Note: Yesterday (I wrote this on 30 December, 2020) I did the attached piece. In it, I worried in print about the fact that some of the more idiotic Republican senators might contest the election results, and thus condemn the nation to yet more agonizing foolishness. Well, today, I learned that one of those idiots, Josh Hawley of Missouri, has announced that he intends to do just exactly that. He is clearly a danger to America as a whole, and his act convinces me that the GOP