Shabbat shalom!
I am taking the weekend off to celebrate 39 amazing years with my partner for life. It just keeps getting better.
But, I can’t resist a quick note on a few topics this week.
Those of you as old, or older than myself, will recognize this week’s title reference to Hawaii Five-O, a popular cop show which aired from 1968 until 1980. Personally, I was more of a Kojac and Columbo fan, but I enjoyed Five-O’s lead cop Steve McGarrett and the lush scenery of the Islands. Generally at the end of most shows, McGarrett would instruct his sidekick, Danny Williams, to take the bad guy into custody by telling him to “Book ’em, Danno.”
Fani Willis did just that, booking the orange turd (his fourth indictment) on RICO charges related to his conspiracy to hijack the Georgia presidential election. As Charlie Sykes said so well in his latest newsletter, “It was always going to end this way, wasn’t it? If you elect a serial liar and conman, a narcissist, bully, wannabe mobster, with the vocabulary of an emotionally insecure nine-year-old, you can’t really be shocked at how it turned out, can you? This is what Trump wanted, because this is what he chose. He could have accepted defeat and allowed the peaceful transfer of power. He could have behaved like every other president in American history. Instead, he chose to lie about the election. He chose to orchestrate a coup.”
The fact that this monster is still leading in the polls by a large margin and that 6 of the 8 Republican candidates would still support him if he is found guilty, does not speak well about the Republican Party and our country. It is a national embarrassment that has no historical precedent. We are once again in unchartered political waters, and the seas look choppy and the weather unpredictable. I won’t torture the metaphor any further.
What is not unpredictable is my very indulgent spa treatment on Sunday: Obsidian & Sage Detoxifying Ritual, where I supposedly will surrender myself “to a warm chrysalis of safety in a gravity-defying float through a mental, spiritual, and physical cleansing ritual. Mind-clearing obsidian, aura-cleansing sage, and detoxifying mud exfoliate and nourish your body to further relax into a full-body massage.”
I really have no idea what I have signed up for, but after watching just 20 minutes of the first Republican debate, I definitely need some mind clearing detoxification.
Enjoy the weekend everyone! And hey, don’t be getting booked for anything illegal, and stay safe out there. There appears to be another surge of Covid going around.
Brad out.
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