One of the things I don't like about Donald Trump — apart from being a pathologically-lying sociopath who doesn't care how much damage he does in his desperate need to feel like a "winner" — is how hard he is to ignore. I just know that he has someone check my site every day or so and if they come back and say, "Evanier's not writing about you," he thinks up some attention-grabbing outrage to simultaneously make you pay attention to him and distract you from other, more ghastly things he's done.

I actually had a dream recently where there's some generic Democrat and some generic Republican arguing. The Democrat says "Trump is shredding the social safety net for the poor and elderly, inflaming racial hatred with his embrace of white supremacists, responsible for a bad response to a pandemic that has killed 100,000+ Americans and left millions more confined to their home…" And that list goes on and on and on. And then the Republican says, "Hey, both sides do bad things. What about Obama wearing that tan suit?"

At least it went something like that. Anyway, just in case I have to state the obvious, my heart is with the protesters as is some of my money. (I thought about where to put it and decided that if anyone can use the courts to right some of the wrongs done to them and the massive one to George Floyd, it'll be the A.C.L.U.)

And I'd just like to remind everyone that a point I keep making is that between now and the time Donald J. Trump is out of office, "what this election is about" is going to keep changing and shifting and growing ever more unpredictable. Not all that long ago, it looked like it was going to be about whether Trump had tried extorting a foreign nation to either dig up dirt on Hunter Biden or make it look like there just have been some because they were investigating.

Nobody thought it would be about a global pandemic that killed so many people, harmed the lives of others and tanked our economy. Nobody thought it would be about a black guy in Minneapolis who was executed without a trial for suspicion of passing a bogus $20 bill. Nobody thought it would be about whatever it's going to be about next month and the month after and every minute until November…and even probably after that as Trump and his minions deny the validity of every vote he doesn't get.

No one has ever been able to determine with any credibility, who it was who first said, "May you live in interesting times." Whoever it was, he or she is probably long dead, which is a shame. Because if that person was alive, I'd like to find them and beat the crap outta them as they yelled, "I didn't mean this interesting!"

Here's "You Can't Stop the Beat" in Japanese…

• Remember when all the folks now supporting Trump were complaining about what a divisive president Barack Obama was? And how Saddam Hussein was evil because he gassed his own people?

I've read a lot about the protests and destruction in my city and spoken to a few folks who were out there protesting but not at all destructing. I've come to the conclusion that we're looking at two wildly-different groups with wildly-different goals and morals. The protests — at least the ones my friends attended — were exactly what we have in mind when we talk of "peaceful protests."

Others came along to cause trouble and while I usually have great praise 'n' respect for the police in my city, it sure looks like they didn't understand that they were dealing with two different groups. The news coverage of what went down in Santa Monica last night would make you think they were more concerned with the folks standing in front of government building calmly holding signs that said "LOVE" and "JUSTICE" than the ones smashing in the front windows of the Apple Store and grabbing up iPhones.

I'm sure within each of those two groups there were a lot of disparate thoughts and motives but there was obviously that sharp dividing line there and a lot of the local news reporters noticed it. I don't get why the officials deploying law enforcement didn't.

We have another curfew tonight. That means that those of us who have been staying in our homes for 82 days and not going out will be not going out. Sure hope things quiet down because…well, just because. That's reason enough right there.

I just removed a paragraph here asking folks to help me with a webcast test this evening. The news is getting too hairy so I'm postponing it. Thanks to all who volunteered. Maybe later this week if/when things quiet down.

Trevor Noah tries to explain to people who just don't "get it" why there is looting…

• You know, I understand why Trump supporters think Trump is good at the economy. I think they're giving him credit for coasting on momentum but I understand that. I just wonder if any of them think he's the best guy to cool racial tensions in this country.

• Trump told governors, "You're going to look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate." That's the way this man thinks. It's not about doing the right thing for the country. It's about looking tough.

• If Barack Obama wants to help stop the turmoil, he should be giving out really lousy advice. Because since it came from Obama, Trump will do the exact opposite.

Things seem to be peaceful in my neighborhood this morning. My phones — both landline and cell — are kinda screwed-up but they've been that way on and off for weeks. I may have to break down and bring a serviceman in…something I've been trying to avoid while in isolation.

And there are still copters aplenty in the skies above but they're not covering rioting; they're showing the aftermath and the beginnings of restoration. It's depressing to see some of the burned-out and looted businesses but it's also encouraging to see how swiftly some (though not enough) clean-up is commencing.

I'm taking at least today off from blogging. I care about this stuff but right now, I need to not think about it too much. Writing things that have nothing to do with politics, viruses or civil unrest is a good way to do that.

Things seem to be quiet in my area. The demonstrations and police confrontations got as close as a block away but no closer and the destruction seemed to be confined to commercial properties, not homes. But we sure had a lot of helicopters and sirens — police caravans and fire trucks racing by, every which way.

I still don't quite understand why problems with the broadband in my area would so impact the signals from my panelists who were nowhere near the rioting. I have a call in to someone who may be able to help me understand and I'm thinking I'll suspend webcasting until I do. Whenever I resume, all of today's panelists want to start over and do it right so we will.

I wish I could say something profound about the murder of George Floyd but sadly, this kind of thing happens so often that everything worth saying has been said…to little impact. I'd like to think it will end but in a country as polarized as this one is, it's hard to imagine that scenario…

I spoke to the folks at my internet provider and a man there said, "I'm amazed you're even getting online at all." My area is full of protesters so it's full of reporters and police and there are at least six helicopters overhead. Apparently, the broadband is being taxed to the max so I guess that was the source of our problems. And I am not suggesting that our problems matter at all compared to so many other things going on in the neighborhood — and the country — today.

If you're looking for the Cartoon Voices 3 panel, it's gone. We had so many technical problems that I called it off and it ain't even on YouTube anymore. (Yes, I have a recording of what we did do and I'll decide if I should post it.)

I dunno what happened. There are major protests going on in my area — helicopters, sirens, crowds being ordered to disperse, etc. I don't know if any of that had to do with the odd audio we were hearing when we could hear at all or with so many images freezing up. My apologies to our fine panelists — Dee Bradley Baker, Laraine Newman, Alan Oppenheimer, Vanessa Marshall and Bill Farmer — and to the loyal folks who tuned in and stayed with us as we did the voice actors' version of The Play That Goes Wrong. There seemed to be no way to fix things so we shut it down.

If and when I'm reasonably sure this won't happen again, I'll schedule Cartoon Voices Panel 3.1 or something. We'll certainly have all those folks back.

I'm glad I've decided not to pay a lot of attention to current events these days or to comment a lot about them here. I'm not sure I can find anything clever or witty to say about an America where a lot of people think it's no big deal if a police officer occasionally murders someone.

Speaking of the musical Hairspray…for a limited time, you can watch the three-hour live 2016 televised version of the show on YouTube. In it, you'll see includes Kristin Chenoweth, Harvey Fierstein, Ariana Grande, Derek Hough, Jennifer Hudson and Martin Short, with Maddie Baillio as Tracy Turnblad. But hurry. It won't be up there for long…