(with music) TOPICS: the importance of protest even without solutions offered, parallels between neglectful/abusive parenting and neglectful/abusive governance, the importance of walking the walk one talks a big game about, the importance of listening not to win or debate but to respect and collaborate if you want people to actually talk to you, a wee bit o' revolution, how emergencies without end have steamrolled the rights and needs and voices of the dependent and vulnerable in people's charges, and how empathy has died of COVID-19. Also: the golden pinball machine of my dreams has been located, targeted, and I'm getting set up for my attack run. Gonna bulls-eye that womp rat with ALL THE BALLS. Also if we want people to comply with demands why is non-compliant behavior and resistance rewarded but obedience unjustly punished and suspected? Rules are for people who make them and people who break them, apparently, in spite of supposedly being there for the good little humans stupid enough to obey them. But then consistency never really has been a human trait…