For sixteen years this blog has chronicled the public occurrences that have impressed their importance upon the mind and psyche of one American. This blog is therefore also part diary. From both perspectives it is amusing to that one American to look back occasionally on those occurrences that have pressed their imprint on him. In the last week there has been only one post that he can recall on a subject other than epidemic and recession. In the beginning, in 2003, it was all Islam all the time. Then for many years all China. That was the diary part of the blog, the subject that he made most important to him. In 5,840 days in over 18,000 posts every significant public occurrence has been entered—the Great Recession, the Great Sumatra Earthquake, wars,--endless war--the elections. And along the way the personal, the books that the undersigned has read, the sports with which he has entertained himself, the experiences he has personally experienced, even the dreams he has had. He was cognizant early on that if nothing else this blog may be not uninteresting for his children to amuse themselves when he is gone with the thinks their dad thought in the first fifth of the first century of the third millennium.