There isn't one. I just thought I'd warn you, since I didn't before. There are lots of political blogs that go into all that, and for a left-liberal like me I spent years on Atrios, Digby, LGM, Balloon Juice, Kos, Firedoglake, places like that. I debated the issues of the day and got into massive internecine flame wars over Things That Mattered. But did they? The guy promising Hope and Change delivered bailouts of the banks and nobody else and spent the last 3 years cutting the budget, killing the recovery, and making every major decision in favor of the people with money. Racial progress and more enlightenment on how people love each other is super, and I applaud it. But was that worth entrenching money even more in control of all of us, or launching drones everywhere, a war in Libya, another one maybe in Syria, and snooping on everyone on the planet?
I guess, at least when I've seen these things unfold the last 5 years, I say Goodbye To All That. I've spent 30 years in my head as some pie-in-the-sky intellectual wannabe thinking about all the Serious Issues of the Day that I was supposed to, and it didn't do much for the world or me either. Maybe instead of Politics with the big P, I choose as my study people with the small p, individuals I know and meet or hear about, finding out about them in all their fascinating variety. I went about this the wrong way. I started in the clouds with The Right Ideas, and they probably were, instead of on the ground with my fellow humans. Enough of that.
So this blog is about me, you, and all the stuff we get up to and think and feel in everyday life. It feels right to me after not feeling right for a VERY long time, and I hope it may feel right to whoever trips and falls in here. I'm friendly, I accept you, and I'm just curious about it all. Get at me or not, it's cool, and I'm just going to Do This Thing! and see where it goes. Peace!
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