Opening Post: An Explanation

After commenting and posting 6 political articles to Facebook today, my wife finally told me "Enough! My friends are going to hate you! Go start a blog." With that, I decided to join the 21st century, albeit without a Twitter page to call my own. 

While I am arriving in blogville about 15,500,000 blogs (give or take several million) late, hopefully it will provide a small piece of thoughtful commentary from time to time.