The Bent Pin

THE trumpeted theme of Campaign ’08 reminds me of my grandmother’s interpretation of Lady Macbeth: “She’s having the Change.”

I have to remember to catch myself every time I start to say, “If I hear the word ‘change’ one more time . . .” The drumbeat is so incessant that I would have to go ahead and do whatever it is I threaten to do, and it might hurt. It might work, too: I’m on blood thinners.