Please allow me to introduce myself

As a professional journalist, I've always looked down on blogging. Journalism, I say, is for the professionals. You wouldn't fly in an airplane with somebody who only had a passing interest in airplanes and just wanted to give it a shot to see if he could do it. QED, you should't read blogs. I still believe this. But if people insist on blogging and reading the works of bloggers, than we professionals should blog as well, to show them how it's supposed to be done. There will always be those who oppose new forms of communication. To resist innovation is inevitably futile. I'm still pretty sure television and radio are just a fad that will go out of style at some point. Regardless, I've decided to throw my hat in the ring. As Marshall McLuhan famously said, "The medium is the message." Though I admit I don't know much of his work.

Some people have called me political Moderate or a Centrist. I'm neither to the Left nor to the Right, and I refuse to be labeled. I hate labels. I believe that the best policy is always somewhere in the middle. For example, many Liberals wanted a very large stimulus, and economists said that it would probably have to be over one trillion dollars. Conservatives didn't want a stimulus at all, or at best a very small one. So they compromised and made the stimulus larger than Conservatives wanted, yet smaller than Liberals wanted. When designing economic policy, or any other sort of policy, this is the best way to go, and I believe this should be adapted for use in other fields as well. For example, if your doctor says you need to take X amount of an antibiotic, and you'd rather take no antibiotic at all, the best thing to do is compromise and take half your antibiotics. If an engineer says a building needs X amount of reenforced steel, and the building's owner wants to save money and use less reinforced steal, they should compromise. Everybody wins.

I'm also a Deficit Hawk, and a consensus seeker. There is no greater good in politics than bipartisan cooperation, and it is what are politicians should strive for, regardless of the outcome. So long as the outcome is fiscally prudent. Unless fiscal prudence would halt bipartisanship.

My goal is to one day write for the Washington Post op-ed page like my hero David Broder (Blessed be his name). I would also consider working for the Examiner, and for the right price I could be convinced to lean to the right (wink wink).

I live in Washington D.C with my two dogs, Broder and Friedman, and my cat, Mark Halpurrin.

I hope you enjoy my blog, and find it informative and polite.