The BUSKLAW Newsletter

  Before SNL's Weekend Update , before Colbert, before YouTube and its ubiquitous political satire, there was  That Was the Week that Was, a/k/a TW3.  Each week from 1963 to 1965 sexy folksinger Nancy Ames would belt out the TV show's theme song that began "That was the week that was, it's over, let it go..."  Which is how I feel about 2020.  The problem is that many of us can't let 2020 go. Until the vaccine is rolled out, you can still get Covid and suffer from lingering side effects. Like me, you may have lost a loved one in 2020 and are mourning their loss - in relative isolation. Or perhaps you lost your job because of Covid and are trying to figure out how to pay your bills, as the Washington politicians bring out their assorted axes to grind in the last days of the Trump administration. And the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing. Be that as it may, we persevere. And so we move from deep thoughts about 2020 to the more navigable wat