Motus Mentis

This weekend, after a month in Vienna, the lovely Nina and I are heading home. We’ll be back in the States by Sunday evening. It’s been a fine time — Vienna is always a nice place to be, and we welcomed a new grandchild into our expanding extended family — but it’s time to get back to real life; we’ve neglected our affairs long enough. (Among other things, I have an album I’m supposed to be mixing, and I need to get it done.)

I haven’t thought much about the state of affairs back home, but I’ve paid enough attention to know that the new Congress is now seated, and the Democratic House is now in session. (As Will Rogers once said, the feeling is like when the baby gets hold of a hammer.) Nancy Pelosi once again wields the gavel, and the left wing of her caucus — a raucous mob of Jacobin malcontents and ignoramuses, mostly still in their teens — are itching to get to work building a new and improved United States of America. (They’ll be building it on the same patch of land as the old one, just as soon they’ve finished demolishing the original structure, ripping up the foundations, and evicting the former tenants.)

The first order of business, though, is to reverse the result of the last presidential election. As one newly elected legislatrix explained, setting the tone for the New Year: “We’re going to go in and impeach the motherfucker!”

And so they will, most likely; all they need is a one-vote majority in the House to impeach. The actual criteria given in the Constitution — that old thing! — don’t matter in the slightest; they just mean whatever the House says they mean. The Senate will need a two-thirds majority to convict, which won’t happen, but it will be good fun all around. Gonna be a great year!

Can’t wait to get home.