The Misanthrope’s Corner

BRACE yourselves, this is an upbeat column. The Virginia gubernatorial election and the reaction to the verdict in the “Au Pair Murder Trial” put a song in my heart.

As you know, our new Republican governor-elect, James S. Gilmore III, won a thunderous victory with a single issue: his promise to abolish the “car tax,” an annual levy based on the assessed value of cars and trucks.