2020 Hindsight

Here we are, only halfway thru 2020, it already feels like we've lived thru 5 normal years, and we've still got another half of it to go. The only regular thing that's happened has been February 29: no March Madness, no Olympics, the census is horribly screwed up, unemployment is at Great Depression levels, hitting the beaches is courting death, summer vacation consists of walking around your back yard, little kids probably won't be able to go trick-or-treating, and the presidential election is shaping up to make 2000 look like a triumph of the democratic process. Oh, and presidential lying, denial, evasion, misdirection, and general ball-dropping — which makes 9/11 seem almost quaint by comparison — has already killed off more Americans in 6 months than World War 1 did in 19.

I can hardly wait for 2020 hindsight, when we can look at these 366 days in the rear-view mirror, where they belong. I hope I live to see it. (That's not a figure of speech.)