At least cicadas have term limits
We here in Washington and Greene counties have been experiencing the cacophony of cicadas for several weeks. If you happen to live somewhere surrounded by trees, the afternoon chorus may have been loud enough to make outdoor conversation nearly impossible.
We get a break from all that screeching and chattering at night, when the cicadas grow silent, and before long, daytime quiet will return as the insects die, their progeny not to return again until 2033.
However, we get no such break from other annoying pests: politicians.
If you watch television at all, then you by now have probably memorized the text of certain advertisements concerning Pennsylvania’s upcoming U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Patrick Toomey and his Democratic challenger, Katie McGinty, because these ads, unlike the songs of the cicadas, are inescapable.
No matter which channel you are watching, their campaign ads come one after the other, every commercial break, 24 hours a day. And this is only June; the election is more than four months away!
How sick of these two people will voters be by Nov. 8?
By then, we may be wishing both candidates burrow into the ground and not emerge for 17 years.