I know it’s well past daybreak in the East (it’s still dark-thirty here in California), but we wanted to give some oxygen to the new ebook.

In any event, it’s time to rock and roll, so here’s that great 1960s tribute to Upward Mobility, the Animals’ “We Got To Get Our Of This Place.”

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