If a tree falls in the forest...

...will anyone hear, much less care. I guess I'm going to find out.

Good news, it's my intention that this blog will self-destruct, if not first due to boredom and inactivity, with the conclusion of the 2016 Presidential race. I wanted a venue to discuss politics that WASN'T Facebook. Nothing against Fb, but because (in my case at least) my "friends" list includes everyone from family to folks I haven't spoken to in years (I suppose there are a few people that fall into both categories, but whatever). So some of those non-Fb friends said, "so why don't you start a blog?", and here we are.

So what's the purpose (elaborating on the paragraph above)? Some discourse is too long to tweet, and too potentially inflammatory for Facebook. So it'll probably show up here.

And because too much of anything is probably not a good thing, I have a (very) short list of acquaintances that I'm thinking of asking to occasionally "guest blog" about things I find interesting yet have no knowledge I can fake. It's also a shameless strategy to boost overall readership.

Full disclosures. I'm a (political) independent, defined (by me) as "I've voted for both parties in the past", and announcements/policy positions from both major parties have found me thinking, "well, I guess I'm not a Republican/Democrat". Statistics (that I trust, i.e. agree with) suggest I'm not entirely alone in the universe in holding this opinion. Not really being a devil's advocate by nature, any "contrarian" ideas I might present are very likely really my opinions. You can agree or not, I'll try not to judge.

Is there an "ask" of you, gentle reader? No, not really. If you look and this is boring I completely understand, please move along. If you agree/disagree, I want this to be a welcome home, and, IT capabilities willing, I've included the opportunity for you to add your own comments. Try to keep it civil.

Well, off we go. Thanks for even reading this far. I'm working on real post #1, the working title of which is "Trump. Teflon?", but haven't even started yet. Tomorrow is the Wisconsin primary, and if the Donald gets crushed, real post #1 will likely have a different title.

Thanks!