The Saturday Boston Globe (finally) re-ran Bruce Weber’s excellent New York Times obituary about Robert Degan, 104, who “had hand in ‘Hokey Pokey’.”

Offficial Campaign Outsider hokey-pokey refresher course (via the Times):

You put your right hand in,

You put your right hand out,

You put your right hand in,

And you shake it all about.

You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around.

That’s what it’s all about.

Actually. that is what it’s all about – the back-and-forth of everyday life.

Shaken, in other words. Not stirred.