Which makes the least sense to you. An openly gay NFL lineman and his team suing the team they just lost to and the NFL because the other teams players called him names OR the fact that when an actor is asked on a late night talk show about what he has learned about foreign policy for the United States when his only credentials are that of "playing" a CIA agent on a hit show Homeland and all his lines and acting instruction are given to him by somebody else?

Those are two true and recent incidents that lead me to believe that you and I are living in one great big "reality show" ourselves and/or there so many uniformed, ill equipped celebrity worshipers out there who just don't have any idea what's going on. It would be hillariously funny if it were not so pathetic. 

We live in a day and time and the polling in America substantiates it that the people of American hardly trusts anyone anymore. Who can blame them Why Donald Trump is so popular is not a mystery to me. Why Hillary Clinton gets away with commiting crimes and not get prosecuted is not a mystery to me either. 

We live in a day and time and circumstance that this writer could never have imagined. I won't in 2016 spend any time on talking about where we are or how we got there unless it helps us better understand how do we get out of this mess. 

I hope you will send the blog or the blog address to everyone on your email list. Fixing this is up to you and I an we, you and I, getting enough peoples attention and belief in the fact that things can and will change because they have to if we as a nation are going to survive. 

So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and all the other holiday greeting to all of you and let's us together make it a Happy New Year.

Jim