I'm Back!!!

I would like to thank those who missed my blog over the last few months.  I have been busy living life like all of you.  Daughter needs to get to basketball, the boat needed me to pour money into it and I had to endure coaching another lacrosse season where we didn't smell .500.

WAIT!  Maybe that is why there are so many problems in the world.  We are all consumed with our gloomy lives.  Don't get me wrong I love my life, but shouldn't I be worried with the world's problems?  I always tell my students that they need to challenge themselves by helping solve the world's multitude of issues, but instead of writing on my blog trying to ignite a peaceful revolution, I sit on my computer and play Texas Hold em in between picking up my daughters from their friend's houses.  Am I a hypocrite or am I just a good parent who can't involve myself in the world's puzzle?

I'll leave that up to you but since I left you, many major events have occurred that have or could impact our futures.

1. Tsunami (nuclear fallout)
2. Libya and the supposed "Arab Spring"
3. Economy (jobs, debt, deficit)
4. Tornadoes!

I guess as I venture into the world of blogging I will attempt to dissect these events and of course the ones I can't think of right now.  I will also share my life with you and maybe we can also try to make sense of it...want to play psychologist with Lassen's life?

Let me just give an abbreviated view of the above topics to wet your whistle as my father used to say...

Tsunami....sad but the real question is the safety concerns of nuclear energy and do we need to reevaluate United States' nuclear policy or continue to build reactors due to lack of other alternative energies?

Libya...is it our responsibility to confront evil or should we just let them win their own revolutions?  Syria is killing their citizens in the 100s so why don't we intervene there?

Economy...where do I start!  A huge deficit and a budget that can't be balanced!  Jobs?  Where? Where?

Tornadoes...Maybe Al Gore was right with the global warming idea.

I hope this wets your whistle...thanks for the quote Dad even though it doesn't make sense.