I try to keep this blog light because, honestly, I'm pretty shallow.  But being so close and hearing so much on the news over here I have to say, sometimes it's embarrassing to be American. 

Read this article.  He is much more articulate than I am.   http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/11/opinion/tapper-paris-march-u-s-leaders-absence/index.html

Really?  What was the administration thinking?  Geesh.  xxoo me