MY FIRST POST!

Yes! After months of THINKING about it, I finally bit the bullet and decided to create my own blog. I hope this little piece of the web will be useful for not only my math students as I post updates on assignments, etc...but will also serve as a voice for me on some other important issues, like WORLD EVENTS. I've read hundreds of blogs over time and always thought it would be interesting to express my own views on things for others to see...and due to USERID/PASSWORD overload, it's just not possible to create accounts at all the different venues so I can comment at all the different sites. So this blog will serve multiple purposes.



I hope anyone who has found my blog will find it interesting, useful and intriguing enough to be a repeat viewer. Maybe I'll even garner a comment or two, eventually. I guess we'll just have to see!



While I'm editing my first post...let me just take a moment to comment on the Gulf Oil Spill. What is transpiring is, in a simple word, heartbreaking. Ya really have to feel bad for the helpless people of the Gulf region directly impacted by the landfalling oil; their livelihoods have been disrupted, possibly for years...decades, even. And it could be 20 years or more before nature re-establishes equilibrium in that part of the world. The pictures of oil-drenched birds, dead marine life and tar-stained beaches are difficult to view without getting emotional. And now whales are being found dead, 70 miles south of the expolosion site.



I have followed this story with deep interest ever since the explosion occurred. The congressional hearings held yesterday were interesting; certainly, the tone set by the questioners was tough and hurtful...but in the end, it was just a grand show of theatre. NOTHING was really accomplished; BP CEO Tony Heyward seemed to pretty much plead the Fifth Amendment on the toughest questions and looked as close to being an amnesia victim as the CEO of a huge corporation could get. He seemed ignorant of a lot of details about the Deepwater Horizon. For a man who has claimed that he "wants his life back," he had very few arrows in his quiver to accomplish his ultimate goal. And I'm not even going to comment on the bizarre and downright stupid comments by Joe Barton. WHAT WAS HE THINKING? Sometimes, it is best to pull head out of rear end before speaking. I guess that's what being one of the largest recipients of monetary contributions from the oil industry will do to ya when one has to question the head of the world's largest oil company.



Geez...hadn't intended to write a book my first time out. This is long enough for now, methinks. I'll post more a bit later. For now...it's time to get into work mode. Hope you enjoyed your visit and will come back again soon.