The End
Hello all. I apologize for the long hiatus. While I have had ideas for posts, none of them gelled in my mind long enough to for me to write about them. The End of the World? Philosophically and technically, the world we know changes from moment to moment, day to day, year to year, etc. So, the world we knew yesterday is never to be seen again. Thanks to REM, we can look at the end satirically. So, here we are more than a couple months after President Obama was re-elected to the highest office in the land. There seemed to be literally millions of people out there who believed the world, or at least the USA, would end if Obama won. Guess what - we are all still here, at least most of us. I will get to that later. Yes, the economy is still getting better, admittedly slowly. The unemployment rate nationwide is at 7.8%. That is down nearly 3 points since it's highest position. And, the stock market is moving up steadily. The DOW was at ~6,600 back in 2009 and has doubled si