About this blog

First, more regular readers and visitors will note a few changes here, and may even note an organizing theme behind those changes. More on that later.

So, this new “about” post, to be bumped up to the top of the page on a semi-regular basis, replaces some of that.

This blog is NOT just about politics. Nor is it just about politics and non- or anti-theism. (More of that used to be on another blog, and some of it, especially that has less political connection and is more philosophical in nature, will go back there.)

Nor is it about a stereotypical liberal stance. (And certainly not about a stereotypical Democratic stance.) Put the word “skeptical” in there.

Even in the semi-political realms, it goes beyond the US to comment on internal politics of other countries from time to time, whether or not that will directly impact America or not.

It has a fair amount of observations on psychology and philosophy. It comments on new findings in the natural sciences from time to time. It has nature and environmental posts, beyond ones with political connotations.

It’s also about sports, in a little bit, cultural affairs, in a little bit.

And, it has some elements of deliberate contrarian stances.

That said, this blog is primary political. But, it’s not a Democratic blog.

In fact, it criticizes Democrats as well as Republicans when they aren’t the “reality-based community” they claim to be. And, though I voted Green in the last two presidential elections, that party is not immune from critique, too, especially for many of its members holding on to conspiracy theories, above all in the range of alt-medicine and outright pseudomedicine, with the hypocrisy of admonishing the Bush Administration for not following the science on global warming, even as its rejects the scientific disproval of much of its pseudomedicine and alt-medicine beliefs.

Beyond that observation on how my political comments are generally tempered by being “reality-based,” it tries to maintain an open-minded, yet healthy, skepticism in general.

That includes admitting mistakes, while still maintaining skepticism. Take Sarah Palin’s birth of Trig. These pages long ago retreated from the idea that Trig was somebody else’s child, while still noting that Sarah’s prenatal actions, especially her flight to Dallas then back to Alaska at the end of the pregnancy naturally invites skepticism.

Anyway, in all the areas above, except sports and leisure, it’s about getting people to think.