I started this blog in March 2007 for several reasons: To see what it was like to blog, as opposed to interviewing bloggers and writing about them; to see if I would enjoy it (I do); to see if I’d stay with it as a daily discipline (I have); and to establish a venue where I could do short, quick takes on ideas and issues that don’t fit my print and radio gigs. I was marginally involved in party politics for a few years, but, looking back, I see that it was more about having a group of friends than embracing a set of ideas that I had chosen and tested myself. Besides, let’s be honest: While some few of America’s current problems may be solely the fault and responsibility of President X, Party Y and Company Z, many are also the fault of We the People and Me the Person.