Purpose

today is april 5th, 2010. i have been meaning to do this for quite some time now, and i am finally getting to it.
i have been interested in world events since childhood, but never thought to get involved in politics or political commentary. over the last twenty years or so, i have watched the news with increasing anger. the news of who, what, when, where and why has been replaced with more commentary and more interpretation of what happened and too much opinion of why it happened. additionally, the news now strives to tell us how complicated things are, and tries to make the point that it is much to complicated for us to understand without their interpretation and perspective. reporters and columnists continually tell us what to believe and introduce nuance to slant the event or events they produce. they all say they ask the "hard" questions, most often i am interested in the easy ones.
so, this forum is being introduced so that we, normal citizens, who really do not have the time to spend investigating all that occurs, can ask some of these questions, propose some simple solutions and can introduce some common sense into the conversation.
several times a week i will put something out about an event, a news report, a quote or whatever with my comments about that item. anyone interested will be able to post a response to my remarks and ultimately i will post a consensus of my readers regarding the original post. i will reserve the right to comment about that consensus without further argument.
please, please remember, this is not a blog for extremism on either side. if you are venomous or extreme, you remarks will not be published here. this is my way of letting the world know how we the regular people feel, AND more importantly, how and what we think.
i am looking forward to getting to know many, many people in this effort and hope it succeeds in its purpose and perhaps even influence our politicians to work toward a better country.