Note: This piece was originally posted on Nov. 2, the day before the presidential election.
When the host of a local radio talk show comes across something in the news that makes him scratch his head and wonder what on earth is happening to humanity, he refers to it as a “Stop the planet, I want to get off” moment.
I don’t listen to the show regularly, so I don’t know how often he’s been doing this in 2020. I do know that there has been no shortage of such moments this year; in fact, they seem to be happening with increasing regularity.