Friday Stuff

This BBC report discusses our “is it or isn’t it really a war” we’re currently waging...yep, Generalissimo Trump cited an “imminent threat” from Iran, with no specifics of course...oh, and #47 said the war isn’t about “regime change,” but Defense Secretary Kegseth said that the Iranian regime “did change”...I’m old enough to remember Repugs actually getting the messaging straight when they decided to wage illegal wars of choice...and as I know I’ve said before, how dumb do you have to be to take The Tangerine Toddler at his word on ANYTHING, especially this (when it comes to his claim that Iran would attack first)...”wars can be fought forever, and very successfully,” says Cadet Bone Spurs; I hope everyone who supported this demented lunatic in ’24 continues to feel proud of themselves – I’m sure they do (and Couch Boy is another lying fraud of course)...



...and Mehdi Hasan provides some well-thought-out commentary IMO on this story...Hasan draws 3 parallels between what Vlad The Butcher has done in Ukraine and what Bronzer Beelzebub is doing in Iran, including bombing schools and hospitals...we’re treated again to Markwayne Mullin and Anna Paulina Luna-tic and their “oh we’re bombing the crap out of this country but it’s not a war” spiels; also, saying Iran had declared war on us (prior to our attack on them) is A FLAT-OUT STINKING LIE!!!...stop “Putin-izing” indeed...



...and turning to domestic matters, Robert Reich brings us some reality on who’s mainly collecting supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits (children, the elderly, and people with disabilities)...also, many folks collecting SNAP benefits DO work, but their wages are so low that they have to rely on SNAP just to eat (and we also have a clip of Sen. Grasshole of Iowa spouting off about how the lazy “poors” supposedly won’t work, which HE apparently thinks is the problem)...also, it doesn’t surprise yours truly to learn that every dollar spent on SNAP generates $1.50 in economic activity...and why am I not shocked in any way to hear that “Christian” fraud MAGA Mike Johnson say they’re not cutting SNAP when 4 million people have lost that benefit?...and oh yeah, let’s also not forget that the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch have managed to evade $160 billion in taxes every year, which could easily pay for SNAP with money to spare...



...and Brittany Page lets us know about Trumpist Surgeon General nominee Casey Means wanting to ban birth control, which is straight out of Project 2025 and The Heritage Foundation as Page points out...is it too much to ask that the Surgeon General be an actual doctor who has matriculated through a course of study?? Apparently for our Trumpist overlords, it is...and Means is yet another charlatan criticizing the “medical establishment” while also trying to profit from “wellness” products...and I realize that I don’t have the right to comment on Means’s bodily autonomy (despite what Means wants to do to other women in this country), but if she birthed her first child in her late ‘30s, she likely had the kind of medical care that might not be necessary for younger women since pregnancy gets more and more problematic the older women get (I can say that much anyway)...and God, “Tuckums” looks just so thoughtful and intelligent, doesn’t he, as he listens to Means discuss female biology...and yeah, what Means says is a pretty damn similar flavor as to what this Doug Wilson troglodyte spouts about the role of women, or whatever...and oh yeah, this Means person basically tries to call out Dem U.S. Senator Patty Murray who asks a pretty-much-common-sense question about birth control, but being a good little Trumpette, Means has to cop an attitude instead of trying to answer...credit to Page for telling her story, which takes guts...



...and Jonathan Pie offers his take on our war with Iran...interesting to consider that British PM Keir Starmer could be getting heat for not being servile enough to Our Great Orange Warlord; I’m definitely not an expert in UK politics which are pretty “rough and tumble,” I should note...glad to hear Pie conflate the religious extremists in Iran with those in this country because, as far as I’m concerned, they’re both cut from the same awful cloth, though I’ll grant that nutjobs in this country have killed fewer people than those in Iran (NSFW/H)...



