Hammer Mill Days

Here we are again, man. Week is almost over and, what the hell, time to get back on the blog again. Get right back up on that bronco! as Lee Majors would say. Yee-haw ... and the rest of it. So, where was I? Oh, yeah. I was offering explanations for all of those 7 million songs on our new album, Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick , now appearing on iTunes, Spotify, etc., etc. I believe I left off with "Awesome Hair". Oh, Governor Scott's got a glowin' dome. Governor McDonnell's got some slop on his top. And so on. Here's some more 'splainin'.... Evening Crab Nebula - A resurrected song from Matt's holiday mix tapes past, re-worked and repurposed to tell part of "cousin" Rick's wacky election story. Picture a high-paid, low-I.Q. consultant, giving Rick his best advice while standing on one foot. He's singing this freaking song. Falling Behind - The news is not good, Rick. Not good at all, man. Look at the polls. Dropping...

I'm not going to focus hard on one topic this week, friends. At least I don't think I will. I never know until I get down to the third paragraph, so we'll see. Snowden. Was asylum for Edward Snowden worth canceling a summit about? The administration says that is not the only reason, but there can be little doubt it was a (if not the) deciding factor. Our own senator in New York, Schumer, used some pretty incendiary language about Russia, saying they had "stabbed us in the back", which is way over the top for him. This is not a place we want to go. Best remind ourselves that the Russia we have today is the one we worked toward building yesterday. Putin is the beneficiary of a strong presidency established by Yeltsin in the 90s with our enthusiastic support (back when we had them privatizing state assets for pennies on the dollar and creating what was then the most dramatic demographic self-implosion in many decades). Remember how he shot the Russian Parliament...