OK, it's Friday evening after a long two weeks of speechifying, and time to purge all the political stuff from our heads and heart, at least temporarily. The best way I know to do that is through music, so here are the McLovins, playing a cover of an old Grateful Dead tune, "West L.A. Fadeaway."

If you like that, but if that little taste wasn't quite enough to clear your head, the boys will be playing at Smith's Olde Bar tonight as part of its "Medicine for the Soul Music Festival".

Great venue, good music, cold beer. Is this a great country or what?