Now here's a human being we'll miss: former Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana. Just reading his obituary in The New York Times, we're overwhelmed with how small the US Senate has become.
Title IX, lowering the voting age to 18, the 25th amendment — any one of those would be a signature career achievement. Birch Bayh did 'em all and more.
What had slipped our minds, though, was his campaign to eliminate the Electoral College. It's like he knew 2016 was going to happen! (And 2004... and 2000... sigh.)
Senator Bayh was 91, so we can't complain. For a human, he lived a long time. But we're still sad. For all his fellow Americans, he made life not only better but more fun. We cats PURR.
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