with all due respect to my many friends and loved ones who deeply enjoy the occasion, this week’s program will not include a Halloween theme, Halloween music or any other sort of pandering, infantile bullshit designed to distract from the ongoing tire fire we’re engulfed in. By all means, have a great time with your Halloween parties and however you choose to disguise yourselves. Sexy science denialist. Sexy utility infielder. Sexy sex worker. Sexy drum tech for Dream Theater (admittedly, an oxymoron)

while you’re playing dress up, back here in stupidville formerly known as the USA, we’re gonna cut off SNAP benefits and leave millions hungry. Is that in anyway shape or form mitigated by handing out toxic confections under threat of vandalism? I think you already know where i stand on this, but for two hours this morning I will grudgingly pretend to care where _you_ stand on this, provided you can get past my call screener (sexy drum tech for KIng’s X).