Beach at Torrey Pines Park

Last Sunday morning on the Coast Highway just before Del Mar

It's all About the Bike

This morning Lance Armstrong won his seventh Tour de France. Unrelated to the tour (as you can probably tell from earlier posts) I have been riding a road bike for about a dozen years on-and-off and currently have a wonderful Torelli Countach frame with Campagnolo components that I plow the roads around my home with. I'm relatively new to the San Diego area and am really enjoying discovering the rides. I ride early and today noticed a LOT of people on the road and finally realized it was because they probably woke to Lance's win. Anyway, I look forward to nxt weekend when it gets a little quieter again. And by the way -- still nothing like the circus I left in Palo Alto - many fewer and more normal riders down here! Enclosed pics show my bike and Torrey Pines Beach this morning about 6:15. J

Kudos to the Spin Doctors at the White House

Un frigging believable. It looks as if Carl Rove has committed a felony and he's got his shorts in a bunch right now. George deftly pulls John Roberts out of the hat, a man who seems not to be of the administration's ideological ilk - actually a reasonable man. The dissonance this has created completely overshadows Carl-in-the-corner. Don't worry, buddy - we Democrats my not have the penchant for making things up or the killer instincts you've shown over the years - but we have enough not to let this one get away. Have a wonderful weekend. J

FW: Paradise

-----Original Message----- From: James Dorst <jim.dorst@verdisoft.com> Sent: 7/19/05 6:13:44 AM To: jdorst_us@ailsoft.blogger.com Subject: Paradise

I am sitting in my kitchen literally in a cloud. We live on the top of Mt. Soledad in La Jolla. So quiet -- have always wanted to live in the mountains or beach -- am finally at the beach and it is delicious.

Need to start on the vision quest blog; Have only been thinking on it for 12 years now....

:-)

J

Ken or Saddam ???

Saddam has been a bad-guy longer than Ken Lay but I think someone ought to handicap who gets to go to the "Big House" first. Personally, I think George would get more votes out of locking up Kenny-boy especially because the big bang-for-the-buck with Saddam has already been had. I mean pulling him out of a hole like a rat -- that's pretty good when you want to demonize somebody. Saddam on the stand nobody in America so much cares about unless he does something goofy. Lay is differnt (Texas sp). George can spank his buddy and look like a reformed man! Maybe Kenny-boy can be in the same cell as Karl! They can cheat at poker with one another! This would be cool. J

Big Fun

When you get to a certain point in life it is sometimes hard to just have pure fun. Behold Lauren, William and Marian all having pure fun at Pacific Beach yesterday. It just doesn't get any better than a big-ass inflatable "slip-n-slide". J

Speaking of Propaganda

I was being a lazy-dog watching CNN the day after the multiple blasts in the London tube and suddenly stiffened up when a "news bulletin" peppered out of the TV. It went something like this; ".. an unidentified high-level CIA source indicates that the terrorists involved in the bombings in London may have connections to Abu Musab Al Zarqawi the infamous Al Qaeda leader in Iraq....". Excuse me, but the Brits (who seem to really have their act together in responding to all of this) had barely begun speculating that the bombs themselves were set by timing devices and were not suicide or cell-phone bombs. One day after the events how in the hell could anyone in the US intelligence community have ANY REAL IDEA that this terrorist attack was connected to Al Zarqawi? I am afraid that the answer is that they could not have any such information but such a "connection" would be valuable to the White House -- just a few days after George went on TV to fumble through a "decisive" speech trying to justify the stupidity of Iraq. If any government types read this (and I assume you might because blogs are probably scanned for these sorts of sentiments) I want to apologize. Normally I wouldn't think anything of it but when you make it so damned obvious it just sticks in my craw. Remember when we used to call Soviet leaders "ham-handed"? J