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His appearances were billed as a “Reality Check”: He spoke about the news of the day soberly, using history to “make sense of the present.”

It’s a whim because he plainly hasn’t pondered soberly the obstacles in the way.

As with his analyses of Harrison’s indelible musical contributions to the Act You’ve Known for All These Years, Rogovoy’s eye towards soberly capturing the history of the Beatles with a welcome dose of critical objectivity makes "Within You Without You" required reading when it comes to the guitarist.

He continues, soberly, “I've fought so many battles. I'm just tired. Tired of fighting. Haven't I accomplished enough? Haven't I made a big enough difference? Can't I just be done? It really is kind of a weird space that I'm in. People say, because I'm 64, 'midlife awakening or midlife crisis?' It certainly feels crisis-y more often than I'd like it to be.”

It requires light and acrobatic footwork to pull off this two-step: When it comes to Donald Trump, the Department of Justice is motivated not by the facts of the allegation, but by the defendant’s name; when it comes to Hunter Biden, the DOJ is soberly doing the job it must do based on the dispassionate preponderance of evidence.