I can't say with any certainty if Donald Trump's absence was the reason I didn't watch Thursday night's GOP debate, but this was the first one that I missed. For the previous two debates I did live updates on Facebook, as I watched, and that made the experience somewhat less painful. That option was not available to me this time, although I suppose I could have live-tweeted the thing to my 8 Twitter followers. My feeling at the moment is that my Twitter account is not going to amount to much. I hate the format, and that 140 character limit just does not work for me at all.
But, in fairness to the Twitter platform, it is the perfect vehicle for delivering pithy one-liners like the example I pasted above. Users had a field day with Megyn's ridiculously long false eyelashes, and for whatever reason, Ben Carson was the target of most of the better ones. Another user pondered whether they were strong enough to pierce a belt buckle, which was an obvious shot across the good doctor's bow. I once suggested that the Carson campaign slogan should be "Nap Time in America", but they never took me up on it. Maybe I'll tweet it out and see what happens.
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