wondering about this conversation. it does get in the weeds a little bit. you re like the common sense guy. i guess so. i live in manhattan. i m not like every man u.s.a., but i think there s an important role for somebody who s not in the thick of it and hasn t been there before to ask the common sense kind of questions. but do you think that is what is lacking in politics? that especially right now, a year ahead of a political election of huge significance, there s a lack of common sense out there? people are just playing party to party? yeah, look at the supercommittee. that s a perfect example of you sit from the outside and go, what the hell is wrong with these people. we even called it a super committee. this was going to go through, get something through, then they say we couldn t do it. that to me is is a classic example of if you re in washington, you could justify it a little bit. if you live in the real world,