Our long national nightmare is over. I’m not talking about politics. I’m talking about the World Cup soccer tournament. For a little while there the news was filled with reports that the American team was advancing in the World Cup. That meant our TV screens would show endless replays of those rare moments when something actually happened in a soccer game. That takes 10 seconds. The rest of the game consists of players running into each other, with one falling to the ground and flopping like a beached bluefish. As it happens, I get to see a lot of this. My one son-in-law is from South Africa a…