Covfefe, the Musical

This week’s essay (and therefore this podcast episode) is about things that are a matter of opinion - like whether scrambled eggs with ketchup on the side is the way to go -

(I vote yes and so does Matthew McConaughey, apparently, while President Obama has very strong feelings that ketchup is for kids)

- and things that are not a matter of opinion, like whether the Smithsonian should focus less on “how bad slavery was” and more on America’s whiteness. Sorry, I meant “brightness.”

Pretty sure I was right the first time, actually.

We can disagree about whether The Sound of Music is incredible, or feels like the answer to how we slow down time - but not about whether the lyrics to “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” are so sexist they sound like they could be lifted from Pete Kegseth’s secret dating profile. You know he has one. Of course Rolf later joins the Nazi party and betrays the family, so it all tracks, but I digress.

Since there are some horrible conversations happening on the national stage thanks to the potus, and a certain segment of people who long to go back to the “good old days” and often reference the 1950s - I thought this was a good week to talk about Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. The Board of Ed, what just happened with the redrawn congressional maps in Texas, and Morgan Freeman. It all ties together. Maybe not the Morgan Freeman part, but we can’t let these people steal our joy, or rob us of our resolve.

Long live the folks who would always chuckle, grunt, or at the very least, make a throat noise when needed. Those are the people you want to be with in the foxhole, friends. I see you and I love you.

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