In life, not everything is political. So many good things aren’t and should never be, despite all the earnest efforts to the contrary insisted upon by today’s rude socialists or their nearly as puritanical predecessors, the Puritans.

Last week Jay Nordlinger wrote about the need for a safe zone from the politicization of everything, and I thought wistfully of that when I read that “Naturally,” ? naturally! as a course of nature ? “ESPN isn’t going to let Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration go by Tuesday without finding a way to latch on to the historic event … ESPN will have live coverage of Obama’s swearing-in starting at 11:30 a.m., with Jeremy Schaap talking to athletes there.”