So, this is my inaugural post. Who the hell is this guy, and why write yet another conservative blog, you’re asking. Aren’t you? Well, my short and simple answer is why not? Letters to the editor don’t seem to do much these days, and calling the Congressmen from these parts (Pittsburgh, to be exact) is pretty much an exercise in futility.
What prompted me to begin writing a blog? I had thought about the option several times before. But, it was a Facebook friend named Bill who actually got me angry enough to start one – to try and repudiate some of the lunacy that spills from the mouths of pseudo-intellectual liberals. The exact quote that got me so riled up was “There is no such thing as a just war.” When I first saw that I sort of smirked, thinking it was typical anti-war liberal speak. So, unthinkingly, I posted a reply that focused on two of the liberals favorite “wars”: “Tell that to the refugees in Bosnia and Darfur” was my response.
The response to my flippant quote so offended me in tone and content that I was almost speechless. I was literally so angry that I couldn’t see straight for a moment. There are actual people suffering and dying in both of those areas, and my friend was treating it as some sort of intellectual exercise where his high minded liberal theories mattered oh so much more than the lives of people being snuffed out on a daily basis.
My first thought was “and people think CONSERVATIVES are cold and unfeeling?!?!” My second thought, admittedly, was to post something rather snarky and nasty to put him in his place. Once those two thoughts had (reluctantly) passed, I began to think about the response I could craft that would be both witty and enlightened, showing off my mental superiority and the complete invalidity of his ideas.
I never did post that response, though I came up with several good ones (at least I thought they were good). I figured all it would do is start a flame war on Facebook, and besides, who really would see it and learn anything from it? A friend of a friend of a friend who only notices the comments in passing as they wonder what a different friend is drinking at a New Year’s Eve party? No thanks.
Thus, this blog was born. I’ll talk about basically what I feel like talking about. What I feel like talking about will 95 times out of a hundred be about politics and/or social issues in some way, shape, or form. The rest will just be things that I find interesting and / or amusing. I figure if I find them interesting or amusing, then someone else out there will too.
So, that was the “why write yet another conservative blog” part. Now I have to answer the “who the hell is this guy” part. I was born in Pittsburgh, and I currently live in Pittsburgh. I lived in South Carolina for all of high school, college, graduate school, and some of my working life. My undergrad is political science and history (wanted to go to law school at the time), and my Master’s degree is in Public Administration. Yeah, how the government runs and how it should be run. Usually, those two are as far apart as the earth and the moon. I have a wife and daughter. I work an extra job so she can go to private school, even though the school district we live in is one of the better ones in the Commonwealth. I’m in my mid 30s, and have blonde hair and blue eyes. I love classical music, karate, and computers. I’ve played the piano for 30 years, and stained glass making is a hobby. I’m a Christian and a conservative, or a “classical liberal” if you prefer. Taxes should be low, government should be limited, and communists should have gone by the wayside with the downfall of the Soviet Union; but alas, they’re still around. I love the 2nd Amendment because it protects all the others. I find ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Beavis and Butthead’ both hilariously funny and patently offensive. The health care system needs reformed but not remade, and companies should be able to make as much profit as they can to provide jobs to as many people as they can (as long as they’re not executing children or puppies in the process). People should be able to drive whatever cars they want, and flush their toilet as many times as they want, as long as they pay the bills. Reading, math, science, history, and gun safety training should be mandatory in schools, and diversity training should not.
If you agree with all the above, send me a love note. If you disagree with everything I said, send me a hate note. If you like some and not the rest, send me a note telling me why I’m wrong, and I’ll try to better explain my positions and tell you why I think you’re wrong.
Enjoy the read, and enjoy the ride.
What prompted me to begin writing a blog? I had thought about the option several times before. But, it was a Facebook friend named Bill who actually got me angry enough to start one – to try and repudiate some of the lunacy that spills from the mouths of pseudo-intellectual liberals. The exact quote that got me so riled up was “There is no such thing as a just war.” When I first saw that I sort of smirked, thinking it was typical anti-war liberal speak. So, unthinkingly, I posted a reply that focused on two of the liberals favorite “wars”: “Tell that to the refugees in Bosnia and Darfur” was my response.
The response to my flippant quote so offended me in tone and content that I was almost speechless. I was literally so angry that I couldn’t see straight for a moment. There are actual people suffering and dying in both of those areas, and my friend was treating it as some sort of intellectual exercise where his high minded liberal theories mattered oh so much more than the lives of people being snuffed out on a daily basis.
My first thought was “and people think CONSERVATIVES are cold and unfeeling?!?!” My second thought, admittedly, was to post something rather snarky and nasty to put him in his place. Once those two thoughts had (reluctantly) passed, I began to think about the response I could craft that would be both witty and enlightened, showing off my mental superiority and the complete invalidity of his ideas.
I never did post that response, though I came up with several good ones (at least I thought they were good). I figured all it would do is start a flame war on Facebook, and besides, who really would see it and learn anything from it? A friend of a friend of a friend who only notices the comments in passing as they wonder what a different friend is drinking at a New Year’s Eve party? No thanks.
Thus, this blog was born. I’ll talk about basically what I feel like talking about. What I feel like talking about will 95 times out of a hundred be about politics and/or social issues in some way, shape, or form. The rest will just be things that I find interesting and / or amusing. I figure if I find them interesting or amusing, then someone else out there will too.
So, that was the “why write yet another conservative blog” part. Now I have to answer the “who the hell is this guy” part. I was born in Pittsburgh, and I currently live in Pittsburgh. I lived in South Carolina for all of high school, college, graduate school, and some of my working life. My undergrad is political science and history (wanted to go to law school at the time), and my Master’s degree is in Public Administration. Yeah, how the government runs and how it should be run. Usually, those two are as far apart as the earth and the moon. I have a wife and daughter. I work an extra job so she can go to private school, even though the school district we live in is one of the better ones in the Commonwealth. I’m in my mid 30s, and have blonde hair and blue eyes. I love classical music, karate, and computers. I’ve played the piano for 30 years, and stained glass making is a hobby. I’m a Christian and a conservative, or a “classical liberal” if you prefer. Taxes should be low, government should be limited, and communists should have gone by the wayside with the downfall of the Soviet Union; but alas, they’re still around. I love the 2nd Amendment because it protects all the others. I find ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Beavis and Butthead’ both hilariously funny and patently offensive. The health care system needs reformed but not remade, and companies should be able to make as much profit as they can to provide jobs to as many people as they can (as long as they’re not executing children or puppies in the process). People should be able to drive whatever cars they want, and flush their toilet as many times as they want, as long as they pay the bills. Reading, math, science, history, and gun safety training should be mandatory in schools, and diversity training should not.
If you agree with all the above, send me a love note. If you disagree with everything I said, send me a hate note. If you like some and not the rest, send me a note telling me why I’m wrong, and I’ll try to better explain my positions and tell you why I think you’re wrong.
Enjoy the read, and enjoy the ride.
GREAT, there should be more people like you! Like you I lived in Pittsburgh and now live in Florida, and have noted through the years there are some "high minded liberals" out there that would rather take food for themselves and deny their children the food. As for "there is no such thing as a just war"; tell them to think about the freedom they have in this country and the sacrifices our people have made to keep it free. Tell them to take a trip to a 3rd world country and see how it is. If they like it tell them to move and stay there.
Posted by: Jerry | December 23, 2009 at 04:54 PM