I have been, for a number of reasons, silent for the last several weeks.

One issue was technical – I found that my Hosting company was not practicing basic security measures, and had allowed my sites to become vulnerable to various threats.  So, it became necessary to move the site to a new hosting company, with a much better reputation.  As a plus, the new firm is very supporting of Word Press blogs, and it is making my life a LOT easier from a site maintenance perspective.

On the personal front, I have been in the final stages of starting up a new company, and tying up things with my former employer.  Amazing how much time that can take up.

And finally – I decided to sit back and watch the Political situation for awhile, and see what developed.

I will be interested to see what changes of perspective and insight I gain as an entrepreneur, versus a cog of a of a large, soulless, corporate machine.

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I would like to note, however, that I was very unpleasantly surprised during the last election cycle at just how low the level of discourse has fallen.

While at an informal function (no-host bar, everyone somewhat lubricated)  just before the election, I allowed myself to be pulled into a political discussion.

People that I have known, and done business with for years, were actually SHOUTING at me, for daring to admit that I was voting for someone other than Obama.  This ran the spectrum from 20 somethings to one gentlemen that is in his 60s.

As I tried in vain to have a rational discussion of basic political theory, it quickly degenerated to loud voices from some, to exclusion from others.

This has event has weighed on my mind heavily for the last month or two.  I have finally decided that I must be extremely careful, going forward, to refrain from any political discussions in public – at least with people that I must work with and around.  Not for personal safety reasons; but because so many people are unable to have any sense of perspective and proportion.

It’s just an election, people.  We survived Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon.  We can survive Obama’s warmed over New Deal and Clinton era Retreads.

After all, I am an American first, and a Conservative Libertarian second.  If Obama succeeds, Hip Hip Hooray.  If he fails utterly, there is another election in 2010, where we can take back the Senate (and maybe the House, if its bad enough); and another Presidential election in 2012.