Banging one’s head against brick walls now seems like a pointless exercise. We are way beyond any hope that… well, any kind of hope. There’s really no point in trying to find words to express… well, anything any more. There is no logic big enough or staring you in the face enough to sway the 50 percent of Americans now brain dead, not through fault of their own, if we’re honest. Fact is, though, that truth is dead. In the meantime here’s a perhaps cathartic bit of hair tearing from Jonathan Pie on the subject of Republicans’ take on the January 6 Capitol assault.