We don’t know if it’s the the steroids, the wish bone or something slowly released by the pop-up timer, but every year something in Thanksgiving turkeys make Americans go on a wild spending spree the next day.

Newt Gingrich is calling for the end of child labor laws. Herman Cain says unemployment is the fault of the unemployed. Wisconsin is trying to recall its anti-labor governor. Congress can’t decide on anything because of some sick lobbyist’s pledge letter. American military action continues – and people continue to die – for wars that didn’t need to happen. And the middle class is almost extinct.

And in our back yards, people of all ages are rising against the machine – and getting pepper sprayed for simply sitting down and having an opinion.

There’s a challenge going on between the sane and insane. This has happened before. But this time, we’re missing something.

The music.

C’mon, guys. We need to give this movement called Occupy Wall Street a soundtrack – or, according to history, it will be dead in the water and forgotten.

Joan Baez, Willie Nelson, David Crosby and countless others have taken their guitars to OWS gatherings and gave plenty of examples. So we’re asking protesters to start their music.

It turns out the GOP only cares about states’ rights when it furthers their psychotic agenda. To prove it, the House passed legislation that repeals any state’s right to enforce its laws about concealed weapons on interstate travelers. The bill asserts that California and New York (to name just two examples) have no business enforcing gun-control laws if they infringe on the rights of someone from, say, Utah, to traipse around Brooklyn or San Fran with a concealed weapon licensed by a state with notoriously lax gun-control laws. See, states’ rights can go to hell if a vote jeopardizes a Congressperson’s standing with the NRA.

Whether it’s Herman Cain telling 17 million unemployed Americans that if they don’t have jobs they have no one to blame but themselves, or the Republican governor of Maine adding his state to the growing list of states that want to require anyone applying for welfare benefits to submit to a drug test, or Mississippi becoming the 31st state to adopt stringent voter I.D. laws designed to suppress the votes of people less likely to have drivers’ licenses (how many millionaires take the bus?) — the GOP message is clear: Poor people are of no importance. So why shouldn’t they think they can have a little fun at their expense?