A Big Empty Space

The Friday Newsletter embraces the wide-open month of January.

A note, before I start.

What’s left to say this week? I drafted my intro to today’s newsletter before Wednesday’s gut-wrenching events, and I’m going to stick with it simply because I don’t think I have anything eloquent to say about what’s happened in this country this week, or in the years of playing with fire that led up to the sadly-quite-thinkable things we saw on display at the Capitol.

I wish we were better than this.

Alright, on to the rest of this, which has nothing to do with that.