Welcome to a special edition of the Friday Cocktail Hour. This week’s tune has an even longer title than last week’s.  I’m dispensing with some of our regular features in lieu of urging everyone who sees this to participate in whatever way you can in No Kings Day.

It’s going to be unseasonably warm in New Orleans, but I plan to attend. How can I lobby my readers to show up if I don’t? Given my concerns about MAGA pillaging of the Justice Department, I’m considering carrying a sign saying: Disbar Bondi, Blanche, and Patel. They’ve all committed egregious ethical violations and at the very least should lose their law licenses when they leave office. The MAGA malakatude, it burns.

Gordon Sumner DBA Sting wrote When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around for the Police’s 1980 album Zenyatta Mondatta. It’s an uplifting anthem for troubled times both then and now.

We have fewer versions than usual: I’d never heard of the artists who covered this song with a prodigious title but what can ya do? It doesn’t matter: they’re both good.

We begin with The Police:

Next up, a souped up R&B workout from 1996:

Finally, a boss Bossa Nova version of The Police classic:

Most of us have yet to personally experience Team MAGA’s rush to authoritarianism. That doesn’t matter. As my friend and former First Draft boss lady Athenae says: Our Fate Is Your Fate.