Lately I have been posting a number of videos by the bands Reckless Kelly and Micky and the Motorcars, two bands that play a rockin’ brand of country. See, for example, here, here, and here.

Last night I was fortunate to see both bands at the legendary Troubadour. Mrs. P. opted out to help the kids with homework, so I thought I’d be alone, but I ran into a friend at the concert — a music nerd like Mrs. P. and me, who had a spot for me right up front!

Great show. The brothers sang together quite a bit, and for one night I felt like I was back in Austin, Texas.

I am tired of kibbles. Is that sinking in yet?

I’m breaking my Politico boycott for this post because they did good work getting the story:

Bob Woodward called a senior White House official last week to tell him that in a piece in that weekend’s Washington Post, he was going to question President Barack Obama’s account of how sequestration came about – and got a major-league brushback. The Obama aide “yelled at me for about a half hour,” Woodward told us in an hour-long interview yesterday around the Georgetown dining room table where so many generations of Washington’s powerful have spilled their secrets.

Digging into one of his famous folders, Woodward said the tirade was followed by a page-long email from the aide, one of the four or five administration officials most closely involved in the fiscal negotiations with the Hill. “I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today,” the official typed. “You’re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. … I think you will regret staking out that claim.”

Woodward repeated the last sentence, making clear he saw it as a veiled threat. “ ‘You’ll regret.’ Come on,” he said. “I think if Obama himself saw the way they’re dealing with some of this, he would say, ‘Whoa, we don’t tell any reporter ‘you’re going to regret challenging us.’ ”

“They have to be willing to live in the world where they’re challenged,” Woodward continued in his calm, instantly recognizable voice. “I’ve tangled with lots of these people. But suppose there’s a young reporter who’s only had a couple of years — or 10 years’ — experience and the White House is sending him an email saying, ‘You’re going to regret this.’ You know, tremble, tremble. I don’t think it’s the way to operate.” The White House declined to comment for this story.

They are thugs. Pure and simple.

The only reason to watch this obnoxious video:

is to understand the context for this parody: