Torpor

I have been unsure if I wanted to continue with my blog after the 2016 election.  The blog was not meant to be political.  But in mid to late 2016, it was hard not to connect politics to nearly everything.  So for a while, I've left the blog dormant.  Well, I have awoke from hibernation and I'll try my best not to be partisan.  (Torpor, for those of you like me who had not heard that word before today, is like hibernation, but not quite). 

Federal employees are limited in their political statements during an election by the Hatch Act.  The Hatch Act is more than 75 years old and is supposed to prevent federal employees from using their positions to influence elections.  The election is over.  Politicians are fair game, even for those of us covered by the Hatch Act.  So federal workers are free to wake from your slumber and spring into action like this:

 

I worked with some people that were pro-Clinton, some that were anti-Clinton, and one that was pro-Trump.  Those last two are not necessarily the same thing.  As a talented instigator, I could join either crowd and get them easily riled up, before they got frustrated and walked away insisting that they could no longer discuss the election due to the Hatch Act.  The only person who refused to engage was the one Trump supporter. 

While I used to enjoy reading about politics and keeping up-to-date on politics, the 2016 election cycle sapped me of any cynical enjoyment I got out of thinking one candidate or another might destroy our political system.  Because we elected a guy who actually said he is going to do that.  And sometimes when chaos meets reality, it is not pretty. 

So I'm going to start posting frequently and avoid politics as much as possible. 

(*This is what the news feels like when you're trying to avoid politics!)