With apologies to Mr. Zevon, the current state of what I grew up thinking was a nation continually evolving toward good, seems to have taken a very blind and hard turn away from that. There are, in my mind, two major forces that have driven the overwhelming majority of societal unrest and evil. Organized Religion and unfettered greed. That led me to the following thoughts…

It's been a while since I've stopped by here. Things have been pretty static, not too much to say beyond the incredible stress caused by the petulant boy dictator and his minions so I have taken to spending a lot of time listening to music, reading, living in virtual reality. Many days are taken up doing various boxing routines on Supernatural to loosen up the old bones and muscles and they followed up with multiple rounds of virtual golf on many of the great courses of the world.

I arrived at Greenwich High in the very early 80's. Ann Marie Hannon moved into the roll of Math Dept. Chairperson just when I arrived. My first couple of years, even though I had taught mostly Honors and AP courses in my prior stints, those courses were "owned" and rightly so, by established veterans and I was teaching the basic core courses mostly, Geometry and Algebra 2.

It's no secret that I've been struggling more than I ever expected since Abbey THE dog left us. It will be two months soon. Since those last few days where we had to make the call (and yes, as is almost always the case, it was made very clear) but since a million little things seem to have shit the bed.

At the very least, these are perplexing times. We are witnessing a dismantling of civility, of sensibility, of empathy. Simultaneously, there are a significant number of folks in this nation cheering on all of those changes. I find myself looking to shelter myself from the daily screaming sessions, thank you Roger Ailes, it does seem like "the loudest voice" has currently captured the hearts of the mindless.