CNN reports some pretty droll and mundane details about President Joe Biden’s first few weeks in office, things like how he showed Kamala Harris the spot in the VP’s office where he wrote a letter to Jill on his first Valentine’s Day working in the White House in 2009, that he still carries his old beat up leather briefcase from God knows when, that starts and ends his days early instead of staying up all night reading like Obama did or watching Fox News like Trump.

There’s no leaks coming from the White House about Biden calling Haiti a shithole, or Hunter Biden being denied a security clearance from the FBI so he can work in the West Wing as a special advisor. Joe Biden isn’t firing FBI Director Chris Wray for investigating possible 2020 campaign collusion with China. They did not, to our knowledge, have a private dinner where the power imbalance was demonstrated by the number of scoops of ice cream each man was served.

That we would feel compelled to write in what did not happen in that CNN article speaks to how we’re still adjusting to the hard stop in the reality show bullshit of the last four years. The outrages and malevolence and insanity are still out there, but they’re smaller, more fragmented, and – for now at least – removed from power nationally. A boring White House is good for everyone, even if it’s not great for the news business. May God never save us from this kind of boredom.