I remember arguing with the dweebs in my eighth grade social studies class—we watched this on a free day—that the CCCP on the back of Drago’s gear meant USSR. “It can’t be!” they said. “It’s different letters!” they said. God, they were ignorant.
I have seen this I don’t know how many times, but I just noticed the play by play guys saying something like “This is a David and Goliath moment.” This is a much misused phrase, since David couldn’t have lost that fight.
Aha! Now I get it! DOGE and Elon Muskrat took their inspiration from Brad the Efficiency Expert. They even stole the five greatest contributions list. It all makes sense now.
Well, okay.
There’s a lot to unpack here. The downfall of a highly respected orchestra conductor was very quick, which was a little surprising given the long runtime. It was 2 1/2 hours of character building and then five minutes of denouement. And the female big dog that went down here seemed neither to have too many enablers or defenders, unlike the men taken down in the #MeToo movement,
One thing Lydia said stayed with me. It was in the…
Screwball kids movie, always good for a laugh. “Some guys are out to get us, / and Brenda’s probably dead!”
