This week in the saga

Scorekeeping week. A Georgia special election becomes a proxy war and its non-loss is trumpeted as a triumph; the approaching hundred-day mark is preemptively declared a ridiculous standard even as the desk fills with signed decrees offered as proof against it. Across the ocean, a Paris attack is read instantly as an omen for someone else's election — the chronicler notes that every event, foreign or domestic, now enters the ledger as a poll.