At some risk of over-simplification, the mass murder of eight massage parlor workers and customers in Cherokee and Fulton counties was in fact an act of hate.

Having been involved during the 90s and early 2000s in building out some of the infrastructures which became the two-party system in Georgia, I can say with some degree of authority that the Georgia GOP once had a much broader and more diverse base.

More than 60 percent of our human bodies are basically saltwater. Oceans comprise more than 70 percent of the world's surface, and as the polar ice caps thaw and melt, that area is growing.

As humans, we make errors and mistakes. I've made plenty.

There is of course a tendency, for an individual or political party is in a position of power, to want to try and hang on to that power.

As I'm writing you now, books are being written about the magical political calculus which 'turned the Red State of Georgia...Blue."

Hard to believe that by the afternoon after the historic win of not one, but two U.S. Senate seats, shifting the Senate majority from Republican to a tie with the Democratic Party, and moving a historically GOP state (of nearly 20 years), clearly into battleground territory had already moved to the nation's B-sections.

Though many researchers and scientists believe our Christmas gift from Wuhan, China arrived stateside late last year,