You're a sailor crossing the Atlantic on a solo crossing. The Global Positioning System is broken, as are your wireless satellite e-mail and phone. The maps have been washed overboard.
Clouds hide the North Star.
Sharks are following, sensing dinner. Adults, who are supposed to be the navigational tools for young people, are walking off the job, shutting down their guidance systems, seemingly everywhere we look. Professional athletes, even college athletes, fill the sports pages with stories of criminal or unethical behavior. The ABA is just the latest respected institution to choose a political agenda in direct contradiction of the scientific evidence at great cost to kids. They claim needle exchange programs reduce HIV transmission.