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On the court of a tony club or ivy covered institution, another Squash player makes an aggressive serve, or politely calls for a "let," ending the rally because his opponent accidently interfered with his shot. In a Riverside neighborhood or Inland Empire community, another family gets a foreclosure notice, just one of an estimated half a million California families that will lose their homes in the national foreclosure crisis. Do we really declare all of these people losers at the game of life, or might we be able to grant them a "let"? What are the limits of personal responsibility, and achievement? Applying their usual performative appropriation of social customs and idioms, the collaborative duo of JEFF&GORDON take on the tension between cooperation and competition that runs through the public discourse in a nation of "temporarily embarrassed millionaires." Sweeney link.