Let's get to gettin'

My college friend, Clinton, suggested that we start a blog together.  This is my attempt at that.  Instead of berating people on facebook with our political and social commentaries (which surprisingly a lot of people find boring) I thought this would be a better forum.  Plus it can be done with a little more anonymity than facebook.  Don't be afraid, if you got to say it, say it.  

I really would LOVE, if on this blog we could not resort to name calling.  I do understand that this topic often invokes emotional responses.  But that get's people off track and instead of focusing on the matter at hand, they are focusing on the irrelevant hurtful responses.  If you have an opinion, say it.  But let's not call each other names.  I envision a place where we can learn from each other, get the REAL news and perhaps even create common sense answers to issues that would be more practical and relevant than those suggested in the modern discourse of things.  Let's back our statements up with facts, whenever possible, and let's make sure they are reliable facts.  Reliability of sources has lost favor with the internet.  Facts will increase the forcefulness of our argument and perhaps increase the forcefulness of this blog.  

As I go, if changes need to be made, they will.  If you have suggestions, I welcome them.  I envision this to be a real (I mean real, not politically correct) forum for young people to discuss political and social ideas.  A soapbox used to be a platform to make impromptu, often political, speeches back in the day.  Let's put some LIFE into that tradition and start making people take notice.