My First Post - In God’s name Why? 1-14-08

Why a blog I ask. Aren’t there like 2 trillion of them already, with an average readership of one? Do I really have anything interesting enough to say to warrant this real estate in cyberspace? Is anybody out there…actually on sites these days you can tell that, they have little counters in the corner that register, well, never mind, the point is why commit anything to 1’s and 0’s that can come back to haunt me when I run for President. Well, there’s two reasons.One, as host of the Folk Sessions, Live! and The Yavapai College Radio Hour I certainly get to yack enough about all sorts of interesting things, but in both cases I need to reign in my personal opinions so as not to have the station taken off the air, (only kidding, kind of). Really, while listening to great music or interesting guests, who wants to hear a host blabber about their usually ill-informed opinions. While my opinions are neither ill nor informed…wait, let me rephrase that. Of course while MY thoughts are like manna flowing from above, I’ve learned to spare listeners that experience and slip in my subversive messages through the songs I play on the ray-dio (played backwards, they’ll end world hunger AND global warming). So here, with this weblog I can let my lefty, peacenik, tree-huggin’, buddha-lovin’, bush-hatin’ freak flags fly, however torn and tattered.

And two, as Don Charles would say, why the hell not. Got a site, why not have a blog. Heck, on D Squared’s home page there’s poetry for heaven’s sake! Gypsy Soul does live blogging, and Chuck Pyle has “Chuck’s Thoughts on Religion and Spirituality” for crying out loud.So occasional musings, rants, sharings, and interesting, to me at least, tidbits will find there way here from time to time…As I believe an informed electorate is essential to throwin’ the bums out here’s a good political website, and also the funniest political podcast around.www.truthdig.com digging beneath the headlinesThe Bugle An audio newspaper for a video world w/ John Oliver from The Daily Show and Andy Zaltzman, a Brit’s eye view of the world.Happy Birthday Dr. King.