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I am a big fan of the various Star Trek series. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, we were introduced to the character Q of a race known as Q. All Q are immortal. The Q are almost all arrogant SOBs. They like to create havoc for the Enterprise and then, later, on Voyager. This is not the Q we'll be discussing today. The Q we are going to discuss is QAnon. QAnon is the to-the-right-of-Attila-the-Hun mystery group that likes to stir up right wing extremism as much as the really devoted facists that they are. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia's gift to the worst kind of Congressional representation, likes to spread the rumor that California wildfires were caused by Jewish space lasers. (I am a Jewish person; no Jewish person, school, or temple has their very own space lasers. They're too cost prohibitive.) Shortly after all of Marjorie's true weirdness came to light, Representative Greene was stripped of all her committee assignments. She had a big glass of Q'...

Because I was just wiped out yesterday.

If you ever are on YouTube and see this picture, it's what I chose to represent myself. I thought about using my staghorn fern but this woman is having some serious fun and in these super weird times, fun is a good thing to have.

I am so delighted to report that many of the homegrown terrorists who tried to mounted a badly-planned coup and invaded the US Capitol were put on the no-fly list. When you are on the no-fly list, you are there for life. If you're there in error, it takes a long time to get off it. I had a client whose son had the same name as a foreign terrorist and boy was blocked from flying. At the time, the son was five years old. It took several months to get the child removed from the list but eventually he was. (This was so long ago that the little boy is now a college graduate.) Those who are homegrown and took part in poorly orchestrated mayhem will have no such luck. YouTube brought us several views of a fellow who had been denied boarding and was crying and swearing in the terminal. Sir, nut up. You did a terrible crime. Stop crying and start driving. There were two women and a man who were physically removed from a plane; the other passengers applauded. They acted all super...

Amber Ruffin of the "Amber Ruffin Show" on Peacock and a writer for Seth Meyers's NBC late night show amusingly covered the appalling events of this past week, giving a humorous but true view of the sad and weird events of January 6th. Amber Ruffin is very funny and very smart and insightful and let's go back to the fact that she is very smart and also well spoken. Look at the video after you've read this -- all the way at the bottom. This should have been a semi-normal week in the news. On Tuesday, the runoff election in Georgia had good voter turnout due to the solid efforts of Stacey Abrams. Reverend Warnock and John Ossoff prevailed! Reverend Warnock is the first black Senator from Georgia and John Ossoff is the youngest person to be elected senator since President-Elect Joe Biden and the first Jewish senator from that state. Congratulations, gents! And now the Dems run the Senate. The representation is 50-50 but VP-Elect Kamala Harris will be the pre...