...and happy 80th birthday to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

Thursday Stuff

Kyle Kulinski brings us a segment of Ayman Mohyeldin of MS NOW calling out Repug MAGA U.S. House Rep Anna Paulina Luna-tic over “Operation Epstein Fury” (works for me) and her accusation that Iran’s state-sponsored terrorism has killed “thousands and thousands” of Americans, all without proof of course...and I don’t want to hear one goddamn word about the Beirut Bombing which happened under The Sainted Ronnie R OVER FORTY YEARS AGO!!! (and by the way, Reagan responded to that by invading Grenada...WHAAAA????)...also, for background purposes, it should be noted that Iran’s population is primarily Shia Muslim (as opposed to the more nutty Sunnis as Kyle says)...and I’m glad Kyle mentions that Obama unfroze Iranian assets to get the anti-nuke deal with that country THAT DEMENTIA DONNIE WALKED AWAY FROM!!! (NSFW/H)...



...and Sam and Emma and the Majority Report crew tells us that, apparently, Kaitlan Collins of CNN showed up another warmongering Repug a-hole on our war of choice in Iran, and that would be Tim Sheehy, the Repug Senator from Montana (and oh yeah, idiot voters in that state elected this guy in ’24 and got rid of Dem Jon Tester)...and ZOMG! Elizabeth Warren’s former campaign manager chanted “Death to America”?? The person Sheehy is referencing is Calla Walsh, who hasn’t been involved in electoral politics for four years...and Sam is right about how the Repugs didn’t even bother to do their propaganda right on this one, as opposed to Dubya’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iraq...”the reason you’re hearing varied reasons (for the war) is because of the varied threats this regime presents” is right up there with the STOO-PIDEST explanation for this mess that I’ve ever heard...oh, but Sheehy said in June of last year that “regime change can only come from the people of Iran,” which, shockingly enough, was correct then and remains so (and Sheehy definitely didn’t cover himself in glory here either...NSFW/H also)...



...and I know it doesn’t need to be pointed out to anyone with a brain what a delusional narcissist #47 is, but in the statement in this clip, the first thing he mentions is the compliments he believes he’s received over bombing Iran, but he doesn’t have much to say about what this will do to gas prices through Iran likely closing the Strait of Hormuz, or the inconvenience of paying more at the pump (which probably will be small potatoes when it comes to negative effects of this, if you want to know the truth)...and as David Pakman says, the negative ripple effect of rising gas prices is indeed substantial (food, clothing, utilities, and on and on)...and by the way, let’s have no damn illusions of what will fill the leadership vacuum in Iran, OK? Anybody who thinks that country will magically become an ally now must also believe in candy cotton ponies and sugar plumb fairies...



...oh, and Cheetoh Hitler just fired Kristi (“Dog Killer”) Noem without telling her apparently...and is she really going to be replaced by Markwayne Mullin? If I were wearing a suit jacket, I’d rip it off furiously and toss it across the room in his honor...hard for me to have so much as a speck of sympathy for Noem, but it is truly gutless for Bronzer Beelzebub to not so much as fire her to her face...and by the way, this doesn’t mean Noem will be gone, since this “Shield of the Americas” is in the picture, which sounds like an excuse for more pointless, cruel, deadly and ultimately ridiculous intervention elsewhere in our hemisphere (another NSFW/H clip)...



...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” on Repugs calling/not calling the Iran War an actual war...and man, Secretary of War Pete Kegseth is sure layin’ down some beats, yo (please)...and leave it to new DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to clarify the whole matter of whether or not this is a war (I guess for our ruling Trumpist overlords, Mullin is the best spokesperson they could get, which is another level of awfulness to be honest)...



...and I find myself asking the question posed by this newer tune more and more every day.

Wednesday Stuff

Rachel Maddow informs us of what Crazy Eyes Kash Patel is doing in response to heightened threats against this country given that we’re in a brand spanking new Mideast war brought to us by another Repug *preznit...I’m sure you’ll see how I’m DEFINITELY NOT CONVINCED that he knows what he's doing given that Crazy Kash just fired a dozen members of an elite counter espionage unit that specialized in Iran, with potentially more firings according to reporting from Carol Leonnig, losing “centuries” worth of intel and expertise to protect us, as Leonnig says (and I believe her), which, as far as I’m concerned, is an impeachable offense for Kash's boss all by itself...

