A three hour-long retrospectiveof the decade, beginning with the arrival of Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the death of Osama Bin-Laden, and the extreme weather conditions that caused nuclear accidents in Japan, flooding in the North East and fires across Texas and California, a typhoon in the Philippines,the Boston Marathon tragedy, with stops at Standing Rock, Brexit, Mosul, Nice, Orlando, Baton Rouge, Oakland, Chicago, and Cleveland, the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman trial, and the growing unrest around the country with racial profiling, social injustice, and police confrontations, threats of terrorism spreading around the globe from Sydney to Pakistan to North Korea with corporate hacking, international border disputes, wars and invasions, plustrain derailments, car crashes, drones and marshall law, Edward Snowden on the NSA and information gathering, and the Presidential Election campaigns of Barack Obamathrough Donald Trump, including Russian interferenceand possible impeachmentand the resulting political turmoil, this Shortcut Through the Second Decade of the 21st century mixes up the emotional highs and lows; the struggles for peace, the growing concern over global warming, climate change and the environment, the changes in science & technology, the perfume & the poison, the shocking scandals, bad behavior and fake news, plus Tributes to those who have passed, mixed with all the music that flowed through our lives during the past decade-- this Shortcut features Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, John Glenn, Garry Shandling, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, David Cameron, Paul Ryan, Michelle Obama, Steve Jobs, Michael Moore, Chris Hayes, Ben Carson, D.L Hughley, Ice Cube, Cedric The Entertainer, Common, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Tracy Morgan, Stephen Cobert, Conan O'Brien, John Oliver, Lin Manuel Miranda, Boris Karloff & O. P. Heggie,Kyle MacLachlan, Gov. Jerry Brown, America Ferrera,William F. Buckley, Garrison Keillor , Harvey Weinstein, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,Spike Lee, Whoopie Goldberg, Nancy Pelosi, Bruce Springsteen, Joseph Kennedy III, Joe Rogan, John & Meghan McCain, George Martin, Dave Chapell, Dave Letterman & Jerry Seinfeld, Charlie Sheen, David Hogg, Nelson Mandela, Dick Cheney and many more-featuring the continuing decline of western civilization--introduced by Queen Elizabeth.

Dedicated to my parents Peter J. Bochan (1920-2016) and Violet Kamberis Bochan (1927-2017)