The sad irony here is that, with one television commercial, Nick Drake's iconic song gained greater interest and popularity,

That happened years ago, also with a car commercial, but with a very different result. Cat Powers did a cover of Major Tom (the David Bowie song) for a Lincoln car commercial:

...and I went, wow, that sounds awesome, and looked it up. So did half the internet. There was no song to be found. Because apparently, Lincoln owns the rights since she did it specifically for their commercial, and so there was no release of the entire song by Cat Powers. F**king tragic.

passed a bill to PAY TO HAVE KILLED NINETY PERCENT OF THE GREY WOLVES IN THE STATE.

RAWR!!! I am so sick of these short-sighted, wrongheaded, willfully ignorant people getting to literally destroy the ecosystem at their whim. Just. RAWR.

As the LGBTQ community has already said, I'll take a hard pass.

Yeah, Caitlyn can stuff it. I've thankfully so far not seen anyone doing the "but representation" with her. No, my trans arse doesn't care that she's trans. I care about her policies and ethics and I'm sick of people who seem to think that all that matters for social justice is to have POC/women/queers being the lapdogs of the exploitative class instead of old straight white guys doing their bidding. Honey, I don't care who is wearing the boot, I care about the fact that there is a boot holding us down in the first place!

Life is wonderful, and is getting better, better, and better.

That has been very hard for me to see of late. I am fresh out of hope. I hope you are right. :)