What Happened? #278 By Hank Silverberg I have thought once or twice about ending this blog. My goal in starting it more than five years ago was to provide my readers with some interesting information. With a little bit of my analysis or opinion mixed in, that might inform or entertain them. I was ready to write about anything. I can't even tell you what my first blog was about because I have changed the way I file them, and it's lost. Today I find myself preaching mostly to the choir--in other words, people who agree with me or have the same focus in life, family, fun and good practical productive political decisions that will help those in need, and not damage those who aren't. Somehow it hasn't gone that way. Our country is now polarized the way it was right before the Civil War in 1860. No one today even knows the meaning of compromise. Philosophers have written for centurie