of iron in decades . . .