Yesterday in the car headed north I flipped the radio to the news talk channel, where a Texan preacher was reciting Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia delegates, like really emoting it in a quintessentially Texan-preacher fashion, and when he was done the hennish host clucked “Wow, gosh, I am just SO inspired by that,” and then she cut to a commercial, which was for investing all your savings in gold, because gold is safe, because gold is guaranteed by the United States government, which the hennish host had said previously is overrun with Socialists.