Ha! I was in a Hooters in Fort Wayne once and we were seated next to a bunch of folks who were either Amish or very conservative Mennonites — blue/gray monochrome clothes, bowl-cuts and beards on the men, bonnets on the women. It was the damndest thing.

The original 1967 pressings of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" ended with a high frequency tone that only dogs could hear followed by a two-second loop of gibberish that played continuously until the stylus was lifted off the record.

With all due respect, I will follow your suggestion and call you naive. Counting on today's Republicans to have any principles is wishful thinking. For them, it's not treason, it's "patriotism."

It's mighty depressing that the only way he could get cross-ways with the GOP establishment is if he did anything (even accidentally) that helped anyone outside of the top 1%.

There is zero chance this Republican congress will impeach him. They don't give a shit about any conflicts of interest because they only care about gaining and holding power. Besides, if any of them start to show any actual principles, Trump will unleash his flying monkeys and get the the apostates primaried out in…

Represent! (Except for the Mennonite, hippie and hipster parts. And nice. But otherwise…)

The Atlantic looked at Elkhart recently:

Ha, fellow geezer here! Don't forget the "CBS Special Presentation" intro:

Oregano has always been my key ingredient. Lately I've been adding a little paprika, cumin and chives. Gives the eggs that extra little zing.

Well yeah, obviously, but that wasn't my point.

Yep. I live in a red area and it feels like I'm in a body snatchers movie. Who are the Pod people? Is it this person? That person? Or, as a middle-aged white guy, does everyone assume I'm one?

This.

My worry is that between gerrymandering, targeted voter suppression laws and the outsize influence of low-population states in the Senate, the Republicans have effectively gamed the system. It will require a massive disruption to dislodge them. Add a few more hard-right Supreme Court justices and the situation looks…

And later in the afternoon, some local channel would usually show an hour of classic Warner's & MGM cartoons from the '30s-'50s, followed by some Three Stooges (hope they're all Curlys!) and Little Rascals shorts.

What a great picture. Hippie LBJ!

The reason Kruk quit so abruptly was that last hit allowed him to retire with a career batting average of exactly .300. Good way to go out.

Another was Frank Thomas. He was always big and his career followed the same natural progression (and regression) as Junior's.

Also the classic Warner Brothers cartoons from the '30-'50s. It's too bad those aren't shown anymore.

Klosterman lost me there, too.

But they're not "average Americans."