In the Times, David Brooks writes an unusually entertaining and uncharacteristically pessimistic column:

Aeschylus writes: “God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”

This is how a true Mets fan greets impending loss. And come to think of it, this is not bad preparation for what’s about to befall Republicans, either.

I suspect everyone’s favourite Mets fan will object to the comparison of the Mets and the GOP.  Besides the doom of defeat, what could they possibly share?  But will he share in this Brooksian lament, or has he been swept up in the ecstasy of the 3-0 sweep?