Bob and Mickey Sing the Delta Blues (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Meet the new virus, same as the old virus ... The confounding Covid numbers coming out of Florida ... Just a couple of cowards talking about JD Vance ... The Biden administration’s lackluster messaging on the Delta variant ... Hunter Biden faces some deep questions from a prostitute ... Mickey: “Democratic paranoia” about new voting laws is actually about the filibuster ... Bob: The current Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could be worse ... Dems are so close to, yet so far from, passing infrastructure ... Does Andrew Cuomo have a political future? ... Parrot Room preview: Bob floats a new Grand Unified Theory of the Weinsteins, some Jeffrey Epstein news involving a doll, the Muscle Shoals doc, Trump’s wall, Glenn Greenwald gets ready to Rumble, Bob’s half-thought about vaccines, the 1/6 commission, and The Best and the Brightest continued ...