Quote of the Day (Finley Peter Dunne, With Still-Relevant Predictions of VP Duties)

“Aside fr’m the ar’joos duties iv looking afther the prisidint’s health, it is th’ business iv the vice-prisidint to preside over th’ deliberations iv th' Sinit….It is his jooty to rigorously enforce th' rules iv th' Sinit. There ar-re none. Th' Sinit is ruled by courtesy, like th’ longshoreman's union."—Irish-American newspaper columnist and political satirist Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), Dissertations by Mr. Dooley (1906)

Change those possessive adjectives from male to female, and this, more or less, is still what Joe Biden’s eagerly awaited VP pick should expect, if the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee wins this November.

With both major party nominees over 70 years old, “looking afther the prisidint’s health” is going to be a greater preoccupation than usual for their running mates….