Welcome to my blog! A native Hoosier, and a liberal for as long as I can remember (at age 6 I argued with a babysitter who contended that "Kennedy [John] is paying the niggers to vote for him"), I hope to use this forum to engage in something akin to the old collegiate bull sessions, where people who actually cared about ideas could explore and debate in a free-wheeling, one might say improvisational, manner. No topic is forbidden, and no one banned except for outright dishonesty or purely personal invective. While I suspect most posts will have a political bent, posts about philosophy, music, popular culture and other topics will appear. for now, I' ll just say: Thanks for reading--stay tuned!