Indian-American person here. (Former second-grade and fourth-grade school spelling bee champion. Let's not talk about third grade. Or the second-grade county spelling bee, dammit.) I don't claim to have the definitive answer, but I have a few theories.

I used to take solace in all of those things you said about the GOP and demographics, but the last eight words of your comment are why I feel hopeless.

I'm done. Perhaps broken, in terms of my hope in politics. It's hopeless, as far as I can tell. I'm sad about what's going to happen to the entire world, yes, but our country is going to shit, and we're cruising there on the highway. That's profoundly distressing to me. The fact that Trump is president is an…

That would be the self-inflicted part. (It was opening that weekend, and it was one of the biggest, most-talked about things in the country, so it seemed like the thing to see. That was before I learned that a movie — any movie, never mind Jesus torture porn — is a bad idea for a first date.)

In college, a friend and I went to see Higher Learning. (I'm old.) I think it came out not too long after Boyz n the Hood, so John Singleton was still a hot, acclaimed young director. I can't speak for my friend, but it was my first time seeing a movie with a primarily black audience. (This was in Philadelphia.) I…

Nothing truly bad is going to happen to any of them. They may well get bounced out of the White House sooner than they expected. And maybe, like with Watergate, some of them will spend some time in prison. But all of them will end up going right back to work for the GOP, or as talking heads for Fox News or talk radio,…

This jackass today also completely ignored a question about why, if Kathy Griffin should be (correctly) condemned, Trump has no problem inviting Ted Nugent to the White House, even though Nugent joked about killing Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Ooh, that would totally disrupt the market for hired goons! Here's $3 million for you to get started.

Thanks to the link, I learned who Millie Bobby Brown is. Until I clicked on it, I was imagining Bobby Brown as a Milli Vanilli impersonator. (Don't ask me how he managed to impersonate two guys at once. He just did it, OK?)

There's a Milan, Ohio (birthplace of Thomas Edison). It's pronounced "MY-lin".

I spent maybe three or four years, from the late '80s to the early '90s, collecting cards. Then I stopped, and my cards slowly became less and less valuable. (Not that I had ever been sitting on a fortune.) By the time my parents sold the house, many years later, and I had to clear out my room, keeping them seemed…

But did you ever get the Upper Deck Griffey Jr. rookie card?

Are you talking about Rattle and Hum the movie, or the album? I thought the album had the live-in-an-arena version (which is excellent), while the movie had a different version (in the church?). Is what you're listening to not on the album?

Simon & Garfunkel, "I Am A Rock"
She & Him, "Change Is Hard"
The Wallflowers, "Sleepwalker"
Sam Cooke, "Jesus Gave Me Water"
Styx, "Renegade"
Cage the Elephant, "Aberdeen"
Bruce Springsteen, "Blood Brothers"
The Beatles, "Savoy Truffle"
Weezer, "El Scorcho"
The Beatles, "It's All Too Much"

That's awesome. Congrats!

"That's right," said retired librarian Aurora Tucker, 68. "I think Hillary and Obama killed him, so that they can impose lesbian Sharia law. The media's covering it up, except for Sean Hannity."

"It's all a bunch of fake news," said former coal miner Jethro Bodine, 52. "The media won't give him a chance. I still support him. He's gonna get the mines up and running again. If any dead man can do it, he can. Now if you just let me take a sip of my coffee, I'll say something racist for you."

They won't. They'll go full Weekend-at-Bernie's with him. His popularity among his voters and Republicans in Congress will be unchanged.

People smarter and more eloquent than I pointed out today that the Soviets/Russians have been trying since the end of World War II to separate Germany from the United States, and that Trump finally did it for them.

I should be asleep by now, but I signed in just to give you an upvote for that.