Why?

Why does anyone blog? I mean, other than the few who have genuinely unique insights and information to share? In-the-know, metro/ear-to-the-ground types. Hip political geeksters seeking their own. Well, I'm not hip, I hope I'm not a geek (I think), and my ear is more likely to be attuned to the osprey perched outside my kitchen window than to the TV. Well OK, in the daytime anyway.

But politics is my poison. Where else can you find such extremes of agony and ecstasy for free?

Why do I blog? Because it seems to me that the blogosphere is the most democratic and potentially subversive medium there is, and I want to help be a thorn in the side of mediocrity. I want to pick up this brick with my name on it and hurl it at the self-satisfied, the mean and the willfully ignorant. Hell hath no scorn like a peri-menopausal woman. You bet.

And I want to connect with others, those amorphous Others who feel the same way (or who are at least willing to carry on a civil conversation). With our country seemingly poised to become some demon-spawn Republican hellhole, I need all the reasons I can find to keep on hoping.

At some point I'll post a synopsis of who I am for those who don't know me. Cheers for now--