Hello everyone and thank you for joining me today to discuss a very serious matter. When I was growing up the world was a simpler place. Sure bad things happened during my childhood and teenage years like Ryan White getting AIDS from a blood transfusion, rampant homophobia, global warming, the first Gulf War, the Rodney King assault, the subsequent LA riots, the OJ Simpson Trial, Waco, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the JonBenet Ramsey murder, the death of Princess Diana, the death of Mother Teresa, the Columbine Shooting, 9/11, the advent of reality television. But my parents had it easy.