This is embarrassingly simple. While listening to a podcast where somebody was railing about stuff going on in DC something dawned on me that brought me back to the last philosophy class in college. It was Philosophy 331: Ethics. As an engineer I didn't belong. I took it for the fun of it. With what I'm seeing going on here in California and in DC, combined with all the riots, fistfights on planes, ISIS throwing lbgt off of tall buildings, parents being threatened for not giving up a seat that they paid for on a flight, on and on...it hit me. "Leave each other alone." Pretty simple, huh? I do try to teach my kids the value in this regularly. Imagine if that was a basic value that society just cherished and instilled in their kids - agreed to live by. Just leave people the hell alone. When you see it violated, take a stand. The news would get so boring. People would live longer.

Instead, we agree to be bossed around by people in fancy suits that other people voted for, by rent-a-cops with glocks, etc. What a concept, I know. Just leave other people alone.

That's the first Jack Handy Deep Thought I've had in a long time. Back to reality...