"Insurrection" can have several meanings, some more figurative and some more literal. It seems we're going to need all of them to describe what is happening in America today.

The online crackdown isn't confined to Trump; conservatives and right-wingers who supported Trump, or even those who supported his policies, are in many cases also facing a crackdown. Many on the right (and left) have predicted a coming "cold civil war" for years now. Is it finally upon us, and what, if anything, can be done about it?

Trump's political career is over. But his movement is not going anywhere. So what happens now?

Democrats take the Senate; Julian Assange doesn't get bail; the Proud Boys leader gets banned from D.C.; and Republicans challenge the Electoral College vote. The unraveling of the fabric of society is in full swing--and it's probably a Russian conspiracy.

As Trump leaves office, the media can't let go, Julian Assange gets an unexpected break, Google unionizes (or tries to), and the nation gathers for the Electoral College vote count and concomitant contest.

If I have to watch ONE MORE ad from Raphael Warnock--or any of the other candidates in the Georgia Senate runoffs tomorrow--I swear I'm never voting again. Who do I have to bribe to never hear from any of these four again? Also, we discuss Cuomo, "bat-man" comes to New York, Trump's shady phone call with Georgia Sec. of State, and why "awomen" is NOT a victory for gender equality.

Canada prosecutes illegal acts of hockey; the FDA relents on fining ad hoc sanitizer distillers; Alec Baldwin's wife cosplays as a Spanish woman; and everyone is protesting SOMETHING. And stick around for the uplifting start to our new year, courtesy of Frederick Douglass.

They say that high trust is a necessary prerequisite for a society to remain healthy, wealthy, and wise. So, what are we to make of the catastrophic loss of mutual trust in the United States today? Is there any way back from the precipice, or are we doomed to further Balkanization, perhaps even civil war?

War in the House, war in the Senate, war in the hearts of the American people--"we like war; we're a warlike people," Carlin said, and this week's news is showing just how true that is.

...but the government sucks, and recent events merely demonstrate yet again how top-down control never works, how it produces lies, inequality, corruption, and ultimately serfdom. They couldn't just help Americans suffering during a pandemic--they just HAD to throw in money for Pakistani gender programs (whatever THOSE are) and Israeli weapons systems.