I have a friend approximately my age, 109, who is considering running for public office next year. He asked me the other day for my advice.(Occasionally, a friend will lose their better sense and ask me for advice, and I’m thinking, why? I don’t trust my own advice, why should you?)Anyway, this friend has some politicos who are putting some pressure on him to run for public office. “We’re counting on you, they tell him. The people need your help.”If I were you, I told him, I wouldn’t run for office. I wouldn’t file to run, I said, unless you’re ...