SERIOUS MALEDICTA

I have just absorbed a shocking piece of news.
On the Saturday when the last presidential election was called, my wife and I stopped at a package store where we bought wines and beers at the time. The store had both a TV and a music-player in it. The song being played was Give Peace A Chance. Faux News was on the TV set calling the election for Biden. My wife expressed the hope that, now the election was decided, that there’d be some peace. The AMH (adult male hominid; I won’t call him a man) behind the counter lethally threatened the new president-elect if he made any move to ‘take guns away’.
Apropos of this, a close…