As Festivus falls on a Saturday in 2023 and as many (though maybe not all) of you have better things to do on Christmas weekend than to read political-ish columns, we are going to observe Frank Costanza’s Feast Day early.

And given what has occurred Thursday night inside the confines of SoFi Stadium, the spirit of airing grievances is truly at hand.

So let’s get on with it.

Saints Dere No Mo: By the way, this column is sponsored by the letters D and A.

The good news for Dennis Allen is he’s having his most successful season as a head coach.

The bad news for the rest of us not named Dennis Allen, that’s not saying much considering his pair of 4-win seasons in Oakland is a low croquet wicket to hurdle.

He’s matched his win total from last year as Saints head coach with 7 and a flop win over one of the two terrible teams in the NFC South of .500 could up his single season personal best to 8, though a split would assure him of his 5th losing record.

Without a winning record as a head coach in the hopper.

Who Dats who have understandably given up on the team to a point that the Carolina Panthers game had a ticket resale for a loss price of $4. Apparently, plenty of the fans decided that this caliber of on-field product wasn’t worth risking a “smash and grab” in TeedyVille.

Saints fans who remember the BSP Era of Saints football are hearing the rattling of chains and peeking out their windows to spy the specter of Jim Haslett dressed as Jacob Marley.

Here’s hoping Airline Drive’s brain trust has an epiphany soon before a black-robed Mike Ditka chomping on a cigar has to make an appearance.

Democracy in Amerika: Back in the 1980’s ABC aired a lengthy miniseries depicting the country under Soviet occupation and marginally administered by domestic collaborators eager to subvert the foundations of liberty, rule of law, and democracy.

Well, the Kremlin has relocated to Denver.

The Colorado Supreme Court, fully packed with justices appointed by Democratic governors, ruled that former President Donald Trump cannot even be listed on the state ballot because of his alleged (or rather, imagined) role in causing an “insurrection” on January 6th.

But in an admission that their decision, or to say nothing of themselves, should not be taken seriously, the state’s high Court put a stay on its own ruling, practically conceding that their own ruling is bogus and is expected to be overturned by a saner collection of jurists.

Even when their ludicrous decision is shredded by a competent court, that the Colorado Supreme Court actually issued such an absurd ruling normalizes the treatment of dissenters by the Radical Left.

There was a time when honest liberals would’ve shuddered at such an obnoxious ruling but the institutions that once have cried foul have become compromised shells of their former selves, turning political tricks for cash like a Chef Menteur street walker.

Wait to you see how this precedent is exploited by other leftist fan-boy courts and Secretaries of State to harass candidates not named Trump or Gaetz, perhaps for using incorrect pronouns.

What a time to be alive!

The Rise (and Soft-Pedaling) of Anti-Semitism: Who’d have thought that Harvard Yard might be confused with a German American Bund rally?

While Trump is being memory-holed off the ballot for things he never did or said, students at prestigious centers of learning in the northeast are having their anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic activities scrutinized on Capitol Hill.

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill delivered a meandering answer to a basic “yes or no” question on whether calling for genocide of the Jews would violate her university’s code of conduct.

All of a sudden “never again” became a matter of context.

These learned people had convinced themselves that there was an unbridgeable chasm between thugs in brownshirts standing outside a shop telling people not to patronize a Jewish business in 1933 (how it started) and the opening of Auschwitz in 1940 (how it ended).

While enraged university donors demanded accountability for such “weaselry” and Magill was forced out as university head though not frog-marched off campus as a tenured professor, Harvard continues to stand by its president Claudine Gay in the face of her own contextual comments in addition to scrutiny over accusations of plagiarized in her dissertation.

Oy vey!