Son of a gun

 I'm trying to maintain my good mood -- don't call it holiday cheer -- by ignoring the criminal scum who got pardons and commutations in their stockings.  I want to look to the future, when a sometime rock critic and lead singer of Coalition of the Willing joins Joe Biden's Cabinet.  Bill Clinton announced himself to a lot of people with his sax playing on Arsenio Hall's show and Barack Obama could ease into "Amazing Grace" or "Sweet Home Chicago" as stylishly as he does everything, but they worked solo.  Give it up for our next Secretary of State, Tony Blinken.  

Twenty-seven days until Mike Pompeo takes his Lawrence Welk mix tape and departs forever.