Where we are now.

So a man goes to the doctor and says, “doctor, recent events in American politics have left me feeling really depressed.”

The doctor says, “you should go read Thieves in the Temple; it’s a blog by this guy Alec Mento. It’s really incisive about politics, it’s funny, and he has this unlikely, irrepressible optimism about the American people no matter what happens! Go read it right now; you’ll feel better about everything!”

“But, doctor,” the man says, “I am Alec Mento.”