Thursday morning in post-America

Well, okay, having my first cup of coffee, gearing up for a productive day (meeting to cover at 9, work on my online university course, solo jazz gig at 6). The backdrop, of course, is a post-American landscape that makes one embarrassed to be a human being. Surely there's some other species that's more qualified at this point to step up and take over the role we were designed for but have utterly abnegated.

Julie Swetnick was served with a restraining order by a former boyfriend who says she threatened his wife and kid.

And I don't know who these people are or what cause they think they are furthering, but somebody's leaving death threats for the staff of the restaurant that Ted Cruz and his party got chased out of.

Regarding that incident, Don Lemon of CNN says that this is what Cruz signed up for when he became a public official. Yeah, sure, getting chased out of restaurants by screaming mobs goes with the territory.

And then there was the Jimmy Kimmel monologue the other night, in which he said putting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court if the nation got to cut off his "pesky penis" sounded like a fair trade.

The social climate in post-America has gotten exponentially darker in the last month, and it was already very dark.

It will get darker still.