...and Chris Hayes brings as much commendable outrage as he’s allowed to convey I'm sure about Our Bright Shiny New Mideast War...”glibness” indeed from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule on this (“yeah, we’re blowing up this country which has been a dreaded enemy and killing hundreds of people...BUT LOOK AT OUR GOLD DRAPES!”)...and yeah, it sure tracks that a wingnut podcaster overheard talk about the war before Congress...also, I don’t know if I’ve ever heard an explanation before like the one from Little Marco about “well, Israel was going to attack Iran, but even though we weren’t going to be part of that, we figured Iran would attack us anyway, so we decided to join in”...so THAT is the rationale for blowing the Middle East apart, again???!!!...and oh boy, Whiskey Pete Kegseth sure talks brave now that he’s no longer in harm’s way, doesn’t he?...and great work from Hayes to call this disgusting escapade what it is, and that’s an excuse to try and placate “Bibi” and his bloodlust...



...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know about the insidious, alleged forces of spirituality underpinning our administration of grifters and frauds...why am I not in the least bit surprised to see white “Christian” nationalism rear its ugly head in the Gropenfuhrer’s shiny new Mideast debacle?...journalist Jonathan Larsen informs us that our troops are being told that “this is a religious war” (every time I actually think this can’t get worse, it does)..and 110 similar complaints about this nonsense? Yeah, I would call that a trend all right...oh, and this alleged pastor that SecDef Kegseth supports thinks we should repeal the 19th Amendment? Yeah, let’s just get rid of women’s suffrage as long as we’re burning down the rest of our government (somewhat NSFW/H)...



...and I’ve been meaning to get to this clip for the last few days, but with the world going to hell I’ve been putting it off, but no longer...this BBC report from Katty Kay lets us know that the U.S. is running out of teenagers...wow, just smack my butt and call me a pointy headed lib, but are you surprised when we make it as economically difficult as possible to birth and raise kids and do everything we can to limit their economic opportunity (as opposed to, y’know, stinking tax cuts for people who don’t need them)? Ya’ think?...looks like we started having fewer kids around the ’08 financial crisis, which makes sense...half a million fewer 18-year-olds by 2040, huh? Hmmm...interview with Professor Nathan Grawe of Carleton College...parents sending their kids to college in this “brave new world” will indeed have to weight the best offer, including tuition w/student loans and/or scholarships factored in, against what a particular school has to offer – should result in cost savings, though it could hurt quality of education also...



...and Michael Kosta of The Daily Show gives us an update on our regularly scheduled carnage...and apparently, MAGA is splitting off into factions facing off against each other as a result of our brand new Iranian hellscape (here)...and as Kosta says, it definitely doesn’t follow the plot of a Schwarzenegger action movie to tell stranded Americans to take a tour bus to escape – what, are you planning to drop them off at the commissary?...and nice job to give a bit of a shout out to Vlad The Butcher to draw the parallel with the messaging from all of those Trumpist lickspittles (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and today is the 60th anniversary, believe it or not, of John Lennon’s interview with British journalist Maureen Cleave in which Lennon said that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” (here)...as he explained later, Lennon was talking about kids in Britain who were Beatles’ fans...as we know, though, word got out to this country that Lennon said that and people went nuts, smashing and burning Beatle records, which was a hysterical overreaction to put it mildly...I think this tune from Lennon’s solo catalog is probably apt for this occasion.

Tuesday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen gives us yet another reason from Mango Mussolini for his war with Iran...so, the Gropenfuhrer goes on Truth Septic to say that Iran allegedly tried to interfere with the ’20 and ’24 elections; I realize we’re never going to get proof of such a charge from our cabal of bottom feeders...I’d also forgotten to note that Cheetoh Hitler didn’t mention ICE a single time during that interminable SOTU (unrelated directly to the war I realize)...it also wouldn’t surprise me in any way whatsoever to see #47 try to use some war powers BS to try and seize control of the midterm elections; he’s a despotic demagogue bent on wrecking this country every way possible, and anyone who doesn’t see that at this point is a goddamn idiot as far as yours truly is concerned (with Marc Elias, who informs us that our Mad King wants to use a statute to pretty much impose martial law THAT DEMENTIA DONNIE CAN’T EVEN USE FOR TARIFFS ACCORDING TO THE SCOTUS!!!)...also, I definitely share Elias’s concerns about our legacy media, especially since now just about all of it (except maybe MS NOW) is run by rich conservatives...



