Will's Good Idea for the week of 1/31/22

We finally found a way to convey our cover idea to the formatting people:

Stroock's Books readers will know where we got that screen grab. The designers just weren't getting it. We actually suggested they watch The Day After, or something. The formatters are very responsive and helpful. The Amazon team's attitude always was, 'This is the design we've chosen, take it or leave it.' We've done business with this outfit before and explained that we have three more books coming out in the next year or so.

In the frozen north, the trucker convoy has converged on Ottawa. Now they're going home having inspired further protests across the world. Will it do any good? We recall the Tea Party movement of Barry's first term. Here we are at the Flemington Tea Party rally of 2010 (1:10 far left by the Bunker Hill flag). We don't think the movement accomplished much in the end. We don't see how this trucker's protest accomplishes much either. The elites don't care. 

The Times of Israel reports: 'Israeli jets carried out airstrikes against targets near the Syrian capital of Damascus early Monday morning, Syrian state TV reported. The pro-opposition group, the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights, said the targets of the attack were Hezbollah positions, outposts and weapon depots, northeast of Damascus.' Meanwhile the UAE greets the Israeli ambassador with a rendition of Hatikva. Remarkable. The Arab world's dark secret is that nobody has ever given a goddamn about the 'Palestinians'.

Anyway, Joe's foreign policy ineptitude and overall weakness make war in the Middle East far more likely. After his 'minor incursion' comment, which has to be the foreign policy spoken gaff of the century, Prime Minister Bennett surely said to himself, 'If that sundowning buffoon doesn't mind minor incursions, he doesn't mind minor nukes either.'

We have our Super Bowl matchup: The Los Angeles Rams vs the Cincinatti Bengals. For Monday not Metal, an 80's throwback sports video to commemorate the Rams going to the Superbowl. Happily, the sports team music video fad died with the 80's.