Vacation Over

When the Eagles reunited in 1994, Glen Frey noted, “We never broke up, we just took a 14-year vacation.” Well, I never really stopped writing, I simply took a 3-and-a-half year vacation from posting here.

Vacation over.

Some changes since then have been rather abrupt. Obamacare. A new pope. New gay marriage and marijuana laws. But most changes have been incremental, often masking their significance. A widening income gap between the richest one percent of Americans and the rest of us – the widest since the 1920s. An increasingly unproductive Congress. And a steadily growing political, economic, social and personal partisanship that insists on defining us more by our differences than our similarities.

It’s no surprise that a great majority of Americans believe we’re heading in the wrong direction. Despite that, too many interest groups continue to insist their solutions are the only solutions for setting things right. And that lack of respect for others can only mean greater division and even more turmoil.

The original purpose of this blog was to prompt readers to keep an open mind and think. That hasn’t changed. So here’s my challenge to you – Join the site, take a chance, and challenge yourself by trying to see things from other points of view. With any luck, we’ll test the Marketplace of Ideas theory and actually give truth a fighting chance.