Minor celebrity Mark Thompson had a rather sedate NYE, largely due to the unseasonable torrential rain here in SoCal. Have you watched the new Chevy Chase documentary on CNN? He doesn’t seem like a pleasant person. The president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro and his wife were extracted from that country, flown to the USA, and indicted in New York today. The US military did that very well, but history tells us — we’re talking Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya — we don’t do well when it comes to the regime change that follows.