Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.