Politics once had some dignity — let’s hope to regain that

Politics once had some dignity — let’s hope to regain that

The last six months or so, I’ve been reminded almost daily of a line from an “Epic Rap Battle of History.” Since I’m guessing that plenty of readers of this paper aren’t familiar with Epic Rap Battles, here’s a summary: it’s a YouTube comedy channel where they imagine and perform a rap battle between two famous figures, sometimes real and sometimes fiction, often one of each. Some representative examples are Jacques Cousteau vs. Steve Irwin, Nap…