Flies in your Eyes is a dynamic source of uncommon commentary and common sense, designed to open your eyes and stimulate your thinking.
About Flies in Your Eyes
This website is not a blog. The emphasis deals with issues of a more permanent nature, rather than a hodgepodge commentary of this morning's breaking news story or random impressions of current events. We expect the content to be informative as well as entertaining. As the website develops it will address new issues and expand its format to include animations and videos. Our readers are encouraged to contact us with their suggestions and literary contributions. See Contact Us.
Who Are These Guys?
Our friendship began as cadets at the Air Force Academy and continued through pilot training and our first assignment to a rescue helicopter squadron. Since this time our careers and some of our opinions diverged, but not our passion for liberty, common sense values, and personal responsibility.
Scott Sturman practices medicine in California. He is the former editor of Common Sense Solutions, a newsletter devoted to solutions to problems confronting our country.
Bill Gideon is an architect living and practicing in Tucson Arizona.
Been There? Read That?
If your experience is anything like mine, then you probably know ten, twenty, or perhaps a hundred people who would outperform most United States senators and representatives. Who are these politicians whose approval ratings consistently runs below 10% but are reelected at a level found only in the old Soviet Union? Excepting death or resignation, they can expect a lifetime career catering to special interests. Oblivious to the world outside the capital, their primary goals are to win their next election and be photographed with their perfectly coiffured hair, receiving a ball point pin from the President.
While growing up, I remember my parents subscribed to four newspapers and six or seven news magazines. They continually complained about our leaders, but despite their breadth of knowledge and passion for the country's welfare they never actively became involved in the political process. They left it to others, naively assuming wise leaders would prevail to rectify their concerns.
Let's share our travel adventures, the books we read, a photograph or two, and our insights and experiences. It will be obvious our politicians should be working for us, not the other way around.
Scott Sturman
Tales of the Blue
These are the accounts of my adventures and shenanigans in the Air Force. It is a testament to friendships of forty years that have withstood too many years and miles apart. Email me if you recall any incidents you would like to share with our readers.
W.R. Priskna
Perspicuity
I remember a cartoon from my childhood in which a little girl approached a group of distinguished scientists and asked what they were working on. One of the assembled geniuses replied that they were "attempting to develop the universal solvent, a substance that can dissolve anything on earth." They appeared to be dumbfounded when the little girl then asked, "What are you going to keep it in?"
The scientists may have been brilliant in their fields, but they were so involved with the complexities of their efforts that they could not see the obvious problem. Likewise, many smart and conscientious people are so concerned with the details that they have difficulty seeing what is at the heart of many important issues. They are misled by media sources with information that is mostly useless and often untrue. At the other end of the spectrum are those who determine the task of analysis to be too demanding or time consuming to be worth the effort.
This section of Flies in Your Eyes addresses the confused, the time stressed, and the apathetic by providing straightforward, common sense scrutiny of significant matters; by asking the essential questions; and by focusing your thoughts like a laser beam. My goal is to influence your thought process so that you may be persuaded by the simple and inescapable logic demanded by critical thinking.
Bill Gideon
