2021 by Hank Silverberg So, here we are in 2021! We get a fresh start? Not exactly. There wasn't much of a celebration on New Year's Eve. Somehow those TV live shots of an empty Times Square in NYC as they dropped the ball were a fitting end to 2020. But it was also a sad preview of the next 12 months. Why am I so pessimistic? The stimulus checks are already being deposited in people's bank accounts and the vaccine is being loaded into people's arms. Great, right? Second stimulus check: IRS says the $600 payments are on their way (msn.com) For me, the new start doesn't really begin until noon on January 20th, when Donald Trump no longer has his finger on the nuclear trigger and sanity is restored to the White House. We may get more hope this Tuesday when voters in Georgia could finally send a message to the GOP that "the party of no" no longer controls the Senate. But that is just a start. (Until Mitch McConnell is ousted, Trumpism survives.) Let'