Up this week…

If you could change one thing the US is doing right now; such as our policies on Immigration, War in Iraq, Education, Homelessness, Healthcare, etc, etc. What would you change? 

Imagine you are the host of a holiday party. Which “holiday” is not important and is certainly a subject for another blog. For your holiday party, you decide to invite 100 people. Since it is a friendly party in your home, you want it informal and ask each invitee to bring a bottle of wine and a snack of some sort.

As a good host, you go ahead and jumpstart your party with a few bottles of wine, some beer and sodas, as well as a few appetizers — knowing that a couple of people may “forget” to bring something.

Your guests begin to arrive early in the evening. Once you hit 100 people, you realize about 20 of them didn’t bring a beverage, a food item, or both. That is OK. It seems to be working out since 80 others did and you had “jumpstarted” the party.

However, now things take a different turn…