We have forgotten and abandoned an eternal truth. And that sacred truth is that a lie is a lie and it always will be.

"To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." -- Mark Twain

My best friend, Kyle, annoyingly quotes this to me whenever we are dissecting a multi-layered problem.

This is a moment where our leaders should be assisting the country in coming together. This is a time where we should be churning through every possible idea to make it as difficult as possible for events of this nature to occur. Yet here we are, led by a bunch of people who push us to squabble, who lack compassion and blame others. 

And quickly, the judgement birds began circling our conversation.

I had an idea when I was 23. It was a grand idea. Jump in a car with some friends and drive to the Pacific Ocean. The destination was the beaches of San Diego with stops in the Rocky Mountains, and Phoenix to visit a college buddy.

We act like the the line between homelessness and a mansion is as wide as the Grand Canyon instead of as thin as the point on a needle.

I lack the skill to fake a smile and every attempt to do so has the appearance of me trying to pass monopoly money off as real money.