
About this episode
* A very long SOTU
* Al Green meets Buju Banton, Tripadvisor objects
* The most beautiful, terrifying word in the English language
* The “deficit” you shouldn’t care about
* The forgotten Foxconn boondoggle
* The hopeless Democrats
* Maybe look at, say, Dean Phillips and ignore the Squad
* Asian finger cuffs
* Two cheers for parliamentary democracy
* Poor lil’ Marco
* Who killed Gene Hackman’s dog?
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