Listen to our archived episodes: RadioPublic|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * Happy New Year! Or whatever kind of new year! The year may be new, but most of the stories are pretty old. That is, it’s still pretty much all pandemic and putsch. How can the media help us get through the ongoing insurrection? Center democracy. And hurry, please, because polling says that we may only just barely be hanging on to a majority actually kinda down on the whole insurgency thing, depending on how you put it.   Over at the January 6th committee, ex-convict and disgraced NYC police commissioner Bernie Kerik has turned over what amounts to one of two written confessions.   Fauci and the feds are still working on hammering out what WTF we’re all supposed to do. For now, anyway, since we don’t know what’s coming next. Well, after a whole bunch of crazy case counts, anyway. That much we know. But will vaccination finally uncouple case counts from death rates? How about from hospitalization? We hope so!   In other news… Chris Matthews is still pretty sure this all your fault, ya commie. Speaking of commies, they finally gave Empty Greene the boot. And David Fahrenthold is taking his show to Broadway (where there are theaters on both sides).   Today in Scaring the $#*% Out of You: Russia says they’re out of patience with Americans, who mostly have no idea what they’re talking about.