Well, this is going to be kind of fun...I think. I have always wanted to write and comment on events and trends going on in our political and governmental world from what I hope will be a little bit different point of view. I say it that way because while I consider myself a liberal, I find that my viewpoint isn't always on the same wavelength as my fellow liberals. That doesn't necessarily mean I am conservative either but that I could be askew from both.

Besides politics, I will also occasionally stray into sports and entertainment because I have basically been a jock and a movie/tv fan all of my life. I hope to have some fun with that too.

By fun, I mean that I expect I will engender some lively discussion from anyone who reads what I write and that some hackles will maybe be raised. If any of us cares about or believes in something then it deserves to be brought out and examined if any of us intends to proselytize other people with it. If someone in the public eye mostly keeps it close to their vest, then my comments will be kept to a minimum regarding their viewpoint. There are a huge number of other subjects to get into or people to lambaste.

My background? Well I am an estate planning (wills, trusts, powers of attorney, living wills, probate, etc.) and business law attorney and have been for fourteen years. Prior to that I sold life and health insurance for about fifteen years. So I have been dealing with family and business issues for about three decades. That is important in one respect in that I will be talking a lot about health insurance and our health care system in the United States and I wanted to establish some credentials before I started. We have some serious problems that are simply not being addressed by most of our airheaded and cowardly politicians on both sides of the aisle. (By the way, I will belabor anyone, liberal or conservative, who I feel doesn't step up to the plate to do what I feel they should be doing.) Because they are in power now, conservatives, however, will be in my sights a lot. Especially the Bushies and all of their cohorts.

I have written enough for now as I need to go do what I can to stimulate the economy but I will be back to discuss the gun case now in front of the Supreme Court with a viewpoint I have not yet heard being brought up and I will definitely be talking about our health care system very soon. I have a plan which I can guarantee no one else has introduced and which I (ahem....modestly) believe can solve that problem.

Stay tuned.