I'm back!!

It has been a while, a few weeks, since I last posted.  It has been a busy few weeks. For several years a friend has been talking about starting a publishing company on the Colorado Plateau. His idea turns on its head the traditional money losing publishing business. Instead it will combine the best of both the world of traditional publishing with an electronic web based platform. The company is called Torrey House Press L.L.C.  The link is www.torreyhouse.com  So if you write literary fiction or literary creative non-fiction go on our web site and check out what we want. We also just fired off a fiction writing contest.

Since returning from my bicycle trip I have been bicycling as much as I can in the SL Valley  to keep my legs and lungs in shape for my upcoming double hip surgery. I'm scheduled for 6 a.m. on November 1, 2010, the day before election day. I'm really looking forward to the surgery and I'm not looking forward to the results, albeit predictable, from election day.

When I went in to vote the other day I decided that I would not vote for anyone who did negative campaigning even though I liked them, I liked their views. I refuse to support bullying! Who would want someone who has to tear down another person's life, who uses innuendo and misinformation as the truth as a friend or neighbor or to represent you in Congress or run your state?  I think a poll I heard on Fox,  by Fox, (It's on full steam at the gym I go to) says it best: 65% of the people polled said vote all of them out.
The Tea Party has some steam this election cycle but they should have read Don Quixote before they started spouting off about going back to DC, as a DC outsider (until they've been there a couple of months and learn how things actually happen) and reducing the size of government, reducing taxes, etc. Ok, I'm all for less taxation, but I also would rather not have to pay the true costs of water, electricity, roads, medicare, agriculture, fuel, etc. Does that mean I'm a socialist?
The "vote out the incumbent, lower taxes, reduce government crowd" don't understand that their idea, while good in theory, is simply not going to happen in the current atmosphere. The denial they and all of us suffer from about who is responsible for the horrible debt we're in as a country, shakes my belief in our ability to rationally think as a species. The last administration created a huge debt and this one hasn't done a damn thing except make it bigger. The recession started three or more years ago, not the day after the President took office. We can not solve the problems of this country if we refuse to look directly at them. We can not solve the problems of this country if both sides of the aisle promote divisiveness.
Change takes time. It will not happen until we start. It will not happen if we can't meet to talk about common ground. The debt will continue to rise. Why? Because if you want to lose weight you have to quit eating as much and get some discipline!  We can't lower taxes and keep spending like a drunken sailor! If I ran my diet or my bank account like this I would be in serious trouble!




If you were going to donate to one of my charities for my bike ride I rode 1125 miles. Thanks for donating.