Update: And about the war, I give you more here...and just for good measure, #sendbarron #sendbarron #sendbarron #sendbarron #sendbarron #sendbarron.

...oh, and speaking of ICE, I’d like to apologize for interrupting our regularly scheduled war to present this clip from NBC News of 911 calls from our concentration camp in Dilley, TX about severely sick kids (and of course, it would be nice if our corporate media would ask a little louder why we have KIDS in these places, let alone ANYBODY, but I guess that would be impolite)...



...and sticking with domestic matters, Farron Cousins informs us that Bronzer Beelzebub recently threatened to deport people who don’t have jobs, and yes, Our Sweaty Orange Goofball means people born in this country also...what a shame there are apparently no longer any adults in the “party of Lincoln” who can step in and say, “You know what? Enough is enough with this guy” and put an adult with a speck of common sense in the position of *preznit...oh, and this happened on “angel family” day, and the whole “angel family” thing is some Trumpist concoction to honor families who lost loved ones allegedly killed by people here illegally, which requires me to note YET AGAIN that, overwhelmingly, people immigrating to this country with or without proper documentation commit crime AT A SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER RATE than people who were born here, and yes, I know the wingnut response is LAKEN RILEY LAKEN RILEY LAKEN RILEY LAKEN RILEY LAKEN RILEY LAKEN RILEY (and yes, her death was awful, and indeed ANY death from someone here illegally or otherwise is awful, but all I’m asking for is some perspective here)...



...and Kyle Kulinski reminds us that US tourism is utterly collapsing as everyone despises us now (down about 11 million by one estimate), and that was BEFORE launching the attack on Iran (and down 28 percent in January from Canada – ugh)...and oh yeah, the “brain drain” thanks to #47 and Apartheid Clyde is something this country may NEVER recover from...and I guess Las Vegas has officially given up on trying to attract anyone except the “one percent,” and maybe even a fraction of that (NSFW/H)...



...and Stephen Colbert tries to make sense of the ongoing carnage in the Middle East, this time with Iran (and if we’ve tragically lost 6 of our brave service people so far, I would suggest that those are only the ones we know about)...and no disrespect to Stephen, but I could care less about what Brett McGurk has to say; he helped pave the way for this mess as far as I’m concerned by giving “Bibi” everything he wanted to slaughter the Palestinians, with Biden’s domestic support cratering partly for that reason...



...and maybe like you, I find that I need something kid of mellow for a wintry mix Tuesday, and I think this will provide that nicely.

Monday Stuff

Belle of the Ranch gives us more reactions to the Iran attack from Cheetoh Benito and “Bibi”...I suppose #47 will get a bit of a “sugar high” in polling when it comes to His Brand New Shiny Middle East War, but we know from recent history what is likely to happen next...I continue to be utterly shocked by how much sense Marjorie Taylor Greene is making, this time on the Iran attack...oh, and leave it to that knucklehead Tim Burchett to compare killing the leader of a despised country to targeted bombing by other presidents, including the destruction of an aspirin factory...and yeah, “Operation Epstein Fury” is pretty “on the nose” for this...as usual, well-off politicians set up other people’s kids for further harm at the hands of a despotic regime...



...and turning to domestic matters, David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us of the $1.2 trillion trade gap ($70.3 billion for December ’25) from Cantaloupe Capone’s ruinous fiscal mismanagement...I would tend to believe Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and his definitely-not-rosy prognostications...soooo, the promised manufacturing jobs from reconstituting our supply chains in this country haven’t materialized, and we’re paying more on top of that – are you tired of the winning yet? Yep, we’re indeed looking at the “affordability crisis”...the one area where jobs are increasing is indeed health care because people will always be sick and the population of this country overall is getting older to the point where more care is needed...also, paying more and more interest on our debt continues to economically cripple every non-rich person in this country, particularly because WE are the ones who pay interest on the debt bonds held by foreigners...and a $32 trillion debt overall? Anybody who voted for this ruinous bunch from the “R” Party should be made to wear a dunce cap in public (and no disrespect to Shuster, but I couldn’t give a damn about Tim Pool, one of these YouTubers/podcasters funded by Vlad The Butcher)...



