I must make a stunning admission.

This represents my very first effort to create, and upkeep, a blog.

I know, I know. Everyone's done it. But then, I probably was also the last person on Earth to experiment with sex. And so it goes.

I enjoy reading what other people write. Especially if the writing originates from a total stranger. Being the geek that I am, I often first open the newspaper to the letters to the editor section. There, I can find thoughtful insights, humor, and thinks that make me want to bring my breakfast up for a second tasting.

Some of the best writers are people who lable themselves as conservatives. Unfortunately, these same people - while skilled in punctuation, non-use of gerunds or hanging participles - are also possessed of the most vaccuous thoughts imaginable. As Howard Gardner might say (if he were inclined to so say), these people are capable of thinking only at the lower levels. These same people often invoke the power of the good Lord almighty without realizing that if He did indeed pay attention and read their words that he would strike them dead on the spot and then apologize to the rest of human civilization for allowing such miserable creatures to exist. It is that bad.

Examples to come next time. Although anyone reading this can turn to the blog section on the PA ACLU page and read the anonymous rants of one poster (see 1/18/06) who takes anyone and anything associated with the ACLU to task for not kissing Shrub's lily-white butt cheeks.

By the way, Susannah Hoffs is still hot!!