This is the first post that I have made in months, years even...one year even. What do I have to show for it? A lot has happened since I last submitted a healthy piece of prose to this cyber-publisher. USA Volleyball came out on top in Beijing. Penn State Volleyball downed Pepperdine in the Mens Volleyball National Championship. Obama Baracked the vote. Steve Chu was appointed as the new Secretary of Energy. Chad Hokama rediscovered his adolescence. Penn State finished 11-2 falling to the supermen of USC in the Rose Bowl. My sister Emma got her driver's license. I moved to San Francisco...by myself, and stuff. 

Let's focus on something I can really get excited about. Steve Chu. Joining the ranks of an already impressive team of scholars, this Nobel laureate, adds a voice that really makes me shiver.This cabinet, of at least intellectually rivaled individuals (not idealogues), has something to show for the specialized positions that they are filling. For the first time in history foreign policy, security policy, environmental policy, energy policy, etc. will find intersections that have not been crossed for a long while in the halls of congress and the White House. 

That's about it.