Before we get to the good Doctor, posts will be light-to-nil the next few days. I'm off for the final installment of the DMB tour '09, a hopeful dope-fest in Tulsa tomorrow night. This year I logged a great show in Houston with Country; a bizarre, natural-disaster-inclined mellow-fest in Dallas, complete with the collapse of the Cowboys' practice facility and my buddy Rob (the second show we've done together); two shows in West Palm, the first of which was good, the second of which was the best DMB show I've personally seen, regarded by fellows Ants as either the best or second-best of the tour (the set-closer of "Two Step" and the encore closer of "Halloween" were worth the price of admission, but there was so much more ... friends, family, beer, more beer, and so forth). So, after tomorrow night, the band heads to Austin City Lmits, a show that can be seen live on Hulu if the OU game gets too boring for you. Regardless of DM's idiotic "racist" comment last week, the band, the shows and the music bring me way too much happiness to give up.

And now, for some political red meat, the one and only Doctor Zero, rapidly evolving into the best conservative writer on the Web, another scorcher (via HotAir):

No matter how the ObamaCare saga ends, we are approaching the near horizon, where the sea meets the sky. Everything will be different after this. I hope it will be better. If the Democrats lose Congressional power in 2010, the passion and intelligence of the town-hall protesters should next be turned against the Republicans, who could use a few miles of road work under the watchful eye of several million tough coaches. The task ahead for them will be enormous, for the failure of Obama’s absurd ideas leaves a unique opportunity to do something that has never been done in the modern era: make the government smaller.