First week of 2021, and right out of the gate, we’ve got a big week ahead.

First, the GA Senatorial elections. It’s a toss-up, so one can only hope that the Dems prevail and we can wave goodbye to obstructionist Moscow Mitch. Sure would make Biden’s job easier. I give us about a 25% chance of coming away with the two seats needed.

The very next day, we’ve got Pence presiding over that same Senate to confirm the Electoral College results. I expect some grandstanding, but I don’t expect Pence to throw himself under the bus for Trump. We’ll see.

I also expect that the fallout from the leaked Trump election tampering call will continue this week. It’s extreme, even for Trump. Any other politician in history, that phone call would be an instant “you’re fired, career is over” event. But Trump is a nuclear cockroach – he seems to be able to survive anything. Just our luck.

On top of all that we’ve got UK’s second SEC game tonight against Vandy, in which we will see if the breakout game over the weekend was an anomaly or truly a breakout. Will we fall back into mediocrity, or will we start playing like a KY team?

Well, well, well. It seems that 2021 might be different after all. The KY Wildcats basketball team narrowly avoided a 1-7 start and won a game against Mississippi State in a double OT thriller. For the first time this season they were fun to watch. They were headed for exactly the same underachieving outcome as their previous six games when coach Calipari pulled a desperation move, getting himself intentionally ejected with two technical fouls. That wily coach move has been known to motivate a team in college hoops, and this time it sure did.

Add to that a UK win in the Gator Bowl and it was a pretty good January 2nd. Now if someone in the cursed Trump administration could just figure out how to accelerate vaccine distribution (maybe employ the military?), 2021 could be off to a great start. If not, we wait another 17 days for the adults to show up and try to fix things.

Wow, was doing a little writing with Khraungbin on the speakers. Maria Tambien popped up and just blew me away. That’s the song I hear during insomnia, when the world is quiet. It’s got an earwig beat on the level of Eminence Front by The Who. Echoes of 1982.

Happy New Year…sort of. While I’m pleased to put calendar 2020 behind us, in my mind the New Year won’t start until January 20th. That’s the day that the Trump Crime Family (TCF) gets kicked to the curb and we can start repairing the damage of the last four years. No more taxpayer-funded Air Force One, no more Camp David, no more White House complete with staff and servants – the TCF will finally have to pay for their royal, corrupt lifestyle. We may never completely recover from Trump’s assault on democracy, but we can start the repair process. Let the MAGAs donate and pay for the TCF’s excess – not my tax dollars.