...and Tennessee Brando discusses Hillary Clinton giving a deposition into the Jeffrey Epstein criminality on “pedo island,” but Howard Lutnick and the Tangerine Toddler get to skate pretty much of course...I agree with Brando about 150 percent that this is YET ANOTHER story where we should have gotten together to do the right thing for the people impacted the most, and in this case, that means the victims and survivors of the Epstein horror show, including the family and friends of Virginia Giuffre, and I don’t mind the proverbial book getting thrown at the worst offenders also, whoever they are...I know Brando is despairing a bit in the end, but unfortunately I think he’s right; I’m just a guy and no big deal in the scheme of things, but I cannot tell you how much effort I’ve put into trying to make Repugs see reality on this and maybe about a hundred other issues, and the response I usually get is “la la la I’m covering my ears and can’t hear you” (NSFW/H)...



...and Sam Seder of The Majority Report brings us Iowa Repug U.S. House Rep Mariannette Miller-Meeks, telling us that we should work without health care until they die, and just rely on health savings accounts...and by the way, you pretty much can’t use a HSA to pay a health insurance premium...and isn’t it just too con-vee-nient of a coincidence that this line from her about adopting a healthier lifestyle and having lower health care expenses has also been parroted by “Bobby Brainworms”; sooo, if somebody goes out and runs, say, a mile every day and consumes a low fixed amount of calories and stays away from alcohol and cigarettes but they still get pancreatic cancer, is she saying that person should be blamed anyway?...great point by Sam that, when it comes to health care, the cost containment has to come from the provider side, not the consumer side...



...and once more, Mr. Newberger gives us a spot-on take concerning the malfeasance (at a minimum) of Combover Caligula...



...and RIP Neil Sedaka.

Saturday Stuff

Ari Melber of MS NOW provides coverage of our war with Iran, including (according to Dear Orange Leader) the killing of Iran’s supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...what some people won’t do to try and distract from plummeting domestic support and the ongoing scandal of the Epstein files...retired General Barry McCaffrey and Ambassador Dennis Ross offer commentary...I guess I’m just a pointy-headed lib for wondering how many times we have to learn that PRE-EMPTIVE FREAKING WAR DOESN’T GODDAMN WORK!!! (to say nothing of the fact that it’s illegal as hell)...still way too many goddamn questions about this at this point...



...also, the German news service DW gives us their report on retaliatory strikes launched by Iran against U.S. military bases in the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and Kuwait...report with journalist Anjana Sankar...



...and Jesse Dollemore gives us his insights, you could say, on the Gropenfuhrer “getting his war on” against Iran and putting hundreds of our military at risk in the region...oh, and apparently either we or Israel bombed a school, and the casualty count is at least 80 and projected to go much higher...gee, I wonder if Cantaloupe Capone’s “board of peace” is going to give him a special prize for that?...kudos to Jesse for going over Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, which our brain-addled chief executive took an oath to preserve, protect and defend a little over a year ago (though, as some keen-eyed folks besides yours truly noted, Pumpkin Pol Pot didn’t lay his hand across “the good book” as he was sworn in again)...and gee, “Tokyo Rose” Gabbard sure covered herself in glory at that Bund rally during the election, didn’t she?...and I’m just going to keep repeating the fact that Our Orange Clod walked away from a nuclear deal we struck with Iran under President Obama, with the significant efforts of Secretary of State John Kerry (NSFW/H)...



...and I offer the following without any further commentary.

Friday Stuff

(The pic is President Lyndon Johnson handing the pen to Martin Luther King Jr. after Johnson used it to sign the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965.)

Brian Tyler Cohen and Marc Elias inform us that it looks like our theocrats in robes are getting ready to totally extinguish the Voting Rights Act, Section 2 in particular...this stems from the Callais case out of Louisiana, in which that state redrew maps from the 2020 census and created 2 instead of 1 black opportunity districts, and a group of white voters said it was a map that discriminated against white people (since whites are so blatantly discriminated against in this country - #joke)...I didn’t realize that overturning Section 2 of the VRA, effectively neutering it (if that’s what comes from the SCOTUS ruling in Callais) could endanger potentially 30 Democratic seats in the U.S. House and (as Elias says) make it extremely difficult for Dems to take control in that chamber, but that does seem to be the endgame here...sounds like the original case had to do with the voting map in Louisiana but it was expanded to go after Section 2; the expanded ruling thing is what happened with Citizens United (and this smells like Alito’s dirty handiwork to be honest)...Elias is absolutely right about figuring out a new way to move forward if indeed the worst does happen concerning the VRA...I’m glad Elias mentioned the John Lewis For The People Act, though, as Elias says, we actually need something beyond that to anticipate more Stupid Voting Tricks from the “R” party...



