In yet another attempt at morale-building, Pat Lykos is ordering every Harris County assistant district attorney to attend her swearing-in ceremony on January 1, 2009.

January 1, 2009 is a county holiday.

Does anyone remember the boxing video game from the ’80s? You’d hit your opponent, and the machine would say “body blow! body blow!” and then once you’d softened him up enough you swung for his jaw and the machine would announce, “Knockout!”?

I feel like I’m watching Pat Lykos working the controls while the image of Jim Leitner on the screen roughs up the other fighter, “Office Morale.”

Go, Pat, go!