1. This site will be unapologetically text-oriented.  One of the most lamentable failures of modern "culture" is its increasing inability to appreciate the written word.  I am certifiably "left-brained," for those who buy into that bit of psycho-babble.   Consequently, whatever dribblings I produce here will doubtless be similarly directed. 

2. I am politically independent.   Some of my views are extremely conservative, some extremely liberal, most are moderate.  In the Presidential election of 2000, I voted for Harry Brown (Libertarian) because the candidates of both major parties left me disenchanted, as do those parties themselves.  In the election of 2004, I voted for John Kerry because the demonstrated excesses of the formerly conservative Republican Party were/are in dire need of control, not out of any fondness for the Democratic Party.