It seems to me that we are living in an accelerated period of time. In the last five years we’ve been through:

• The second impeachment of a President of the United States.
• A three month war with Serbia.
• The WTO riots in Seattle.
• The internet boom.
• The first truly disputed Presidential Election since 1876.
• The internet crash.
• A serious diplomatic incident with China.
• The worst terrorist attack in American history, the most traumatic event since Pearl Harbor.
• A war in Afghanistan.
• The loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
• A war in Iraq.
• The first recall of a Governor of California.
• A guerrilla war in Iraq.

Under normal conditions, that’s about enough events for an entire decade or for several decades. We’ve been through all of that in just five years. And history isn’t done with us yet, not by a long shot.

My God. What terrible, wonderful, frightening, exhilarating times in which we live.