Good morning, kids. As the clock winds down on the eight-year-long national hostage crisis, our captors and their confederates have completely lost any pretense of civility and revealed themselves to be the unwashed, unreconstructed, puerile, blind, pig-ignorant, bigoted ideologues we always knew them to be. I suppose our only consolation is that perhaps it took eight years of the SCOAMF treatment to awaken the nation. And yet, as the late Momma Sefton always warned "evil never rests." So this insanity will inevitably repeat itself, but let's hope that we can keep it in check and marginalized for as long as possible. On a personal note, I'm stunned but not surprised by the death of Debbie Reynolds. "Singin' In the Rain" is among my all time favorite movies and was one of a handful that kindled my lifelong obsession with film. RIP Miss Reynolds and thanks for the memories. Have a better one and remain blessed.