Having talked about the nuclear option, it's time to start taking the blog seriously, and get on topic. After all, ravingmoderate is in the url (I'll also be pointing ravingmoderate.com and ravingmod.com this way shortly). Here's the long version of my blog description, and an indication of the way we're going:
You may think I'm left wing when you read my posts, but I'm just practical about what it takes for human beings to get along and thrive. I start with the premise that all people are created equal. That's a moderate point of view. If my moderation strikes you as liberal, that's OK. "Liberal" is not a bad word in my book. The word only started to take it's lumps after George Bush Sr. pronounced it with two extra "l"s: "l-l-l-i-b-e-r-a-l". What do I care what old S-s-s-k-u-l-l-l 'n' Bones members think? (He wasn't stuttering, by the way, and I'm not making fun of stuttering, it was a long, sustained "l-l-l" sound, to which I hiss back with a long, sustained , don't tread on me "s-s-s"). True liberals care about liberty; they share that with "libertarians". But they realize that big corporations and the superrich can step on liberty as easily as can the government, and those who don't fit into those categories cannot afford a team of lawyers to solve the problems created by Big Money. We also think that violence is wrong 99.99% of the time, and tax dollars ought to be used to give the whole of the people a better life, not to enrich the already rich. And once again, yup, I do consider myself a moderate.
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