Well Now

It would seem that there's a new blog on the internet.

And I think there might be a new weed in my front lawn, too. Not exactly an uncommon occurrence, but I'm hoping to make this an exceptionally uncommon blog. A "mission statement" seems cliched, but I think I'll have one anyway. In brief, I started this blog to provide a balanced perspective on the issues of today, yesterday, tomorrow and maybe, if I'm feeling really dangerous, the day AFTER tomorrow.

 "Balanced" doesn't mean  what you think it means, of course. I'm not neutral, and you should be ashamed of yourself for thinking that a blog could manage to be neutral. No, I will of course be injecting my own views (which tend to lean libertarian-but-not-psychotic) into everything. What "balanced" means is that I will also feel the responsibility to acknowledge the merits of other ideas when they have their successes. If you're looking for another blog to show how Obama is the devil incarnate or how Reagan walked on water, you are in the wrong place. The right place for you would be the bottom of a well. (Reverse the positions above, and I will gladly reverse my well-sentence. You can go head-first down the well instead of feet-first.)

You will disagree with me at some point. Most of you will disagree with me most of the time. I have odd beliefs sometimes. But unlike some, who would say "I don't care what you believe," I do care what you believe, especially if it's patently ridiculous. Not because I'm actually going to start believing your way, (Although that is possible, I'm not THAT hard to sway.) but because I actually want to convince you. A novel concept, and one that probably has no merit on any large scale, but it seems worth a try.

I'm not going to set a schedule for updates. Bloggers who set schedules only do so in order to break them three days in. (Rather embarrassing if they only update once a week.) But I'll post whenever I get riled up about something in the news, which should keep a healthy supply of everything flowing in here.

So sit down and have a cup of coffee. Not on the house, you have to make it yourself. Welcome to Thinking Out Loudest.

~GK