And it's not even like Keith Olbermann can meet Al Gore on the street and say "Your girl is lovely, Hubble."

Okay, so maybe it's not The Way We
Were.  It's The Way We Coulda Been.
If only.

Breaking up is so hard to do, as the Captain & Tenille have so wisely informed us.  It's even hard for those of us who are only bystanders.  Even when we knew from the start that the perfect couple was destined for Splitsville.  So, naturally we are very disappointed to hear that Current TV has fired Keith Olbermann and placed in his still warm chair the rear end of relentlessly self-promoting Eliot Spitzer, a man with a face for radio and a history for a rap sheet.  http://tinyurl.com/6pvvnux  Because it's not even like when Barbra Streisand, domestically ensconced in her earnestly noble and fulfilling lefty causes, sees Robert Redford moving onward and upward in his shallow but glamorous success.  Hence, Your girl is lovely, Hubble.

Isn't pretty to think so?

No, it's more like Hemingway's terminally unhappy couple, Jake and Lady Brett.   Jake, with his non-working man thing and Brett with her emasculating-wanting-to-have-sex-when-what-right-do-women-have-wanting-to-have-sex thing.  Yes, we are left with an ending right out of The Sun Also Rises, which Current TV's ratings will certainly not do:

"Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”

Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.

“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”