...and Emma Vigeland, Brandon Sutton, Matt Binder and Matt Lech of The Majority Report discuss the nutjobs in the U.S. House (notably MAGA Mike Johnson, cheered on by Dementia J. Trump) passing the SAVE Act to make it harder for married women to vote, among the myriad other problems with this rotten bill, though it looks like Repug Senate Majority Leader John Thune doesn’t have the votes to pass it fortunately...Mehdi Hasan cuts to the chase in his analysis, including the fact that this codifies that damn “voter ID” nonsense, which, yet again, is a “solution” in search of an actual problem (when we register at our polling locations, we have to provide proof that we legally reside there already, so there’s no need to do it again when we vote, and to be honest, actual irregularities when voting happen at such a microscopic level that it’s basically insignificant, and such irregularities are caught by poll workers anyway)...I didn’t know either that this wretched bill doesn’t say anything about marriage licenses for married women and leaves that question up to the states...what a damn mess!...also a good point to note that, in addition to the cost of getting an updated passport, there’s the fact that it will take longer to get one now because of the general defunding of public services from this wretched group in charge of the federal government...not surprised that there’s somewhat of a link here to Peter Thiel, Jeffrey Epstein, etc...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us of the recent testimony before Congress by former ICE employee Ryan Schwank, stating how he was told to teach these ICE life forms how to break the law and pretty much thumb their noses at the Constitution...truly a courageous act by Schwank to come forward this way and voice not just his concerns but those of ICE instructors who’ve had their class curricula for training new agents cut by more than half, so those recruits who DO emerge won’t know (and likely won’t care) about following the law...this is one reason why we’ll need a permanent truth and reconciliation committee when this nightmare is eventually over with subpoena power, and I don’t care if it’s composed only of Dems since I wouldn’t expect ANY Republican to stand up and do the right thing at this point...



...and Thom Hartmann makes a pretty convincing case IMO that prior Repug presidential administrations ended up pocketing about $38 trillion before #47 (between both Bushes and The Sainted Ronnie R)...I’d forgotten the history of Jude Wanniski and the “two Santa Claus” theory, but that’s indeed important for this topic...Thom goes down the whole list of stuff we could fund instead of shoveling the dough out the door for those stinking tax cuts for the rich...gee, let’s see, there’s universal pre-K, debt free college, restoring funds for Medicare/Medicaid and the ACA credits (or just sh*tcanning our wretched for-profit health care system and moving towards Medicare for All), upgrading our crumbling infrastructure including investing in renewable energy, weaning ourselves off fossil fuels as much as possible, building new housing, and on and on and on...and I honestly don’t recall if Cheetoh Hitler mentioned the national debt at the SOTU – there was so much other verbal flatulence from that spectacle that I couldn’t keep track...



...and Stephen Colbert gives us more on that mind-numbingly awful SOTU, including an 11 percent drop in ratings from last year, though Colbert’s is UP 7 percent over the same period (so much winning!)...and wow, artificially enhancing camels in an Oman “beauty” contest? I’m not sure a punchline is even necessary for that one...and a “toe up”? Yeah, I caught that one...and oh yeah, it looks like Our Treasonous Orange Pustule wants to attack Iran also – madness on so many levels that it’s hard to list all of them...also, is it necessary to point out again that we actually had a nuke deal with Iran under Obama, but Pumpkin Pol Pot walked away from it as soon as he first parked his bulbous butt in An Oval Office?...and oh yeah, we recently had another ridiculous confirmation hearing for another idiotic Trump nominee, and that would be Casey Means for surgeon general, some other damn “social media influencer” who’s grossly unqualified...



...and I don’t know if this newer tune is anthemic of anything or not, but I thought I’d present it anyway as we begin what hopefully will be a snow-free weekend.