I will be live blogging a few minutes before the start of the debate. At the moment, I’m trying to hack Joe Biden’s hearing aid so that I can try to make him look smarter than Donald Trump. Be back in 45 minutes!
I just spent an hour listening to an excellent presentation by the Maryland Native Plant Society on native grasses for garden and meadow. I have both a garden and a meadow. Anyway, exciting. Years ago, my first long backpacking trip was in Glacier National Park. I flew back with a stopover in O’Hare. It was a jolt, a total shock to the system. Transitioning from a seminar on native grasses to this is going to be utterly jarring.
2055: Bourbon is not my favorite. But this is an American presidential debate, and so, for tonight, an American whiskey. Basil Hayden is the bottle. It’s sweet, very sweet.
2057: It’ll be CBS tonight. I’m looking for something not entirely biased.
2059: There’s a show called Love Island where a bunch of couples sleep in beds 3 feet from each other and make-out.
2101: We’re at 7.3 MILLION cases and 210 THOUSAND deaths. It would have been tough to do worse.
2104: I don’t know any of these CBS people. Chris Wallace, you’re on the air. Chris? Chris?
2105: You can see Trump’s people in the audience, as they are not wearing masks. How quickly does Trump go low here?
2106: Question to Trump: The Supreme Court. Answer from Trump: He is answering the question. The answer is correct. It’s about power, and the Democrats would do the same thing.
2108: Biden has a weak hand on the Supreme Court. Yes, there is gruesome hypocrisy. Biden is mixing his Roe v Wade and ACA arguments together, by the way.
2111: I appreciate that their heads are centered on the green screen in such a way that the words are at the same place with respect to their ears.
2112: I am the party. This debate isn’t going to continue.
2113: What is Donald Trump’s plan? He really sucks, as a human.
2117: Trump is pushing Biden against Sanders, which is a good plan. He cannot stop interrupting, it is absurd. I can’t watch this.
2120: Biden just hit him pretty well there. It is true, he has no plan.
2121: Will this be the only debate? They have to have them in separate rooms with mikes that can be cut off.
2123: It is was it is because you are who you are. Yep.
2124: Millions would have died…hello! We are substantially worse than the rest of the world. He could have not done a much worse job.
2127: Trump, do we love pharmaceutical companies or hate them?
2129: I watched the bleach news conference. It was not sarcastic. He thought he came up with something awesome. He wanted it to be named the Trump Treatment.
2130: Biden has calmed down nicely. Trump had calmed down too until he called Joe the dumbest guy around – this is a rock fight.
2132: Objective fact, 210,000 deaths, contradicts everything that Trump says. But people will believe it.
2135: I am not paid to watch this, I have no blog anymore?
2137: Ask Herman Cain whether the rallies are safe.
2137: Not sure what K would mean on a plot.
2141: You can’t fix the economy until you fix the Covid crisis.
2142: They need to cut the mikes.
2144: I paid millions of dollars, except that I took advantage of the tax laws to not pay any taxes.
2147: He is literally bronze, like the Colossus or something.
2149: All right, I’m out. Let me know if a push-up contest breaks out.
Words 
Here’s my take away. Trump wins blowhard of the night award because im pretty sure that, given all his interuptions, he said more words.
chris Wallace loses because he can’t control this kind of debate. I just don’t know about Biden. He wasn’t able to be chrisp in his ideas and much of what he said was “here’s the deal”.
We are in a heap of trouble. I think I’ll be spending as much time as I can in the woods going forward. I’d much rather listen to the wind.