Last night around nine o’clock, when PBS’s convention coverage broke for that ridiculous underwriting spot by Chevron (?), which plays every day after the News Hour and begins “We are explorers, humans are,” and which is just awkward enough that, every time I hear it, I am overcome by a desire to chain the copy writer, his editors, and his marketing company’s executives to chairs, pry their eyeballs open, and play that clunky spot over and over again—like in A Clockwork Orange—I sat on the bed to pet one of the cats and promptly passed out.

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